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The U.S. Bill of Rights. Article Three, Section Two, Clause Three of the United States Constitution provides that: . Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have ...
Specifically, the Court held that a floor speech by a Congressperson could not be admitted as evidence in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 281 (the federal conflict-of-interest statute) or § 371 (conspiracy to defraud the United States) to show the motivation for the introduction of a private bill. [121]
Texas 1971 Federal official conflict-of-interest and Travel Act [27] Democrat: Joshua Eilberg: House of Representatives: Pennsylvania 1979: Federal official conflict-of-interest [28] Democrat: Albert B. Fall: Secretary of the Interior: New Mexico: 1929 Revolving door (18 U.S.C. § 207) Teapot Dome scandal [29] Republican: Robert García: House ...
Paxton was in the courtroom when state District Judge Andrea Beall of Houston set the April 15 trial date in the long-delayed criminal case, which began in 2015 when a Texas grand jury indicted ...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has spent nearly all his nine years as the state's top lawyer under indictment on securities fraud charges filed in 2015.
The Ponzi scheme robbed investors of more than $3 million between Feb. 9, 2009 to May 14, 2020, a federal indictment states. There were at least 30 investors defrauded in the scheme.
Texas Democratic Rep. Henry ... was expelled from the House in December after a scathing ethics report and 23-count federal indictment charging him with crimes such as wire fraud and money ...
Texas v. Pennsylvania, 592 U.S. ___ (2020), was a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the administration of the 2020 presidential election in four states in which Joe Biden defeated then-incumbent president Donald Trump.