2 former FDNY chiefs charged with bribery, corruption and false statements
Two former chiefs of the Fire Department of New York City (FDNY) are in custody on suspicion of soliciting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to give preferential treatment to certain builders and developers. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York announced Monday that Anthony Saccavino and Brian Cordasco were […]
Feds Arrest Texas Border City Officials on Bribery Charges
Federal agents have arrested two senior officials in a border city for soliciting cash bribes from business owners. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrested Mayor Victor Hugo de la Cruz and City Councilman Rene Flores in Edcouch, Texas, on Thursday morning, according to information provided to Breitbart Texas by the U.S. Attorney's Office. The arrests […]
Eric Ulrich says he can’t pay for lawyer in massive bribery scheme case
Eric Ulrich, the embattled former New York City Buildings Commissioner facing charges of taking more than $150,000 in bribes and trading political favors, acknowledged he can no longer afford the costs of his legal battles and asked a judge on Wednesday to appoint him an attorney. “At this point, he doesn't have any more funds,” […]
Sen. Bob Menendez abandons defiant re-election campaign after conviction on bribery and corruption charges
Once-defiant Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey abandoned his reelection campaign just weeks after being convicted on bribery and corruption charges. Menendez, once a leading Democrat, had said he would run as an independent to retain his senate seat. “Menendez is actually a senator for Egypt, not New Jersey.” On Friday, that dream vanished. […]
Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez Plans to Resign After Bribery Conviction
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has reportedly told allies he will resign from Congress after being found guilty on all charges in his federal corruption trial. NBC News reports Said The New Jersey Democrat has indicated he will step down soon after having previously shown defiance and refused to accept calls from dozens of Senate Democrats […]
U.S. Senator Who Called Bitcoin 'Ideal Choice for Criminals,' Convicted of Bribery – CoinDesk
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez (Democrat), a vocal critic of cryptocurrencies, was found guilty by a jury on Tuesday of accepting bribes, including gold bars and luxury cars, in exchange for political influence. Stacey Herbert, a member of El Salvador’s President Najib Bukele’s National Office for Bitcoin (ONBTC), said: I wrote to X While Senator […]
Top moments from Bob Menendez’s bribery and corruption trial
The bribery and corruption case against Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has featured everything from gold bars to meat monopolies, silver bells to Cuban quirks, Mercedes convertibles to Egyptian camels. The trial took nine weeks. It was complex and delved into serious charges against the longtime lawmaker, his wife, two New Jersey businessmen on trial with him, […]
Feds blast ‘Gold Bar Bob’ Menendez’s blame-his-wife defense at bribery trial
Federal prosecutors argued Tuesday that Sen. Bob Menendez’s brazen plan to pin the blame for his far-reaching bribery scheme on his wife was simply a “desperate” excuse to avoid his own responsibility. “There’s no way she could have fooled him into not knowing what she was doing,” prosecutor Paul Monteleone told jurors in Manhattan federal […]
CREW files bribery complaint against Trump over oil industry donations
The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has filed a bribery lawsuit calling on the Department of Justice to investigate former President Trump’s solicitation of campaign contributions from fossil fuel executives. The former president met with oil industry executives in April and asked for $1 billion in campaign contributions, The Hill […]
Ex-CBP officer convicted of bribery after allowing drugs, illegals to cross border
The Department of Justice announced earlier this week that a former Customs and Border Protection agent was convicted of accepting bribes from a group attempting to smuggle drugs and illegal immigrants across the southern border. A federal jury convicted Leonard Darnell George on Monday of two counts of accepting a bribe from a public official, […]