@pluralistic
Corrupt #houseofcards exposed like others before it⚖️

Billionaire Gautam #Adani of #India's #AdaniGroup #charged in US with #bribery, fraud
"Adani & 7 other defendants, incl'g his nephew, agreed to pay ~$265mil in bribes to Indian #government #officials to obtain #solarenergy supply #contracts exp'd to yield $2bil profit over 20yrs.. the Adanis & another executive at Adani Green #Energy raised >$3bil in loans & bonds by concealing the #corruption fr lenders"
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chair-indias-adani-group-indicted-205401555.html

Of interest, the title article on CEO's which explains why those hoity toity think tank economists are full of shit 💩 when defending CEO pay.

>Pluralistic: America's best-paid CEOs have the worst-paid employees (09 Sep 2024) https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/09/low-wage-100/ by @pluralistic

#BadEconomy #business#FollowTheMoney #corruption #exploitation

Joe #Biden Issues a Stinging Dissent

by @jbouie

#SCOTUS is caught in a crisis of its own making.

There is the gross #corruption of Justice #ClarenceThomas & Justice Samuel #Alito, who have received millions… in gifts & benefits from various billionaire benefactors.

There is the court’s open assault on the basic #rights of tens of millions of Americans,

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#law#ActivistCourt
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/02/opinion/biden-supreme-court-reform-constitution.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

The… ticker symbol #DJT, last price $31.45 — is something unprecedented in financial or political history. It represents a company, #Trump Media & Technology Group, that has a single product,…Truth Social. The business operates at a staggering loss & is widely considered worthless. But the stock, DJT, has a market capitalization of roughly $6B.…Its value is purely a proxy for Trump’s political power.

#criminal #law #corruption#FEC
#VoteBlue#Harris2024
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-truth-social-djt-stock-corruption.html