and i suspect there is some truth to it. they certainly envision the constitution. they re not just some adaptation of the last, the administration s last congress. so isn t it true that it has been the practice of the senate under senator reid, sometimes simply to say that nominee is dead on arrival and go find someone else and not call for a vote? yes. isn t it true that often nominees are pre-vetted before they re put up so as not to embarrass them and, in fact, there s a whole discussion, because they so want to not have that controversy? that is also correct. well-known fact this occurs, and with good reason. good reason. so i guess, a couple last questions. motion to adjourn in the senate, i m different body here, but it s in order here at any time. was there a motion to adjourn by the democrats issued? did they try to adjourn? my understanding is we would not attend because consistent with article one, section five of the constitution we were required to ob
let me give you a little background on the relations between the two countries. issues on the table right now. organized crime, immigration and commerce. this will be the fifth meeting in two years between president obama and mr. calderon. the first meeting was in may. imgrax was at the top of the agenda along with drugs and drug violence. by the numbers in four years more than 34,000 people were killed as part of the drug war and within 100 miles of the border there are thousands of u.s. gun dealers. nearly all the weapons taken out of the hands of criminals there come from the u.s. just two months ago, secretary of state hillary clinton visited the country, and announced a half billion dollar aid package to help mexico fight organized crime. that said, this visit, well it does come just 16 days after an american immigration and customs agent was shot on a provincial mexican highway. all right. so mexican president calderon met this trip, met this trip with business leaders
what lindhback had stumbled upon was a lucrative income tax scheme run by inmates at the jail in key west. before the bust the inmates filed for more than $1 million of tax refunds involving half the jail population. what they would do is go to other inmates and suggest to an inmate, i can get you $4,500 in a tax return. it will cost you $500. reporter: in some cases with the help of friends and family, the prisoners would fill out the 1040 ez short form, then attach a 4852 form with the names of businesses that didn t exist and income they never earned. the 4852 is a substitute used when an employer doesn t provide a w-2. the initial investigation handled by county prosecutor john ellsworth. phone calls were recorded. one of the main guys at one point is telling one of his cohorts that he s not going to
do white-collar street crime anymore because uncle sam s taking good care of him. reporter: before they were caught and the jail started intercepting checks, the inmates collected, ellsworth says, at least $100,000 from the irs. one inmate had checks sent to his brother s house. dozens of checks were going to one address? and that didn t raise any red flags with the irs? apparently not. reporter: by 2007, ellsworth turned over boxes of evidence to the irs. case closed, right? not so fast. they said, well, we re working on it. we re investigating. we can t take your investigation and prosecute it from your investigation. we have to do our own investigation. reporter: earlier this year nearly 3 1/2 years after the scheme was busted, federal indictments were finally brought against a couple of the ringleaders and family members. why so long? the irs wouldn t say. now, don t think this inmate get-rich-quick scheme started here at the monroe county
plane crash. we re looking at live pictures in warsaw right now. 96 people died in that disaster last saturday. kaczynski s official state funeral is tomorrow. we will be showing you those live pictures. there is a live picture. let s go ahead and get back to it and show it if we can. thousands of people are gathered for this. and again tomorrow, we re expecting to see the official state funeral, if you will, and leaders from all over the world are expected to get there to travel there for it, but there is a problem, a travel problem. you know that volcanic ash cloud that s been causing such fits for travel in europe? well, it s causing fits for world leaders trying to get there. you re seeing pictures now from four different international airports. thousands of people stranded right now from rome to bangkok. flights are canceled. airspace is even closed over some countries as well. we ll be talking about this volcano, see how much longer it may spew and how much longer thi