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William J. Jefferson corruption case [35] Democrat: John Jenrette: House of Representatives: South Carolina 1980: Federal official bribery Abscam [36] Democrat: Thomas Francis Johnson: House of Representatives: Maryland 1963: Federal official conflict-of-interest and conspiracy to defraud the United States United States v. Johnson (1966) [37 ...
The case was dismissed when Attorney General Dick Thornburgh refused to declassify information needed for his defense in 1990. [ 323 ] Michael Deaver (R) Deputy Chief of Staff to Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1985, pleaded guilty to perjury related to lobbying activities and was sentenced to three years' probation and fined $100,000.
One researcher contends that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, corruption in the wealthy, industrialized United States in some ways resembled corruption in impoverished developing nations today. Political machines manipulated voters to place candidates in power loyal to the machines. Public offices were sold for money or political support.
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.
It’s no secret that Latin America has long suffered from chronic corruption, but a new ranking of the world’s most corrupt countries shows that the problem in the region is getting worse.. The ...
The FBI also spied upon and collected information on Puerto Rican independence leader Pedro Albizu Campos and his Nationalist political party in the 1930s. Albizu Campos was convicted three times in connection with deadly attacks on US government officials: in 1937 (Conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States), in 1950 (attempted murder), and in 1954 (after an armed assault on ...
A new ranking of the perception of corruption in 180 countries by the Transparency International anti-corruption watchdog confirms what many of us suspected: Most Latin American countries are ...
The European countries included Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark. This was a major human rights violation by the military dictatorship as most of the Korean girls were not real orphans and had living biological parents but were given false papers to show that they were orphans and exported to white parents for money.