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Several statutes, mostly codified in Title 18 of the United States Code, provide for federal prosecution of public corruption in the United States.Federal prosecutions of public corruption under the Hobbs Act (enacted 1934), the mail and wire fraud statutes (enacted 1872), including the honest services fraud provision, the Travel Act (enacted 1961), and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt ...
During the 1980s and the 1990s, federal prosecutors used the law to bring charges against several Mafia figures. In 1985, United States Attorney Rudy Giuliani (who would be indicted under Georgia RICO laws in August 2023 [9]) indicted 11 organized crime figures in United States v. Anthony Salerno, et al, also known as Mafia Commission Trial.
The special prosecutor billed Willis his $250-per-hour fee for a meeting with a member of the White House counsel’s office in May 2022, per an invoice obtained by the Judiciary panel.
Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez is an American lawyer who served as the United States attorney for the District of Puerto Rico from 2007 to 2019. She is a career prosecutor, starting in the Puerto Rico Department of Justice and subsequently in the U.S. Attorney's office in San Juan.
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Nathan Joseph Hochman [1] (born November 26, 1963) [2] is an American attorney, who has served as the District Attorney of Los Angeles County since December 3, 2024. [3] Hochman is a former federal prosecutor and Assistant U.S. Attorney General.
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By statute, the U.S. attorney is responsible for prosecuting both federal crimes and all serious crimes committed by adults in the District of Columbia. Therefore, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia serves as both the federal prosecutor (as in the other 92 U.S. attorneys' offices) and as the local district attorney.