Happy to survive my disabilities, helping others say no to drugs, and earning the nickname from my family, The Crusader for justice. Mom calls me the one-man wrecking crew against corruption. Sad- losing everything my parents and I worked for due to friends of corrupt elected officials in law and judicial system lying about me. Natural disasters. Some people get help, but corruption there is no help. Serious- being, mistreated by friends and family...

A Californian may vacation in Yosemite, Big Sur, or Death Valley, but many of us come home to an oak woodland. Yet while common, oak woodlands are anything but ordinary. In a book rich in illustration and suffused with wonder, author Kate Marianchild combines extensive research and years of personal experience to explore some of the marvelous plants and animals that the oak woodlands nurture. Acorn woodpeckers unite in marriages of up to sixteen mates...

Repeated corruption scandals and the efforts of the international political community to find ways to counteract them have compelled economists, anthropologists and political scientists to confront corruption as a subject for serious academic research. This textbook introduces students to the field of corruption analysis and the challenges facing its researchers. The book explores the definitional challenges, the problems of measurement and the methodologies...

"Her gilded world holds a deeply hidden secret. After years of tragedy, Gwen Kellerman now lives a quiet life as a botanist at an idyllic New York college. She largely ignores her status as heiress to the infamous Blackstone dynasty and hopes to keep her family's heartbreak and scandal behind her. Patrick O'Neill survived a hardscrabble youth to become a lawyer for the downtrodden Irish immigrants in his community. He's proud of his work, even though...

When it comes to politics, the journey from the ballot box to public office is often perceived as a noble path, driven by a desire to serve the public and make a positive impact on society. However, lurking behind the scenes is a darker side of politics, rife with corruption, crime, and their far-reaching consequences. From Ballots to Mugshots: A Study of Political Corruption, Crime, and Consequences in the U.S. peels back the curtain on the insidious...

Thane Banning is ready for a fresh start. He survived 5 years in Forsman Prison for a crime he didn't commit, and now he's started a law firm to defend the innocent. But the past has other plans. When Kilo Miller, a violent felon who tried to kill Thane in prison, is charged with Joseph Crowell's murder, Thane agrees to take the case. He's certain Kilo didn't kill Crowell, because Thane knows who did. It's a secret he must protect in order to keep...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Bernstein takes listeners inside the scandalous world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale.A hidden circulatory system flows beneath the surface of global finance, carrying trillions of dollars from drug trafficking, tax evasion, bribery, and other illegal enterprises. This network masks the identities of the individuals who benefit from...

Assured by the FDA that the most widely used IUD in Europe was approved for use here he, continued using it for two years while the FDA and DOJ tracked his every move to build a case against him for using the device. Singh knew nothing about this until a team of armed agents raided his office and expelled undressed female patients from their exam rooms. The FDA then fabricated documents, destroyed and suppressed evidence, intimidated witnesses, and...

As an experienced physician, Paul Singh, MD, DO, PhD, was stunned by the cruelty that inmates with physical and mental conditions endured. Denials for treatment, gross incompetence, deadly neglect, reckless infliction of pain and falsified medical records, despite interventions from the courts, produced life-threatening conditions, emotional deterioration, loss of limbs, and even death. Prisoners were on a carousel of requirements that they repeatedly...

A companion to Prison Torture in America, Prison Papers provides medical and administrative records, inmate correspondence and legal documents as proof of the testimonies and shocking tales as described in Prison Torture in America. As an experienced physician, Singh was stunned by the cruelty that inmates with physical and mental conditions endured. Denials for treatment, gross incompetence, deadly neglect, reckless infliction of pain and falsified...