Corruption

Top Texas Republicans expressed concerns over new allegations that the Lone Star state's attorney general Ken Paxton engaged in crimes like bribery and abuse of office. 

Disgraced former Albany power broker Sheldon Silver surrendered to federal prison on Wednesday — bringing an end to a stunning fall from power by the one-time speaker of the New York Assembly.

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon was among four people indicted Thursday on charges of defrauding donors in an online fundraising scheme, "We Build The Wall." Read the documents here.

A Long Island attorney who bills himself as the “lottery lawyer” ran a mobbed-up scheme to bilk jackpot winners out of more than $100 million in prize money, Brooklyn federal prosecutors alleged Tuesday.

The FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Ohio will be making an announcement regarding a public corruption case involving a "$60 million bribe to state official & associates," the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

The FBI on Tuesday arrested Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar on racketeering charges after a long-running corruption probe.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Friday promised swift justice in the death of George Floyd but also pleaded with looters and violent protestors that have set fire to Minneapolis to stop so the city could restore justice and order. 

A small segregated town in Southeast Georgia is divided - and at the center of a national conversation about race - after a white father and son with ties to local police and the prosecutor were arrested two months after allegedly gunning down an unarmed 25-year-old black man jogging less than three miles from his mother's home. 

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's administration acknowledged Tuesday that normal protocols were bypassed when a no-bid contract for coronavirus contact tracing was awarded by the state to Great Lakes Community Engagement, which is operated well-known Democratic consultant Michael Kolehouse -- who has previously written that President Trump should "get Coronavirus ASAP" and that someone should "do the country a favor and cough on that man," Facebook posts reviewed by Fox News show.

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is currently serving a 28-year prison sentence following a 2013 conviction on a list of corruption charges. But now his supporters hope President Trump will grant Kilpatrick clemency.