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The first type are also applicable to corrupt state and local officials: [1] the mail and wire fraud statutes (enacted 1872), including the honest services fraud provision, [2] the Hobbs Act (enacted 1934), [3] the Travel Act (enacted 1961), [4] and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) (enacted 1970).
These statutes are also applicable to corrupt federal officials. [6] In addition, federal officials are subject to the federal bribery, graft, and conflict-of-interest crimes contained in Title 18, Chapter 11 of the United States Code, 18 U.S.C. §§ 201–227, which do not apply to state and local officials. [6]
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.
This is a list of lists of American politicians at the state and local levels who have been convicted of felony crimes committed while in office. The lists are broken by decades. The lists are broken by decades.
This category contains American politicians convicted of federal public corruption crimes.Under federal law, corrupt conduct can be charged, inter alia, as bribery (18 U.S.C. § 201 or 18 U.S.C. § 666), fraud (mail and wire fraud, including honest services fraud), extortion (), and/or racketeering (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act).
The federal bribery statute, 18 U.S.C. § 201(b), criminalizes the corrupt promise or transfer of any thing of value to influence an official act of a federal official, a fraud on the United States, or the commission or omission of any act in violation of the official's duty. [33] 18 U.S.C. § 201(b)(1)–(2) provides: (b) Whoever –
This list includes American politicians at the state and local levels who have been convicted of felony crimes committed while in office by decade; this list encompasses the 2020s. At the bottom of the article are links to related articles which deal with politicians who are involved in federal scandals (political and sexual), as well as ...
Graft and corruption in the court became so bad that Story appeared before the House Judiciary Committee. He resigned soon after. (1874) [75] [76] [77] Charles Taylor Sherman (R) Federal Judge of the Northern District of Ohio, was alleged to have demanded stocks in exchange for favorable rulings and threatened adverse rulings if they were not ...