{"id":1823,"date":"2007-11-26T15:45:04","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T19:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/11\/26\/52m-to-ashcroft-from-justice-department\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T17:38:44","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T21:38:44","slug":"52m-to-ashcroft-from-justice-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/11\/52m-to-ashcroft-from-justice-department\/","title":{"rendered":"$52M to Ashcroft from Justice Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From TruthOut, news that the Department of Justice awarded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/112507Y.shtml\">former Attorney General John Ashcroft a $52 million contract<\/a>, &#8220;among the biggest payouts reported for a federal monitor,&#8221; to help the US Attorney&#8217;s Office in New Jersey monitor leading manufacturers of knee and hip replacements.<\/p>\n<p>$52M to help one state in one precise industry. Interesting. <\/p>\n<p>I wonder how much monitors have been getting to check out toy manufacture. I wonder what the total budget of the New Jersey US Attorney&#8217;s office might be.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to be a paid-off crony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From TruthOut, news that the Department of Justice awarded former Attorney General John Ashcroft a $52 million contract, &#8220;among the biggest payouts reported for a federal monitor,&#8221; to help the US Attorney&#8217;s Office in New Jersey monitor leading manufacturers of knee and hip replacements. $52M to help one state in one precise industry. Interesting. I wonder how much monitors have been getting to check out toy manufacture. I wonder what the total budget of the New Jersey US Attorney&#8217;s office&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/11\/52m-to-ashcroft-from-justice-department\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17,30,31,3],"tags":[346,6180,347,1322],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armchair-activism","category-alien-nation","category-business","category-consumer","category-politics","tag-ashcroft","tag-consumer","tag-corruption","tag-cronyism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}