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ST. Bernard Parish, La - Given that the vast wreckage Motorsport worked by Hurricane Katrina is carted away, judicial and insurance officials are anticipating the arrival of tens of thousands of such vehicles for lots of used car to the USA, there is already evidence for, Flooding damaged vehicles running on used car lots in Florida, Arizona, New York and Oklahoma, authorities said. Two months ago, at least seven of Nissan in 2005 of the National Insurance Crime Bureau database as a victim of Hurricane were sold at an auction in Los Angeles.

A task force on insurance investigators and criminal prosecution authorities LA built a database of flooded cars to try to prevent as much as possible to other vehicles and high-trimmed foisted uses naive buyers. The database lists more than 205000 vehicles. In the afternoon the subject of earlier this month, Tim Boucher was the median of a road four to St. Bernard Parish, La, the verification formalities driver pulls away from Hurricane Katrina damaged vehicles. Boucher, a special agent of the National Insurance Crime Bureau working with the database, said: “It is really responsible for reviewing the consumer”.

NEW ORLEANS _ Charles and Laura Lepage has spent over 50 years to upgrade their house Lower Ninth Ward, buying carpets and silk curtains emphasis on their Top marble furniture and hardwood floors, crystal chandeliers and lamps porcelain. His garden was Inondé shrubs and colorful flowers.

Well, ramp black mold, its walls, collectors are broken pieces of furniture and mildewed is in a control on the job.

Despite the near-total devastation, LePages want to rebuild and restart. But they are finding that the second wave of Hurricane Katrina is the anger of the management of the insurance company.

“Nobody something,” said Lepage, he noted that workers out once the elements of his beloved homeland. “We are totally dissatisfied with progress on the insurance market. Anything that is to maintain salary. ”

Almost three months after Katrina, New Orleans drowned Gulf of Mexico and other municipalities, frustrations are mounting for residents whose homes and property were wastes of the storm.

As the LePages, most want to familiarize themselves with their lives, but they are a little more difficult to achieve a home in their insurance companies. You have trouble meeting with the adjustment, and they always have money to see, paid on claims.

Many believe that insurance companies are points on damages must be paid, and disputes that are mounting.

“Here, we are still waiting,” said Lepage daughter Laura Ann, whose New Orleans is flooded the house was about 3 metres above the water. “Nothing can be done. You are simple, really.

New Orleans car accident lawyer Nick Johnson of Johnson Law Group, headquartered in Houston, Texas, said that despite the reduction of prejudice in the general context of accidents in the USA, there is no tendency to down on appeals against the dossiers concerning the case of car accident.

“The total number of car accidents with injuries and deaths to the USA a downward trend over recent years,” said Johnson. “But we see a general increase in the number of complaints filed is in Louisiana.

Johnson believes that the reasons are manifold, but called the large number of uninsured and underinsured motorists on the road to LA as one of the most important factors. The Louisiana Department of Public Safety estimated that the number of uninsured motorists at least 13% of the total population of Louisiana, but researchers agree that the actual number is difficult to obtain.

In addition, Louisiana has not increased the minimum liability auto insurance in Louisiana since 1983 and cost for the replacement of cars has increased significantly.

Here in southern Louisiana, where floods, hurricanes, termites, the Byzantine political and subtropical red come with the territory, a late 18 century rise from its ashes.

The Cabildo, a survivor of the colonial French and Spanish days was once the town hall is now a museum of State, which lies at the heart of the French Quarter beside the cathedral of Saint-Louis, with which Jackson Square and the Mississippi River into one of the most dignity most landscapes.

Inside, workers, the 193-year-old building, rehabilitation of the wreckage by fire on May 11, 1988. A spark a sheet metal flashlight worker believes that lit the fire that destroyed the third floor. Water and black smoke and saugte the rest.

The fire was only the recent disaster, the Cabildo. The Formosan termites munched at the establishment in 1980’s. Émeutiers attacked in the early 1870. And a fire, the fourth level 1788 fifths of the city destroyed a previous Cabildo.

