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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).
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 list
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.
Operation Ill Wind was a three-year investigation launched in 1986 by the FBI into corruption by U.S. government and military officials, as well as private defense contractors. Melvyn Paisley , appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1981 by Republican President Ronald Reagan, [ 280 ] was found to have accepted hundreds of thousands of ...
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).
A Sacramento federal grand jury handed up an indictment against two alleged leaders of a “transnational” white supremacist group — one of them an Elk Grove woman — accused of soliciting ...
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.
Mayor Eric Adams' troubles have ensnared many of his key lieutenants — several of whom have either left or been forced to resign as Hizzoner's legal troubles mount.