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The mail fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1341, "[t]he oldest statute used to address public corruption," was enacted in 1872 and first used against public corruption in the 1940s. [8] While several early cases employed the "intangible right to honest government," United States v.
William J. Jefferson corruption case [35] Democrat: John Jenrette: House of Representatives: South Carolina 1980: Federal official bribery Abscam [36] Democrat: Thomas Francis Johnson: House of Representatives: Maryland 1963: Federal official conflict-of-interest and conspiracy to defraud the United States United States v. Johnson (1966) [37 ...
In the 1970s, the FBI conducted the sting operation codenamed Abscam to uncover corruption in Congress. Seven members of Congress were convicted of bribery. In the 1980s, the Oklahoma county commissioners scandal resulted in the conviction of 230 people, the most people ever convicted in a public corruption case in the US. [9]
The Supreme Court overturned the bribery conviction of a former Indiana mayor on Wednesday in an opinion that narrows the scope of public corruption law. The high court's 6-3 opinion along ...
HB 6 was the manifestation of this alleged corruption.” “House Bill 6, whether good policy or not, was founded on and funded by a scheme to defraud taxpayers and circumvent the will of the ...
Ethics and legal experts warn that the Supreme Court has struck a serious blow to prosecutors’ ability to crack down on the abuse of power and public corruption. And that’s ringing alarm bells ...
The Public Integrity Section (PIN) is a section of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice charged with combating political corruption at all levels of government through the prosecution of corrupt federal, state, and local elected and appointed public officials.
A judge approved a plea deal in a long-running corruption case involving former L.A. County assessor John Noguez. Then he reconsidered.