The Wake-Up Call

Scandal Sheet
Is Missouri’s Todd Graves the ninth fired U.S. Attorney? Senator Kit Bond suggested to the Bush administration that it might be a good idea to remove him back in 2005.

Beltway Blotter
The exodus continues: In the last ten days, four senior officials have left the Bush administration and more are expected to follow. Recent departures includes J.D. Crouch (deputy head of NSC), Randall Tobias (head of USAID), Dina Habib Powell (State Department) and Timothy Adams (number three at the Treasury Department).

Corporate Capers
Scandal hits Hong Kong as prominent businessman Michael Leung, along with his daughter and her husband, get busted for insider trading on Dow Jones stock weeks before the official announcement that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. wanted to buy the financial news conglomerate. Insiders are pointing the finger at Dow Jones director David K. P. Li.

Health Care
Conflicts of interest at the Constella Group, a private health care company, which got a federal contract to oversee a list of carcinogens and then months later added a virus to the list while two of its private sector clients were developing vaccines to treat that virus. Nice investigative reporting by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s Susanne Rust and Cary Spivak.

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