The Afternoon Round-Up
Scandal Sheet
The Justice Department didn’t turn over all the relevant documents related to the fired US Attorneys… and the House Judiciary Committee wants them badly.
Corporate Culture
- Time Warner didn’t exactly punish executive Wayne Pace after last year’s revelations that he was Brazilian hooker Andrea Schwartz’s sugar daddy, showering her with money and jewelry. They’ve been rewarding him with $512,000 worth of shuttle flights back and forth from his home in Atlanta to New York.
- Those sneaky kids at Solengo Capital, the new home of disgraced Amaranth Advisers trader Brian Hunter, can’t threaten Websites and blogs that dare to publish their marketing material. (It’s pretty dull but if you feel daring, here it is.)
- “Horrible coincidence”: Menu Foods Income Fund CFO Mark Wiens sold 14,000 units for $102,900 just three weeks before the massive recall of tainted pet food.
Blogging the Revolution
- Scholar Steve Clemons plans to launch Havana Note, a blog devoted to U.S. policy on Cuba, but he might get himself into trouble by publishing posts written by Abel Prieto, Cuba’s Minister of Culture.
- Iranians have been pretty busy blogging: Farsi just cracked the top 10 in Technorati’s list of languages used in blogs. (1% of all blogs in the world are in Farsi.)
Ephemera
- Incredible photographs from the Arkansas State Prison, 1915-1937. One of the guys (#8) looks just like novelist Richard Ford.

April 11th, 2007 10:26
[…] UPDATE: Via Muckraked, I learned that there’s some interesting back-story on Pace that was reported here last year. […]