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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.
Certain details, including post-conviction relief, if applicable, are included in footnotes. For example, several officials obtained post-conviction relief after the Supreme Court's decisions narrowing the mail fraud statute in McNally v. United States (1987) and Skilling v. United States (2010) and narrowing the Hobbs Act in McCormick v.
A former co-owner of the now-defunct Westfield Transport, Inc., pleaded guilty on Tuesday to federal charges related to a June 2019 collision involving one of the company’s vehicles that caused ...
In United States of America v.Aaron Swartz, Aaron Swartz, an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist, was prosecuted for multiple violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (CFAA), after downloading academic journal articles through the MIT computer network from a source for which he had an account as a Harvard research fellow.
Four former Boilermakers officers made their first appearances in federal court in Kansas City, Kansas, on Friday, pleading not guilty to charges that they were part of a $20 million embezzlement ...
The federal indictment did not list the dollar amount, but civil lawsuits filed in Aiken County state court in the same inheritance matter said the amount involved in the scheme was at least $8 ...
Majority Leader of the State Senate Malcolm Smith (D) was found guilty in federal court of conspiracy, wire fraud, bribery and extortion for trying to bribe a Republican Party official to let him onto the Republican ballot in the 2013 New York City mayoral race.
These charges were added to two original federal charges against Hoadley filed in March. According to that indictment, Hoadley struck a man, listed as B.H, while arresting him on March 30, 2017.