Bribery

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A former Cudahy mayor was sentenced to a year in federal prison Monday for his part in taking $17,000 in bribes from a man who wanted to open a medical marijuana dispensary in the southeast Los Angeles County city. David......

A former Cudahy mayor is scheduled to be sentenced Monday on federal corruption charges for taking bribes from a man who wanted to open a medical marijuan dispensary....

On the edge of the Mojave, music promoter Pasquale Rotella staged a rave about 11 years ago that ended with a coroner's wagon rolling down desert roads. Five people died of overdoses and drug-related car crashes during or shortly after the Nocturnal...

NEW DELHI – India’s defense minister threatened Wednesday to cancel a $750-million helicopter deal with an Italian defense company if an official investigation proves contracts were secured through kickbacks, in the latest corruption scandal...

A supervisor at the DMV office in El Cajon was charged Monday with bribery for his alleged role in a scheme to sell driver's licenses to people who had flunked the required tests or had not taken them. Jesse Mario......

A Lincolnwood man who is facing charges of illegally diverting gas and power to his pet food company was hit with more charges of trying to bribe a witness in the case, Cook County prosecutors said Saturday. Joel Sher, 56, allegedly offered $5,000 to a...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced today he will axe the city’s embattled red-light camera vendor when its contract expires in July, citing new investigative findings that the company gave thousands of dollars in free trips to the former city official who...

An Orange County Sheriff's Department deputy was arrested Thursday on suspicion of taking bribes in exchange for allowing an inmate -- who was later convicted of murder -- to secretly have sex while in custody and to smuggle contraband into......

A real estate developer whose bribes sent a West Side alderman to prison heads a company that controls the vacant Bridgeport warehouse devastated by an extra-alarm fire this week, records show. Calvin Boender went to prison in 2010 for bribing former...

Former state Sen. Thomas L. Bromwell Sr., who was sentenced to seven years in prison on a federal bribery conviction, has been released into a community reintegration program, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons said Thursday. Leah Ominsky, a prisons official,...

Federal prosecutors filed a bribery charge against a former inspector at the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety, making him the third employee of the agency to face criminal prosecution in two years....