“He is one of the most important historic buildings in the country, compared with Independence Hall in Philadelphia,” said Samuel Wilson, the main city preservationist architect. The building is dignity vaults, shady arcades and beautiful wrought-iron balustrades magic visions of the Spanish colonial period sleepy capital - if the viewer can block incongrous Frenchified attic.

The museum, which has a large-scale (some would say enough points), the collection includes objects of art and history, was closed in late 1984 to 1986, for lack of money. And even after having recovered their future was uncertain. Louisiana’s oil economy was in recession of the decade, too much money and the State was rare.

“The fire as tragic as it was a chance in misfortune,” said James F. Sefcik, a historian, is director of the State Museum. “Now we have the money.”

The Cabildo (Spanish for town hall) is restored to $ 6.5 million insurance policies and money rest of the Independent State of investment projects. At the same time, four buildings near the museum are refractory.

Another million dollars, increased private funding for permanent exhibitions. Without fire, “we would never have raised a million dollars for an exhibition,” said Robert Cangelosi, former president of the Friends of the Cabildo, the architect overseeing the restoration.

The Cabildo’s finest years 1803, that France sells the Louisiana territory to the USA for $ 15 million. Within the Cabildo on December 20, 1803, the signatories used a pen to pen silver scratch their names on the papers has doubled the size of the nation.

Over time, the Cabildo was filled with a museum of objects too superfluous history of Louisiana, french as a shell from World War I. One of the most popular pieces was a death mask of Napoleon.

The mask, one of four, after the death of Napoleon in 1821, was the Cabildo, if the building burned. As Mr. Sefcik under the stairs during the fire, in research on the flames, he suddenly remembered the mask and was exalted, to find injured.

If the museum during the next year is re-opened to interpret the LA regularly exposed’s lurid history, including parts distasteful.

Changing times complex replacing the third floor and the roof. The originals were virgin cypress, but they were no longer in the marshes of the country. Rather, is 42 feet long, 12 inches thick cypress beams supporting the roof had to be cut and milling prefabricated in Florida and New Hampshire.

During the restoration aims to be exhaustive, at the beginning of next year, “said Cangelosi control voracious Formosan termite is “underway”. The termite, as the Cabildo itself, is a survivor. “Even after the fire,” he said, “We have seen, eat termites away in the ash.

Here are excerpts from the Republican platform,”An American Vision: for our children and our future,”today in the Republican National Convention: Preamble of an election, it is the future. But it is also the values that we carry with us as we travel in the morning in and around continuity with the best of our past.

Here are excerpts from the Republican platform,”An American Vision: for our children and our future,”today in the Republican National Convention: Preamble of an election, it is the future. But it is also the values that we carry with us as we travel in the morning in and around continuity with the best of our past.

At the dawn of a new century, we live in a time of the technological, social and cultural development of a fast emerging global economy. This choice will change. The question is: Will there be changes and progress in the Republicans or modify the chaos and the Democrats?

The Americans want the direct management of the forces of change, America’s, is based on American values. On jobs, growth and opportunity

For the sixth year of unprecedented economic expansion, more people are working like never before, real family income has risen, inflation is domptée. With almost every measure, Americans are better off, as eight years ago. The Reagan revolution, a Republican in the Renaissance. Our country is back - back in business and back up.

However, the ideological heirs of Carter and Mondale try again to sell the public a false bill of goods. The Liberals call America’s prosperity an illusion. Fantasmer on our economy is declining. You say that our future is in the hands of other nations. They are not in the real world.

With his message of economic growth and the opportunity that is the natural consequence GOP Champion Blacks, minorities, women and ethnic Americans. . . .

We are the party of true social progress. . . . So we have less chance of the productive economy:

* We advocate for a wage youth training opportunities to broaden and not for young people in forced labour.

* As an alternative to the inflationary - and destroy jobs - minimum wage increases, we are working to increase the incomes of working poor with the help of the Earned Income Tax Credit, particularly for upper income groups, support children. This means higher Take-Home-pay for millions of families.

* We are going to welfare to promote labour reform as the ticket guarantee that the full participation in American life.

* We have long a reform of the unemployment insurance program rewards workers quickly find new jobs.

* We strongly call on the right of Americans on work at home. The Home Work rule, a ban on sale of certain items at home, go. . . .

* We will fight for social security restricts the results to the elderly. The tax reduction

The Republican Party clearly reaffirms the commitment we have during the year 1984: We are against all attempts to increase taxes. The tax increases hamper economic growth and the trend to restore control over the economy of every American.

We are opposed to debts after higher taxes on all pages - including commissions bipartie”.” The decisions of our government should not be in a position of non-elected officials.

Republicans know that the continuation of USA economic growth requires a pool of private savings. From bank accounts, purchases and stocks of small banks Piggy, the flow of Thrift must flow together and form a strong influx of capital. The sparkling strength derives from our society advance, only because all. To go:

* We support the incentives for private savings, as our ability deduction for the IRA.

* We are opposed to the withholding tax on savings.

* We will reduce by 15 per cent tax rates on capital gains long-term initiatives to promote investment in jobs and increased revenue for the federal government by touching another increase in economic growth . Controlling federal spending Hotel

The good news was for a while.

Nine months after Katrina devastated New Orleans, the city is small fries appeared to be a Come Back. Indeed, it must be in possession of new businesses at a faster rate than larger branches, according to a study by Professor Richard Campanella, director of the Center for Bioenvironmental Research in Tulane University.

Campanella a week of bike ride along the New Orleans three transport space (Magazine Street, St. Claude Street Carrollton Avenue), followed by companies have opened their doors along some 16 miles from the company. He found that 73% of small businesses have again since the storm, compared to 60% of regional channels and 47% of the national channels.

But it was in May, and things are not as rosy. While small businesses have continued to exceed openings purchase openings of the house, said Campanella, the total number has slowed. Worse yet, while entrepreneurs are more itching, part of the city in terms of recovery, few donors are willing to risk.

“Small-Business owners are in danger of phasing-out,” says Tim Williamson, co-founder of the Village idea, not a source of profit for small businesses in New Orleans and just jump in the Schlachtgetümmel. Idea Village has provided loans to nearly 150 small business owners, but he was forced to over 550 other applications.

While most of the city banks are running, they are not ready to abandon subscription. Alden McDonald, President of Liberty Band and Trust Company, the first African-American possession bank in Louisiana, admits that, while he worked with many entrepreneurs to start businesses or start new businesses, often his hands are bound, if we want, bending - Conditions for participation. Sound: “A lot of professionals are not sure if they want to return.”

The Small Business Administration has not aggressive, whatever. Of the 10 billion dollars in loans provided by the SBA, in order to contribute to the restoration of businesses and households in the region, only 2.1 billion dollars has been awarded, and only 300 million dollars of this amount were awarded to small businesses. According to a report by Democrats on the House Small Business Committee, 85% U.S. dollars promised, small businesses have not yet dispersed.

“I do not know anyone today a loan of SBA,” said Jimmie Thorns, owner of real estate assessment Thorns Consulting and board member of the Black Economic Development Council and the Chamber of Commerce. ” It was an absolute nightmare for human beings have attempted to drive. ” 45 Thorns considered property since the storm, and most business owners have said that personal savings, insurance money and time in local time to obtain bank loans on their feet.

Crichton Brown, managing director of Advantage Capital, a venture capital seeks to invest in New Orleans, where he said that the lack of capital is obvious: “We hear every day in the elevator. [But] Venture capital firms are very focused and can not be less than 5% of all transactions. We are not a panacea. ”

It is not difficult to understand why lenders are mischievous. Basic services in many parts of the city after the lack of merchandise. Trash collection is done once a week, compared with twice in the weeks preceding the storm, many forces the owner of the store may external processor. The insurance costs are high, and a quantity of property is still deeply into disrepair.

