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These officials have been convicted under two types of statutes. The first type are also applicable to corrupt state and local officials: [ 1 ] the mail and wire fraud statutes (enacted 1872), including the honest services fraud provision, [ 2 ] the Hobbs Act (enacted 1934), [ 3 ] the Travel Act (enacted 1961), [ 4 ] and the Racketeer ...
This list consists of American politicians convicted of crimes either committed or prosecuted while holding office in the federal government.It includes politicians who were convicted or pleaded guilty in a court of law; and does not include politicians involved in unprosecuted scandals (which may or may not have been illegal in nature), or politicians who have only been arrested or indicted.
The burglars were discovered and arrested. Nixon tried to cover up both the burglary, the bugging, and the full extent of other illegal acts by his close staff. The cover up resulted in 69 government officials being charged and 48 being convicted or pleading guilty. Eventually, Nixon resigned his office rather than face trial.
Joel Micah Greenberg (born February 4, 1984) is an American politician and former tax collector of Seminole County, Florida. In 2020, Greenberg was arrested and charged with multiple federal offenses. He was indicted on 33 criminal counts: theft, stalking, sex trafficking, cryptocurrency fraud, and Small Business Administration loan fraud. [3]
The Public Integrity Section was created in March 1976 in the wake of the Watergate scandal.Since 1978, it has supervised administration of the Independent Counsel provisions of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, which requires the Attorney General to report to the United States Congress annually on the operations and activities of the Public Integrity Section. [1]
More than 1,000 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack. Approximately 100 of them have been convicted by juries or judges. Approximately 100 of them have been ...
Only Owens is charged with making a false statement, which is a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001, also known as the "False Statements Accountability Act of 1996."
Mohamed Bahi was charged with witness tampering and destruction of evidence by the feds on Tuesday – one day after he left City Hall.