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The FBI also spied upon and collected information on Puerto Rican independence leader Pedro Albizu Campos and his Nationalist political party in the 1930s. Albizu Campos was convicted three times in connection with deadly attacks on US government officials: in 1937 (Conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States), in 1950 (attempted murder), and in 1954 (after an armed assault on ...
William J. Jefferson corruption case [35] Democrat: John Jenrette: House of Representatives: South Carolina 1980: Federal official bribery Abscam [36] Democrat: Thomas Francis Johnson: House of Representatives: Maryland 1963: Federal official conflict-of-interest and conspiracy to defraud the United States United States v. Johnson (1966) [37 ...
"Consistent with that FBI failure, yet another glaring example of FBI’s broken promises under your leadership is its inexcusable failure to investigate bribery allegations against former Vice ...
Grassley Rips Wray's 'Failed' Leadership At Fbi With 11 Pages Of Examples In Blistering 'No Confidence' Letter A view of St. Peter's Square during the pope's Easter Sunday Mass on April 9, 2023.
J. Irving Whalley (R-PA) received suspended three-year sentence and fined $11,000 in 1973 for using mails to deposit staff salary kickbacks and threatening an employee to prevent her from giving information to the FBI. [228] Martin B. McKneally (R-NY) was placed on one year's probation and fined $5,000 in 1971 for failing to file income tax ...
Retired Orange County judge and former prosecutor Stewart Rosenwasser allegedly took his own life as federal agents prepared to arrest him for bribery and corruption.
Operation Ill Wind was a three-year investigation launched in 1986 by the FBI into corruption by U.S. government and military officials, and private defense contractors. Melvyn Paisley (R) Assistant Secretary of the Navy, [62] was found to have accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. He pleaded guilty to bribery and served four ...
For example, between 1985 and 1991, over 75 public officials were convicted of corruption offenses in the Southern District of West Virginia alone. [25] By comparison, the only appellate court decision citing West Virginia's Bribery and Corrupt Practices Act, in 1991, was a federal court decision involving the state statute as a federal RICO ...