主题：【原创】回应帖子美国为什么罕有贪污与腐败？谈西方腐败 -- 给我一张纸
家园 美国多名市长涉嫌贩卖人体器官 洗钱上千万美元 今天刚出炉的新闻
东方网7月24日消息：美国新泽西州3名市长、2名州议员以及多名政府官员因涉嫌贪污、跨国洗钱和贩卖人体器官等23日被警方逮捕。据美国检察官办公室介绍，警方当天共逮捕了44名嫌疑人，其中包括7月1日刚刚上任的霍博肯市市长彼得-卡马拉诺三世,锡考克斯市市长丹尼斯-埃尔维尔,泽西城副市长利昂娜-贝尔蒂尼,州议员主席哈维-史密斯以及议员丹尼尔-范-佩尔特。
里奇菲尔德市市长安东尼-苏亚雷斯因非法收受一万美元现金遭到起诉。
逮捕行动于当天清晨开始，大约300名美国联邦调查局探员参与了逮捕行动。当地电视画面显示，多名官员被戴上手铐押进警车。
检察官拉尔夫-马拉在新泽西州最大城市纽瓦克市举行的新闻发布会上说，此次逮捕行动表明新泽西州的公共腐败现象“无处不在”。
E文报道： Mayors, rabbis arrested in corruption probe
家园 民主国家有政治献金， 有XX基金， 要什么直接 开发票报销就是了，连招JI都能报销， 他们贪污干吗？
家园 【补充】回应帖子美国为什么罕有贪污与腐败？谈西方腐败 西方发达资本主义国家的腐败多着眼于官员获得与普通民众不均等的优待。
而在中国，对前者基本不敏感（类似朋友提到的官员“福利”），中国的腐败多着眼于以权谋私获取非法所得或侵占公有财产。
换句话说，在西方发达国家，腐败是一种纯意义上的腐败，而在中国腐败已经发展成为权力场中的潜规则和运行方式。
家园 在国企贪污是腐败，MBO就不是腐败 中国现在也逐步和国际接轨了
就是公布财产又如何
陈水扁不是公布了财产吗？照样贪污
只是以后贪污更加合法化、制度化而已
家园 美国两法官收受私营监狱百万贿赂陷2000青少年入狱 这是历史上少有的丑闻——美国一家地方法院的法官，因收受私营监狱260万美元的贿赂，蓄意将至少2000名无辜少年关进私营监狱。上周五，宾州最高法院判处两名法官有罪，他们面临7年监禁。
在美国，竟然出现了这样一件怪事——一些犯了小错的青少年在没有律师陪同的情况下被送到法官面前，1到2分钟后，就被送到私营的青少年监狱，少则几月，多则几年。这一丑闻近日才被媒体公开，最终原因竟是两名审判法官接受了私营监狱260万美元的贿赂。
据报道，宾夕法尼亚州共有5000名所谓的少年罪犯，其中2000人都是因为两名法官的贪赃枉法而无辜入狱的。他们犯下的大多是从车中偷取零钱、写恶作剧纸条的过错。庭审只有1到2分钟，就被送到青少年监狱，这些青少年在没有律师陪同的情况下被送到法官面前，而根据美国1967年最高法院决议，少年有权拥有律师。
这起令人震惊的腐败案件的主角是卢泽恩地方法院法官马克·恰瓦雷拉和迈克尔·科纳汉，他们被查出收受了建筑公司和私营监狱企业主高达260万美元的贿赂。日前，宾夕法尼亚州最高法院已判定这两名法官有罪，他们即将面临7年的监禁。
据悉，在美国，私营监狱经营者的收入取决于关押囚犯的数量和关押时间的长短。私人经营者往往通过游说，试图增加犯人服刑时间，实施更为严厉的判刑标准以增加囚禁人数，避免监狱床位闲置。
代理这一案件的律师马萨·里维克说：“我从来没有遇见过此类案件，法官会为了钱忽视孩子生命，并把这么多孩子送到监狱里去。”虽然这些行贿的公司还没有被起诉，但调查仍在继续。
英文非上文翻译稿相关报道:
不知后续如何.也许最终并没有中文报道中2000人这么多.但数百人应该是有的.
Several hundred families filed a class-action suit Friday against two Pennsylvania judges who pleaded guilty on Thursday to accepting $2.6 million in kickbacks for sending juveniles to private detention facilities.
“At the hands of two grossly corrupt judges and several conspirators, hundreds of Pennsylvania children, their families and loved ones, were victimized and their civil rights were violated,” said Michael J. Cefalo, one of the lawyers representing the families. “It’s our intent to make sure that the system rights this terrible injustice and holds those responsible accountable.”
