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United States: New York Doctor Convicted of Taking Kickbacks From Opioid Maker Insys
A New York doctor was convicted on Thursday of accepting thousands of dollars in bribes and kickbacks from Insys Therapeutics Inc in exchange for prescribing his patients an addictive fentanyl spray the drug manufacturer produced. Gordon...
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United States: US Justice Department Reports Record Number of Foreign Bribery Cases
Federal prosecutors have brought foreign bribery charges against a record number of individuals in 2019, a top Justice Department official said Wednesday. So far this year, the department has brought international corruption charges against 34...
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United States: Ex-GM board member, union leader pleads guilty to accepting kickbacks
Former General Motors board member Joe Ashton, a retired United Auto Workers leader, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to criminal charges as part of an ongoing federal corruption probe into the union. The guilty plea was part of a deal with U.S....
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United States: U.S. blacklists Guatemalan ex-infrastructure minister for alleged corruption
The United States on Tuesday blacklisted the former Guatemalan infrastructure minister for his alleged involvement in “significant corruption,” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement. Alejandro Sinibaldi, former minister of...
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United States: California congressman Hunter pleads guilty in corruption case
U.S. Representative Duncan Hunter, a leading California Republican, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a single federal charge of conspiring to misuse campaign funds in a corruption case that left his immediate political future unclear. The felony...
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United States: UAW announces financial reforms as U.S. corruption probe widens
The United Auto Workers (UAW) union said on Monday it would implement stringent changes to its financial procedures and processes in response to a widening corruption probe from U.S. prosecutors. “This top-to-bottom assessment of our financial...
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Venezuela: Venezuela Opposition Pledges to Probe Lawmakers After Report
Venezuela’s opposition political parties promised to investigate their own lawmakers after they were accused of lobbying in favor of a Colombian businessman linked to an ally of President Nicolas Maduro who has been indicted by U.S. authorities...
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Brazil: Former Brazil football chief banned for life for taking bribes
Former Brazilian Football Confederation president Ricardo Teixeira has been banned from the game for life by Fifa. Teixeira, who resigned in 2012, was found guilty of bribery in violation of the Fifa code of ethics. Fifa said its former...
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