Corruption
New:
One Murder, Two Victims: The Wrongful Conviction
of Ryan Ferguson by Jane Alexander
(7/22/07).
In a case rife with DNA and other
physical evidence, not one shred of evidence linked 17-year-old Ryan
Ferguson to the murder of Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune sports writer
Kent Heitholt in 2001. Ferguson's conviction in 2005 proved only how far the
police and prosecution would go to close Columbia's only unsolved murder.
New:
Blowing Smoke From the Grave: E. Howard Hunt and the JFK
Assassination by Don Fulsom.
(06/06/07)
Howard St. John Hunt, the son of
super-spook E. Howard Hunt is now peddling a story that his father rejected an
offer to take part in plot by rogue CIA agents to kill President Kennedy. Isn't
it about time a congressional committee finds out what the CIA's role was in the
assassination?
New:
Hunting Down Vito Genovese in WWII Italy by
Tim Newark
(06/01/07).
Tim Newark is
the author of the recently published Mafia Allies: the True Story of
America's Secret Alliance with the Mob (Zenith Press). This article is an
adapted extract from that book.
What Watergate Was All About by
Don Fulsom.
(04/15/2007)
In the early years of the Nixon presidency, billionaire Howard Hughes bribed Nixon with
$100,000 in cash. When Hughes's secret lobbyist Larry O'Brien became Democratic
Party chairman, Nixon had O'Brien's phone at the Watergate tapped to find out if
he knew about the bribe.
Updated:
Gerald Ford's Role in the JFK Assassination Cover-Up
by Don Fulsom (11/11/06;
updated 3/12/07).
Warren Commission member Congressman Gerald Ford pressed the panel to change its
description of the bullet wound in President Kennedy's back and place it higher
to make "the magic bullet" theory plausible, enabling the Warren Commission to
conclude that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman. Ford was J. Edgar Hoover's
informant on the commission and did the FBI director's bidding to squelch the
investigation from naming other assassins. When a Dallas County deputy constable
heard shots coming from the nearby grassy knoll, he rushed there to find veteran
CIA asset Bernard Barker, posing as a Secret Service agent. No Secret Service
agents had been assigned to cover the grassy knoll and all accompanied President
Kennedy to the hospital.
Updated: Nixon's Greatest
Trick: Orchestrating His Own Pardon by
Don Fulsom. (08/30/04;
updated 01/14/07)
On the eve of the
release of the "smoking-gun tape," President Nixon cut a blanket pardon deal
with Vice President Ford that would put Ford in the Oval Office eight days later.
Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of President
Kennedy by Don Fulsom
(10/16/06).
New Orleans godfather Carlos Marcello – with Jimmy Hoffa
as his bagman – funded Richard Nixon's 1960 presidential bid with $500,000 in
cash stuffed in a suitcase. Later Marcello – known as the Big Daddy of the Big
Easy – would be named a key conspirator in President Kennedy's assassination.
The Mob's
President: Richard Nixon's Secret Ties to the Mafia by
Don Fulsom.
(02/05/06)
By the time he became president in 1969, Richard Nixon had been on the giving
and receiving end of major underworld favors for more than two decades.
Watergate was just the tip of the iceberg.
Updated: Pedophile Priest: The Crimes of Father Geoghan by
Denise Noe.
(12/01/03, updated 01/25/06)
Father
John Geoghan sexually molested young boys for over three decades with the full
knowledge of the Archdiocese of Boston. By the time Cardinal Bernard Law got
around to having him defrocked in 1993, Geoghan had become the poster boy for
the priest-pedophilia scandal that racked every Catholic diocese in the United
States.
Richard Nixon’s Greatest Cover-Up: His Ties to the
Assassination of President Kennedy by
Don Fulsom. (10/15/03)
Nixon’s ties to the
assassination of President Kennedy run deep, from his association with Jack
Ruby, his ties to Jimmy Hoffa and the Mafia, and his connection to CIA operative
E. Howard Hunt. On a tape recorded in Nixon’s White House office in 1972 he told
two top aides that the Warren Commission Report pulled off "the greatest hoax
that has ever been perpetuated." No one knew that better than he did.
