A prominent supporter of Alabama state House Speaker Mike Hubbard, a Republican indicted on 23 felony counts of corruption, condemned the charges against him on Tuesday as "Chicago-style gutter politics."
Australian police have agreed to assist China in the extradition and seizure of assets of corrupt Chinese officials who have fled with hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit funds, the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported on Monday.
Michael Garcia, the lead investigator into alleged corruption surrounding the 2018 and 2022 World Cups bidding process, has criticized soccer's global governing body FIFA for not conducting its ethics investigations in an open manner.
Brazil's major parties lost ground to a dozen smaller groups in Congress in Sunday's election, making it harder for the next president to form a stable coalition needed to undertake economic reforms and control government spending.
A Miami jury found a south Florida mayor guilty of corruption charges on Monday stemming from an undisclosed consulting job he took for a healthcare company while in office, as well as illegally using his position to lobby for a construction deal.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye's voice trembled as she tried to comfort parents gathered near a makeshift morgue to identify the bodies of their children, among the hundreds drowned in a ferry disaster.
A former top official in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila, whose case became a symbol of Mexican government corruption, has pleaded guilty in Texas to federal money laundering charges, according to court documents.
Former Connecticut Governor John Rowland carried out a scheme to use a phony nursing home contract to hide his work as a paid adviser for a 2012 congressional candidate in violation of federal campaign law, prosecutors said on Thursday.
The first defense witness in the trial of former Connecticut Governor John Rowland testified on Monday that Rowland performed legitimate consulting services for a nursing home company, countering prosecutors who say he worked under a phony contract in violation of federal campaign laws.
South Carolina House Speaker Bobby Harrell used hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds for personal expenses and falsified his private plane's logbook to seek payment for travel that did not occur, a nine-count indictment on Wednesday said.
Disgraced former Queens state senator Shirley Huntley was sentenced to one year in prison, and three year probation. She pleaded guilty to mail fraud conspiracy last winter, after admitting to embezzling nearly $88,000 from a state-funded non profit she controlled.
NYPD Detective Michael Bazerman was arrested on Wednesday and charged with grand larceny and forgery, falsifying $5,800 in invoices. It was reported that Bazerman falsified petty cash reimbursement invoices to the Manhattan District Attorney's office between 2009 and 2011. Bazerman was assigned to the DA's Office's squad at the time.
Six New York politicians were arrested for their alleged role in a bribery scandal in which Democrat State Senator Malcolm Smith, paid top Republicans for permission to run on their ticket in the city's upcoming mayoral race, prosecutors said.
The U.S. government's wide-ranging insider trading probe of SAC Capital Advisors put increased pressure on founder Steve Cohen Friday, arresting principal manager Michael Steinberg. A high-ranking portfolio manager who handled technology, media and telecommunications stocks at the firm, Steinberg was indicted by a federal grand jury on four counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, the authorities said. He is 41 years old.
Florida's Lieutenant Governor Jennifer Carroll resigned and nearly 60 other people were charged in a scandal involving a purported veterans charity that authorities said Wednesday was in fact a $300 million front for illegal gambling. The organization Allied Veterans of the World runs more than 40 Internet parlors offering computer games, which are normally legal in Florida if most of the proceeds go to charities.
Dozens of protesters rallied outside Los Angeles police headquarters on Saturday, rallying days after the police tracked down Christopher Dorner, the rogue ex-cop, concluding one of the biggest U.S. manhunts in recent memory. Protesters cited a culture of corruption and racism within the police force.
Embattled former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., of Illinois, who resigned last November in the midst of a criminal investigation, has agreed to a plea deal with federal prosecutors, according to Chicago media reports and reported on politico.com.
