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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 ...
CHICAGO — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out a key part of the federal bribery statute often used in many Chicago-area corruption cases — including that of ex-Illinois House Speaker ...
Federal official bribery and gratuity, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and Travel Act: Abscam [40] Democrat: William Lorimer: Senator: Illinois 1912: Bribery [41] Republican: Buz Lukens: House of Representatives: Ohio 1996: Federal official bribery House banking scandal [42] Republican: Martin Thomas Manton: United States Court of ...
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was the state’s most powerful politician in 2018 when he allegedly met at his downtown Chicago law office with then-Ald. Danny Solis to discuss Solis ...
Corruption in Illinois has been a problem from the earliest history of the state. [1] Electoral fraud in Illinois pre-dates the territory's admission to the Union in 1818. [ 2 ] Illinois had the third most federal criminal convictions for public corruption between 1976 and 2012, behind New York and California .
A state representative in Illinois charged with bribery, one of several prominent Democrats under scrutiny in federal investigations this year, resigned Friday. Rep. Luis Arroyo, a 13-year veteran ...
Thomas J. Maloney (1925–2008) was a judge in Cook County, Illinois who served from 1977 until his indictment for bribery in 1991. Since 1981, the court was being investigated by the FBI in Operation Greylord, [1] and he was eventually convicted [2] on four counts of accepting bribes (including fixing three murder cases).
The Illinois Senate passed 244 bills before Friday's deadline. While we can't dissect all of them, we did find 4 things you should know. Illinois Senate passes more than 200 bills during deadline ...