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Ex-Detroit library official charged with taking $1.4 million in bribes
An ex-Detroit Public Library official has been charged with accepting $1.4 million-plus in bribes and kickbacks from library contractors. Timothy Cromer, who’d served as DPL’s chief administrative and technology officer from 2006 until earlier
Read More »Feds: NYU Researchers Took Bribes From Chinese Co.
Three New York University researchers from China divulged results from a federally funded study to Chinese competitors in exchange for tuition, rent and other expenses, federal prosecutors said Monday. Yudong Zhu, a U.S.-educated NYU
Read More »High Salary Not Magic Bullet for Tax Bribery
A senior Finance Ministry official has conceded that higher salaries instated as part of efforts to reform the graft-riddled tax department have not been as effective as was hoped, following the recent arrests of
Read More »SocGen Unit CEO Charged With Bribery as Prokhorov Urges Freedom
The head of Societe Generale SA (GLE)’s Russian unit was charged with commercial bribery, a day after allegedly being caught in a sting operation with cash on his desk from a client seeking to
Read More »Motor racing’s Ecclestone denies bribery in German case: lawyers
Lawyers for Formula One Chief Executive Bernie Ecclestone reiterated on Wednesday that he had not bribed a German banker during the 2005-2006 sale of a stake in the motor racing business, after a newspaper
Read More »Britain: Charges in Bribery Case
British prosecutors say that an editor with The Sun, a tabloid newspaper, has been charged in connection with a conspiracy to pay thousands of dollars’ worth of bribes to a press officer working in
Read More »Hammond councilman pleads guilty to bribery
A Hammond city councilman pleaded guilty to a federal bribery charge Monday for taking $10,500 in return for steering city tree-trimming contracts to one service. Councilman Al Salinas, 52, also pleaded guilty to one
Read More »NZ companies in overseas bribery spotlight
The Serious Fraud Office is pushing to update New Zealand's 103-year-old law criminalising bribery and is probing a rare complaint of bribes paid to overseas officials by a New Zealand company. The call came
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