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It won the 2011 Daniel Pearl Award for its project [118] "Offshore Crime, Inc.", [119] a series of stories documenting offshore tax havens, the criminals who use them and millions of dollars in lost tax money. It was again a finalist in 2013 for its story about an international money laundering ring called the Proxy Platform. [120]
Proxy voting is a form of voting whereby a member of a decision-making body may delegate their voting power to a representative, to enable a vote in absence. The representative may be another member of the same body, or external.
The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is a division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) concerning suspected Internet-facilitated criminal activity. The IC3 gives victims a convenient and easy-to-use reporting mechanism that alerts authorities of suspected criminal or civil violations on the Internet.
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 ...
Public school systems generally require that students live in the municipality the school serves, and giving false information to gain admission is a crime. [7] [8] People have used address fraud to vote in a jurisdiction other than their own. [9] A notable example is Ann Coulter, who was investigated for voting in the wrong precinct. [10]
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Robbins v. Lower Merion School District is a federal class action lawsuit, [2] brought during February 2010 on behalf of students of two high schools in Lower Merion Township, a suburb of Philadelphia. [3] In October 2010, the school district agreed to pay $610,000 to settle the Robbins and parallel Hasan lawsuits against it. [1]
As of the 2023 Quarter 2 Uniform Crime Report data with 13,363 participating agencies (out of 18,892 agencies across the country) the FBI was still "unable to make confident statements about national crime trends" because of incomplete participation which did not achieve a "minimum of 60 percent population coverage for these most in-population ...