Hearst's special investigative team reveals today that the Boy Scouts aren't the angels of righteousness and environmental integrity everyone thought. No, instead they are foreign hucksters. Oh, wait. We're mistaken. The honey-launderers were the foreign hucksters. The Boy Scouts of America are profiteering tree-haters, as it were. The charge is that over the past twenty years, various BSA councils in the Northwest have irresponsibly and potentially illegally logged their land in order to turn their assets into cash to fund the organization's programs. Our biggest takeaway from the story is that apparently, foresting laws are unsettlingly easy to bypass. You gotta wonder, though: which secretly dirty all-American institution is the P-I going to go after next? The sins of pie? Football, maybe? more ›

Were you as shocked as we were when you heard that there's corruption afoot at the Port of Seattle? Shocked! A $1.3 million investigation into the state of affairs over at the Port of Seattle offices has dredged up ten specific times when employees committed civil fraud. It's not new information, but the investigation does confirm and provide evidence for each case. One guy even used his connections to get his daughter an internship, which is one of those unfair but all-too-commonplace occurrences in this broken, broken world. more ›