Showing posts with label corruption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corruption. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

You Were Right; The Pappy Lottery Was Rigged

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Reported on PennLive.com : Five PLCB executives were investigated by the State Ethics Commission for, let's not mince words, cheating   ...
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Monday, April 22, 2019

As required by law......

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There are numerous "newswires" available; the majority of them just reprint press releases from businesses. So and so got promote...
Friday, July 28, 2017

Great New Profit-maker for the PLCB!

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Great news!  As reported here on Philly.com, and in more detail here from the Justice Department's own website, four companies have be...
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Monday, August 1, 2016

The Case Of The Missing Wine

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How stupid do the PCLBureaucrats think we are? As stupid as they are, apparently. On July 19th I put up a post called  Insider Trading , ...
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Friday, October 9, 2015

Three months and no financials?

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It's over three months after their fiscal year ended, and the PLCB has still not managed to figure out how to report their financials. B...
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Saturday, September 19, 2015

Wiretaps - The most fun you can have with the PLCB

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Wiretaps are a wonderful thing.  How I envision the FBI caught the PLCB Marketing Director and who knows how many more.  MD = Marketing Di...
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Thursday, September 17, 2015

Ex-PLCB official pleads guilty to taking kickbacks, bribes

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Was There any Doubt? "Ex-PLCB official pleads guilty to taking kickbacks, bribes" Now...Who's Next?  FBI continues inv...
Wednesday, September 2, 2015

PLCB - The Avis Of PA Corruption

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Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board Celebrates the First Federal Charges of the decade!   Harrisburg: The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Bo...
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Monday, August 24, 2015

The only number you need to know

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Do  you want to know how crappy our State Store System is? All you need to know is this single fact . The number of States, Counties, or loc...
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Monday, February 9, 2015

Breaking News: PLCB signs new ethics pledge...again

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I swear I won't take any more graft ever again and I really mean it this time.. Sincerely, the PLCB After beating out everyone in Ha...
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Monday, March 31, 2014

Gypsies, tramps, and thieves.

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By now, you have heard that the leadership of the PLCB is full of crooks. We already knew that it was full of incompetence : just look at da...
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Monday, February 4, 2013

Joe Conti's Greatest Hits

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Joe Da CEO - 12/13/06 -- 2/2/13 Joe Conti's gone , and we're somewhat sorry to see him go. He was, as the alliteration-happy Com...
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Monday, November 5, 2012

Is Privatization Dead? Not at all!

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The Legislative session is effectively over, and the privatization bill has died with it. No one's doing anything till after the electi...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

More on Contigate

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Monica Yant Kinney scorched the two apparently ethically-challenged heads of the PLCB -- Joe Da CEO Conti and PJ "PJ" Stapleton ...
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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Wine Kiosks...what a beautiful debacle

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The ridiculous Wine Kiosks have turned out to be a microcosm of the PLCB: corrupt, incompetent, inconvenient, bloated, and wildly unpopula...
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Friday, August 7, 2009

In New York: State Liquor Authority told to "Shape up!"

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And in other states, part 1: New York's Senate just confirmed Dennis Rosen as the new State Liquor Authority chairman, and in the proces...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

Didja Ever Doubt It?

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Remember this? Next call: is there any patronage on the wine kiosk contract , anything that might benefit anyone related to someone at the...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

PA AG Says PLCB exercised "poor judgment"

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Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner has released his report on the audit of the PLCB's "courtesy contract," a $173,820...
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Saturday, March 14, 2009

"All conflicts of interest should be investigated"

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The Governor has a refined position on the courtesy contract controversy . According to the Inquirer , he said at a press conference in Pitt...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

"If the LCB were to find a cure for cancer..."

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Either Governor Rendell or his press secretary, Chuck Ardo , apparently thinks people like me -- and maybe you -- are just anti-PLCB cranks ...
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