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What We've Found: Taiwanese graft, Rendell lawsuit, employment report, Chesapeake cleanup, gay marriage in the District and Muslim marriage in South Africa
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What We've Found: Taiwanese graft, Rendell lawsuit, employment report, Chesapeake cleanup, gay marriage in the District and Muslim marriage in South Africa
Julia Harte with your morning fix.
Taiwanese ex-president Chen Shui-Bian and his wife, Wu Shu-Chen, were sentenced to life in prison on mulitple counts of corruption, including embezzling $3.15 million during his 2000-2008 presidency and receiving bribes worth at least $9 million.
Pennsylvania providers of foster care, mental-health treatment and other human services sued Gov. Rendell for axing their paychecks from last fiscal year when the governor vetoed $12.9 billion in items on the "bridge budget" he signed in August.
Economic recovery efforts, including the $787 billion stimulus plan that Obama authorized in February, have so far created or saved 1 million jobs, according to a report issued by White House economists. But the report also indicated that over 3 million jobs have been lost since February, though the rate of job loss is slowing.
On pain of tougher local pollution limits and withheld federal funding, the administration ordered Pennsylvania and five other states to begin cleaning up Chesapeake Bay, the nation's largest estuary, whose waters are tainted with sewage and fertilizer runoff from large farms and onshore development.
Members of the D.C. Council were ready to introduce a bill that would legalize gay marriage in the district by changing the law to say that "any person who otherwise meets the eligibility requirements . . . may marry any other eligible person regardless of gender."
A 15-year-old bill that would legally codify Islamic marriages in South Africa, and thus protect Muslim women from being left penniless after a divorce, was gaining momentum among the Muslim community where it has been controversial for many years.
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