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Det korrupta polisgänget hade under att antal år utfört bilstölder och annan organiserad kriminell verksamhet, mestadels riktad mot fattiga latinamerikanska invandrare som inte haft möjlighet att försvara sig eller hävda sin rätt. Utöver korruptionsåtal så övervägs även bl.a. hatbrottsåtal...
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Publicerad den 27 feb 2014
A six-month-long investigation in
central California culminated this week with the arrests of five members
of the King City Police Department, the former police chief and the
owner of a local towing company. According to the Monterey County district attorney, for at least three-and-a-half years the city's top police officers participated in a scheme that took advantage of poor area Hispanics by essentially stealing their cars for profit.
Investigators say King City police ordered hundreds of vehicles to be impounded — most often those driven by Hispanic immigrants — and then either kept the cars for themselves or re-sold them for profit. Ameera David gets the details on California cop corruption from RT's Ramon Galindo.
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USA: "En tredjedel av poliskåren arresterad" - organiserad kriminalitet av poliser, mot fattiga
--26 top American corporations paid no federal income tax from ’08 to ’12 – report--
SvaraRaderaRT February 28, 2014
Twenty-six of the most powerful American corporations – such as Boeing, General Electric, and Verizon – paid no federal income tax from 2008 to 2012, according to a new report detailing how Fortune 500 companies exploit tax breaks and loopholes.
The report, conducted by public advocacy group Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ), focuses on the 288 companies in the Fortune 500 that registered consistent profit every year from 2008 to 2012. Those 288 profitable corporations paid an “effective federal income tax rate of just 19.4 percent over the five-year period — far less than the statutory 35 percent tax rate,” CTJ states.
One-third, or 93, of the analyzed companies paid an effective tax rate below 10 percent in that timespan, CTJ found.
Defenders of low corporate taxes call the US federal statutory rate of 35 percent one of the highest companies face in any nation. But the report signals how the most formidable corporate entities in the US take advantage of tax breaks, loopholes, and accounting schemes to keep their effective rates down.
“Tax subsidies for the 288 companies over the five years totaled a staggering $364 billion, including $56 billion in 2008, $70 billion in 2009, $80 billion in 2010, $87 billion in 2011, and $70 billion in 2012,” CTJ states. “These amounts are the difference between what the companies would have paid if their tax bills equaled 35 percent of their profits and what they actually paid.”
Just 25 of the 288 companies kept tax breaks of $174 billion out of the $364 billion total. Wells Fargo received the largest amount of tax subsidies - $21.6 billion - in the five-year period. The banking giant was joined in the top ten on that list by the likes of AT&T, ExxonMobil, J.P Morgan Chase, and Wal-Mart. [...]
http://rt.com/usa/low-corporate-tax-rates-275/
--One-third of California town's police force arrested for scheming cars from poor Hispanics--
SvaraRaderaPublished time: February 27, 2014
A six-month-long investigation in Central California culminated this week with the arrests of five members of the King City Police Department, the former police chief and the owner of a local towing company.
According to the Monterey County district attorney, for at least three-and-a-half years the city's top police officers participated in a scheme that took advantage of poor area Hispanics by essentially stealing their cars for profit.
Investigators say King City police ordered hundreds of vehicles to be impounded — most often those driven by Hispanic immigrants — and then either kept the cars for themselves or re-sold them for profit.
Journalist Virginia Hennessey of the Monterey Herald said the scandal is “likely the most widespread case of official corruption” in the history of the county, and King City — a town of only 13,000 people and a police force of 17, saw more than one-third of its law enforcement personnel taken off duty as a result of this week's arrest.
Automobiles scheduled to be impounded in King City are supposed to be handled on a rotating basis by one of four local towing companies. According to the complaint unveiled on Tuesday, however, Sgt. Bobby Javier Carrillo sent 87 percent of 200 vehicles impounded between March 2010 and last November to a company owned by Brian Miller — the brother of acting Police Chief Bruce Miller.
In the district attorney's complaint, officials said “people participating in the scheme would receive free vehicles that had been impounded by officers.”
"For every 10-15 vehicles impounded by Sgt. Carrillo, he would receive a free vehicle for himself, or whatever he wanted to do with it," Monterey County District Attorney Dean Flippo said during a press conference held on Tuesday this week.
“The victims were economically disadvantaged persons of Hispanic descent who were targeted by having their vehicles impounded, towed and stored by Miller's Towing," Flippo said.
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http://rt.com/usa/king-city-police-cars-047/