Pennsylvania lawmakers called on Friday for hearings into the state’s juvenile justice system. And the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia, which blew the whistle on the judges, said it had sworn affidavits from families who said they had sought court-appointed counsel but were told that their children would have to wait weeks, sometimes months, for a lawyer. During that time, the children would have to remain in detention, the families said.
The two judges, Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. and Michael T. Conahan, pleaded guilty in Federal District Court in Scranton, Pa., to wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States for taking more than $2.6 million in kickbacks to send teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers run by PA Child Care and a sister company, Western PA Child Care. Their plea agreements call for sentences of more than seven years in prison.
As many as 5,000 juveniles are believed to have appeared before Judge Ciavarella while the kickback scheme was going on. The judges are currently free on an unsecured $1 million bond, and they have surrendered their passports and a condominium in Florida. Neither is allowed out of the state without permission.
State Senator Stewart J. Greenleaf, a Republican from Montgomery County who is the chairman of Senate Judiciary Committee, said he intended to hold a hearing to find ways to help the children and their families once the federal investigation was done. A spokesman in Mr. Greenleaf’s office said one option was to provide money from the crime victims compensation fund.
“Money is important, but my son’s life has already been completely destroyed,” said Ruby Cherise Uca, whose son, Chad, 18, was sentenced to three months of detention by Judge Ciavarella in 2005, when Chad was in eighth grade.
Chad, who had no prior offenses, was charged with simple assault after shoving a boy at school and causing him to cut his head on a locker. Chad returned to school his freshman year, but he was so far behind in classes and so stigmatized by his teachers and peers, his mother said, that he soon dropped out.
Federal investigators remained silent Friday about whether they would file charges against the operators of the detention centers or who else they were considering as possible conspirators.
But a law enforcement official confirmed Friday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation visited a transitional housing program in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where Judge Ciavarella furloughed inmates who had been sentenced by other judges, as federal authorities continue to scrutinize actions by Judge Ciavarella and Judge Conahan.
Lawyers for Robert J. Powell, the owner of one of the detention centers, released a letter saying Mr. Powell was not complicit in the kickback scheme but was a victim of demands from the judges for payment.
Robert Schwartz, executive director of the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia, said that juveniles should not be allowed to waive their right to counsel, as is permitted in Pennsylvania, and that if families wanted a lawyer but could not afford one, they should get representation.
Mr. Schwartz added that Luzerne County, where the judges handled cases, had only one public defender on staff for juveniles. The juvenile court processes about 1,200 juvenile defendants a year.
家园 260万才判7年？ 这美国的乌鸦比中国的还黑是怎么着。。。。中国收个260万人民币不止判7年吧？
家园 实际他兼职这些公司如果是上市公司，他的职位薪水应该在财报 里能体现出来。他兼的也不是什么小兵职位，都是什么高层，董事会成员，董事会主席之类，这些应该在财报里能反映出来。如果他这些兼职都是领实值的薪水，那德国政坛确实挺腐败的，明目张胆赤裸裸的捞钱啊。欧洲政坛有些好像是挺烂，像意大利那位贝鲁斯科尼，闹出那么多事情，还稳稳地在位子上坐着呢。
但我记得以前报道过德国一个前总理，好像是科尔，下台以后经济不那么宽裕，为了增加收入还去1家公司打工，当然是当高层，一年领那几十万欧，如果在台上那么能捞，不至于这样吧。
家园 都是制度惹得祸 制度！制度！一切的根源在制度！！
懂不？民主国家是没有腐败的，只有专制才会有腐败！
民主民主，议员是人民选出来的，是真正代表人民的。然后无论他们投票表决给自己加薪还是投票通过议员兼职合法或是收受一些“小”礼品，“小”礼券合法，那都是代表选民做出的决定。是合情合理又合法的。人家民主国家是讲法制的，即使人家兼个十几个职位，收入个几百万，那也是合法的啊。
不服气？人家是民主嘛，下回你可以把他选下去就是了。至于再上来的人又干了一样的事，那么你还有再下一次机会啊。民主嘛，给你的机会是无穷无尽的。
总而言之，民主是没有腐败的！如果有，那一定不是腐败！拿了大公司个100W，那是人家兼职的合法收入。
专制才是腐败的土壤，如果没有，那一定是被掩盖了，是舆论控制，是粉饰太平。那公司竟然请他洗桑拿，太TMD腐败了！！
家园 一眼扫过去就看到几个重量级的职务 商业银行高层，巴斯弗高层……
这种位子捞到一个就爽死了，他居然捞了18个。
家园 【原创】是的阿，你眼尖。 因为他(Merz)的经济建议，忽悠了不少人，还有不少汉斯脑馋鼓吹他来当首相 orz......