Still, Aaron Wolfson Gutsy entrepreneurs are willing to him. Two weeks before the storm, Wolfson a gourmet cooking school called Savvy. He has since pledged his house accounts and investments and insurance opened money and a grant from the idea Village, around the school.

If Wolfson wanted to open a complementary business, Savvy kitchen of a restaurant kitchen design companies, start-up capital was to find anywhere. The SBA turned him, and he had no guarantee for the security of the left, a bank loan. He finally landed a loan of $ 15000 at a rate of 13.5% of Prosper.com, an online service allows users to bid for the privilege of lending money. He hoped to pay back with his first kitchen, dragging in your system, should be between $ 20000 and $ 80000.

“It is really difficult place for your hands on money, if you have not already,” says Wolfson. “It is like the Wild, Wild West here. You have to do, are you going to happen.”

The SBA also rejected Mona Baudy, the owner of the store’s floral Mona Accents. “They are of the opinion, I could not pay the money,” she said. Baudy the store reopened its doors since the last seven years with money from their savings and personal insurance. During that it does not have much competition in these days of local florists, it has to plough the majority of their turnover, close to pre-Katrina levels in saving repair, which was under several metres of water .

This decline in the government aims to accelerate the payment of value of nearly $ 10 billion for the LA owner, in the form of checks by $ 150000 for the reconstruction of their homes as part of the Road Home. If everything goes well, that flows institutions - workers and Shopper - should be considered as start-up aid for capital investment. “Before you go ahead as a small business owner, you need to know if someone is going to live around you,” says Hilton Bell, a New Orleans-based lawyer milling Benson Woodward.

Tim Ryan, an economist and chancellor of the University of New Orleans, has no doubt that the entrepreneurs who are being considered for Reconstruction - even if she asks if she can stay afloat. “We see thousands of entrepreneurs,” he said. “Our challenge is to maintain sustainable enterprise.

Looking back, many candidates on the ballot papers the progress of 12 years could easily historical Hall of Shame - a large portion of them are behind bars or on their way.

In collaboration with the former Dir Edwin Edwards, won his fourth term in the year 1991, two other winners are national races Federal Prison. A third is now facing corruption, the rule of booking fees. Election losers and two this year, including former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, have served or are on the federal budget.

The national elections this fall, some are cautious speculate that LA is regrettable finally shakes his political legacy of corruption.

“We are responsible, Rock Bottom,” said Rafael Goyeneche, director of the Metropolitan Crime Commission of Greater New Orleans, a private group monitoring.

“We’ll start rebuilding our reputation of the national economy. The way we are going about it is the reform of our policy, with an assumption by the FBI and the prosecutor of the USA,” he said.

Edwards began in October of 10 years, a rate of extorting applicants for casino licenses. Around the same time, former Insurance Commissioner Jim Brown was in prison for six months for lying to the FBI during an investigation, an insurance company flat.

Brown was the third successive insurance commissioner behind bars. Doug Green is still serve 25 years, Federal Prison for $ 2 million illegal campaign contributions. His predecessor, Bernard Sherman, served 30 months for bribes as campaign contributions disguised.

Herzog, once served as a member of State House, first with a rate of 15 months, the Confederation on 15 April. He pleaded guilty to a tax burden and an e-mail cargo fraud, misuse of money from its political contributions.

Former elections commissioner Jerry Fowler, five years from the rate of bribes to vote equipment suppliers. His old office was abolished during the next year with its tasks to transfer the Secretary of State.

The Agricultural Commissioner Bob Odom taxes State currently is fighting corruption, abuse of public ownership and presentation of false public documents. Odom, faces, new elections this fall, in the absence of existence.

U.S. Attorney Jim Letten said he hoped the prosecution of public politicians have a double effect: deterrence by other corrupt officials and give the public the belief tries to seduce report.

“We are demonstrating to citizens that corruption is not the requirement of the moment and it is aggressive prosecuted and punished,” said Latvians. “As a byproduct we see a surge of reform and an end to the apathy of citizens.”

