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Corruption in the United States has been a perennial political issue, peaking in the Jacksonian era and the Gilded Age before declining with the reforms of the Progressive Era. As of 2024, the United States scores 69 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean") according to Transparency International's 2023 Corruption Perceptions ...
This list consists of American politicians convicted of crimes either committed or prosecuted while holding office in the federal government.It includes politicians who were convicted or pleaded guilty in a court of law; and does not include politicians involved in unprosecuted scandals (which may or may not have been illegal in nature), or politicians who have only been arrested or indicted.
Conspiracy to defraud the United States [43] N/A: Nicholas Mavroules: House of Representatives: Massachusetts 1993: Hobbs Act and RICO [44] Democrat: Andrew J. May: House of Representatives: Kentucky 1947 Conspiracy to defraud the United States and compensated representation in a proceeding in which the United States is interested (18 U.S.C ...
Whistleblowing in the United States (1 C, 37 P) Pages in category "Corruption in the United States" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total.
Indices originally measuring corruption inversely (higher values for higher corruption) are multiplied by -1 to align with the 0-100 scale. In the next step, the mean and standard deviation for each data source based on data from the baseline year are calculated (the "impute" command of the STATA statistical software package is used to replace ...
The mastermind behind the decade-long bribery scheme and one of the largest corruption scandals in US military history that brought down dozens of Navy officials has been sentenced to 15 years in ...
Pages in category "Political corruption scandals in the United States" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The congressionally mandated report, which looks at China’s military efforts through 2023, said a wave of senior-level corruption last year may have disrupted the 2027 modernization goals of the…