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Cre Wallace
It was public corruption on a history-making scale. The scope of the racketeering conspiracy to buy political power in exchange for $1.3 billion in utility subsidies was stunning. A stealthy maze of nonprofits laundering untraceable dollars to elect Householder loyalists, to buy votes for the bailout bill and to poison subsequent efforts to repeal it.
Former Korean e-Sports Association (KeSPA) chairman Jun Byung-hun was found guilty of charges of corruption and abuse of power on Thursday and sentenced to six years in prison, according to multiple media reports in South Korea.
KeSPA was founded in 2000 as a government-affiliated body that sought to oversee, commercialize and legitimize esports events in South Korea. In its 19 years of existence, KeSPA has welcomed notable member organizations including KT, Samsung, CJ Entus and SK Telecom, all major corporations within the country. Jun came to power within the body in 2014, and in late 2017, South Korean prosecutors raided KeSPA's offices in Seoul and charged Jun in relation to alleged corruption.
Mark Ridley-Thomas, whose long political career involved representing South Los Angeles on the City Council, the County Board of Supervisors and in the State Legislature, was sentenced Monday to 42 months in federal prison and ordered to pay a $30,000 fine for his conviction on corruption charges.
U.S. Attorney Martín Estrada praised the prison sentence, even though it was below the six years in prison his prosecutors had recommended. "It shows that regardless of what type of power one has, there will be consequences when you engage in corruption," Estrada said.
In his testimony, he acknowledged slowing the handling of Russian doping cases between 2011 and 2013 to save a sponsorship deal with a Russian bank and avoid public scandal. But he denied the corruption allegations.
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele on Thursday pledged to build a prison to hold white-collar criminals as part of a crackdown on corruption that he likened to his fight against criminal gangs.
"Just as we fought the gangs head on with the full force of the state, we will launch a full-on war against corruption," he said during a national address to mark his fifth year of being in office. "Just as we built a prison for the terrorists, we will build one for the corrupt."
Then Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi waits to address judges of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, Dec. 11, 2019. On Dec. 30, 2022, the court in army-ruled Myanmar convicted Aung San Suu Kyi on more corruption charges, adding 7 years to her prison term. Peter Dejong/AP hide caption
The case that ended Friday involved five offenses under the anti-corruption law and followed earlier convictions on seven other corruption counts, each of which was punishable by up to 15 years in prison and a fine.
In the five counts of corruption decided Friday, Suu Kyi was alleged to have abused her position and caused a loss of state funds by neglecting to follow financial regulations in granting permission to Win Myat Aye, a Cabinet member in her former government, to hire, buy and maintain a helicopter.
State-controlled media reported last year that Win Myat Aye, the figure at the center of the corruption case that ended Friday, used the rented helicopter for only 84.95 hours between 2019 and 2021, but paid for a total of 720 flight hours, which resulted in a loss of more than $3.5 million in funds.
In an investigation led by the Atlanta Journal Constitution, mass corruption of Georgia prisons was revealed at a shocking scale. Since 2018, at least 360 prison guards have been arrested on contraband charges and 65 more have been arrested for either sexual assault, brutality or extortion.
Strategic reform such as organizational change management, strategic planning, identification and training of a reform champions within the law enforcement authority, provision of expert advisory services, establishment of communication strategies, organization of study visits
Training and mentoring in the areas of police duties, investigations, including investigative interviewing, intelligence-led policing, community-oriented policing, reactive capability, stress management as well as integrity, ethics and anti-corruption
Papa Massata Diack, the son of former global athletics supremo Lamine Diack, had his five-year prison sentence for corruption involving Russian doping cases confirmed by a Paris appeals court on Thursday.
According to a report from the Christian Post, Chuck Colson, once a symbol of Nixon Administration corruption, then a life-long champion of prison-reform has died of an intracerebral hemorrhage after surgery to remove a brain clot from his brain. He was 80 years old.
In a post on Instagram on April 29 Ahmad Moin-Shirazi who now lives in self-exile with his wife Shabnam Shahrokhi and two children said the court has issued a verdict against him and his wife in absentia on charges of "propaganda against the regime", "obscene and vulgar" social media posts, acting against public morals and propagating moral corruption.
Six inmates were killed on Friday during a disturbance inside a Guayaquil prison, becoming the latest incident of unrest to strike Ecuador's penal system. In a statement, the SNAI national prison authority said that the disturbance occurred in one of the cellblocks of the Guayas 1 prison. Guayas 1 is one of five facilities that make up a large prison complex in Guayaquil. The Ecuadorian prisons agency revealed that six people who died in a prison on Friday were suspected of being involved in the murder of anti-corruption presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.
According to Paraguayan television, fellow prisoners were left in stitches when Ronaldinho dribbled fallen deputy Miguel Cuevas, behind bars on corruption charges, and put him on the ground in helplessness.
Raphael could have faced up to 20 years in prison for his guilty plea in February to federal corruption charges for essentially taking bribes to help a national food services company win a public food-service contract from the Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority, on whose board he served at the time.
When Centerplate used the information supplied to it by Raphael and won the contract, it almost immediately helped arrange for Raphael to lead a contingent of city officials and their family members on a Centerplate-subsidized junket to Indianapolis to watch the Ohio State Buckeyes football team beat Wisconsin 59-0 in the Big Ten championship game. The guests watched from the firm's private loge at Lucas Oil Stadium, enjoying food and alcohol supplied by the firm.
After experiencing corruption first-hand, Ngannou began his journey to Algeria, and it took a potentially life-threatening turn when he was crammed into the back of a truck with 25 people to cross the Sahara Desert.
Ecclestone, who owned the championship-winning Brabham team from 1972 to 1987 as he rose to overall power in F1, led the series for more than four decades before its 2017 takeover by current owner Liberty Media. He then took on the 'chairman emeritus' and an advisory role.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in has pardoned former President Park Geun-hye, who was serving a 22-year prison sentence for a vast corruption scandal linked to the county's hosting of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games.
SEOUL, May 31 (Xinhua) -- South Korean prosecutors on Wednesday demanded seven years in prison against Choi Soon-sil, a decades-long confidante of the ousted president Park Geun-hye, over corruption allegations.
Taipei, Aug. 16 (CNA) Chen Kai-ling (陳凱凌), head of Tainan City Government's Economic Development Bureau from 2020 to 2022, was sentenced to eight years in jail and deprived of his civil rights for five years on Wednesday by a local court on corruption related charges.
The Taiwan Tainan District Prosecutors Office established an investigation team after it received a tip-off in March last year that Chen was involved in multiple instances of corruption, the prosecutors said previously.
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