‘The arrogance of Governor Blagojevich is beyond the pale.’ ibid. critic
‘Guilty of only one count in the corruption trial. Deadlock on twenty-three other charges.’ ibid.
Blago: The Sequel: Ex-governor gears up for Round 2 of corruption trial. ibid. newspaper article
Guilty: 17 charges of corruption. ibid. television news
Nine out of ten schools are cheating. The other one is in last place. The Scheme, Jerry Tarkanian, head coach UNLV 1973-1992, Sky Documentaries 2020
I wanna tell the bigger story … Everyone went in it with the best intention … ibid. Christian Dawkins
Ten men, including four assistant coaches at top tiers programs, were arrested on corruption charges. ibid. news
By the end we was over six figures between sneaker sponsors and local people to sponsor it … I’ve already got a shoe deal, I’ve already got money. ibid. Christian
Christian was incredibly well connected. ibid. observer
First round draft picks: There’s only 30 players every year in the entire world who get drafted in the first round and guaranteed money. ibid. Christian
Of the 435 members of Congress, more than 100 actually live in the building. The Swamp, Gaetz, Sky Documentaries 2020
This guy [Trump] has got some rough edges … He could be a change agent. ibid.
We are going to drain the swamp of Washington. ibid. Trump
If people are going to drain the swamp like the president wants to do, they need better information about how this place is broken, and that’s my mission in Congress. ibid. Massie
Ken Buck: Drain the Swamp: How Washington Corruption is Worse that You Think. ibid.
He [Newt Gingrich] has changed the agenda, changed the culture, changed the language and changed the dialogue … ibid. television interviewer
A lot of people would be surprised to find out that members of Congress are expected to pay their party for their committee assignments. ibid. Massie
As a member of the clergy so eloquently said – As we act, let us not become the evil that we deplore. ibid. Barbara Lee
Who was responsible for the downfall of Enron? Only a few years ago Enron was the nation’s seventh largest corporation. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, written McLean & Elkind & Gibney, 2005
Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling had built their own plush state rooms. They were known as the smartest guys in the room. Captains of a ship too powerful to go down. ibid.
News of shredding at Enron raised more questions. ibid.
20,000 employees had lost their jobs. ibid.
In Washington, Lay became part of a new crusade to liberate businessmen from the rules and regulations of government. ibid.
George Bush senior helped secure billions in government subsidies for Enron International. ibid.
In 1987 two oil traders made bets for Enron on whether the price of oil would rise or fall ... Enron Oil always seemed to win. ibid.
At the board meeting the auditors told Lay that [Louis] Borget and his traders were manipulating earnings, destroying daily trading records and probably gambling way beyond their limits. ibid.
Lay encouraged his traders to gamble more. ibid.
Enron would become a kind of stock market for natural gas ... Transform energy into financial instruments that could be traded like stocks and bonds. ibid.
Market to market accounting allowed Enron to book future potential profits on the very day the deal was signed. ibid.
‘The insiders had sold off a billion dollars of their stock in the preceding several months.’ ibid. Bill Lerach, attorney for shareholders
Though Lou Pai flew away from Enron with $250 million, the divisions he left behind lost a total of nearly $1 billion but Enron managed to disguise that fact. ibid.
Enron mounted a campaign to capture the hearts and minds of stock analysts. ibid.
The game was called Pump and Dump. Top execs would push the stock price up and then cash in their multi-million dollar options. ibid.
Enron had vast natural gas operations all over the world. They had cost billions to build and most were performing terribly. ibid.
The analysts weren’t analysing at all; they were willing to believe virtually anything Enron told them. ibid.
‘Enron has created the market to buy and sell bandwidth like a commodity. Ask why.’ ibid. Enron advert
Enron’s stock soared 34% in two days. ibid.
When Enron announced its latest plan to trade weather, people wondered whether it was good science or science fiction. ibid.
[Andrew] Fastow had to figure out a way to keep the stock price up by hiding the fact that Enron was thirty billion dollars in debt. ibid.
Traders soon discovered that by shutting down power plants they could create artificial shortages that would push prices even higher. ibid.
The year-long energy crisis would cost the state of California thirty billion dollars. ibid.
Ken Lay did have easy access to the Bush administration. ibid.
Jeff Skilling abruptly resigns. ibid.
The SEC launched an investigation when the Wall Street Journal published articles revealing Fastow’s murky deals. Enron announced massive financial restatements. ibid.
Enron’s accounting firm Arthur Anderson had begun destroying its Enron files. On October 23rd Anderson shredded more than one ton of paper. ibid.
Enron declared bankruptcy. ibid.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
‘We’ve got more villains in our game than you’ve got in yours, you know.’ Coppers: Crossing the Line of Duty I: Firm in a Firm, tape of bent copper to villain, BBC 2021
At the dawn of the 1970s London was a city under threat. Drugs, pornography and violent robbery were front page news. But behind the headlines lay a sinister hidden truth. Amongst honest officers a secret network of bent coppers operated across London. It’s the story of corruption that went to the very top. And a band of honest coppers who took on the fight to stop the rot. ibid.
‘Black people and the working classes were easy pickings, and you could almost guarantee that any bust was successful.’ ibid. ex-rozzer
Three weeks into The Times’ investigation, and still unaware he is being recorded, John Simmonds continues to take money off Michael Parry. ibid.
‘The Sunday People was about to blow Scotland Yard wide open with another story. This time it really was the big time.’ ibid. ex-rozzer
‘That was all for show. They raid us once a month for appearances sake.’ Bent Coppers: Crossing the Line of Duty II: Goodbye Rotten Geezer, Soho sex shop worker
68,744. At this time Soho at least in term of pornography was a huge corruption machine in which hundreds of pounds was being paid every year to crooked cops. ibid. Martin Short, journalist
Demand for pornography in the late 1960s was at an all-time high. Magazines are cheap to produce, and hardcore material is easily smuggled in from the more liberal Europe. With vast profits to be made, pornographers continually pushed the boundaries of acceptability. The job of policing this lucrative trade is down to the Obscene Publications Squad. In charge of the Obscene Publications Squad is none other than Detective Chief Superintendent Bill Moody … He was making vast sums of cash doing deals with pornographers. ibid.
Police Chief And The Porn King. ibid. Sunday People front page
Seven days after taking charge, Robert Mark rewrites the rulebook and announces the Metropolitan Police’s first ever dedicated anti-corruption branch: A10. ibid.
A10 swoop on ten officers accused of corruption. ibid.
‘During the 1970s the crime of armed robbery had been brought to the state of almost perfection: it was the glamour crime. It was about villains carrying guns always afraid they would be ambushed by police and shot dead themselves.’ Bent Coppers: Crossing the Line of Duty III: Taking a Drink, ex-rozzer