Last summer, Mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin announced a tough action against City Hall corruption, crime swamping of the Commission, with hundreds of tips, many of whom by the FBI, said Goyeneche .

“It’s a growing sense of urgency in the economy to change our image of corruption as the capital of the USA. We have seen a dramatic shift in public opinion on the highest level, businessmen use reporting and corruption, “said Goyeneche.

The federal authorities are also reports on the activities of public schools in New Orleans and allegations of corruption in the judicial system in suburban Jefferson Parish.

There were other success in terms of government officials in the last 60 years, starting with the 1939 e-mail fraud conviction of Richard Leche Dir. But in the long term during the eye of the state-and-a-head attitude toward corruption remained largely intact.

New Orleans, Louisiana - New Orleans is the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Wednesday, with candle light vigils, prayer and a new memorial for human beings or 1 500 yes, died in the water and their anger.

On the eve of observances, but sadness still-wounded city is captured in a single card.

He remained in a cemetery in the field of white flags in honor of the victims.

Written by the daughter of 76 years victims of the storm Meahrer Patrick Turner and his children and grandchildren, the letter and photograph are stratified and together with adhesive tape on a white banner bearing the name of Turner :

We all missed. It was never easy in two years, you’re away. They were our rock. We asked to leave, but we do need to take.

“We deserve to Hold You (r) as if the hand is dead Mommy. They were the same … You were a great man and father.”

Turner, a man with TAN tousled white hair, which, unfortunately, at the top of the screen disappear. The date of his death - “August 2005″ - to one estimate, such as death itself great.

On Wednesday the city is to unveil the “Katrina” in a memorial park nearby. More than 100 of the storm not identified and the victims are placed under the peace Hurricane barrettes shaped course.

“This is the memorial, where a victim of the cyclone is actually buried,” said Gerard Schoen, director of a funeral, at Lake Lawn Metairie Cemetery, one of the oldest burial places of the city, mid - organize the event.

You really a culture by the judge how they deal with their dead, “said Schoen, director of the 6th generation funeral home and native New Orleanian.

Among the live here, life is hard.

New Orleans is a city is deeply changed and further problems during the reconquest of his soul.

Slightly more than half the population has returned to rebuild houses destroyed, as the Gulf of Katrina on 29 August 2005, and most of the flooded city, and thousands stranded on rooftops, as violence and looting broke out in the streets of a few seconds.

The musicians, artists and everyday people, gave the Big Easy, unlike anywhere else in the country to struggle with increased costs exorbitant rents for businesses to higher insurance costs, tax and crime.

Owners are still struggling to find reliable partners and processed by weaving the bureaucracy of government and insurance, so they can pay.

And workers in peripheral severely damaged residential areas in eastern New Orleans just to find safety in numbers - gunmen rob yards hellichten en masse the day.

The city is located on the pace repeat homicide capital of the nation than 140 murders this year in a city entvölkerten only 275 000 people.

“It is staggering and nothing that has been tried since the beginning of the year, has worked,” said Texas State University Kriminologe Peter Scharf.

Stress is a major intellectual toll: the government of a recent study has shown that mental illness was Gulf inhabitants, there is an increase in the number of people considering suicide, and there are more people suffering from posttraumatic stress now than there were before one year.

Meanwhile billions of dollars in subsidies from the Confederation is still shrouded in bureaucracy and debt is flying in all directions.

They have a clear break with the past, “Bobby Jindal was sworn in Monday as the Louisiana Governor’s 55, claiming that the unity of his hotel by a State or a staggering 2005 hurricanes, but also because never enter pleas whose its disposal.

Given the oath shortly after noon, under an almost cloudless sky, Jindal said a revision of the laws of the State and ethics reduction of corporate taxes would help the LA a beacon for current residents and those who left for another occasion.

“For reasons none of us can understand, or even fully appreciate the history we all - Louisianian of every living inside its borders and without - a situation that previous generations might envy” , Said Jindal, surrounded by his wife, Barbara, children and thousands of spectators on Capitol Hill.

