Here is a potpourri of sleaze you may have missed…
Md. Gov. Returns Campaign Contributions
The Associated Press
Friday, November 3, 2006; 12:04 PM
BALTIMORE — Gov. Robert Ehrlich returned more than $540,000 in political contributions to the Republican Party after state elections officials discovered that a federal account was used to funnel funds to his re-election campaign.
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Timing of Burns donation, recommendation questioned
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. Conrad Burns received a $2,000 campaign donation from an attorney one day before recommending him for a federal judgeship five years ago.—
Nuclear Lab Breach Could Be ‘Devastating’
CBS News Exclusive: Data Found In Drug Raid Contains Weapons-Design Secrets(CBS) The recent security breach at Los Alamos National Laboratory was very serious, with sensitive materials being taken out of the facility — possibly including information on how to deactivate locks on nuclear weapons, officials tell CBS News.
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Hevesi’s bad math
Has to pony up $90G more for wife’s rides
BY DAVID SALTONSTALL
DAILY NEWS SENIOR CORRESPONDENTAlan Hevesi
State Controller Alan Hevesi isn’t just ethics-challenged - he’s apparently math-challenged as well.Hevesi had to return another $90,000 to taxpayers yesterday after a review by the state attorney general’s office found he badly miscalculated how much he owed the state after the “Driving Mrs. Hevesi” scandal.
Hevesi had previously forked over $82,688 - a number he arrived at himself - to cover the salary of a state-paid staffer who chauffeured his ailing wife for three years.