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U.S. Attorney Dan K. Webb prosecuted voter fraud in the 1982 Illinois elections. In the 1982 Illinois elections, there were 62 indictments and 58 convictions for election fraud, many involving precinct captains and election officials. A grand jury concluded that 100,000 fraudulent votes had been cast in Chicago.
Corruption in Illinois has been a problem from the earliest history of the state. [1] Electoral fraud in Illinois pre-dates the territory's admission to the Union in 1818. [ 2 ] Illinois had the third most federal criminal convictions for public corruption between 1976 and 2012, behind New York and California .
Numerous lawsuits and ballot challenges, based on conspiracy theories related to Barack Obama 's eligibility for the United States presidency, were filed following his first election in 2008 and over the course of his two terms as president. These actions sought to have Obama disqualified from running for, or being confirmed for, the Presidency ...
Former President Donald Trump should be removed from Illinois' primary ballot, but the decision should be left to the courts, a retired judge recommended Sunday to the state's election board ...
John Charles Eastman (born 1960) [1] is an American lawyer and academic. Due to his efforts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election, attempting to keep then-president Donald Trump in office and obstruct the certification of Joe Biden's victory, he has been criminally indicted, [2] ordered inactive by the State Bar of California, and recommended for disbarment. [3]
Illinois’ election board on Tuesday kept former President Donald Trump on the state’s primary ballot, a week before the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on whether the Republican’s role in ...
v. t. e. Donald Trump 's eligibility to run in the 2024 U.S. presidential election was the subject of dispute due to his involvement in the January 6 Capitol attack under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which disqualifies insurrectionists against the United States from holding office if they have previously taken ...
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: