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Prominent Cuban-American Acquitted of Healthcare Fraud in the 1990s, Indicted...
Ernesto Angel Montaner, aged 70, a member of a prominent Miami Cuban family, is facing healthcare fraud charges for the second time, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Montaner was the sole...
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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Conrad Black’s Appeal of His Two Remaining...
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday denied the petition for certiorari by former international media mogul, Canadian citizen and British Lord, Conrad Moffat Black, as reported in the Washington Post. Mr....
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Mistrial in First Trial Following Massive Foreign Corrupt Practices Bribery...
As reported by Reuters, last week, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia declared a mistrial in the trial of four arms salesmen for alleged bribes under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act...
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Harris County, Texas, Commissioner Faces Second Trial on Bribery and Other...
Jerry Eversole, a Harris County (Houston), Texas, Commissioner, was charged in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas with conspiracy, accepting bribes and filing false income tax...
View ArticleAlabama Legislators and Casino Employees to Be Re-Tried
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama has postponed the retrial of eight defendants on corruption charges relating to the gambling industry and various State legislators and...
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Georgia Resident and DOD Employee Charged with Bribery
As reported by Reuters, Desi Deandre Wade, of Climax, Georgia, was a chief of fire and emergency services for U.S. Department of Defense, based in Kabul, Afghanistan. Wade has been charged with...
View ArticleGeorge Will – Is the Siegelman Case Bribery or Politics as Usual
George Will had a surprising article in the Washington Post over the weekend on the Don Siegelman cert petition that was filed at the beginning of the month. Siegelman, the former governor of Alabama...
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Defendants Acquitted in Second Alabama Gambling/Bribery Case
A jury in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama acquitted Alabama State Senators Larry Means, Jim Pruett and Harri Anne Smith; Milton McGregor, the owner of VictoryLand casino,...
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Public Officials Have Charges Thrown Out in the Wake of Operation “Bid Rig,”...
Back in July of 2009, we considered one of the largest political corruption sting operations in the nation’s history, FBI Operation "Bid Rig," which resulted in the arrest and charging of 44...
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Former Gwinnett Commissioner Shirley Lasseter to Be Sentenced Sept. 5
As noted in the Duluth Patch, former Gwinnett County Commissioner Shirley Lasseter pled guilty in May to bribery charges in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The charges...
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Grovetown, GA, City Council Member Convicted in Alabama
Leland J. “Sonny” McDowell, a member of the Grovetown, Georgia, City Council, as well as an employee of Southern Detention Technologies, a fingerprint machine company, entered a plea of guilty on...
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French, Swiss Defendants Acquitted in Paris on Charges Relating to the U.N....
Readers may remember the United Nations’ Oil-for-Food Programme, which operated between 1996 and 2003 and permitted Saddam Hussein’s Iraq to sell oil on the world market in exchange for food, medicine,...
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Conyers, GA, Woman Involved in MS Schools Bribery Prosecution; Prosecution...
Harvey Franklin, former Superintendent of Schools for Greenville, Mississippi, pled guilty last year in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi to accepting more than $272,000...
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Louisiana Official Acquitted in $800 Federal (Yes, Federal) Bribery Case
From Louisiana’s The Advocate comes news that Michael Procell, an employee of the Louisiana State Department of Transportation and Development, was acquitted on charges of bribery by a jury in the U.S....
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