1. Alabama> Scandal: Gov. Bentley resigns> Year: 2017Facing impeachment for misusing campaign contributions, Robert Bentley was forced to resign as governor in 2017. Bentley pleaded guilty to using campaign contributions for personal gain and to failing to report campaign contributions. Prosecutors say he did this...
Nizar Banat, a prominent critic of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank died in the custody of Palestinian security forces soon after being arrested at his house Thursday, according to Palestinian officials and the man's lawyer.His family said that officers who stormed his bedroom...
From UPI - Amid President Joe Biden's push to clamp down on corruption worldwide, his administration blacklisted two former Namibian government officials over allegations of accepting bribes in a sprawling fisheries scandal brought to light by Wikileaks.The State Department announced in a statement Tuesday that Bernhard...
From the Independent -Poachers masquerading as rangers, magistrates allegedly taking bribes from kingpins and lenient sentences handed out to ruthless criminals - this is the current state of South Africa’s rhino crisis, according to campaigners. Read More ...
From France24 - Iraq announced Saturday it has arrested two generals on suspicion of taking bribes to waive customs duties, a practice estimated to cost the state $6.3 billion a year in lost revenues.Both men worked at the Gulf port of Umm Qasr, a key entry...
From CNN -Russian tennis player Yana Sizikova was arrested in Paris on Thursday evening for sports corruption and fraud in an organized group, two French law enforcement sources have told CNN.She was arrested and taken into custody on Thursday for "sports corruption and fraud in...
From Legal Sports Report -As part of a still-developing story of match-fixing within esports, details of a new Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) unit came out. The exact scope of the new unit is not yet known.However, according to a Washington Post story, the Unit...
Today, a bipartisan group of members of the U.S. House of Representatives will launch the Congressional Caucus against Foreign Corruption and Kleptocracy at a virtual kickoff event. The new Caucus will focus on fighting global corruption and "kleptocracy," an authoritarian governance model in which foreign...
In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world’s richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes. He achieved the feat again in 2011. In 2018, Tesla founder Elon Musk, the second-richest person in the world, also paid no federal...
From the Telegraph - The UK government is set to almost entirely cut funding for polio eradication despite the world being tantalisingly close to ending the disease, which mainly affects children.The UK will cut its funding for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) by 95 per cent,...