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A federal grand jury in Illinois returned an indictment against Blagojevich and five other defendants on April 2, 2009. [3] Blagojevich is the seventh Illinois Governor to have been arrested or indicted; [26] and became the fourth, [clarification needed] following Dan Walker, who was jailed from 1987 to 1989. [27]
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 ...
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), 15 U.S.C. § 78dd-1, was passed in 1977. The program bribery statute, 18 U.S.C. § 666, was passed in 1984. [23] In the program bribery statute, "Congress, for the first time, directly federalized the crime of bribery of or by local officials." [24]
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 .
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 ...
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 ...
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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).