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The following Congressmen were convicted: Harrison A. Williams Senator (D-NJ) Convicted on 9 counts of bribery and conspiracy. Sentenced to 3 years in prison. [73] John Jenrette (D-SC) sentenced to two years in prison for bribery and conspiracy. [74]
The Senate Committee on Ethics recommended that Williams be expelled because of his "ethically repugnant" conduct. Prior to a Senate vote on his expulsion, Williams resigned on March 11, 1982. Sentenced to three years, he served two years in federal prison as Inmate #06089-050, the first time in over 80 years that a senator had spent time in ...
State Senator Virgil Smith, Jr. (D) was convicted of assault and was sentenced to 10 months in jail, five years of probation and not be allowed to hold public office. (2016) [ 131 ] Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court Diane Hathaway (D) was sentenced to 366 days in prison for criminal mortgage fraud.
Williams, 55, was convicted in the Aug. 11, 1998 murder of Felicia "Lisha" Gayle, a former police reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch killed during a burglary at the St. Louis suburban home ...
This is a list of notable U.S. state officials convicted of only certain federal public corruption offenses for conduct while in office. The list is organized by office. Acquitted officials are not listed (if an official was acquitted on some counts, and convicted on others, the counts of conviction are list
A jury found Timothy Williams guilty on all three counts of second-degree murder in the 1984 rape and murder of 14-year-old Wendy Jerome. "Justice delayed was not going to be justice denied for ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. Senator Bob Menendez was convicted on Tuesday on all 16 criminal counts he faced including bribery at his corruption trial in Manhattan federal court, completing the once ...
In February 2010, Democratic Senator Hiram Monserrate became the first member of the Legislature to be expelled in over 80 years. [5] [10] Monserrate had been convicted of misdemeanor assault in 2009 in connection with acts of domestic violence. [11] Monserrate contested the Senate's action in federal court, but the sanction was upheld. [10]