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United States: At Retrial, Prosecutors Say Skelos Used Clout to Help Son
For the second time in three years, a federal prosecutor told jurors on Wednesday that former State Senator Dean G. Skelos had used his position as majority leader to extort executives at three companies to give work to his son. “This case is...
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Brazil: Top Brazil court acquits head of Workers' Party of graft
Justices on Brazil's highest court acquitted the Workers' Party president of corruption and money-laundering charges in a case stemming from the country's mammoth graft investigation. Supreme Court justices ruled late Tuesday that prosecutors...
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United States: Prosecutor: Conviction a warning against public corruption
The U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky says a lobbyist’s conviction on bribery charges this week reinforces that public corruption will not be tolerated. A federal jury convicted James Sullivan on Monday of bribing the state’s...
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Brazil: Brazil Supreme Court to consider Lula appeal
Brazil's Supreme Court is scheduled to rule Tuesday on the latest effort by former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to be freed, pending new appeals to his 12-year corruption sentence. Lula, 72, has been behind bars since April after being...
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United States: Corruption retrial begins for ex-New York Senate leader, son
Ex-New York Senate leader Dean Skelos and his son returned to a Manhattan courtroom Tuesday for the start of their retrial on corruption charges. U.S. District Judge Kimba M. Wood told prospective jurors that Skelos and his son, Adam, were facing...
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Canada: Jury begins deliberations in Tony Accurso's fraud and corruption trial in Laval
The jury has begun deliberating in the fraud trial of former construction mogul Tony Accurso. The Crown alleges that between 1996 and 2010, Accurso, 66, was part of a system of collusion that eliminated all competition for municipal contracts in...
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United States: Puerto Rican mayor is reportedly being investigated by the FBI for corruption
The mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, is reportedly being investigated by the FBI for alleged corruption. A lawsuit filed by a former official accuses Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz and her administration for punishing the Former Director of Procurement,...
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United States: Corruption trial begins in Buffalo Billion case
A former president of the State University of New York's Polytechnic Institute was alternately portrayed as a hero or a scoundrel at the opening of a corruption trial Monday over upstate construction projects worth hundreds of millions of...
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