Cain camp denies harassment allegations
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 31st, 2011 4:34 am by HL
Cain camp denies harassment allegations
The presidential campaign of Republican Herman Cain is pushing back against allegations that he engaged in inappropriate behavior with at least two women when he was head of the National Restaurant Association.
The allegations, first reported by Politico on Sunday night, come as Cain is atop a new poll in Iowa, a key early state where social conservatives are likely to decide who wins the GOP nomination.
Obama to pitch economic program at Group of 20 summit
President Obama, who has struggled to advance his vision for economic renewal at home, will take his pitch overseas this week to an audience of world leaders who could prove equally skeptical of his message at a time of global anxiety.
“It’s very hard for us to preach the economic gospel to Europe when they watched our debt-ceiling debate here and our [credit-rating] downgrade,” said Heather Conley, director of European programs at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
Supreme Court to take another look at prosecutorial misconduct
Prosecutors, says Angela Davis, former head of the D.C. public defenders office, “are the most powerful officials in our criminal justice system.”
Davis, a professor at American University’s Washington College of Law, explains:
“They decide whether a person’s going to be charged, what to charge them with, whether there’s going to be a plea bargain and what the plea bargain will be. As they make those decisions, they exercise almost boundless discretion.”
Efforts against Equatorial Guinea official shows challenge for U.S. in foreign corruption cases
In the spring of 2001, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, at age 33, bought a $6.5 million house in the fashionable Los Angeles enclave of Bel Air.
About the same time, Nguema, the son of Equatorial Guinea dictator Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mbasogo, twice went to a Beverly Hills dealership and purchased two Bentley automobiles.
