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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 .
Operation Greylord was an investigation conducted jointly by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the IRS Criminal Investigation Division, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Chicago Police Department Internal Affairs Division and the Illinois State Police into corruption in the judiciary of Cook County, Illinois (the Chicago jurisdiction).
A frame from undercover video captured Aug. 18, 2014, featuring former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan (right), presented to a jury during Madigan's corruption trial Monday, Nov. 25, 2024.
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 ...
Martin Sandoval pleaded guilty to bribery and filing a false tax return in January 2020 and agreed to cooperate with federal investigators. Martin Sandoval died of COVID-19 on Dec. 5, 2020.
Under federal law, a bribe involves a quid pro quo arrangement where the payment is directly linked to a specific action or decision by the public official. Gratuities, on the other hand, are payments given as a reward for a past action. Unlike bribes, gratuities do not require a prior agreement or an explicit exchange.
Madigan cross examination continues Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has returned to the witness stand for additional cross-examination at the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago.
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 ...