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McDonnell v. United States, 579 U.S. 550 (2016), was a United States Supreme Court case concerning the appeal of former Virginia Governor Robert F. McDonnell's conviction for honest services fraud and Hobbs Act extortion. [1][2] At issue on appeal was whether the definition of "official act" within the federal bribery statutes encompassed the ...
The federal bribery statute, 18 U.S.C. § 201 (b), criminalizes the corrupt promise or transfer of any thing of value to influence an official act of a federal official, a fraud on the United States, or the commission or omission of any act in violation of the official's duty. [33] 18 U.S.C. § 201 (b) (1)– (2) provides:
Federal official bribery, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and Travel Act: Abscam [16] Jack B. Johnson: Prince George's County Council Extortion and witness- and evidence-tampering [69] Leslie Johnson: Prince George's County Council Conspiracy to commit witness- and evidence-tampering [70] Virgil Jones: Chicago Alderman Hobbs Act ...
Navy contractor ‘Fat Leonard’ who was behind one of US military’s largest corruption scandals sentenced to 15 years in prison Richard Pollina November 8, 2024 at 6:57 AM
The justices ruled 6-3 to reverse a lower court's decision that had upheld the corruption conviction of former Portage mayor James Snyder for accepting $13,000 from a truck company that received ...
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (in case citations, E.D. Va.) is one of two United States district courts serving the Commonwealth of Virginia. It has jurisdiction over the Northern Virginia, Hampton Roads, and Richmond metro areas and surrounding locations with courthouses located in Alexandria, Norfolk ...
A federal jury convicted two longtime U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration supervisors Wednesday of leaking confidential information to defense attorneys as part of a bribery conspiracy that ...
The trial in the case of the United States of America v. I. Lewis Libby began on January 16, 2007. [29] On March 6, Libby was convicted of four out of the five counts against him. He was found guilty of two counts of perjury in testimony before a federal grand jury, one count of obstruction of justice in a federal grand jury investigation, and ...