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The corruption case against then Louisiana Representative William J. Jefferson in the United States started on a suspicion of bribery. The FBI raided his Congressional offices in May 2006. He was re-elected to his seat in the fall. On June 4, 2007, a federal grand jury indicted Jefferson on sixteen charges related to corruption. [1]
Mail fraud [21] Democrat: Robert Frederick Collins: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana: Louisiana 1991 Federal official bribery and conspiracy to defraud the United States [22] N/A: Duke Cunningham: House of Representatives: California 2006: Mail fraud and federal official bribery Cunningham scandal [23 ...
With the efforts of the United State Secret Service, Federal Bureau Investigation, Louisiana State Police and Shreveport Police Department the 21 defendants were discovered and compiled into one case.
Mail fraud and Travel Act [11] William Langer: Governor of North Dakota Conspiracy to defraud the United States [12] Richard W. Leche: Governor of Louisiana Mail fraud [13] Arch A. Moore, Jr. Governor of West Virginia Hobbs Act and mail fraud [14] John G. Rowland: Governor of Connecticut Mail fraud [15] George Ryan: Governor of Illinois Mail ...
Elderly residents of seven Louisiana nursing homes who were sent in 2021 to ride out Hurricane Ida in a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse are being offered shares of a nearly $9 million settlement ...
A Louisiana Senate panel signed off on a bill Wednesday that would essentially rewrite state public records law by exempting nearly every record at all levels of government from public scrutiny.
While several early cases employed the "intangible right to honest government," United States v. States (8th Cir. 1973) [9] was the first case to rely on honest services fraud as the sole basis for a conviction. [10] The prosecution of state and local political corruption became a "major federal law enforcement priority" in the 1970s. [11 ...
A federal jury in Louisiana on Wednesday acquitted a white state trooper charged with violating the civil rights of a Black motorist despite body-camera footage that showed the officer pummeling ...