Carlyle Group

How come ASARCO will only pay pennies on its debt and come out looking
squeaky-clean --- while parent company's Ferromex (partnered with UP railroad) and CSX railroad want
to take over a huge amount of the continental-shipping, and route
non-union-managed freight right through the Asarco contamination at Santa Teresa NM?? And why didn't anyone tell us about this? Carlyle Group owns 20% of Grupo Mexico, all of CSX, and the lead-person at USA Carlyle Realty group used to be in charge of a Sanders company. That is an impressive string of coincidences.

Why didn't anyone tell us about this, or that the local highway authority had planned to put an elevated toll-road right through the worst of the ASARCO contamination--- by building it right on top of Paisano right next to the smelter stack (and on top of our water-supply?). The MPO has approved those funds. Said that they'd hold ASARCO's "feet to the fire".

[pub. under Fair use]

DOJ's new OPR Ms. Brown

"Previous to her work at the Department, Brown was a litigation associate at the Washington, D.C. office of Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin (now Dickstein Shapiro) from 1984 to 1989."  see:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20090408/pl_usnw/attorney_general_eric_holder_names_new_leadership_for_atf__executive_office_for_u_s__attorneys__and_office_of_professional_resp

Her old law firm  is connected to John B. Breaux through the CSX railroad (he is a director since 2005), and (now retired) Senator Breaux shows a relationship to Asarco-- through the lobby firm of Patton Boggs LLP  (Breaux was a special advisor)

[Carlyle Group. Recall that in 2002, it purchased the International CSX Lines Division for $300 million, see http://www.utulocal1548.org/UP_s_Intentions.doc]