The sudden imprisonment of 21 Savage is a big deal precisely because no one saw it coming. If we can act on our shock, ICE may have just put a celebrity face on a cause that was already worthy of everyone’s attention and concern, reminding us that the issues at the border are also unfolding all around us. Those children Savage mentioned in “A Lot” are largely anonymous and have scant legal or financial resources, but they have now found an unlikely champion in hip-hop. Let’s hope that Savage’s detainment is the unfortunate catalyst that brings more attention to the plight of black immigrants and to just how far the government’s racist, anti-immigrant agenda can reach.

Federal Employment by State

TABLE 1-5 Excerpted from The Book of U.S. Government Jobs
FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT BY STATE
Non-Postal

Alabama — 36,634
Alaska — 13,833
Arizona — 41,229
Arkansas — 13,954
California — 158,635
Colorado — 38,195
Connecticut — 8,128
Delaware — 3,270
Florida — 82,356
Georgia — 75,123
Hawaii — 25,056
Idaho — 10,280
Illinois — 43,006
Indiana — 23,522
Iowa — 8,688
Kansas — 16,587
Kentucky — 25,499
Louisiana — 19,935
Maine — 10,866
Maryland — 106,391
Massachusetts — 26,296
Michigan — 27,693
Minnesota — 17,653
Mississippi — 18,052
Missouri — 33,178
Montana — 11,770
Nebraska — 10,359
Nevada — 10,944
New Hampshire — 4,193
New Jersey — 28,496
New Mexico — 26,433
New York — 61,010
North Carolina — 40,549
North Dakota —6,536
Ohio 48,402
Oklahoma 38,650
Oregon — 21,750
Rhode Island — 6,860
South Carolina —20,871
South Dakota — 8,672
Tennessee — 27,298
Texas — 127,859
Utah — 29,226
Vermont — 4,406
Virginia — 135,298
Washington — 54,852
Washington, D.C. — 128,324
West Virginia —15,620
Wisconsin — 14,830
Wyoming — 6,568
Overseas — 89,204
*Unspecified — 39,980
http://www.federaljobs.net/federal-job-locations.htm

Initially, the privilege of incorporation was granted selectively to enable activities that benefited the public, such as construction of roads or canals. Enabling shareholders to profit was seen as a means to that end. The states also imposed conditions (some of which remain on the books, though unused) like these*:

Corporate charters (licenses to exist) were granted for a limited time and could be revoked promptly for violating laws.
Corporations could engage only in activities necessary to fulfill their chartered purpose.
Corporations could not own stock in other corporations nor own any property that was not essential to fulfilling their chartered purpose.
Corporations were often terminated if they exceeded their authority or caused public harm.
Owners and managers were responsible for criminal acts committed on the job.
Corporations could not make any political or charitable contributions nor spend money to influence law-making.

For 100 years after the American Revolution, legislators maintained tight controll of the corporate chartering process. Because of widespread public opposition, early legislators granted very few corporate charters, and only after debate. Citizens governed corporations by detailing operating conditions not just in charters but also in state constitutions and state laws. Incorporated businesses were prohibited from taking any action that legislators did not specifically allow.

Only five months into her employment there she landed a $26.5 million deal.

The sale put McGovern, who was working on commission, into the “Luxury Mortgage Specialist” tier, which meant she’d get 45% of the brokerage fee once the loan was completed.

Though there was a small regulatory hiccup, the deal eventually went through.

The Trump company got a $530,000 fee from the deal. That meant McGovern’s share would be about $238,000.

But she only got a $10,000 in commission, because the mortgage company’s lawyer altered her contract after the fact, according to a lawsuit McGovern filed in Manhattan Supreme Court in 2007.

McMahon said: "All or most of the victims were vulnerable individuals who were lured to their death.

"The accused exploited his victims' vulnerabilities, whether they involved immigration concerns, mental health challenges, or people living a secretive double life."

McArthur’s victims were Selim Esen, Andrew Kinsman, Majeed Kayhan, Dean Lisowick, Kirushna Kumar Kanagaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, Skandaraj Navaratnam and Soroush Mahmudi.

Two were homeless with addiction problems, one a refugee awaiting deportation, and others married men who had hidden their sexuality from their families.

Remains of seven of the men were found in garden planters in a Toronto home where McArthur had worked as a landscape gardener.

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian amorosa, feminine of amoroso.
Noun

amorosa (plural amorosas)

(archaic) A wanton woman; a courtesan.