Bureaucrat signed sponsorship deals to keep paper moving
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OTTAWA - A bureaucrat who approved $24 million worth of contracts for the federal government&#39;s sponsorship program admits he never checked to make sure the documents were in order.
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By Sal Pizarro, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jan. 31--Jude Barry found a funny way to snag a big-name supporter for Barack Obama's potential presidential bid.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The former head of the federal sponsorship program says he never checked to ensure ad agencies were fulfilling their contract terms and weren't overbilling the government.
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Mortimer B. Zuckerman, the owner of The Daily News, and Jeffrey Epstein, a Wall Street financier, have signed a deal to provide financing for Radar magazine, a celebrity and pop culture magazine that published two test issues in 2003. Maer Roshan, editor in chief, declined to be specific about the level of financial commitment beyond saying it was "significant," but he said it was both a relief and very exciting that the project would now have funding.
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Have an investment-related expense? Keep the paperwork on file.
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Nonprofits and private and public businesses of all sizes are turning to temporary finance chiefs.
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Announcement a remarkable twist for a candidate who raised more than $100 million last year.
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The Bloomberg administration announced today that it will sign a 20-year contract with one of the nation's largest recycling companies, a move that assures the city's broad recommitment to recycling.
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Counterfeiters learn to make convincing copies of the shiny, embossed stickers that certify everything from software to baseball cards. By Marty Graham.
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By Crystal Neo, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Jun. 20--When Melissa Jenkins received an e-mail from a Columbia-based company promising cheap magazines, she thought she had chanced upon a really good deal.
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The state of Virginia and Fairfax County each pledged $600,000 to entice International Business Machines Corp. to bring 1,250 high-paying new government contracting jobs to Fairfax.
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MONTREAL (CP) - A former advertising executive was arrested by the RCMP on Thursday amid allegations he defrauded the federal government's sponsorship program under a contract with the Montreal Expos.
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The software maker offers a new service to add digital signatures to PDF documents.
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The money-transfer company isn't taking a breather.
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White House press secretary Tony Snow is taking his gift of gab across the country in the coming weeks to raise money for Republican candidates, an unusual task for the president's top spokesman.
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Wanted: Face time with President Bush or top adviser Karl Rove. Suggested donation: &#36;100,000. The middleman: lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Blunt e-mails that connect money and access in Washington show that prominent Republican activist Grover Norquist facilitated some administration contacts for Abramoff&#039;s clients while the lobbyist simultaneously solicited those clients for large donations to Norquist&#039;s tax-exempt group.
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Lawmakers continue to invite corporate lobbyists to help pay for fund-raisers that look a lot like the ones that Congress just barred lobbyists from sponsoring.