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To fill this enforcement role, federal prosecutors during the last decade began to assume a much more active and creative role in attempting to use federal statutes to attack corruption at the state and local level. [18] In 1976, there were 337 indictments of state and local officials for public corruption, compared to 63 in 1970. [19]
Most notably, § 201(b) prohibits the receipt of bribes, and § 201(c) prohibits the receipt of unlawful gratuities, by federal public officials. Lesser used statutes include conspiracy to defraud the United States (enacted 1867) [ 6 ] and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) (enacted 1977).
This is a list of notable U.S. state officials convicted of only certain federal public corruption offenses for conduct while in office. The list is organized by office. Acquitted officials are not listed (if an official was acquitted on some counts, and convicted on others, the counts of conviction are listed).
The lawsuit is the latest against the city in a case that has sparked allegations of police misconduct and a federal public corruption ... of police corruption, two federal lawsuits and a scathing ...
In one of the lawsuits, attorneys for nine women listed as Jane Does 1-9 said they have provided information for a federal public corruption investigation of the police department.
The U.S. Supreme Court sided on Wednesday with a former mayor of an Indiana city who was convicted in a case in which he was accused of taking a bribe, in a ruling that could make it harder for ...
This is a list of notable United States local officials convicted of federal public corruption offenses for conduct while in office. The list is organized by office. Non-notable officials, such as sewer inspectors and zoning commissioners, are not included on this list, although they are routinely prosecuted for the same offenses.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down part of a federal anti-corruption law that makes it a crime for state and local officials to take gifts valued at more than $5,000 from a donor who had ...