“Under the Light of the World, with great generosity and a clear invitation to common purpose, we have the possibility of positive change and sustainable.”

In addition, under oath, Lt Dir Rieu Mitch Landrieu, Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike stretching, Insurance Commissioner James Donelon Treasurer John Kennedy, Attorney General James “Buddy” Caldwell and Secretary of State Jay Dardenne.

But the morning was Jindal, 36 years, Republican, sailed into office with 54 percent of votes in the primary school just lost his first gubernatorial command four years ago, Democrat Kathleen Blanco.

Coming less than 30 months after the vast swath of the state were destroyed by hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Jindal according to a time of great opportunities in the Land government. After years of final rest of the South, in important economic and social indicators, LA record revenue from rising energy prices and a flood of hurricane reconstruction dollars.

Jindal inherits a government with a record result of budget surpluses and a laundry list of issues that need urgent attention, roads and ports to zerfallender disappearance of the coast and education and health systems , Whose performances far behind other countries.

Jindal spend only reference to Katrina and Rita, and focused instead on his signature pledge to strengthen laws and ethics to build “a Louisiana, where incompetence is not a synonym for the government.”

“We come to the Capitol to a clear break with the past. LA, the highest standards for traceability in the nation, “said Jindal. “For our government to 180 degrees on the darkest chapter of its past”.

He said he invited the lawmakers to a special meeting in early February 10 with the handling of ethical rules for legislators, elected lobbyists and other agents.

He clearly stated that its priority, ethics, aimed at improving the climate of a company, tariffs on ill-national indicators and not in the situation, investment at the same level as some of their neighbours.

“In the knowledge economy in this century, investment opportunities and flow where the staff is ready, the business climate is welcome,” said Jindal. “In short, the chances of cash places focuses on the future and pushed, however, do something.”

Assist them a legislative agenda is full again, especially in the Chamber of Deputies, thanks largely to a law limiting the duration, occurred during the last year. There are 59 new members to 105 members of the House, plus at least a dozen more with less than a full mandate of the Office, under their belt.

The Senate of 39 members, however, has only four new members without legislative experience, with some in the upper chamber, which in some cases for decades in this house.

Jindal the first recognition of the storm devastated about halfway through the address, if his message on “the living room scattered in Houston and Dallas and Atlanta, where former Louisianians now live.”

“We have to make at home,” said Jindal.

Jindal’s oath as the 55th Louisiana’s Chief Executive, given that more and more a State during the year 1812 is historic, several measures. The son of immigrants, it is the first person of Indian descent to elect an executive director of the American State. At 36, he is the nation’s youngest governor, and the third in the recent history of Louisiana, trailing only Henry Clay Warmoth, 26, was at the time of his choice, and Huey P. Long, 35,.

With his convincing victory in October, Jindal was the first candidate country since 1974 Louisiana’s Constitution, the current configuration of the system opened, the first winners of the Governor win a race for the open space without an election.

His arrivals on the Constitution of the State up to serve better policies to Baton Rouge and Washington, DC, and three years in the House of Representatives of USA, the praise of the whole political spectrum.

“His energy, intelligence and commitment as a reformer results in a positive change and fuel oil from the current dynamic in reconstruction efforts,” Federal Republic Gulf Coast reconstruction Donald Powell, said the coordinator, in a statement.

Jindal’s prepared explanations contained no references outgoing Dir Kathleen Blanco, except to put it in the long list of dignitaries He acknowledged in his title extended. But at the end of his speech, Jindal thank Govs day. Dave Treen, Buddy Roemer and Mike Foster for their notification to the State.

