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William Belknap (R) United States Secretary of War, resigned just before he was impeached by the United States House of Representatives for bribery. (1876) [41] Schuyler Colfax (R-IN) Vice President under Republican U. S. Grant invested money in the Crédit Mobilier Scandal and failed to mention $10,000 they invested in his next campaign. He ...
Conspiracy to defraud the United States [43] N/A: Nicholas Mavroules: House of Representatives: Massachusetts 1993: Hobbs Act and RICO [44] Democrat: Andrew J. May: House of Representatives: Kentucky 1947 Conspiracy to defraud the United States and compensated representation in a proceeding in which the United States is interested (18 U.S.C ...
Federal official bribery, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and Travel Act: Abscam [16] Joseph Ganim: Mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut: Hobbs Act, mail fraud, program bribery, and RICO [17] Jerome P. Genova: Mayor of Calumet City, Illinois: Mail fraud, program bribery, and RICO [18] Oscar Hernandez: Mayor of Bell, California [19] Richard ...
The Teapot Dome Scandal. This 1920s scandal had it all: “ornery oil tycoons, poker-playing politicians, illegal liquor sales, a murder-suicide, a womanizing president and a bagful for bribery ...
The case was widely considered to be one of the worst judicial scandals in Pennsylvania history. Like all of the other nearly 1,500 people who got commutations from Biden this week, Conahan was ...
The mastermind behind the decade-long bribery scheme and one of the largest corruption scandals in US military history that brought down dozens of Navy officials has been sentenced to 15 years in ...
As of 2024, the United States scores 69 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean") according to Transparency International's 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index. When ranked by score, the United States ranks 24th among the 180 countries in the index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector.
June 1986 – Jonathan Jay Pollard, a United States Naval civilian intelligence analyst was convicted on one count of spying for Israel, receiving a life sentence with a recommendation against parole. August 1988 – Clyde Lee Conrad, a member of the United States military was arrested for selling NATO defense plans to Hungary from 1974 to 1988 ...