A federal judge in Arizona sentenced a former Border Patrol to seven and a half years in prison for his role in helping smuggle marijuana into Arizona. The agent received bribes for assisting in the smuggling effort.
The Senate Ethics Committee announced a finding on Thursday evening that New Jersey Senator Robert Mendez (D-NJ) violated federal law and Senate rules by accepting unreported gifts from a friend and political ally. The committee said Menendez then used the power of his office to assist the friend. The New Jersey Democrat avoided a conviction in a federal corruption trial in 2017.
McALLEN, Texas — For almost 10 years, a Democrat Texas judge took bribes from at least one attorney in exchange for favorable rulings, federal prosecutors claim.
A federal judge in South Texas sentenced a former customs officer to prison for his role in a failed human smuggling scheme. The law enforcement officer used his position at an international port of entry to allow an illegal immigrant to enter the country.
A former Texas community college board member will spend nearly six years in federal prison for taking more than a quarter of a million dollars in bribes in exchange for using his position as a trustee to help people secure contracts.
Alabama candidate for the U.S. Senate Doug Jones worked for a Democratic politician’s foundation caught in a still-unraveling bribery scandal, according to a new report from local WHNT19 News.
The Justice Department has taken “preliminary steps” to investigate whether managers at Uber violated U.S. laws against bribing foreign officials.
The ties between elected officials and the Mexican transnational criminal organizations we call “cartels” do not stop at the U.S.-Mexico border. In many instances, such corruption manifested on the north side of the line. We detail below five such instances where Texas border sheriffs were indicted and sentenced to prison for such ties.
The small number of bribery and corruption cases by employees at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) could have a wider ranging impact on border security and immigration enforcement. The department’s 250,000 employees and vast law enforcement activities are about to be turned over to a new DHS Secretary who will have to address the emerging issue of official corruption.
Israel’s No. 2 ranked tennis player said Wednesday that efforts to bribe tennis players to throw matches are pervasive throughout the sport, and that every player — from the lowest-ranked all the way to the highest — has been approached.
The Clinton campaign struggled over data showing the public favors strengthening laws against bribery, noting that Hillary Clinton’s political record would make it difficult for her to champion the issue.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer and two illegal alien accomplices have been arrested and charged in a sexual favors and cash for smuggling of illegal aliens across the border scandal.
Officials with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) have filed 15 additional corruption charges against the mayor and city manager of the south Texas town of Crystal City. The new charges include wire fraud, theft of services, and additional conspiracy charges.
Guilty was the verdict on all 29 federal corruption charges against Democrat Rep. Chaka Fattah Sr. (PA), a lobbyist, a member of Fattah’s congressional staff, and associates on Tuesday.
The owner of several U.S. energy companies pleaded guilty Thursday to bribery and tax charges in what federal authorities say was a scheme to secure millions of dollars in contracts from Venezuela’s state-owned energy company.
Former Democratic California State Senator Ron Calderon has admitted that he took tens of thousands of dollars in bribes for legislative action as he submits a guilty plea to a federal corruption charge.
Fred Buenrostro, the former Chief Executive Officer of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) was sentenced to 4.5 years in federal prison this week for what a U.S. District termed “a spectacular breach of trust.”
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released a report Wednesday finding that annual cost of bribes paid in both developing countries and advanced economies amounts to $1.5 to $2 trillion globally.
With a notorious Democrat in the White House, it bears repeating that there are corrupt politicians in both the Republican and Democratic Parties. The “corruption caucus” in the political world is both bipartisan and growing.
A Mexican businessman has been sentenced to spend 20 years in a U.S. federal prison after his conviction on charges of money laundering and bribery.
U.S. Capt. Daniel Dusek, the highest-ranking U.S. Navy officer charged so far in a bribery scandal, was sentenced Friday to 46 months in prison for selling classified information to an Asian defense contractor in exchange for prostitutes, luxury hotel stays, and other favors.
