Corruption
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Pakistan Supreme Court orders arrest of Prime Minister Ashraf
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Officials say Pakistan's Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of the country's prime minister as part of a corruption case involving private power stations.
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Howard Brooks sentenced to 24 months probation
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Howard Brooks, 64, is one of three former Gray aides to plead guilty to crimes related to the 2010 campaign.
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Karl Granzow sentenced to 18 months
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Karl Granzow, 47, admitted to partnering with Prince George's County developers to bribe public officials for development favors related to the Greenbelt Station development project.
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Thomas Gore, former Gray aide who pleaded guilty, has no sentencing date set
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Thomas Gore was in court Tuesday morning for a status conference. Federal prosecutors asked the judge not to set a sentencing date because their investigation into corruption in district politics is continuing, and Gore's attorney did not object.
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Mayor Vincent Gray's 2010 campaign used unauthorized public-housing database, report says
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D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray’s campaign reportedly used an unauthorized database of public housing residents to help its “Get-Out-The-Vote” effort.
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Mayor Vincent Gray should resign, majority of Washington Post poll voters say
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More than half of District of Columbia residents say embattled Mayor Vincent Gray should resign, according to a new poll by the Washington Post.
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Mayor Vincent Gray campaign hid poll workers' pay, AP reports
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Campaign workers for District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray tell The Associated Press that day laborers who worked at polling places on Gray's behalf in 2010 were routinely paid $100 in cash - twice the legal limit.
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Mayor Vincent Gray: D.C. Republicans call for Gray's resignation
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D.C. Republicans are the latest political leaders to urge Mayor Vincent Gray to resign.
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Mauricio Santoyo Velasco appears in Alexandria court
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A high-profile former Colombian general made his initial appearance Thursday in a U.S. court to answer charges that he took bribes over the course of nearly a decade to assist his country's drug gangs.
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Kwame Brown pleads guilty to bank fraud charges
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"It has been a long and difficult journey," Kwame Brown said Friday. "Today, I am taking the first step in regaining the trust of the people I love and serve."
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Howard Brooks pleads guilty to lying about 2010 campaign payments
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Howard Brooks became the second former aide to District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray to plead guilty this week, entering his plea Thursday to a crime arising from Gray's 2010 campaign.
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Thomas Gore pleads guilty to campaign violations
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An assistant treasurer for D.C. mayor Vincent Gray’s 2010 campaign has pleaded guilty to making straw campaign donations and destroying evidence.
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Harry Thomas, Jr. sentencing: Thomas gets 38 months
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"What I did was wrong and I broke the law... I humiliated my wife and my children,” says former D.C. Ward 5 Councilmember Harry Thomas, Jr.
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James Johnson sentenced in Prince George's County corruption scheme
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In pleading guilty, James Johnson admitted to accepting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes in connection to the corruption scandal that brought down former county executive Jack Johnson.
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Ted Loza, former D.C. official, released from prison
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A former District of Columbia official who pleaded guilty to accepting money in a bribery case involving the city's taxicab industry has been released after spending eight months in prison.
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WMATA corruption revealed following credit card scandal
A report obtained by the Washington Post details that not only did WMATA employees make several high-end personal purchases with company credit cards, two jurisdictions didn't prosecute those who were accused.
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Rod Blagojevich to begin serving prison sentence
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Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich will head to prison Thursday to serve time for corruption charges. But before beginning his sentence, he embraced the public spotlight once again, insisting that what he did was legal.
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Leslie Johnson to begin serving prison sentence
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Former Prince George’s County councilwoman Leslie Johnson is scheduled to begin serving her prison sentence Friday.
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