Indicted New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez denied allegations of bribery and conspiracy on Monday, insisting that he will be both…
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Brooklyn-based safety training firm Odessa Safety and its owner Alex Kaushanskiy have been charged with three counts of second-degree criminal possession of forged instruments and three counts of first-degree falsifying business records.
Former Arkansas State Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson was sentenced to 50 months in prison on Tuesday as part of a federal corruption case.
Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” says one former judge in this investigation from Propublica.
Four Boston Police Department officers have been charged in connection with overtime fraud at the department’s evidence warehouse.
Warren Ryder has been on paid leave for over a year, ever since Boxborough, Massachusetts lawmakers voted to ask the FBI’s public corruption unit to investigate unusual payroll issues at the police department. Now, he says the DOJ has decided not to charge him.
Justin Riggs was caught in an interagency sting allegedly accepting $1,800 from a suspect in exchange for a warning that he was about to be wiretapped and promising further police info for more money.
Prosecutors announced Wednesday that seven NYPD employees were among the 17 New York City municipal workers charged with COVID-19 relief fraud.
Between them, Correction Officers Steven Cange, Monica Coaxum and Eduardo Trinidad have been charged with fraudulently collecting more than $380,000 in salary while on sick leave in 2021 and 2022. While on sick leave, the officers submitted forged medical notes to the Department of Corrections and flaunted their lifestyles on social media.
While the Department of Justice has brought a number of public corruption cases against Hawaiian officials, including state legislators who pled guilty in February to taking bribes in exchange for decisions on legislation, the state was unable to charge them within existing laws.