On June 12th in US Political History
Part VIII
Part VIII
On June 12th in 2008 President Bush went to Capitol Hill, where he prodded rebellious Senate Republicans to help resurrect legislation that could provide eventual citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants.
On June 12th in 2008 U.S. House Republicans said an internal investigation of their campaign arm showed that Christopher J. Ward, a former treasurer fired last January, had stolen about $725,000 over a 6-year period.
On June 12th in 2009 In New Jersey an Indictment was unsealed against three individuals who allegedly hacked into the telephone systems of large corporations and entities in the U.S. and abroad and sold information about the compromised telephone systems to Pakistani nationals residing in Italy. Italian law enforcement conducted searches of approximately 10 locations in four regions of Italy and arrested the financiers of the hacking activity. Those financiers allegedly used the information to transmit over 12 million minutes of telephone calls valued at more than $55 million over the hacked networks of victim corporations in the U.S. alone.
On June 12th in 2011 North Carolina’s Democrat Gov. Beverly Perdue became the state’s first governor to veto a budget bill since the chief executive was given the power in 1997. She said the Republican led Legislature’s $20 billion proposal would do generational damage to public education.
On June 12th in 2012 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said “We are concerned about the latest information we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from Russia to Syria, which will escalate the conflict quite dramatically,”. Russia maintains that the arms supplies they are sending to the Syrian government are not meant to be used in the internal conflict - but Clinton says these assertions are “patently untrue.”
On June 12th in 2012 Washington decided to exclude a number of countries from sanctions they would incur should they continue to purchase oil from the Islamic Republic of Iran. India, Malaysia, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Turkey will not be punished for buying oil from Tehran for at least next 180 days. In March the list was shortened by Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Great Britain.
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