Throw Them All Out

2006.

6 Mullins, 'Hedge Funds Use Lobbyists for Tips in Washington.'

7 Jessica Holzer, 'Wall Street Goes Bargain Hunting in the Farm Bill,' The Hill, April 23, 2008.

8 Joe Nocera, 'From Pentagon, a Buy Rating on Contractors,' New York Times, February 11, 2011.

9 'Did Steve Eisman Unduly Influence the Education Dept.?' CNNmoney.com, November 2, 2010, and Jim Angle, 'Education Department Rules on For-Profit Schools Created with Investor's Help,' Foxnews.com, May 31, 2011, and Andy Kroll, 'Steve Eisman's Next Big Short: For-Profit Colleges,' Motherjones.com, May 27, 2010. E-mails concerning Eisman's meetings with Department of Education officials are available from CREW: http://crew.3cdn.net/37fff23ac9f0c849a8_vbsm6hbc5.pdf.

10 'Did Markets Know Obama Was Going to Tap Oil Reserve?' CNBC.com, July 6, 2011.

11 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer.

12 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29rich.html.

13 Richard Rahn, 'You Lose, Soros Wins,' Washington Times, October 24, 2008.

14 'Axis of Soros,' Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2009.

15 Robert Kuttner, A Presidency in Peril (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2010), p. 14.

16 Eamon Javers, 'Soros, Gore among W.H. Visitors,' Politico, October 31, 2009.

17 Louis Uchitelle, 'Volcker Pushes for Reform, Regretting Past Silence,' New York Times, July 11, 2010.

18 http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,592268,00.html.

19 George Soros, 'The Game Changer,' Financial Times, January 28, 2009.

20 http://www.emc.com/leadership/tech-view/stimulating-ah-ha-phenomenon.htm.

21 http://www.teradata.com/t/industry-expertise/government.

22 http://4g-wirelessevolution.tmcnet.com/broadband-stimulus/topics/broadband-stimulus/articles/63191- extreme-networks-pushes-broadband-networks-into-rural-america.htm.

23 http://www.radware.com/Solutions/Enterprise/Industries/Government_US.aspx.

24 'Emerging Trends in Education Publishing,' Cognizant.

25 http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/06/12/12greenwire-doe-revives-futuregen-reversing-bush-era- decis-47303.html.

26 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/energy/6911328.html.

27 http://pseg.com/info/media/thought_leader/carbon_strategy.jsp.

28 General Electric Annual Report, 2008.

8. SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

1 Quoted in Edward Roeder, 'Slippery Slopes: How Politicians Can Draw the 'Get Out of Jail Free' Card in the Game of Politics,' Campaigns and Elections, August 2006.

2 Tony Mauro, 'Recusal Report,' Legal Times, October 10, 2008.

3 Kathleen Clark, 'Regulating the Conflict of Interest of Government Officials,' in Michael Davis and Andrew Stark, eds., Conflict of Interest in the Professions (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 53.

4 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/16/business/16insider.html.

5 See, for example, http://www.azauditor.gov/Reports/Counties/Yuma/SIU/SIU03-1.pdf.

6 Leonard J. Brooks, 'Conflict of Interest in the Accounting Profession,' in Davis and Stark, eds., Conflict of Interest in the Professions, p. 93.

7 http://www.nytco.com/press/ethics.html#B3.

8 Eleanor Randolph, 'Guards of Press Troubled by SEC Suit,' Washington Post, May 21, 1984.

9 U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, http://wyden.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release, July 15, 2010.

10 John Dorschner, 'Senator Tells University of Miami He's Troubled over Hiring,' Miami Herald, June 10, 2010.

11 U.S. Constitution, article 1, section 5.

12 Jacob R. Straus, 'House Committee on Ethics: A Brief History of Its Evolution and Jurisdiction,' Congressional Research Service Publication 7-5700, http://www.crs.gov.

13 Catharine Richert, 'Public Citizen Gets It Right about Insider Trading Rules,' Politifact, St. Petersburg Times, August 6, 2009.

14 Senate Ethics Manual, 2003, pp. 160–75.

15 Jeffrey Birnbaum, 'Ethics Panel Finds Conflict with Senator's Job as Physician,' Washington Post, April 6, 2005.

16 Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, 110th Congress, 2nd Session, House Ethics Manual, 2008 ed., pp. 234–37.

17 Andrew George, 'Public (Self)-Service: Illegal Trading on Confidential Congressional Information,' Harvard Law and Policy Review, vol. 2, 2008, p. 162.

18 Stephen M. Bainbridge, 'Insider Trading Inside the Beltway,' UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 10-08, June 30, 2010, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1633123.

19 Daylian M. Cain, George Loewenstein, and Don A. Moore, 'Coming Clean but Playing Dirtier: The Shortcomings of Disclosure as a Solution to Conflicts of Interest,' in Don A. Moore et al., eds., Conflicts of Interest: Challenges and Solutions in Business, Law, Medicine, and Public Policy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), and Daylian M. Cain, George Loewenstein, and Don Moore, 'The Dirt on Coming Clean: Perverse Effects of Disclosing Conflicts of Interest,' Journal of Legal Studies, January 2005.

20 Clark, 'Regulating the Conflict of Interest of Government Officials.'

21 Beth Burger, 'Businessman Dennis Kim Charged with Extortion,' Bradenton.com, February 13, 2009.

22 Fred McChesney, Money for Nothing: Politicians, Rent Extraction, and Political Extortion (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997).

23 R. Beck, C. Hoskins, and J. M. Connolly, 'Rent Extraction Through Political Extortion: An Empirical Examination,' Journal of Legal Studies, January 1992.

9. WHY THIS MATTERS

1 George Washington Plunkitt, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall (Boston: Bedford Books, 1993), p. 34.

2 http://money.cnn.com/2003/03/20/pf/saving/war_military_pay/table.html.

3 Scott Higham, Kimberly Kindy, and Dan Keating, 'Senate Panel Ban Seen as Double Standard,' Washington Post, December 19, 2010.

4 Plunkitt, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, p. 42.

5 http://www.rollcall.com/issues/56_119/financial-disclosure- congress-205462-1.html.

6 National Conference of State Legislatures, 'To Vote or Not to Vote: State Provisions on Conflicts of Interest and Voting,' November 2009.

7 http://fppc.ca.gov/index.php?id=37.

8 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/22/AR2006052201080.html.

9 'Judge Rules FBI Raid on Rep. Jefferson's Office Was Legal,' Associated Press, Foxnews.com, July 10, 2006.

10 Joel'S. Kahn and Francesco Formosa, 'The Problem of 'Crony Capitalism': Modernity and the Encounter with the Perverse,' Thesis Eleven, vol. 69, May 2002.

11 Andrew Redleaf and Richard Vigilante, Panic: The Betrayal of Capitalism by Wall Street and Washington (Minneapolis: Richard Vigilante Books, 2010).