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Ex-Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards Freed After Eight Years Behind Bars
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyFormer Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards, now 83 and wearing a white ball cap and sweatshirt, walked out of Oakdale Federal Penitentiary Thursday after serving eight years on a corruption conviction. Edwards reported to a halfway house, but will eventually be permitted to serve the remainder of his 10-year sentence for a bribery and extortion scheme in home detention, the Associated Press and the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported. "I don't know yet," he said when asked how it felt to be free. But his daughter, Anna Edwards, said she was overjoyed to have her dad out of prison and still in good ...
FBI Charges Ex-Dean With Bribery and Forced Labor
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Oct. 1) -- Should shoveling snow be part of the curriculum for a degree in Asian studies? (Obviously, no.) But that reportedly didn't stop Cecilia Chang, the former St. John's University Institute of Asian Studies dean accused of embezzling more than $1 million in school funds, from demanding the service, among other menial tasks, from her scholarship students. Chang, who controlled 15 scholarships each worth at least $5,000, required her students to perform menial tasks to maintain their funding, according to the FBI. The FBI report listed chauffeuring her son to the airport at 3 a.m., ...
Corruption Trial Begins on Spain's Classy Costa del Sol
By Dana Kennedy - AOL News
(Sept. 30) -- Until this week, when 300 journalists arrived to cover Spain's biggest-ever municipal corruption trial, the coastal resort of Marbella was known mostly as a glamorous getaway for wealthy celebrities and a second home for thousands of British citizens. Now it's main claim to fame is what prosecutors say was a complex, multimillion-dollar property scam that began around 1991 and flourished during the now-dead Costa del Sol real estate boom. They allege that top city officials took bribes in exchange for granting often illegal building permits, netting the purported mastermind ...
Drones, Deaths and Bribes: Mining the WikiLeaks Data
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(July 26) -- Documents posted by WikiLeaks are a trove of raw data about Pakistan and Afghanistan, featuring such events as previously unreported civilian deaths and drones gone missing. A sampling: The CIA, identified as "Other Government Agency," shot and injured a deaf and mute Afghan man. The Taliban may have used Man Portable Air Defense System, or MANPADS, to target a U.S. Apache helicopter. The shoulder-fired missiles, which are capable of taking down helicopters or aircraft, were considered a major threat when the United States first went into Afghanistan, but the U.S. military ...
Report: Japan Offered Prostitutes to Sway Whaling Votes
By Dana Kennedy - AOL News(June 14) -- Japanese officials bribed six small nations with offers of cash and call girls in return for their votes in favor of slaughtering whales, according to a newspaper investigation. Japan denies the accusations, but The Sunday Times reported that two of its journalists filmed government officials from six countries admitting they were bribed by Japan to vote with the pro-whalers. News of the sting comes as Japan seeks to overturn a 24-year moratorium on commercial whaling at the meeting of the International Whaling Commission next week in Agadir, Morocco. "This is what Japan does, ...
Texas Ex-Judge Convicted in Sex-Bribe Case
By David Lohr - AOL News(Feb. 5) – A former Texas criminal court judge was found guilty of federal charges for soliciting cash and sexual favors in exchange for his help in felony cases. Between December 2008 and February 2009, El Paso Criminal District Court Judge Manuel Joseph Barraza, 53, received more than $5,000 in cash bribes from defendants, in exchange for his help in felony cases, prosecutors said. "These acts were all committed in exchange for his influence and exercise of discretion in his official capacity as an elected judge," said U.S. Attorney John E. Murphy. "In carrying out his bribery ...
Ex-Congressman William Jefferson Sentenced To 13 Years In Prison
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyWilliam Jefferson, the former congressman from Louisiana caught with $90,000 cash stuffed in his freezer, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for using his office to solicit bribes. Jefferson, 62, was sentenced Friday in Virginia, three months after a federal jury found him guilty on 11 of 16 counts, including bribery and racketeering. Prosecutors had asked the judge to sentence him to at least 27 years, the Associated Press reported. Jefferson was convicted of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars, and soliciting millions more, to broker business deals in Africa. Prosecutors claimed ...
Report: Blackwater Executives OK'd Bribes After Iraqi Shootings
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailySenior executives at the security firm Blackwater Worldwide approved secret payments of $1 million to buy the silence of Iraqi officials after its guards killed 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad two years ago, it was reported Wednesday. Blackwater's then-president Gary Jackson approved the payments in late 2007 as the outcry over the killings grew, according to the New York Times. But company officials who spoke to the newspaper said they did not know who the cash was intended for or whether it was ever delivered. In September 2007, 17 Iraqis were killed in Nisour Square when guards protecting a ...
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David Letterman Admits Affairs With Employees; Extortion Suspect Arrested
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyDavid Letterman admitted on "Late Night with David Letterman" on Thursday that he "had sex with women who work on this show." He also told his stunned audience that he had testified before a grand jury that afternoon about being blackmailed by a CBS employee who threatened to go public with the affairs unless Letterman gave him $2 million. Letterman did not say how many employees he'd had relationships with nor give a time frame of the affairs. In March, Letterman married Regina Lasko, his girlfriend of 23 years and the mother of his 5-year-old son. CBS producer Robert "Joe" Halderman was ...
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