The Citizens Action Coalition, the Sierra Club Hoosier Chapter, Save the Valley, and Valley Watch want the IURC to study how the Edwardsport project has been affected by "fraud, concealment or gross mismanagement" on the part of Duke and its contractors and "improper communications, conflicts of interest, undue influence, or other misconduct" by officials of the State of Indiana and Duke Energy.
Zachary Scruggs, as he is known, has agreed to plead guilty to knowing of and concealing a felony, the result of improper communications between a lawyer and the judge.
OPR reportedly finished its report nearly a year ago -- but then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey and his deputy Mark Filip, dismayed by the contents of the report and its documented evidence of improper communications between OLC and White House lawyers about the "torture memos," figured out ways to tone down the report and delay its release.
The foundation's overseas, all-expense-paid visits have emerged as a major element in an unfolding scandal involving the close ties and improper communications between the former president of the state Public Utilities Commission, Michael Peevey, and executives of utilities that the commission regulates.
The office was accused of engaging in "a pattern of misconduct and improper communications" with the judge handling Polanski's case in the recent documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired.
The request alleged that the film, which had its premiere in Cannes last May, revealed "a pattern of misconduct and improper communications" between the district attorney's office and the judge handling Polanski's case.
Included were improper communications with jurors and the continuing involvement of the United States attorney for Alabama, Leura G. Canary, long after Ms. Canary, a Republican, said she had removed herself from the case because of partisan ties.
Peevey, who retired Dec. 31 after two six-year terms as PUC president, is at the center of a scandal involving improper communications between top PUC officials and regulated electric, natural gas, water and other utilities.
The state's largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric Co., has acknowledged that many of the released emails constituted improper communications that violated PUC rules.
For months, commentators have sounded the alarm about the White House's improper communications with the Justice Department, particularly the F.B.I., in contravention of longstanding policies dating back to the Carter Administration.
