Corrupt Bureau of Labor Statistics Illegally Helping North Carolina Democrat
To help the Democrats get ahead of bad news, and in order to try and help their re-election bids, North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue’s staff have been illegally receiving insider information about monthly unemployment statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The penalties for early release of this data include up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, and anyone who has been breaking the law should be punished under these standards!
…The Carolina Journal, published by the Raleigh-based John Locke Foundation (for which I’ve given paid speeches on occasion) reports that staffers in North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue’s office have been getting advance word on monthly unemployment statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is highly illegal under federal law and violates what I have understood to be a strong tradition in the BLS and other government statistics that no one—no one at all, not even in the White House—gets advanced word ahead of the public announcement of government statistics.
There’s obviously good reason for this: someone with
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