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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (274663)	7/13/2002 8:18:16 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769670

LOOKING FOR WORK AT THE WHITE HOUSE? BE SURE YOUR CV SAYS YOU'RE A CROOK...... The Thief-In-Chief is making himself look like a laughingstock. Not only is he following the age old precept: "If you don't want something done, assign it to a committee", he's decided to stuff the committee with crooks for good measure: channels.netscape.com Bush Corporate Task Force Head Served Troubled Firm WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of President George W. Bush's new corporate-crime task force served as a director at a credit-card company that paid more than $400 million to settle allegations of unfair and deceptive business practices, officials said on Saturday. But they said Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson was unaware of problems at Providian Financial Corp. until they were unearthed by U.S. regulators, and he then played a lead role in pushing the company to recompense consumers. Thompson chaired the Providian board's audit and compliance committee until he took up his Justice Department post in May 2001. The previous year, the San Francisco-based company, under pressure from federal and state regulators, agreed to pay a total of $405 million to customers it allegedly bilked through hidden charges and deceptive sales practices. <The Official Lies continue at the website......>