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Warnings about Redflex go back years
Top officials in Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration were warned six years ago about preferential treatment in Chicago's red-light camera contract, a deal now embroiled in a federal corruption investigation of an alleged $2 million bribery scheme at...
Tags: Chicago City Hall, Local Government, Parties and Movements, Politics, Rahm Emanuel
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Assessor's employee, store owner charged in separate schemes
A worker for the Cook County assessor's office is charged with accepting $9,000 in kickbacks for helping property owners get homeowner exemption refunds, according to Cook County prosecutors. In addition, a Chicago store owner was charged with...
Tags: Lawyers, Prosecution, Theft, Justice System, Corporate Crime
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Former owners of Windber-based Kuchera to plead guilty
Associated PressPITTSBURGH (AP) — Two brothers who owned a Windber-based defense contracting business that benefited from earmarks obtained by the late U.S. Rep. John Murtha will plead guilty to charging the military $650,000 for parts that were never delivered and...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Lawyers, Prosecution, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Judges
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Alzheimer's diagnosis ends case against Hallandale condo kickback defendant
One of the three remaining defendants accused of bilking Hallandale Beach condo owners out of $3 million in a kickback scheme has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and is incompetent to stand trial, lawyers told a Broward judge Thursday. The...
Tags: Lawyers, Hallandale Beach, Prosecution, Judges, Defendants
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Concern for jobs
Over the past 50 years I have set and watched both the Democrats and the unions dwindle jobs from Americans. In the 1970s in Southern California Laborers, Finishers and Carpenters Unions promoted illegal aliens to join the union. As illegal aliens...Tags: Mining, Career and Workplace, Politics, Corporate Crime, U.S. Congress
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Ralph Lauren Corp. to pay $1.6 million to resolve bribery claims
Ralph Lauren Corp., the American maker of luxurious preppy fashions, will pay $1.6 million to settle bribery claims related to its dealings in Argentina. In a 2010 internal review, the clothing company uncovered evidence of a subsidiary bribing...
Tags: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Microsoft Corporation, Corruption, Corporate Crime
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A 20-Year-Old Murder Creates Controversy in Connecticut's Criminal Justice System
Nearly two decades have passed since Eugenio Deleone Vega was murdered in his New Haven bodega, yet restless questions about that seemingly commonplace crime continue to haunt Connecticut's criminal justice system. Was there police misconduct? If the...
Tags: Lawyers, Prosecution, Police Investigations, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Judges
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Second Glendale brother sentenced in multi-million dollar fraud scheme
The second of two Glendale brothers who masterminded construction contract kickback schemes that bilked Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena and a Bay Area business out of millions of dollars has been sentenced to federal prison. Tony Hamedany, 58,...Tags: Punishment, Trials, Prisons, Corporate Crime
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Assets unfrozen for consultant accused of bribing assessor
A Los Angeles County judge lifted freeze orders on roughly $3 million in assets belonging to Ramin Salari, the property tax consultant arrested in October on charges that he bribed county Assessor John Noguez to lower tax bills for wealthy clients. On...Tags: Lawyers, Prosecution, Judges, Justice System, Corporate Crime
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Governor suspends Margate commissioner
Gov. Rick Scott on Friday suspended Margate City Commissioner David McLean, who is facing federal bribery charges. In an executive order, Scott wrote that it "is in the best interests of the residents of the city of Margate, and the citizens of the...
Tags: Tamarac, The CW (tv network), Prosecution, Local Government, Public Officials
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Bookie sentenced in Operation Hook Shot basketball bribery case
A former bookie was sentenced Thursday to two years in federal prison for his role in a scheme to bribe basketball players at the University of San Diego. Richard Francis Garmo, 43, of El Cajon, was the eighth and last defendant to be sentenced in San...
Tags: Sports, Prosecution, Trials, Justice System, Basketball
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Kuchera brothers plead guilty, face prison time
DAILY AMERICAN REPORTERBrothers who owned and managed a multimillion-dollar defense contracting firm in Windber pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to charges of major fraud against the government and conspiracy. William Kuchera, 58, of Summerhill, and Ronald Kuchera, 51,...Tags: Lawyers, Judges, Lobbying, Justice System, Trials
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