Part Two: The
Mysterious Death of CIA Scientist Frank Olson by
H. P. Albarelli Jr. (05/19/03)
In 1996, Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau
opened a new investigation into CIA Scientist Frank Olson's 1953 "suicide,"
assigning the case to a special Cold Case Unit staffed by two veteran
prosecutors. Details about the activities and findings of that ongoing inquiry
have never before been revealed. Investigative journalist and writer H.P.
Albarelli Jr. conducted his own seven-year examination into Olson's death. In
Part Two, he reports his findings about one of the U.S. government's greatest
conspiracies and unsolved mysteries.
Part
One: The Mysterious Death of CIA Scientist Frank Olson by H.
P. Albarelli Jr.
(12/14/02)
When CIA Scientist Frank Olson plunged to his death from the 10th floor of a New York hotel in 1953, his death was ruled a suicide. Twenty-two years later a special Presidential Commission investigating the CIA's development of potent drugs for use in biological warfare and assassinations revealed shocking new details about Olson’s death. In 1996 Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau opened a new investigation into Olson’s death based on startling discoveries uncovered by forensic sleuth James Starrs that put to lie the CIA’s version of how Olson died.
Killer Behind a Badge by
Charles Hustmyre. (01/25/03)
The psychiatrist who interviewed Antoinette Frank
for the New Orleans Police Department said she was too emotionally unstable to
become a police officer. He was right, but she was hired anyway. She proved to
be a lousy cop and then she turned killer.
The Sodom and Gomorrah of the Midwest
by Ronald J. Lawrence. Rising from the hills of the
Ozarks in south central Missouri, Saint Robert, a hamlet of 1,500 residents, had
the appearance of a prototypical small town in rural America. But looks can be
deceiving. With the Army’s sprawling training center at Fort Leonard Wood
nearby, Saint Robert was home to hundreds of prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers,
gamblers, corrupt politicians, organized crime and hit men. And it liked it that
way.
Firefighters Case
Part I and Part II Five innocent people were convicted in February 1997 in the deaths of six Kansas City
firefighters in 1988. These two stories run a total length of 20,000 words, and won
the Missouri Bar Association's annual "Excellence in Legal Journalism"
award. On Oct. 30, 1998, the 8th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals denied the appeal in the Kansas City Firefighters case. Read the full opinion here and our analysis of the opinion. On
Oct. 4, 1999, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to grant certiorari in the case.
American Lynchings
These photos of whites torturing and lynching black men present a side of U.S.
history that most history books ignore. They provide one of the many reasons why
blacks (and Indians) hold a different view of U.S. history than whites. Notice
the carnival atmosphere prevailing as these crowds of U.S. citizens watch the
completely lawless and most inhumane executions imaginable.
The
Brother Who Fleeced His Flock. For years, the Catholic brother in charge
of a Kansas City home for developmentally disabled men had embezzled his way to
a fortune. When the board of directors found out, its cover-up – with the help
of The Kansas City Star – was as bold as the theft.
Killer
Cop, by police officer Mark S. Gado, is the shocking story of a corrupt New
York City police lieutenant who was sent to the electric chair by a politically ambitious
prosecuting attorney. The story of Lt. Charles S. Becker is a compelling story of
corruption and betrayal, ambition and final dignity.
Convenient
Excuses, by Bonnie Bobit, examines the deadly
occupation of convenience store employee -- and how the convenience store industry is
fighting to prevent the implementation of federal rules that would make those jobs safer.
Impeachments
of Federal Officials. In the history of the United States, the U.S.
Senate has sat as a court of impeachment 16 times.
Kansas City’s Dirty Harry by J.J.
Maloney. In his book The Battle Behind the Badge, former
police Cap. Robert Heinen portrays himself as a hero of mythic proportions in
rooting out corruption in the Kansas City Police Department. He may have set out
to get the bad guys, but in the process he became one himself.
Did
J.Edgar Hoover Blackmail Abe Fortas, by J.J.
Maloney, then a member of the Supreme Court, because Fortas was gay?
The evidence says yes.
