bribery

The escape of the Malaysian defense contractor at the center of one of the Navy’s biggest corruption scandals is as stunning and brazen as the case itself. U-Haul trucks were seen at his home in a tony San Diego neighborhood before Leonard Glenn Francis, known as “Fat Leonard,” snipped off his ankle monitor and disappeared.

Tencent’s latest investigation comes as China scrutinizes the practices of the its internet titans and tightens regulation.

Some chicken ordered from a meat supply company run in-part by Eric Goldstein allegedly contained “foreign objects being found in products” including “plastic,” and in one case, a city “DOE employee choked on a bone” found in a chicken tender.

The upcoming trial of a former Massachusetts mayor first elected at the age of 23 will showcase the dramatic rise and fall of the wunderkind accused of stealing from his investors and extorting marijuana companies.

Federal investigators are looking into a potential “bribery-for-pardon” scheme involving presidential pardons, according to federal court documents

A former college entrance exam administrator pleaded guilty Friday to taking bribes to help wealthy parents rig their kids’ test scores as part of a college admissions bribery scheme. Lisa “Niki” Williams, 46, a former employee of the Houston Independent School District, is among about 40 people who have admitted to charges in the case that exposed a scheme to…

Another wealthy parent was charged Wednesday with trying to bribe his child’s way into an elite university as a fake athletic recruit, a day after two former college coaches caught up in the nationwide admissions bribery scandal were hit with additional charges. Amin Khoury, 54, of Palm Beach, Florida, and Mashpee, Massachusetts, in May 2014 paid $200,000 to get former…

The college admissions scandal led to the arrests of dozens of wealthy and influential people. Jackie Bruno takes a closer look at two of the celebrities involved in the case.

A California woman pleaded guilty to a federal fraud charge Wednesday after authorities said she paid a company $ 9,000 to take online classes for her son at Georgetown University and then demanded a discount when he received a C.Karen Littlefair, 57, pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The resident of Newport Beach,…

The founder and former top employees of a pharmaceutical company are being sentenced in a bribery scheme that prosecutors say helped fuel the national opioid epidemic. Starting Monday, seven people who worked for Insys Therapeutics will appear in Boston federal court for their sentencing. The case against company founder John Kapoor and his associates was considered the first to hold...

Insys Therapeutics Founder John Kapoor and four former executives were convicted Thursday in a scheme to bribe doctors across the U.S. to prescribe a powerful opioid .