The Senate Ethics Committee released letters regarding Senators Dodd and Conrad, two Friends of Mozilo who participated in Countrywide’s V.I.P. mortgage program. The Dodd letter is here and the Conrad letter is here. The Post report is here.
Day: August 7, 2009
Bakery Owner Charged
In Baltimore, H&S Bakery owner John Paterakis Sr. was charged in connection with an alleged campaign finance violation. According to the latest indictment, [Ronald] Lipscomb paid a polling firm $12,500 in summer 2007 for a campaign study for [Councilwoman Helen] Holton, then up for re-election to city council. Weeks later, a company controlled by Paterakis […]
UPS and FedEx in Lobbying Battle
According to this Post report, UPS employees are alleging that letters they wrote to Congress may not have been entirely voluntary. “They are forcing us to write letters at our UPS center,” one employee wrote on BrownCafe.com, a Web site independent of UPS. Another user wrote: “My System Manager told us ‘this is not an optional […]