The embattled Mayor of Crystal City, already facing a recall election, was arrested Tuesday night during a city council meeting after the mayor and citizens got into a pushing and yelling match that got out of hand. Things got worse for the mayor when he was found with an illegal pill in his pocket when he was processed into the jail.
Following FBI raid that shut down the city hall in Crystal City last week, as reported in Breitbart Texas, one member of City Council has resigned. Three other city leaders are now facing a recall election.
About four dozen current and retired state prison guards were arrested and charged with bribery and distribution of drugs after a series of raids across the state of Georgia on Thursday morning.
A multi-agency law enforcement task force raided and shut down the city hall building of the town of Crystal City, Texas, on Thursday. Five city officials and a Texas businessman were arrested on corruption charges.
Three former fundraisers for San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee’s campaign were charged on Friday with bribery, money laundering, campaign finance fraud and grand theft.
Shiwei Yan, founder of the Global Sustainability Foundation, entered a guilty plea on Wednesday to charges of funneling $800,000 in bribes to former United Nations General Assembly President John Ashe.
WASHINGTON—Former Gov. Bob McDonnell’s (R-VA) bribery conviction, as well as the constitutionality of state laws banning money from going to religious schools, have joined the Supreme Court’s docket, as the justices on Friday filled eight spots on their docket for cases to be decided by the time the current year’s term ends in June.
More public officials on the Texas border have pleaded guilty to public corruption charges. This time, a former Maverick County commissioner and justice of the peace pleaded guilty in federal court to bribery charges.
Former campaign staffer Todd Bosnich was sentenced on Monday after pleading guilty to instigating and then obstructing an FBI investigation into Republican Carl DeMaio during the 2014 election based on false accusations.
Last week, a former Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO was indicted on charges that she took bribes while steering up to $23 million in no-bid contracts to a consulting firm she once worked for, and some wonder if Emanuel’s office had a hand in that scandal. But the mayor’s office is blocking the release of records that could shed light on that relationship.
It was reported on Thursday that former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett intends to plead guilty to charges that she took bribes while steering up to $23 million in no-bid contracts to a consulting firm she worked for prior to taking over as head of the CPS.
U.S. authorities have charged six people in connection with an alleged bribery scheme at the UN, including a former head of the General Assembly. The bribes were for real estate developments in Macau, a peninsula in mainland China.
Paul G. Hurley, 42, an IRS agent based in Seattle, is facing charges of soliciting and accepting a $20,000 bribe from a marijuana shop owner Hurley was auditing.
A Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) employee has been arrested for allegedly accepting $1,000-$2,000 bribes to issue Texas driver licenses to illegal aliens who did not legally qualify for those driver licenses. She is accused of fraudulently inputting into the DPS computer system that the illegal aliens were born in the United States.
Several DMV employees in Salinas and Sacramento have been arrested, along with three trucking school operators, for allegedly using bribes to help up to 100 commercial truck drivers to obtain Class A commercial drivers’ licenses illegally.
A recent shootout in this border city created controversy as to whether a high-ranking capo within the Gulf Cartel had been arrested, if he had managed to escape. He was also asked if he had taken part in an ironic twist in which authorities extort capos in order to guarantee their release.
(Reuters) Italy’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was found guilty on Wednesday of bribing a senator to switch factions in a move which helped topple the then government in 2008.
Should either the FBI or the Department of Justice, under recently confirmed Attorney General Loretta Lynch, fail to launch an investigation of this transaction, both will be vulnerable to charges that a double standard of selective investigation and prosecution exists. If you’re Hillary Clinton and engage in questionable behavior, you get a free pass. If you’re someone else—say, a conservative or an opponent of President Obama’s foreign policy, such as Senator Robert Mendez (D-NJ)– you will be investigated and prosecuted.
Twenty-nine Kansas government employees have been charged with bribery and other crimes in connection with providing fake drivers licenses to undocumented workers. A retired Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent told 41 KSHB Action News that issuing fake licenses could lead to a wide range of fraud and other criminal activity, including terrorist activity. The undocumented workers allegedly paid $2,500 to obtain these fake drivers licenses.
