A federal judge on Thursday refused to order the city to give aldermen the names of hundreds of police officers who have been repeatedly accused of misconduct.
A Louisiana legislator said Wednesday he is being investigated by the FBI and claimed it may be because he wouldn't give agents information about possible wrongdoing by Rep. William Jefferson and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin.
Nigeria's top corruption investigator said Tuesday that up to six former governors will be charged by the end of the year, a sign the country's new leadership is making good on pledges to stamp out graft in one of the world's most corrupt nations.
More than half of Chicago's aldermen asked a federal judge Monday to release confidential information to them about hundreds of police officers who have been repeatedly accused of abusing civilians.
A former Democratic state assemblyman who was among 11 public officials arrested last month on federal bribe-taking charges pleaded guilty Friday to attempted extortion.
Prosecutors arrested a former aide of President Roh Moo-hyun Thursday on bribery and influence-peddling charges, a prosecution official said, a week after the arrest of another ex-aide on similar charges.
A state judge has dismissed all charges against six state Treasury Department officials accused of taking gifts from a company hired to collect back taxes and one former employee of that contractor.
A former U.S. Border Patrol agent pleaded guilty Friday to taking $100 for each carload of illegal immigrants that he helped get past one of his agency's highway checkpoints.
Corruption costs China more every year than it spends on education and is one of the most serious threats to the country's political stability, according to a new report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
The Chicago Police Department will disband an elite drug and gang unit under state and federal investigation for allegations ranging from armed violence and home invasion to kidnapping and plotting a murder-for-hire, officials said Tuesday.
Three police officers in a troubled unit have been assigned to desk duty after questions arose about the accuracy of a police report on a March 2004 drug arrest, a newspaper reported Saturday.
Mistrust of police has been ingrained for years in this bleak coastal town, where a basketball court mural shows a girl running from a baton-wielding officer under the slogan: "To be poor is not a crime."
A look at campaign contributions by VECO Corp., the Alaska oil services company, to elected officials in Washington since 1993.
For years, while VECO Corp. was flush with oil profits and in a giving mood, Capitol Hill politicians happily accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from employees of the Alaska oil contractor.
A sweeping City Hall corruption probe that has produced federal charges against a dozen black civic and political leaders is renewing suspicions of racism in a city with a long history of combative minority relations.
Four former officials of Albania's state-controlled oil company, Albpetrol, were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of theft and abuse of office, police and prosecutors said.
The United Nations and the World Bank joined forces Monday to try to recover billions of dollars stolen from the coffers of developing countries every year by corrupt leaders and officials.
In the latest sign of corruption problems for Republicans, a corporate executive testified Friday that his employees worked for months to remodel the Alaska home of Sen. Ted Stevens.
Louisiana's former film commissioner pleaded guilty Friday to taking about $60,000 in bribes to help inflate tax credits meant to lure movie production to the state.
FBI agents arrested 11 public officials in towns across New Jersey Thursday on charges of taking bribes in exchange for influencing the awarding of public contracts, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday charged one of the president's closest confidants with conspiracy in a corruption scandal that has toppled much of his inner circle. But analysts say Jose Dirceu would rather spend years in prison than go down swinging against Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Auditors have found Chinese officials stole or misused $1.9 billion in pension funds and other government money, a state news agency quoted China's chief auditor as saying Wednesday.
Widespread bribery of judges around the world and inappropriate political interference in legal systems are denying millions their right to a fair and impartial trial, a leading global anti-corruption group said Thursday.
A city councilman and a former city official were charged Friday with participating in a scheme to blackmail another councilman into resigning.
For years, John Ford was one of Tennessee's most powerful state senators, as well as a member of one of the state's most politically active families. The former lawmaker could now face prison time if convicted in a bribery and extortion trial starting Monday.