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Chief Justice Roberts, in his report on the state of the judiciary at the end of 2006, cited a few kinds of data to support his argument that low pay is leading to a crisis. One was that 38 judges left the federal bench between 2000 and 2005, some citing the need to make more money.
Judge Richard A. Posner, a prominent federal appeals court judge in Chicago, called this “crying wolf” in his recent book, “How Judges Think.” The chief justice had lumped retirements and resignations together, Judge Posner said. Only 12 federal judges had resigned out of a total of 1,200 active and senior judges in the years in question, a small number in absolute terms and a smaller percentage than in the six years ending in 1974.
Judge Posner did not dispute that low pay may mean that there are fewer judges coming from private firms, but he did not see why that should matter so long as there appear to be plenty of qualified candidates.
Bethany McLean, a 31-year-old Fortune magazine reporter with an impossibly soft voice, decided to take a hard look at Enron last January.
The Houston energy company didn't like her questions. The CEO, Jeffrey Skilling, called her unethical and hung up on her. The chairman, Kenneth Lay, called Fortune's managing editor to complain. The chief financial officer, Andrew Fastow, flew to New York to tell McLean and her editors that Enron was in great shape.
McLean refused to be intimidated. "The company remains largely impenetrable to outsiders," she wrote in Fortune's March 5, 2001, issue. "How exactly does Enron make its money? Details are hard to come by because Enron keeps many of the specifics confidential. . . . Analysts don't seem to have a clue." All this amounted to a "red flag" that "may increase the chance of a nasty surprise."
"... The mobster arranged for Kennedy to spend an afternoon with "three gorgeous prostitutes." Unbeknownst to Kennedy, the suite was outfitted with a two-way mirror that ..."
"... At the Comodoro-the hotel where Senator Kennedy had his afternoon orgy-an exhibition was sometimes held for special guests. Attorney Frank Ragano remembered being taken there by Martin ..."
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime was arriving at the same conclusion. Later that year, they issued a report linking the drug trade to the insurgency and made a controversial statement: “Opium cultivation in Afghanistan is no longer associated with poverty — quite the opposite.” The office convincingly demonstrated that poor farmers were abandoning the crop and that poppy growth was largely confined to some of the wealthiest parts of Afghanistan. The report recommended that eradication efforts be pursued “more honestly and more vigorously,” along with stronger anticorruption measures. Earlier this year, the U.N. published an even more detailed paper titled “Is Poverty Driving the Afghan Opium Boom?” It rejected the idea that farmers would starve without the poppy, concluding that “poverty does not appear to have been the main driving factor in the expansion of opium poppy cultivation in recent years.”
The U.N. reports shattered the myth that poppies are grown by destitute farmers who have no other source of income. They demonstrated that approximately 80 percent of the land under poppy cultivation in the south had been planted with it only in the last two years. It was not a matter of “tradition,” and these farmers did not need an alternative livelihood. They had abandoned their previous livelihoods — mainly vegetables, cotton and wheat (which was in severely short supply) — to take advantage of the security vacuum to grow a more profitable crop: opium....
That is where we are today. The solution remains a simple one: execute the policy developed in 2007. It requires the following steps:
1. Inform President Karzai that he must stop protecting drug lords and narco-farmers or he will lose U.S. support. Karzai should issue a new decree of zero tolerance for poppy cultivation during the coming growing season. He should order farmers to plant wheat, and guarantee today’s high wheat prices. Karzai must simultaneously authorize aggressive force-protected manual and aerial eradication of poppies in Helmand and Kandahar Provinces for those farmers who do not plant legal crops.
2. Order the Pentagon to support this strategy. Position allied and Afghan troops in places that create security pockets so that Afghan counternarcotics police can arrest powerful drug lords. Enable force-protected eradication with the Afghan-set goal of eradicating 50,000 hectares as the benchmark.
3. Increase the number of D.E.A. agents in Kabul and assist the Afghan attorney general in prosecuting key traffickers and corrupt government officials from all ethnic groups, including southern Pashtuns.
4. Get new development projects quickly to the provinces that become poppy-free or stay poppy free. The north should see significant rewards for its successful anticultivation efforts. Do not, however, provide cash to farmers for eradication.
5. Ask the allies either to help in this effort or stand down and let us do the job.
"I constantly knew, during the entire 24 years, that what I did was not right, that I must have been crazy to do something like this," the magazine quoted Fritzl as saying to his lawyer, Rudolf Mayer. "With each week that I held my daughter captive," he said, "my situation got crazier."...
