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>> melanie, one of the surprising things in what the ethics committee reported today is that there are no surprises, that the story actually unfolds once fully investigated exactly the way it seemed to, as these facts were coming out in dribs and drabs in press reports. >> thats exactly right. the one thing that had never seemed trueç at all was when m ensign had said the $96,000 that was paid to the hamptons was really just a gift from his parents. and that of course seemed like severance rig...

Of it, the bottom here is when john ensign paid his mistress $96,000 in what very much looked like hush money, he may have been breaking the law. if that was severance, if that was money he was paying to her as part of the process of firing her, that would be illegal. what john ensign tried to say instead was that the $96,000 he paid her was just a present. a gift. it was a present from his mom and dad to his mistress. and because he knew that would sound exactly as not credible as it sounds to ...

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And if, in fact, it was severance which seems like who cares if it was severance or if it was a gift, if in fact it was severance, theres a possibility that sworn statements made to the fec, the federal election committee when they did their investigation theres inconsistencies. theres outstanding. the other is whether or not when doug hampton, after he found out about the affair, these are two former best friends, fellow, you know, religious partners and they raised their kids together. once he...

Jor ensigns affair was with a staffer. a staffer married to a top-senate aid. when the affair was reported, the staffer he was having an affair with and the one she was married to. they cut the family a $96,000 check. a check the lawyer said was a gift from the family because if it was sef rens pay, it was illegal. he contradicted that assertion. he said the payment was severance. investigations have been started by the fbi, the justice department, senate ethics committee. senator ensign stuck t...

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Dudley, who promises to learn from the spill. the old ceo, tony hayward, hasnt learned much. he got his life back and more, and $18 million in severance, he says he was demonized in a conference call says, quote, about. ps response to this tragedy has been a model of good social corporate responsibility. it has mounted an unprecedented response. well, the response was unprecedented. of course, so was the size of the spill. its not saying very much. claiming that bp has been a model of good corpo...

Original trial. the price of failure is $1.6 million thats how much ousted tony hayward will get in severance as he heads off to russia. yes, $1.6 million. and hes also guaranteed about $930,000 pension for life. while that is a big step down from the $4.7 million he made last year, not bad for a widely reviled executive. in the meantime, the company is reporting a record $17 billion loss for the court. bob dudley says his goals are to seal the well for good and make sure it doesnt happen agai...

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