Edward Robert Vrdolyak,also known as "Fast Eddie",is a former American politician and lawyer. He was a longtime Chicago alderman and the head of the Cook County Democratic Party until 1987 when he ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Chicago on the Illinois Solidarity Party ticket. He subsequently ran again in 1989 on the Republican Party ticket. He was a prominent opponent of Harold Washington and the de facto leader of the so-called "Vrdolyak 29" that opposed and blocked many of Washington's measures.
JoséLuis Huizar is a Mexican-American former politician and convicted felon who served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 2005 to 2020.
The Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments,commonly known as the Mahon Tribunal after the name of its last chairman,was a public inquiry in Ireland established by Dáil Éireann in 1997 to investigate allegations of corrupt payments to politicians regarding political decisions. It mostly investigated planning permissions and land rezoning issues in the 1990s in the Dublin County Council area. Judge Alan Mahon was the final chair of the tribunal and its other members were Judge Mary Faherty and Judge Gerald Keys. The original chairman,who was the sole member until just before his retirement,was Judge Feargus Flood,giving rise to the original common name of the Flood Tribunal.
James Galante is an American convicted felon and associate of the Genovese crime family,owner of the defunct Danbury Trashers minor-league hockey team and a defunct racecar team fielding cars for Ted Christopher,and ex-CEO of Automated Waste Disposal (AWD),a company that holds waste disposal contracts for most of western Connecticut and Westchester and Putnam counties in New York.
John Tran is an American former politician who served on the Rosemead,California city council.
Peter J. Cammarano III is an American disbarred attorney,former Democratic politician and a convicted felon. He was the 37th mayor of Hoboken,New Jersey,serving from July 1 until July 31,2009. Cammarano was arrested by the FBI on corruption charges on July 23,2009,as part of an international criminal investigation known as Operation Bid Rig;he resigned from office eight days later. He pleaded guilty to extortion in April 2010 and was later sentenced to 24 months in federal prison.
Operation Bid Rig was a long-term investigation into political corruption in New Jersey conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation,the Internal Revenue Service,and the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2014.
Under the federal law of the United States of America,tax evasion or tax fraud is the purposeful illegal attempt of a taxpayer to evade assessment or payment of a tax imposed by Federal law. Conviction of tax evasion may result in fines and imprisonment. Compared to other countries,Americans are more likely to pay their taxes on time and law-abidingly.
Igor Olenicoff is an American billionaire and real estate developer. In 2007,he was convicted of tax evasion stemming from his use of off-shore companies and Swiss banks to hide his financial assets.
James J. Dworak was mayor of Omaha,Nebraska,from 1961 to 1965.
Corruption in Illinois has been a problem from the earliest history of the state. Electoral fraud in Illinois pre-dates the territory's admission to the Union in 1818. Illinois had the third most federal criminal convictions for public corruption between 1976 and 2012,behind New York and California. A study published by the University of Illinois Chicago in 2022 ranked Illinois as the second most corrupt state in the nation,with 4 out of the last 11 governors serving time in prison.
Operation Mississippi Hustle was a federal investigation initiated in 2014 by the United States Attorney and prosecuted in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. It examined the relationship between officials of the Mississippi Department of Corrections and various for-profit prison contractors and subcontractors,who have provided services to the five private prisons in the state. One,Walnut Grove,closed in September 2016 but has since reopened.
Mohammed Nuru is an American former civil servant and convicted criminal. He was formerly the Director of the San Francisco Department of Public Works where he was involved in a corruption scandal.
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