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State Assemblywoman Pamela Harris (D) pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud, one count of making false statements to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and one count of witness tampering. Sentenced to $10,000 restitution, six months in jail followed by three years of supervised release, 400 hours of community service, and restitution ...
In federal law, crimes constituting obstruction of justice are defined primarily in Chapter 73 of Title 18 of the United States Code. [7] [8] This chapter contains provisions covering various specific crimes such as witness tampering and retaliation, jury tampering, destruction of evidence, assault on a process server, and theft of court ...
Senate Bill 1004 created penalty for tampering with an electronic monitoring device. Such instances have now dropped significantly, TDCJ director says How a Texas law may be helping plummet cases ...
While several early cases employed the "intangible right to honest government," United States v. States (8th Cir. 1973) [9] was the first case to rely on honest services fraud as the sole basis for a conviction. [10] The prosecution of state and local political corruption became a "major federal law enforcement priority" in the 1970s. [11 ...
The Texas bar association is investigating whether Ken Paxton's failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on bogus claims of fraud amounted to professional misconduct.
Police in North Texas recently arrested suspects involved in “a sophisticated multi-state gift card tampering ring” after investigators recovered more than 4,000 gift cards with a value of ...
Tampering with evidence, or evidence tampering, is an act in which a person alters, conceals, falsifies, or destroys evidence with the intent to interfere with an investigation (usually) by a law-enforcement, governmental, or regulatory authority. [1] It is a criminal offense in many jurisdictions. [2]
A North Texas woman on Monday was sentenced to over four years in prison following her conviction in a $3.7 million wire fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha ...