NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors at the trial of Sen. Bob Menendez used the testimony of his former campaign manager on Tuesday to try to link alleged bribes of the Democrat to the appointment of New Jersey’s top prosecutor three years ago. Michael Soliman, a former top Menendez political adviser, testified immediately after New Jersey’s […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A New Jersey businessman who prosecutors say bribed Sen. Bob Menendez testified Monday that the Democrat told him in summer 2019 that he’d look into a state criminal probe threatening his business and later assured him there was no threat and boasted about saving him. At the time, Jose Uribe said […]
The former second-in-command for the US Navy has been arrested on bribery and conspiracy charges. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) says four-star Admiral Robert Burke, 62, played a role in a bribery scheme that involved a government contract during his time in the Navy. Mr Burke was the vice chief of naval operations from […]
McALESTER — Pittsburg County Sheriff Chris Morris was charged twice Friday with receiving a bribe. The Republican, who is up for reelection, denies wrongdoing. Morris was first charged May 14 in Pittsburg County District Court with embezzlement of state property. A special prosecutor on Friday added a bribery count to the existing case and filed […]
A former U.S. Navy vice chief of naval operations was arrested Friday on charges that he accepted bribes to steer government contracts to a company in exchange for a future job while still in service, Justice Department (DOJ) officials announced in a statement. Retired Navy Adm. Robert Burke, 62, of Coconut Creek, Fla., and two business […]
A court in Tianjin sentenced a former executive for a state-owned firm to death for bribery on Tuesday. Bai Tianhui was found guilty of accepting bribes worth $151 million. The authorities said he helped solve several other crimes but wouldn’t get a lighter sentence for that. A former senior banker for a Chinese state-owned asset […]
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 14: U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) arrives for trial at Manhattan Federal Court on May 14, 2024 in New York City. Menendez and his wife are accused of extortion, obstruction of justice, and accepting bribes to perform favors for businessmen with connections to Egypt and Qatar after gold bars […]
The Supreme Court, amid an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy pertaining to unreported gifts to justices, debated on Monday whether a contractor making a $13,000 gratuity to a politician is similar to taking a teacher to the Cheesecake Factory. In 2012, James Synder was elected mayor of the Northwest Indiana town of just under 38,000 people. Synder, who was struggling […]
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House Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), left, and House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-Ky.), who are leading the House Oversight investigation into the business dealings of the Biden family, at the Rayburn House Office Building on Dec. 13, 2023. House Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), left, and House Oversight Committee chair James […]
By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors charged 70 current and former employees of the New York City Housing Authority, the largest public housing agency in North America, on Tuesday with taking bribes in exchange for awarding no-bid contracts. Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, called it “the largest single-day bribery takedown” […]
A Singaporean transport minister was charged on Thursday in the first ministerial corruption case ever seen in the Asian financial hub known for squeaky clean government. The corrupt practices investigation bureau said in a statement that Subramaniam Iswaran, 61, faces 27 charges: two for corruption, 24 for receiving gifts as a public servant, and one […]