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Four officials accused of receiving bribes for immigration fraud
Authorities on Wednesday announced charges against a ring of federal officials who allegedly received bribes of cash and expensive gifts in exchange for fraudulent immigration benefits. The scheme was allegedly orchestrated by Koreatown attorney Kwang...Tags: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Political Corruption, Trials, Migration, Corporate Crime
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Former Coast Guard officer sentenced on bribe charges
Daily PressA former Coast Guard Petty Officer received a seven-year sentence Wednesday for fraud and receiving bribes, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. Nathan Allen Dunn, 30, of Brookwood, Ala., faces three...Tags: Corporate Crime, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Punishment
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Chicago and red light vendor: Breaking up is hard to do
Chicago's divorce with Redflex Traffic Systems is getting messy. In his hurry to sever ties with the red-light camera operator amid a burgeoning bribery scandal, Mayor Rahm Emanuel in February set a six-month deadline for Redflex to leave town after a...
Tags: Local Elections, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago City Hall, Corporate Crime, Services and Shopping
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Former state DOT contractor gets prison for taking bribe
A Broward man who formerly worked as a consultant for the Florida Department of Transportation was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison Tuesday for taking a bribe, court records show. Ron Capobianco Jr., 40, of Pompano Beach, pleaded guilty to...
Tags: Pompano Beach, Corporate Crime, Science and Technology, Prisons, Florida Department of Transportation
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News of the Weird: Well-Earned Retirement
In March, twin sisters Louise and Martine Fokkens, 70, announced their joint retirement after more than 50 years each on the job — as Amsterdam prostitutes. (In February, the minimum age for prostitutes in the Netherlands was raised to 21, but there...
Tags: Sex Crimes, Prostitution, Motorvehicle Accidents, The New York Times, Iceland
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Harris: SEC investigating allegations of bribery by onetime Chinese unit
Investigators with the Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Department of Justice are looking into possible bribery activity by a Chinese health-care technology operation formerly owned by Harris Corp., the Melbourne-based company said in a...
Tags: IBM, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Global Expansion, Punishment, Fines
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World watches weapons in Israel, Syria; Americans prefer to watch them on the big screen
Israel and Syria continue to fight, Robert Downey Jr. continues to pretend to fight, and in sunny, pastoral northern Pennsylvania, a former judge is still getting international attention a week after his sentencing over what amounts to a human-...Tags: Cinco de Mayo, Social Media, Twitter, Inc., Robert Downey Jr., USA Today
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White Memorial Medical Center in L.A. settles kickback allegations
White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles has agreed to pay $14.1 million to settle allegations that it paid illegal kickbacks to physicians to get their patient referrals. The settlement announced Friday by the U.S. Justice Department stemmed from a...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Healthcare Provider, Trials, Hospitals and Clinics, General Practitioners
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Lauderdale Lakes commissioner accused of taking kickback
A complaint filed with the Florida Commission on Ethics accuses Commissioner Patricia Hawkins-Williams of using city money to buy T-shirts for a youth sports program — and then taking a kickback from the sale of those shirts. The vice mayor's...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Values, Corporate Crime, Lauderdale Lakes, Crime, Law and Justice
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Federal lawsuit alleges kickbacks at Northrop real estate firm
A Howard County couple is suing one of the largest residential real estate brokerages in the state and a Columbia title company for more than $11 million, alleging that the firms had financial ties that violated federal law. The case is a proposed class...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Litigation, Trials, Services and Shopping, Defendants
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Margate commission chooses Donahue as stand-in for suspended McLean
In 15 minutes Wednesday evening, Margate city commissioners chose a substitute for a commissioner suspended while he awaits trial on federal bribery charges. Brian Donahue, 57, a music teacher at a private school and husband of a city police officer, was...Tags: Corporate Crime, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Justice System, Prosecution
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Letter: There Was No Tampering and Bribery in Taylor/Gould Case
No Confidence in the System I am responding to your April 25 article, "Witness Flip-Flop," about the investigator in the Gould-Taylor murder case. Since Gould and Taylor, whom I know to be innocent of murder, could get convicted in Connecticut on flimsy...
Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Corporate Crime, Witnesses, Prosecution
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