Know Your Rights
SUMMARY: Hear from legal experts at the ACLU of Maine, U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein (Ret.), and former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance.
Koch Brothers Fund Walker's Union-Busting Effort
Online production of Democracy Now! - posted on Feb. 24, 2011.
Subjects
Koch brothers,
Scott Walker,
union labor,
Wisconsin
What the DOJ’s SPLC Indictment Actually Says (Not the Headlines)
Summary: The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted on 11 federal counts, including wire fraud, false statements to a bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering. The DOJ alleges that, “unbeknownst to donors,” SPLC used more than $3 million in donor funds to pay informants embedded in extremist groups, routed those payments through fictitious entities, and made false statements to banks to keep the system running.
