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Edwards returning $10,000 that might be tainted Friday, April 18, 2003 2:36PM EDT By JOHN WAGNER, Washington Correspondent CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Sen. John Edwards' presidential campaign said Thursday that it is returning $10,000 in contributions from a Little Rock law firm in response to an allegation that an employee of the firm expected her boss to reimburse her donation. Federal election laws prohibit individuals from funneling donations through someone else to hide the source. Doing so could allow the reimburser to exceed the legal contribution limit, recently raised from $1,000 to $2,000. The money in question came from employees...

<p>The federal Food and Drug Administration says about half a dozen adverse reactions, including one death, have occurred after blood transfusions from bags linked to blood recently quarantined in Nashville and Atlanta.</p> <p>The agency stressed that it's unclear whether the reactions, which have included a bacterial infection and an allergic reaction, were caused by possible contaminants in the bags or routine complications.</p>

Will The IRS Give Back Tainted Money? The U.S. government has a whole bunch of tainted money that came in as the result of illegal accounting practices. Are we going to see that money refunded to the shareholders, perhaps? We'll see a snowball in hell before that happens. Reuters reported that, "Bankrupt telecommunications giant WorldCom Inc. said on Thursday an internal audit of its books back to 1999 has turned up another $3.3 billion in improperly recorded earnings and said it may take a writedown of $50.6 billion." Did this company ever make any money? Was there ever any success?...

<p>A controversial blood plasma sold by the American Red Cross to thousands of hospitals has been linked to the deaths of six liver transplant recipients in Los Angeles in 2000, according to warning letters sent by the Food and Drug Administration earlier this year.</p>