Corruption

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February 6, 2013
DETROIT (AP) - Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick declined to testify Wednesday as the presentation of evidence in his corruption…
December 5, 2012
DETROIT (AP) - A businessman testified Wednesday that then-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was a frequent flier aboard his private planes,…
November 20, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - FBI agents executed a raid on the Detroit Public Library’s main branch shortly after 8 a.m. Tuesday…
October 16, 2012
PHILADELPHIA - 'In America you're innocent until proven guilty. And I am innocent!"'Those were the words of Trenton Mayor Tony…
September 27, 2012
DETROIT (AP) - The corruption trial of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has resumed with a former state senator in…
September 25, 2012
DETROIT (AP) - A college buddy who was granted immunity by federal prosecutors testified Tuesday that he delivered $90,000 in…
September 24, 2012
DETROIT (AP) - Prosecutors are going right to the money in the first day of evidence at former Detroit Mayor…
September 21, 2012
DETROIT (AP) - A prosecutor says former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick lived a luxurious lifestyle funded by hundreds of thousands…
September 10, 2012
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Federal agents arrested the mayor of New Jersey's capital city early Monday as part of an…
July 18, 2012
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - FBI agents staged a middle-of-the-night raid Wednesday at the home of Trenton's mayor...
December 6, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois' ousted governor Rod Blagojevich soon will learn his punishment for corruption convictions that include trying to…
November 22, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - His troubles have been tied to the investigation of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich...
September 20, 2011
Huffington Post - The report says that the freshman Tea Party-affiliated Congressman's ethics issues "stem from his failure to pay…
September 19, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Derrick Miller, the chief administrative officer to disgraced former mayor, received $568,000 in connection with a $117…
September 12, 2011
DETROIT (AP) - Prosecutors say Derrick Miller admitted Monday that he accepted $115,000 from a real estate broker in connection…
May 25, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - The defense said Wednesday that Jackson would testify that he never offered or directed anyone to offer…
December 15, 2010
DETROIT (AP) - Kilpatrick resigned as mayor in 2008 after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice in state court. He's…
November 17, 2010
OPINION - Like Powell, history will also record that Rangel squandered much of that positive legacy by bending and twisting…
November 16, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The full ethics committee will next conduct a hearing on the appropriate punishment for the former chairman…
November 12, 2010
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - FBI agents said they recorded the husband telling his wife to flush a $100,000 check from…