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The scandal led the United States Congress to pass the 1988 Procurement Integrity Act, [11] which regulates the pay that procurement officials can receive from contractors during the first year after they leave government, and forbids them providing bid and proposal information to their new employers. [12]
While several early cases employed the "intangible right to honest government," United States v. States (8th Cir. 1973) [9] was the first case to rely on honest services fraud as the sole basis for a conviction. [10] The prosecution of state and local political corruption became a "major federal law enforcement priority" in the 1970s. [11 ...
The Public Integrity Section was created in March 1976 in the wake of the Watergate scandal.Since 1978, it has supervised administration of the Independent Counsel provisions of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, which requires the Attorney General to report to the United States Congress annually on the operations and activities of the Public Integrity Section. [1]
The Cockerham bribery case involved the investigation and subsequent trials of United States Army contracting officers and their family members who were accused of accepting bribes in return for steering multimillion-dollar contracts to companies providing services for the US Army in Iraq and Kuwait between 2004 and 2007. The alleged ringleader ...
and imposes a criminal penalty of up to 10 years in prison. [4] The central legal question in Snyder v. United States was whether 18 U.S.C. § 666 criminalizes the acceptance of gratuities by state and local officials for their past official acts, or if it only applies to bribes given with an intent to influence future actions. The distinction ...
The Act extended the power to initiate criminal investigation to the United States House of Representatives and the Senate, which Scalia viewed as a violation of the separation of powers. He believed that the House of Representatives' investigation through the use of a special prosecutor "[arose] out of a bitter power dispute between the ...
Republicans are ramping up their efforts to attack the FBI and prosecutors such as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) in the wake of ...
The Hyde Amendment (Pub.L. 105-119, § 617, Nov. 26, 1997, 111 Stat. 2519, codified as a note following 18 U.S.C. § 3006A) is a federal statute allowing federal courts to award attorneys' fees and court costs to criminal defendants "where the court finds that the position of the United States was 'vexatious, frivolous, or in bad faith'".