bribery

A former high-ranking official for the city of Atlanta is facing charges in a bribery scandal. Adam Smith served the city as the chief procurement officer until the mayor fired him months ago. He will be going before District Judge Steve Jones at 3 pm on Tuesday, September 26, 2017, for a hearing. Judge Jones […]

ATLANTA (AP) — More than 40 prison guards and officers in Georgia have been indicted on charges of accepting bribes and drug trafficking, the latest in a federal effort to crack down on contraband and criminal activity in the state’s prisons. Since September, about 130 people — including prison employees, inmates, former inmates and others […]

DeSean Jackson is claiming his former agent bribed him to sign with his agency in 2009. In court documents, it was shown that Jackson’s former agent, Drew Rosenhaus, gave him more than $500,000 to join. And Jackson accepted the offer to join his agency. Jackson’s claim comes after an arbitrator’s ruling that he owed Rosenhaus […]

Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. might be getting out of prison a lot sooner than originally thought. CBS2 reports: Jackson has been transferred from the North Carolina prison camp where he’s spent the past five months to another federal facility in Alabama. Montgomery Federal Prison camp is located at Maxwell Air Force Base, about 90 miles […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — At least seven current and former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were arrested Monday by the FBI as part of an ongoing investigation of inmate abuse in the nation’s largest jail system. The arrests of lower to mid-ranking deputies by federal agents was confirmed to The Associated Press by a law […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin asked a federal judge Wednesday to throw out his indictment on bribery charges, saying the case has been tainted by prosecutorial misconduct. The alleged misconduct includes anonymous online posts about Nagin by a former federal prosecutor, said Nagin’s lawyer, Robert Jenkins. The former mayor pleaded […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Since the heyday of the city's machine politics, punching a straight Democratic ticket on Election Day has been as dependable a Chicago tradition as hot dogs without ketchup and the Cubs breaking their fans' hearts. But this November, the automatic vote is turning out to be a little too dependable for the […]