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  • California mayor convicted of voter fraud 5 Dec 2009 18:40 GMT
    ... LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- A three-year investigation has produced voter fraud convictions for two members of a longtime California political family, observers say. Leonis Malburg, who resigned this year after a decades-long run ...

  • Supreme Court to hear appeals that could impact Cabrera fraud convictions 8 Dec 2009 01:20 GMT
    ... a concept favored by federal prosecutors tackling corruption and fraud but often criticized as broad ... to their constituents. Corruptive practices such as bribes or kick-backs defraud those constituents of honest ... the high court roughly resemble Cabrera's case: Ex-Alaska state Rep. Bruce Weyhrauch was indicted of honest ...

  • Reginald Heber Thomson: The man who flattened Seattle 6 Dec 2009 11:34 GMT
    ... Seattle author discusses "Shaper of Seattle: Reginald Heber ... of Seattle: Reginald Heber Thomson's Pacific Northwest" Washington State University Press, 231 pp., $29.95 Picture a ... and raised in southern Indiana, moved to California with his family in 1877 and arrived ...

  • N.J. mail-in votes may be vulnerable to election-fraud schemes 3 Dec 2009 03:24 GMT
    ... New Jersey Real-Time News Breaking Local News from New ... 1970s, with Western states taking the lead. Oregon's elections are held entirely by mail. Washington state is close behind. In California last year, ...

  • Seattle police kill man suspected of killing four police officers 1 Dec 2009 21:44 GMT
    ... SEATTLE -- The man suspected of gunning down ... did," Jegley said. Clemmons was charged in Washington state earlier this year with assaulting a ...

  • Supreme Court critical of 'honest services fraud' law 9 Dec 2009 02:44 GMT
    ... Tuesday to government lawyers defending the key anti-corruption law that makes it a crime for ... that they pocketed money or took a bribe. But the law appeared to be in ... Bruce Weyhrauch, a former Republican legislator in Alaska who was prosecuted for fraud because he sought ...

  • Court Looks Askance At Fraud Law 9 Dec 2009 02:50 GMT
    ... Tuesday to government lawyers defending the key anti-corruption law that makes it a crime for ... proof they pocketed money or took a bribe. But the law appeared to be in ... justices focused on Bruce Weyhrauch, a former Alaska legislator who was prosecuted for fraud because he ...

  • Court muddled by 'vague' anti-fraud law 9 Dec 2009 02:56 GMT
    ... the 1988 law is important in fighting corruption. Prosecutors invoked it this year in an ... scenarios. Dreeben argued that the statute targets bribes, kickbacks and undisclosed conflicts of interest, most ... Tuesday came from Bruce Weyhrauch, a former Alaska state legislator accused of trying to win future ...

  • Piece of Alaska Rep. Weyhrauch's case goes to Supreme Court 7 Dec 2009 11:57 GMT
    ... — A case with roots in the Alaska political corruption investigation has worked its way up to ... where federal prosecutors can't prove they accepted bribes -- but where they have enough evidence ...

  • U.S. Supreme Court: Will justices hobble corruption posse? 6 Dec 2009 07:30 GMT
    ... There was no evidence he had been bribed to do so. In response to the ... Tuesday, along with that of a former Alaska legislator charged under the same law. Bruce Weyhrauch ... who faces trial in June on federal corruption and fraud charges. Blagojevich is best known ...

  • Corruption in Country - Who is to Blame? [opinion] 9 Dec 2009 00:16 GMT
    ... Accra — In light of the ongoing Mabey and Johnson ... and Vodafone scandals where alleged acts of corruption have taken place, this special feature looks ... boats and a luxury mansion in Malibu, California- this at a time when the vast ...

  • Piece of ex-Alaska Rep. Weyhrauch's case goes to Supreme Court 7 Dec 2009 13:10 GMT
    ... Pope and attorney Ray Brown, also of Alaska, will sit at the counsel bench at ... the use of honest services fraud in corruption cases. Often, they use honest services fraud ... it is difficult for prosecutors to prove bribery. "Who wants to prove a quid pro ...

  • U.S. Supreme Court hears fraud law challenge; could affect Siegelman, Scrushy appeals 8 Dec 2009 20:49 GMT
    ... and surrounding communities U.S. Supreme Court hears fraud law challenge; could affect Siegelman, Scrushy appeals ... Dreeben defended the law, saying it "covers bribes, kickbacks, and undisclosed conflicts of interest by ... of a 6½-year prison term, and former Alaska legislator Bruce Weyhrauch, who has been indicted but ...

  • Court skeptical of federal anti-fraud law, Cabrera's attorney watches closely 8 Dec 2009 20:50 GMT
    ... to limit federal prosecutors' use of a fraud law that has helped win convictions of ... Dreeben defended the law, saying it "covers bribes, kickbacks, and undisclosed conflicts of interest by ... of a 6½-year prison term, and former Alaska legislator Bruce Weyhrauch, who has been indicted but ...

  • Court Takes On US Anti-fraud Law 8 Dec 2009 19:27 GMT
    ... to limit federal prosecutors' use of a fraud law that has helped win convictions of ... Dreeben defended the law, saying it "covers bribes, kickbacks, and undisclosed conflicts of interest by ... of a 6½-year prison term, and former Alaska legislator Bruce Weyhrauch, who has been indicted but ...


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