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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.
Nestled in the hills of Potrero, California in a box canyon typical of the border region near San Diego is a former chicken ranch that is as innocuous as just about any other stretch of this largely scruffy rural area.
A Jamaican government pathologist who conducted Bob Woolmer's autopsy has maintained his view that the Pakistan cricket coach was murdered. Dr Ere Shesiah's findings prompted a global murder inquiry and speculation about corruption and match-fixing.
Federal Labor environment spokesman Peter Garrett has accused the Government of denying him sensitive environment information under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act.
I know something about Blackwater USA. This opinion is both intellectually driven as well as moderately emotional. You see, during my own yearlong tour in Iraq, the bad boys of Blackwater twice came closer to killing me than did any of the insurgents or Al Qaeda types.
What I think the atheists could improve on however, is their underlying message. It isn't religion that corrupts politics, as the atheists proclaim, but politics which corrupts religion. It seems that atheists have it half right.
The firm of which Mark Penn remains president, Burson-Marsteller, has raised eyebrows for straying a bit from core Democratic Party issues, with its involvement in an anti-union campaign and for representing a leading, troubled subprime lender. But ... Blackwater?!
The Mafia is now the biggest business in Italy, with organised crime netting Mob bosses more than £63bn a year, or 7 per cent of the country's gross domestic product, from drugs, extortion and prostitution.And you thought that crime didn't pay...
Executives at the two biggest phone companies contributed more than $42,000 in political donations to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV this year while seeking his support for legal immunity for businesses participating in National Security Agency eavesdropping.
LABOR has challenged Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull to reveal what he knows about a shadowy Christian sect in his Sydney electorate of Wentworth.
In UN speak, corruption poses a serious development challenge to Africa. In the political realm, it undermines democracy and good governance by flouting or even subverting formal processes.
In a statement, Halliburton Chairman and Chief Executive Dave Lesar said the company's capital expansion in the Eastern Hemisphere resulted in revenue growth of 29 percent versus the third quarter of last year.
On October 4th, the Oversight Committee held a hearing, "Assessing the State of Iraqi Corruption." Judge Radhi Hamza al-Radhi, who recently resigned as Iraq's chief anti-corruption officer under political pressure and feeling his work was stifled at all levels of Iraq's g …
Channel Nine presenter Ray Martin has accused Prime Minister John Howard's office and the National Press Club of trying to stifle the media after the plug was pulled on the channel's feed during last night's election's debate.
IT was one of those stories lost in the newspaper's inside pages. Last week a man you've never heard of — Charles D.
Perhaps it was only a matter of time before the FBI opened an investigation into shady State Department inspector general Howard "Cookie" Krongard.
Queensland's Attorney-General says he has no plans to change the time allowed for prosecutions under the Medical Practitioners Registration Act.
The Exclusive Brethren religious sect has denied allegations a senior member channelled $320,000 to a company which used the money to fund pro-Liberal and anti-Greens political advertising.
Two executives from Village Voice Media — a company that owns a number of alternative weeklies including The Village Voice, The LA Weekly and The Phoenix Times — were arrested Thursday night in Phoenix on charges that a story published earlier in the day in The Phoenix New Ti …
The New South Wales Government is prosecuting the Chili's restaurant chain for underpaying 27 workers, aged under 18, by almost $50,000.
Bob Brown, longstanding Greens Senator for Tasmania, describes the approval process for the pulp mill recently proposed by Gunns Ltd - one of the largest forestry corporations in the world.
BAGHDAD, Oct. 17 — Iraq has agreed to award $1.1 billion in contracts to Iranian and Chinese companies to build a pair of enormous power plants, the Iraqi electricity minister said Tuesday.
Responding to criticism of the Government's IR policy from the Bishop of Parramatta and Catholic social justice groups, Tony Abbott said last week that 'a political argument is not transformed into a moral argument simply because it's delivered with an enormous dollop of sa …
Locals in the village of Xiantang have occupied their village hall for the past 14 weeks to protest what they say is official graft.
Guatemala's election is taking place against the background of a corroded state, riven society, disconnected elite and paralysed people. Ivan Briscoe's riveting essay dissects the elements of an unfolding crisis.
Here we go again. The dash for the cash inevitably leads to this kind of crap. How many out there want to see this happen? Dick Morris hits the nail on the head with this article.
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