Caffeine heals all wounds Hill

Hours after Congress passed a law on energy extensive research on revenue sharing for coastal states as Louisiana, Maryland Sen. Rieu, D-La., Bumped Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., A Washington, DC, area Starbucks. Markey was nearly sidelined the bill with an amendment, the country Rieu and other supporters of poison pill. The change is not just two votes, so that some footnotes for heartburn. “I did not know if it punch or kiss, if I chose the diplomatic channel and we shake hands,” said Rieu countries at the signing ceremony of the legislation last week. Country Rieu said she Markey said: “I guess the winner for purchase of coffee,” and they gave him a cup. Rieu Country, she admitted a little nervous during their talks, because their daughter, Mary Shannon, 9, was with her, Rieu and landscape, it could have, said some uncomplimentary things about Markey and its amendment. During their talks, according to the country Rieu, Markey told her daughter They should be proud of their mother. “If it does not entirely in his career, it is a great victory for her and for Louisiana,” said Markey Rieu country’s memory. Country Rieu said that her daughter had all this and responded: “Yes, she works in nine years, since I was born.”

Investigators probe of the surveillance Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, Nigeria has asked investigators to compile bank and all records of wire transfers of $ 5000 or more for a criminal justice Southern University Professor, according to a report by ‘West Africa countries of the Economic and Financial Crimes to the Commission. The professor, Allison Anadi, answered questions from U.S. investigators, his lawyer, Glen Woods said. He referred questions are largely focused on a group bearing the name of the World Conference of Mayors, who met in Nigeria in 2001. Jefferson was a participant in the meeting, reports on events in the Nigerian newspaper The Guardian. Officials from the Ministry of Justice would not comment, but they said in documents that the government seeks in a number of dealings with the Congress of Deputies as part of a probe, began in March 2005. The World Conference of Nigerian Mayor meeting, there were discussions on a proposed power plant and refinery in the Nigerian state, Akwa Ibom. A company named Chase Wood consortium had the rights for the development of the project, even if funding was obvious. Chase Wood was chosen as a partner in the consortium Global Environmental Energy Corp., which had both offices in New Orleans and was a promoter, under the name Leth Energy Inc., a journey in 2004 in Nigeria, Jefferson has adopted the West Africa and other States. Another proponent of this trip was iGate Inc., whose CEO has pleaded guilty to funneling $ 367000 for payments to a company of Jefferson’s family as compensation for Members of Congress assistance for the telecommunications markets in Nigeria and Ghana. Jefferson, was recently re-elected for a ninth term, has not been charged and says he is innocent of each fault.

Sentiments about various chemicals rules

The chemical industry applauded a decision by the Bush administration, that some chemical companies released through the provision of detailed information on toxic chemicals on releases into the air and water. But environmentalists said the new rules of Toxic Release Inventory would mean that municipalities have less access to information on pollutants, the inhabitants. According to Environmental Protection Agency Deputy Administrator Marcus Peacock, soft manufacturing firms detailed information on small quantities of chemical waste, companies are encouraged to “reducing emissions of chemicals and increased recycling and treatment technology . ” The National Environmental Trust’s Tom Natan, said the decision by the EPA say, 3600 than 8000 companies involved are not the issue detailed reports on chemical releases. Senator Frank Lautenberg DN.J., called the action “only the latest example to manage the interests of the company before polluter of the health and safety of the American people.” But Dan Borne, president of the Louisiana Chemical Association, said it is important to recognize that businesses are still needed for their versions. “It is easy with less effort in terms of statement about certain chemicals, emissions below certain thresholds,” said Borne.

The judge does not violate the costume purchase McCrery

A federal judge in Shreveport recommended dismissal of an appeal in question is whether Rep. Jim McCrery, R-Shreveport, lives in the constituency he represents in Congress. Patti Cox, ready for third in a race against the 10-established after November, continued after the elections and said McCrery not live in the 4th District, or, more importantly, Louisiana. The Constitution provides that a member of residence in the state. Cox noted that McCrery sold his homeland in 2004 and drew his wife and two children from Washington. McCrery said he rented a house in the region. It rose to dismiss the appeal on the grounds that the House of Representatives, not a federal court should decide the qualifications of its members. In a seven-page decision, December 15, the American judge Mark Hornsby agreed. Cox said she is not abandoned, and a complaint with the Chamber of Deputies.