Five people were charged Wednesday with the attempted bribery of a juror in Minnesota after authorities found on confiscated devices a “chilling” plan to give a juror more than $120,000 and specific instructions on how to convince other jurors to vote to acquit, federal prosecutors said. Three of the people charged were defendants in the […]
Federal agents have searched the Minnesota home of at least one of the seven defendants facing a high-profile fraud trial, days after a juror said someone attempted to bribe her with nearly $120,000 in cash in exchange for an acquittal. The FBI said it conducted “court authorized law enforcement activity” Wednesday in Savage, Minnesota, where, […]
Less than two weeks after AT&T Illinois’ bill to end mandated landline service became law in 2017, the utility’s then-president, Paul La Schiazza, allegedly received a request from a relative of House Speaker Michael Madigan to sponsor a nonprofit event. The unidentified relative said the idea came “at the suggestion of our good friend, Mike […]
A former Customs and Border Protection officer who worked at a Texas port of entry pleaded guilty this week to letting undocumented people into the U.S. and allowing what he thought was cocaine into the country, officials said. Emanuel Isac Celedon pleaded guilty in two federal cases Monday — one dealing with smuggling people into […]
Audio appeared to reveal Arizona’s GOP chairman bribing Kari Lake into staying out of politics. Lake quickly called for him to resign, and on Wednesday, he did. He also claimed that Lake threatened to release more damaging audio, which her campaign denies. The chairman of the Arizona Republican Party resigned on Wednesday, alleging the GOP […]
The leader of Arizona’s Republican party resigned Wednesday after leaked audio of him surfaced, appearing to show him offering a bribe to Republican candidate Kari Lake by asking if there were a dollar amount she’d take to stay out of the US Senate race there. Jeff DeWit, the chair of the state party, was captured […]
A deputy head of Ukraine’s Federation of Trade Unions, who’s currently detained waiting for a court ruling over other charges, allegedly attempted to bribe judges in exchange for a decision in his favor, the State Bureau of Investigation reported on Jan. 5. The official was previously accused of illegally seizing state property worth over Hr […]