The Daily Muck

Tanya Hollander, a woman accused of being a booking agent for the prostitution ring that former governor Eliot Spitzer was involved with, is planning on pleading guilty in a hearing on August 25. Hollander was one of four people accused of running the Emperors Club VIP and she is the only one not to already make a guilty plea. (Reuters)

The Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center is calling for an investigation into the death of a 23 year old man who was held at an immigration detention center in South Florida. Valery Joseph, who died in June, was detained after a robbery, despite having lived in the country for most of his life. (New York Times)

Karl Rove defended himself Monday against accusations from the House Judiciary Committee that he had unfairly used a claim of executive privilege. Rove upheld his decision not to testify over possible political prosecution, saying that he has offered to speak with individual members of Congress. (AP)

After speculation that his four rent-stabilized apartments were given in an unfair deal, Representative Charlie Rangel (D-NY) has decided to move his campaign office out of one of the Harlem apartments. The campaign office had taken a lot of criticism in particular, as it goes against city and state guidelines that require rent-stabilized apartments to be used only as a primary residence. (New York Times)

The Transportation Security Administration has begun an investigation into a leak that claimed less than one percent of daily flights were protected by air marshals. The TSA brushed aside the claim as a “myth”. (CNN)

A study released by OneAmerica and the International Human Rights Clinic at Seattle University’s law school reports often cruel mistreatment of immigrant detainees at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma. The report, which revealed excessive strip searches and overcrowding, claims that there is no accountability for misdeeds. (AP)

Defense lawyers claimed on Monday that the tactic of sleep deprivation that was used against a detainee at Guantanamo Bay constitutes torture. The detainee, Salim Hamdan, is facing a trial next week and has been held at Guantanamo since 2002. (New York Times)

The Government Accountability Office released two reports Tuesday criticizing the Wage and Hour Division of the Labor Department. The reports claim that the division mishandled overtime and minimum-wage complaints and stalled hundreds of investigations over at least a year. (New York Times)