"When I went into the bunker, I brought flowers for my daughter, and books and stuffed animals for the children," he said. They watched adventure movies while the daughter, Elisabeth, cooked their favorite meals. "And then we all sat around the table and ate together," he said....
In his account, Fritzl describes himself as the product of Nazi-era Austria, with its mania for order and discipline, as well as of a domineering mother, whom he loved desperately. She did not sexually abuse him as a child, he said, though he admitted to nourishing fantasies about her....
But as Elisabeth grew into a teenager, Fritzl said, he became alarmed when she began smoking, drinking and staying out all night. "I tried to get her out of that swamp," he said, by arranging work for her as a waitress. He also began digging the underground bunker that became her prison in 1984, when Fritzl drugged her and dragged her downstairs.
"I had to create a place in which I could keep Elisabeth away from the outside world, by force if I had to," he said.
Fritzl, however, was unable to keep himself away from his daughter, who he said reminded him of his mother. "My drive to have sex with Elisabeth grew stronger and stronger," he said, describing it as an addiction. "I knew that Elisabeth didn't want me to do what I did to her. I knew that I was hurting her."
Josef Fritzl, who fathered seven children with his daughter while keeping her locked in a dungeon as a sex slave for 24 years, will plead insanity to avoid a prison sentence.
Lawyers for Mr Fritzl, 73, will argue that he was not responsible for his actions and will try to acquire a certificate of insanity...
Colonel Franz Polzer reported that Elisabeth, Kerstin and Stefan were kept in a single narrow room designed to be a nuclear shelter from 1984 until their father started expanding their prison in 1993.
Colonel Polzer said: “She [Elisabeth] said that there was only one single room at first. The dungeon was expanded as the children were getting born.” In the first nine months of her captivity, Elisabeth was kept tethered on an extended cable, resembling a dog leash, which allowed her to reach the lavatory but otherwise restricted her movement.
The life in the narrow concrete cube also meant that the children would witness how Fritzl would sexually abuse their mother. The children are now being treated in a local clinic together with their mother and grandmother.
Doctors have installed an aquarium with goldfish for Stefan, 18, who is having difficulties speaking and moving in open space after years of captivity. They have also brought teddy bears for Felix, who is seen as having the best chance of recovering from the ordeal.
Authorities have stepped up security around the Amstetten-Mauer clinic, where the family are being treated, after several violent incidents involving reporters attempting to enter the premises. One reportedly dressed as a police officer and tried to walk in at the front door. The Austrian Cobra antiterrorism unit has now been deployed to secure the hospital.
A married royal said to have performed a gay sex act on his senior aide on a kitchen floor as a Stringfellows stripper egged him on also took drugs, a jury heard yesterday.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by forecasts of limitless expansion into newly open markets. No one would foresee that the greatest success story to arise from these events would be the globalization of organized crime. Current estimates suggest that illegal trade accounts for nearly one-fifth of global GDP.
McMafia is a fearless, encompassing, wholly authoritative investigation of the now proven ability of organized crime worldwide to find and service markets driven by a seemingly insatiable demand for illegal wares. Whether discussing the Russian mafia, Colombian drug cartels, or Chinese labor smugglers, Misha Glenny makes clear how organized crime feeds off the poverty of the developing world, how it exploits new technology in the forms of cybercrime and identity theft, and how both global crime and terror are fueled by an identical source: the triumphant material affluence of the West.
To trace the disparate strands of this hydra-like story, Glenny talked to police, victims, politicians, and members of the global underworld in eastern Europe, North and South America, Africa, the Middle East, China, Japan, and India. The story of organized crime’s phenomenal, often shocking growth is truly the central political story of our time. McMafia will change the way we look at the world
Fabio Capello, the England manager, could face criminal charges after he was accused of withholding information in a corruption trial yesterday.
Capello, who was manager of Juventus during a two-year period in which the club were alleged to have fixed matches, gave evidence for over an hour to a court in Rome investigating allegations that six men conspired to control transfers by intimidating players into signing for a sports management firm. Prosecutor Luca Palamara said Capello had kept saying "I don't know" and "I don't remember" in his testimony. "We ran into a brick wall of reticence," he said. "In this court, witnesses are obliged to tell the truth, and not to refer to gossip or to say they do not remember."
There is no suggestion that Capello was involved in the match-fixing scandal and last night his lawyers issued a statement expressing their confidence that "everything will soon be completely cleared".
Yesterday's hearing centred on the role of GEA World, a sports management agency run by Davide Lippi, the son of Italy's World Cup-winning coach, Marcello. GEA World is alleged to have told players at lowly clubs that they could win a contract with Juventus if they threw games.
