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Copkiller (Italian: Copkiller (L'assassino dei poliziotti)), [1] [2] also released as Corrupt, Corrupt Lieutenant, and The Order of Death, [3] is a 1983 Italian crime thriller film directed by Roberto Faenza and starring Harvey Keitel and John Lydon, the lead singer for the bands Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd.
Corruption is a 1983 American pornographic film written and directed by Roger Watkins under the pseudonym of Richard Mahler. The film, a loose adaptation of Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold, [1] is about a group of shady businessmen seeking a mysterious briefcase which offers its owner untold power, on the condition that the owner renounce love.
In order to acquire evidence of corruption, agents obtained judicial and U.S. Department of Justice authorization to present staged court cases for the undercover agents/lawyers to fix in front of the corrupt judges. [7] In August 1983, the undercover investigative phase ended, when a corrupt court clerk and a corrupt Chicago Police officer ...
A person who is corrupt is or has been spiritually or morally impure, or is acting/has acted illegally. By extension, the term is applied to a document, database or program being made unreliable by errors or alterations. Corrupt may also refer to: Corrupt, an Italian thriller film; Corrupt, an American crime film
The Corrupt Practices Prevention Act 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 102) [1] introduced the category of 'corrupt practices' to the English legal system, although statutes for the prevention of specific offences had been passed in 1416, 1695, [nb 1] 1729, [2] 1809, 1827, 1829, and 1842.
As widely expected, Edwards in 1983 defeated Treen's re-election attempt. The election offered a clear contrast between the flamboyant, charismatic Edwards and the low-key, policy-oriented Treen. While Treen focused on Edwards' reputation for corruption and dishonesty, Edwards sought to portray Treen as incompetent and unresponsive to the public.
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U.S. Representative Michael Myers, second from left, holds an envelope containing $50,000 that he just received from undercover FBI agents. Abscam, sometimes written ABSCAM, was a Federal Bureau of Investigation sting operation in the late 1970s and early 1980s that led to the convictions of seven members from both chambers of the United States Congress and others for bribery and corruption. [1]