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Several statutes, mostly codified in Title 18 of the United States Code, provide for federal prosecution of public corruption in the United States.Federal prosecutions of public corruption under the Hobbs Act (enacted 1934), the mail and wire fraud statutes (enacted 1872), including the honest services fraud provision, the Travel Act (enacted 1961), and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt ...
Corruption in Illinois has been a problem from the earliest history of the state. [1] Electoral fraud in Illinois pre-dates the territory's admission to the Union in 1818. [ 2 ] Illinois had the third most federal criminal convictions for public corruption between 1976 and 2012, behind New York and California .
Although the RICO laws may cover drug trafficking crimes in addition to other more traditional RICO predicate acts such as extortion, blackmail, and racketeering, large-scale and organized drug networks are now commonly prosecuted under the Continuing Criminal Enterprise Statute, also known as the "Kingpin Statute". The CCE laws target only ...
Madigan served in the Illinois House for 50 years and was speaker for all but two years between 1983 and 2021. He also chaired the Democratic Party of Illinois for 23 years.
The Illinois Compiled Statutes (ILCS) are the codified statutes of a general and permanent nature of Illinois. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The compilation organizes the general Acts of Illinois into 67 chapters arranged within 9 major topic areas. [ 3 ]
President Trump on Monday signed a full and unconditional pardon for Rod Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois who served eight years in prison on corruption charges until Trump ...
The Illinois concrete industry was investigated for bribery and six politicians were found guilty. (1976) [4] [5] State Rep. Pete Pappas (R), the chief conspirator who turned government informant and pleaded guilty; got probation. State Rep. Louis F, Capuzi (R) – (Chicago) guilty; State Rep, Robert Craig (D), guilty, 3-year sentence, $5,000 fine.
Honest services fraud is a crime defined in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 (the federal mail and wire fraud statute), added by the United States Congress in 1988. [1] The idea of this law was to criminalize not only schemes to defraud victims of money and property, but also schemes to defraud victims of intangible rights such as the "honest services" of a public official.