#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Former SCDF chief gets 6 months’ jail http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/former-scdf-chief-gets-6-months-jail-0 Corruption offences, especially those committed by high-ranking public officials, will not be tolerated by the courts, District Judge Hamidah Ibrahim said yesterday when sentencing former Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) Commissioner Peter Lim Sin Pang to six months’ jail in a sex-for-contracts case.The Judge agreed with prosecutors that Lim, 53, had tarnished the Government’s image of being “transparent and fair” in all its dealings, as well as undermined the integrity of its procurement process.Lim, who was the highest-ranking officer in the SCDF, was expected to lead by example and “display unimpeachable conduct”. His actions instead caused the authority to suffer “embarrassment” and “a loss of reputation”, said Judge Hamidah.She added: “I found it totally unacceptable that, instead of upholding the trust reposed in him, the accused had engaged in corrupt behaviour that brought…http://www.twitpic.com/cx257u
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [VIDEO] Egyptian trade union leader facing jail http://www.industriall-union.org/egyptian-trade-union-leader-facing-jail Yousri Maarouf, President of the new Egyptian Democratic Labour Congress (EDLC) faces three years imprisonment for trade union activities. IndustriALL Global Union is mobilizing support for Brother Yousri ahead of his key court hearing on 16 June at Egypt’s Supreme Court.Yousri has already been sentenced to a three-year jail sentence by a penal court and international expectation is now turning to next Monday’s Supreme Court session to overturn that repressive ruling.Yousri led dockworkers at the Alexandria Container and Cargo Handling Company in Al-Dekheila Port on the Mediterranean coast. The struggle for decent employment conditions at the company dates back to 2011, two years before the 25 January revolution in Egypt, and to the time of the Mubarak regime’s archaic labour law 12-2003.The dockworkers’ protests forced management to stand by previous agreements and led to… RELATED: http://menasolidaritynetwork.com/2012/11/14/egypt-trade-union-rights-are-our-way-to-social-justice-new-leaflet/http://www.twitpic.com/cx2685
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [VIDEO] Elizabeth Warren v. Bankers (HSBC) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKvGXF7pZAc On March 8 2013, Elizabeth Warren grilled the Treasury Department about “Too Big For Jail.” TAKE ACTION HERE: http://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/survey_warren_sec/?source=ehttp://www.twitpic.com/csqdz1
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [PETITION] Campaign for Fair Settlement launches “Week of Action” to pressure Justice Department to “prosecuting the bankers who destroyed our economy. http://www.campaignforfairsettlement.org/week_of_action_petition?splash=1 End Too Big to Jail. Start prosecuting criminal bankers. Sign on to support hundreds of homeowners, foreclosure victims and allies from the Home Defenders League in bringing “Justice to Justice” in DC the week of May 18-25th. They are going to take dramatic action at the Dept. of Justice, demanding that AG Holder and Pres. Obama: Hold Wall Street accountable by prosecuting the bankers who destroyed our economy….http://www.twitpic.com/csbblx
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Foreclosed homeowners 'move in' to the Dept. of Justice http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/304555.html Underwater homeowners and hundreds of allies barricaded the front door of the Department of Justice building Monday afternoon to protest the “too big to jail banks” who have shirked punishment despite having destroyed “homes, savings and livelihoods.” Organized by Occupy our Homes, Home Defenders League, Campaign for a Fair Settlement, along with a number of community and faith leaders, the group held a sit-in outside the government building. “Banks stole our homes so we're moving in to the #DeptofJustice,” the protesters announced on Twitter. The protest included the positioning of two couches before the d…http://www.twitpic.com/cs30wp
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty REPRISE: Iceland, a country that wants to punish the bankers responsible for the crisis http://www.pressenza.com/2011/03/icelandx-a-country-that-wants-to-punish-the-bankers-responsible-for-the-crisis/ Since 2008 the vast majority of the Western population dream about saying “no” to the banks, but no one has dared to do so. No one except the Icelanders, who have carried out a peaceful revolution that has managed not only to overthrow a government and draft a new constitution, but also seeks to jail those responsible for the country’s economic debacle. Last week 9 people were arrested in London and Reykjavik for their possible responsibility for Iceland’s financial collapse in 2008… RELATED: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-12-08/guest-post-icelandic-success-storyhttp://www.twitpic.com/cqf3f5
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Not Too Big to Resist… Too Big to Jail… http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/1632 Corporate America just received the confirmation that they've been waiting for. The attorney general of the United States has now admitted that the biggest American financial corporations have created such a labyrinth of their structures and practices that the Justice Department has given up trying to police them in matters ofcorruption or criminal malfeasance, saying that bringing down any of these mega-banks or businesses could cause crash the economy. In 2008, the Justice Department announced a shift in policy, deciding to be cooperative with the big banks, and to encourage self-policing and self-reporting by the co…http://www.twitpic.com/ccrr2c
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/gangster-bankers-too-big-to-jail-20130214 How HSBC hooked up with drug traffickers and terrorists. And got away with it The deal was announced quietly, just before the holidays, almost like the government was hoping people were too busy hanging stockings by the fireplace to notice. Flooring politicians, lawyers and investigators all over the world, the U.S. Justice Department granted a total walk to executives of the British-based bank HSBC for the largest drug-and-terrorism money-laundering case ever. Yes, they issued a fine – .9 billion, or about five weeks' profit – but they didn't extract so much as one dollar or one day in jail from any individual, despite a decade …http://www.twitpic.com/c7dz0a
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty DEBTORS PRISONS IN THE US ARE RAPIDLY FILLING WITH PEOPLE WHO CAN’T PAY BILLS http://worldtruth.tv/debtors-prisons-in-the-us-are-rapidly-filling-with-people-who-cant-pay-bills/ How did breast cancer survivor Lisa Lindsay end up behind bars? She didn't pay a medical bill — one the Herrin, Ill., teaching assistant was told she didn't owe. “She got a 0 medical bill in error and was told she didn't have to pay it,” The Associated Press reports. “But the bill was turned over to a collection agency, and eventually state troopers showed up at her home and took her to jail in handcuffs.” In September 2009, Jeffrey Stearns, a concrete-company owner, answered a knock at the door from a Hancock County, Ind., deputy sheriff. The deputy was holding a warrant to arrest …http://www.twitpic.com/c5hl3q
poor bernie #madoff in jail http://jarogruber.blogspot.de/2013/01/politicaleconomy.html robbed the 1% not the 99%http://www.twitpic.com/c0qfj2