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The stated goal of the Anti-Corruption Act is to serve as "model legislation that sets a standard for city, state and federal laws, [3]" that prevent money from corrupting American government. Organizations such as Represent.Us advocate for state and local laws that reflect the provisions of the AACA, often using the ballot initiative process ...
RepresentUs is a nonpartisan not-for-profit organization focused on ending political corruption in the United States. [8] [9] [10] Funded by donations and grants, it is run mostly by volunteers aligned in a grassroots organizing network, and it has brought in high-profile celebrities to advance its message.
The jury award in the breach of fiduciary duty case was named one of the Top Verdicts of 2009 by The National Law Journal, [27] in addition to being recognized as one of the year’s three largest verdicts in Texas and the year’s largest verdict in Dallas County (Qualters, Sheri. “Top Verdicts” The National Law Journal. March 2010).
The Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal was a United States political scandal exposed in 2005; it related to fraud perpetrated by political lobbyists Jack Abramoff, Ralph E. Reed Jr., Grover Norquist and Michael Scanlon on Native American tribes who were seeking to develop casino gambling on their reservations.
Anti-corruption collective action is a form of collective action with the aim of combatting corruption and bribery risks in public procurement. It is a collaborative anti-corruption activity that brings together representatives of the private sector, public sector and civil society.
Mitchell was born and raised in Pennsylvania and is the oldest of seven brothers. [11] He graduated from Wheaton College in 1998 with a B.A., summa cum laude. [12] He then graduated from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an articles editor for the University of Chicago Law Review, [13] in 2001 with a Juris Doctor with high honors and Order of the Coif membership.
It is a form of corruption which does not necessarily involve government personnel or facilities. One common type of commercial bribery is the kickback . For example, a seller of goods or services from "Company A" who offers the purchasing manager of "Company B" a payment to his own account to help him secure a contract for Company B's ...
Honest services fraud is a crime defined in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 (the federal mail and wire fraud statute), added by the United States Congress in 1988. [1] The idea of this law was to criminalize not only schemes to defraud victims of money and property, but also schemes to defraud victims of intangible rights such as the "honest services" of a public official.