Tag: Bribery
Prosecutors throw the book at money launderer for Venezuela
MIAMI — Federal prosecutors in Miami are seeking a stiff prison sentence against a U.S.-based money manager they claim is hindering their efforts to...
Alabama’s Quinerly thriving after rocky start to career
Jahvon Quinerly used to lay awake at night wondering how he could have done things differently, back before they started going so well.
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US prosecutors say Honduras president took bribes in 2019
NEW YORK — Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández accepted bribes from a drug trafficker as recently as 2019 — not just while running for...
Jury convicts former NW Indiana mayor of bribery in retrial
HAMMOND, Ind. — A federal jury convicted a former northwestern Indiana mayor on a bribery charge Friday in his retrial on allegations he solicited...
Ex-UCLA coach gets 8 months in prison for admissions scam
BOSTON — A former University of Southern California, Los Angeles men's soccer coach was sentenced to eight months behind bars Friday for pocketing $200,000...
Russian national pleads guilty in $150 million kickback plot
NEW BERN, N.C. — A Russian national living in North Carolina has pleaded guilty to bribery and other charges after prosecutors say he received...
Shell, Eni acquitted in Nigeria oil corruption case
MILAN — A court in Milan on Wednesday acquitted oil giants Shell and Italy’s Eni of corruption charges in a $1.1 billion bribery case...
Accountant testifies he saw Honduras president take bribes
NEW YORK — A Honduran accountant testified Tuesday that he fled Honduras because he felt his life was in danger after witnessing two meetings...
Former point guard jailed in bribery scheme has book deal
NEW YORK — A former point guard sentenced to prison in 2019 for his role in a college basketball bribery scheme has a book...
Neil Clark, lobbyist named in $60M Ohio bribery probe, dies
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A longtime Ohio lobbyist who had pleaded not guilty in a sweeping federal bribery investigation died Tuesday, a former U.S. attorney...