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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.
Mail fraud [13] Democrat: Mario Biaggi: House of Representatives: New York 1987 Federal official gratuity and Travel Act [14] Democrat: 1988 Federal official gratuity, mail fraud, Hobbs Act, and RICO: Wedtech scandal [15] Frank W. Boykin: House of Representatives: Alabama 1963: Federal official conflict-of-interest and conspiracy to defraud the ...
The Interior Department overpaid dozens of employees to the tune of up to $400,000 of taxpayer money after the fed workers improperly claimed to be based in the DC area -- but were actually ...
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
In fact, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported $3.4 billion in elder fraud losses for 2023 and $1.6 billion from January to May of 2024, up nearly $300 million from that same ...
Along with working with a man hoping to restore the monarchy in Afghanistan, Watkins is lobbying Congress on the Federal Aviation Administration, disaster relief and U.S.-Lebanese relations.
WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the most turbulent sessions of Congress in the modern era is about to make way for the next one.. Midnight passage of the government shutdown package put in sharp focus the political fault lines emerging in Washington, as President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., fights for his job and Republicans sweep into control ...
John W. Langley (R-KY) resigned from the US Congress in January 1926, after losing an appeal to set aside his conviction of violating the Volstead Act (Prohibition). He had also been caught trying to bribe a Prohibition officer. He was sentenced to two years after which, his wife ran for Congress in his place and won two full terms. [137] [138]