The US Supreme Court declined Monday to hear an appeal by the founder and former chairman and CEO of Federal Savings Bank, Stephen Calk, challenging his 2021 convictions on bribery and conspiracy ...

U.S. District Judge John Blakey handed down his ruling less than a week before the former Illinois House Speaker is set for ...

When the Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed majority curbed the use of federal bribery law against state and local officials this past term, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent called ...

A dismissal motion argues that the federal government has twisted ordinary constituent services into a nonexistent bribery ...

The optics are terrible, but the Supreme Court and Congress have made it harder than ever to prosecute public corruption.

Attorneys for New York City Mayor Eric Adams are urging a federal judge to dismiss the bribery charge brought against him ...

The Supreme Court ruled in June that federal bribery law does not outlaw so-called "gratuities," or gifts given to elected officials after the fact as rewards for favorable action, and Madigan's ...

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Lawyers for Mayor Eric Adams of New York filed a 25-page memo arguing that the conduct described in the indictment against ...

Madigan won a six-month reprieve on his trial, which was supposed to begin this past April, as the Supreme Court considered Snyder. After the high court ruled on the case in June, he said several of ...

Madigan for fear that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on a key bribery law could undermine the prosecution — even if on a technicality. The high court has since handed down its decision. And ...

Earlier this year, Australia enacted the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Combatting Foreign Bribery) Act 2024 (the Act) in an attempt to strengthen ...