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HOW SIERRA CLUB MISLED ITS MEMBERS ABOUT THE $25 MILLION FROM CHESAPEAKE ENERGY
WASHINGTON, D.C., FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Lisa Wright was on the executive committee of the Sierra Club’s Finger Lakes chapter in upstate New York.

But she soon got fed up with the national organization’s coziness with the natural gas industry and Chesapeake Energy.

Wright wanted Sierra Club to take a position against fracking – similar to a position the Club took on coalbed methane – it’s too dangerous to regulate – you have to prohibit it.

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NYU’S ARLEN SAYS ORGANIZATIONAL SENTENCING GUIDELINES HAVE FAILED

WASHINGTON, D.C., FEBRUARY 3, 2012

The Organizational Sentencing Guidelines have failed to deter corporate crime and should be reformed.

That’s according to NYU Law Professor Jennifer Arlen writing in the current issue of the University of Miami Law Review.

The article is titled – The Failure of the Organizational Sentencing Guidelines.

“To deter corporate crime, corporate sanctions must be structured to induce large corporations to help federal prosecutors detect and punish corporate crime,” Arlen writes. “Specifically, firms must be encouraged to detect and report wrongdoing, and to cooperate with the government’s effort to identify and sanction the individuals responsible for the crime. Firms will not engage in these activities unless they face lower expected sanctions if they detect, report, and cooperate than if they do not.”

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SIERRA CLUB TELLS MEMBERS – WE DON’T TAKE MONEY FROM CHESAPEAKE ENERGY– WHEN IN FACT THEY TOOK $25 MILLION
WASHINGTON, D.C., FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Last week, I wrote an article about how Chesapeake Energy, through its fracking activity, was destroying the rural way of life in West Virginia.

After the article ran, an insider called me with a tip – Sierra Club has taken money from Chesapeake Energy.

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