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DAVID BADERTSCHER

The following posting consists of a series of documents selected to hopefully help provide those readers interested with an overview of the budget and the budget process. It also includes a list of the web sites rererenced in President Bush’s Budget Message.To provide added context I have embedded some of the citation references within quotations from his message. Due to the size and complexity of this budget as submitted we can only include a few of the documents in this posting. The following includes links to the series of documents selected.

SELECTED DOCUMENTS:

01/23/2008 Executive Order: Further Amendment of Executive Order 11858 Concerning Foreign Investment in the United States (PDF 70.7 KB)
Executive Order Issued by the President on Jan. 23, 2008

To See Executive Order 11858 Click Here

The New Jersey Senate voted Monday December 10 to make the state the first in the country to repeal the death penalty since 1976, when the United States Supreme Court set guidelines for the nation’s current system of capital punishment.

Legislators on both sides of the debate said they expected the measure to pass easily on Thursday in the General Assembly, where Democrats hold 50 of the 80 seats.

Gov. Jon S. Corzine, a staunch opponent of the death penalty, has said he would sign a measure ending executions

This white paper explores the emerging crimeware industry, examining web based techniques and methods being used to perpetuate cybercrime, with a focus on the business impact of these attacks. The paper also explores the benefits of real time content inspection technology as a possible solution to help secure enterprises frm the growing crimeware threat..

See the complete whitepaper by clicking on the link below:

Impact of Cybercrime

On Monday December 3, 2007 the U.S. Intelligence agencies released a new National Intelligence Estimate which concludes that Iran halted a nuclear weapons program in 2003, though it continues to enrich uranium, ostensibly for peaceful purposes.

For the convenience of our readers we are posting below without any editorial comment of our own a copy of the ScopeNote of the Intelligence Estimate and a link to the full document:

S c o p e N o t e

The 2007 Annual Report of the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct was released last Thursday. In his article in the November 19, 2007 New York Law Journal Daniel Wise writes that the Commission ” opened more investigations in 2006 [the year covered by the Annual Reporrt] and had more matters pending against judges than at any time in its 29 year history…”.

INTRODUCTION TO THE 2007 ANNUAL REPORT

The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct is the independent agency designated by the State Constitution to review complaints of misconduct against judges of the State Unified Court System, which includes approximately 3,400 judges and justices.

Ex-NYPD Commissioner Indicted on Corruption, Tax Charges

UNITED STATES V. BERNARD KERIK

“(U.S. Dist. Ct., S.D.N.Y., Nov. 9, 2007) – Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik was indicted by a federal grand jury on a variety of corruption charges relating to his former position under ex-NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, as well as personal tax evasion charges and failure to pay social security and employment taxes for his children’s nanny”

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