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Jury convicts former South Texas DA of corruption
A former Texas prosecutor and one-time candidate for Congress was convicted Friday of accepting bribes in exchange for court favors, including an $80,000 payment in a scheme that allowed a convicted murder to escape.
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Direct Access Shuts Down After Bribery Probe
New York-based broker-dealer Direct Access Partners has closed its doors, said a person familiar with the matter, after allegations surfaced earlier this month of a multimillion dollar Venezuelan bribery scheme involving two of its
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Canadian goes on trial in Havana for corruption scandal
When Sarkis Yacoubian walks into a court room in downtown Havana Thursday to face corruption charges that could send him to prison for 12 years the Canadian businessman will have a high-powered diplomat keeping
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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