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To: Brumar89 who wrote (641651)	1/9/2012 7:15:07 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1578927

Wis. man cleared after girl admits lying about sexual assault Jan 9, 2012 kare11.com POLK COUNTY, Wis. - A western Wisconsin man has been cleared of all charges after an 11-year-old girl who had accused him of sexual assault admitted fabricating the whole story. Paul Burritt of Turtle Lake is a driver for a handicapped transportation service. He was taken into custody and charged with sexual assault in mid-December after a client told authorities that Burritt drove her to his home and molested her before driving her home. The case was widely reported in the media, including on kare11.com, because the case was officially charged by the Polk County District Attorney. That is among KARE's criteria for naming suspects in criminal cases. Burritt was arrested, but as deputies continued their investigation they used GPS data to verify the driver's story that he drove his usual route, and did not make advances on the girl. When confronted with the new information the 11-year-old admitted her allegations were false. The child did admit to making the false allegation upon being confronted with the facts. Polk County District Attorney Dan Steffen told WQOW TV that what happened to Burritt is "a prosecutor's worst nightmare." Steffen has dropped the charges against Burritt and is assisting to get the charges cleared from court records. The girl is being referred to juvenile authorities for making the false allegations.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (641651)	1/9/2012 10:12:48 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578927

So should he be paying more than 15% tax rate??

To: Brumar89 who wrote (641651)	1/10/2012 8:21:52 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1578927

White House loses chief of staff, gains election-year caretaker By Neil Munro Published: 11:57 PM 01/09/2012 \| Updated: 12:49 AM 01/10/2012 Meet the 2012 caretaker for the White House: Jacob Lew, long-time Democratic manager, policy wonk and budget dealmaker. His arrival in the West Wing means the President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden can quit their day jobs and stay almost full-time on the campaign trail. Meanwhile, the outgoing chief of staff, Bill Daley, will return to his home in the Democrat-dominated state of Illinois. Daley was hired shortly after Democrats’ stinging defeat in the 2010 midterm elections to help build ties between Obama and both the GOP and the business sector. But those efforts at compromise needed Obama’s approval, which Daley didn’t get. Instead, his outreach efforts were trumped by Obama’s political priorities, which included tax increases, expanded government regulation of business and constant conflict with the GOP’s majority in the House and minority in the Senate. In contrast, Lew has worked for years as an agency manager, budget negotiator and policy wonk. That’s a resume tailor-made for someone who is expected to handle many important decisions while the principals are out kissing babies, damning Republicans and scoring donations. Daley’s departure — and Lew’s ascension — leaves Obama and his political team with more freedom to set their 2012 calendar. This Wednesday, for example, Obama is slated to showcase several international companies that are hiring people in the United States. The White House event is titled the “In-Sourcing American Jobs Forum.” On the same day, Biden will grab Education Secretary Arne Duncan for a trip to the must-win swing-state of Ohio — it has 18 electoral votes in November — to present the administration’s education pitch to cash-strapped parents. White House officials, however, are trying to downplay Obama’s focus on his re-election. “The campaign, when it comes, in terms of his enhanced engagement, will consume more time at the appropriate time,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said today. For now, Obama “is very focused on his number-one priority, which is doing everything he can as President, working with Congress or using his executive authority or working with the private sector, to grow the economy and create jobs,” Carney said. In some ways, Lew and Daley are interchangeable. Lew graduated from Harvard University and Georgetown Law School, worked in a variety of jobs for Capitol Hill Democrats and President Bill Clinton, and then ran Citigroup’s Alternative Investments unit from 2006 until Obama hired him. Daley was the seventh child of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, attended Loyola University Chicago, got his law degree, worked for President Clinton, and served on the board of mortgage-giant Fannie Mae from 1993 to 1997. Those were the years during which it adopted mortgage policies that would eventually create the housing bubble which caused so much profit and loss for banks, including Lew’s Citigroup. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/09/white-house-loses-chief-of-staff-gains-election-year-caretaker/#ix... .... From 2006-2008, Jack Lew was chief operating officer of Citibank’s alternative investments division. And it was his division that made billions of dollars betting “U.S. homeowners would not be able to make their mortgage payments,” as the Huffington Post reported. The piece also reported: “Lew made millions at Citi, including a bonus of nearly $950,000 in 2009 just a few months after the bank received billions of dollars in a taxpayer rescue, according to disclosure forms filed with the federal government. The bank is still partly owned by taxpayers.” http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/new-chief-staff-former-hedge-fund-exec-citigroup-made-money-mortgage-defaults_616230.html