Results for “Civil Service Committee”

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…asting peace, to the need for better housing, medical care, and employment security for all people, to the promotion of civil liberties and the battle against discrimination based on race, nationality, or religion. For more information, including to RSVP to the event, please co...

…Modern Authoritarians Third, he signaled his support for majoritarianism, with its disdain for checks and balances and civil society, as opposed to the values of pluralism that are enshrined in liberal democratic practice. The message here is important. For many, illiberalism’s...

… Murray Kempton in 1950 for his articles on labor in the south and Edward R. Murrow in 1954 for his critical reports on civil liberties and Joseph McCarthy at the height of the Red Scare; to 2017 newspaper winner, David Fahrenthold, for exposing Donald Trump’s sexual harassment a...

… Clinton’s National Security Council adviser. Most conspicuously, Hillary has championed what has come to be known as “civil society.” In practice that means moving beyond the usual contacts between the United States and foreign governments to forge ties with the non-governmenta...

…iled not only for the benefit of our company but because we felt that this outrageous law was totally infringing on the civil rights and freedoms of people involved in alternative lifestyles. Obviously, the average person involved in swinging would have no way of combating this l...

…) by stating: e People do not like it when people make good and that was one reason he (Epstein) was being targeted by civil suits filed by young girls in Florida; e He(Epstein) had done nothing wrong; 33 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010598

… Europe into a Soviet-controlled bloc—in which the econ- omy came under state control, religious belief was persecuted, civil society was destroyed, the press was converted into a monolithic instrument of propagan- da, and opposition political parties were crushed—by claiming tha...

…rged with any federal counts. As part of the agreement, Epstein had to register as a sex of- fender and agree to settle civil law- suits that his roughly 30 victims filed against him. Getting Epstein to agree to pay restitution to his victims and register as a sex offender were...

…ere no criminal cases to file after the 2008 crisis. But the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan did pursue significant civil cases against the banks for their mortgage activities, cases that had to proove misconduct by the “preponderance of the evidence.” And DOJ did win guilty...

…m closed. For their part, democracy promoters focus on democratic transitions, providing help to opposition parties and civil society organizations in authoritarian countries. But once a transition occurs, as it did after the Orange and Rose revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia, th...

…d in October. Epstein and his associate, British-born socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, were also accused in a 2015 federal civil suit of organizing underage sex parties on his private plane, nicknamed “The Lolita Express,” and at Epstein’s various homes. Maxwell, who has never been...

…pstein also is on Florida’s registered sex offender list. Scarola, who has represented several of Epstein’s victims in civil lawsuits, scoffed at Acosta’s claims. The evidence that Epstein sexually abused young girls was “overwhelming,” he said. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022991

…mediately be leaked to the press, your actions will only have the effect of injuring Mr. Epstein and promoting spurious civil litigation directed at him. We also request that if your office believes that it must send a letter to go to the alleged victims ... it should happen only...

…of the criminal conspiracy. Oh, this refreshes my recollection that Jeffrey Epstein had answered some questions in the civil litigation. He provided, for example, names of -- of some people who were involved, but he took the Fifth when asked -- he took -- he provided names of so...