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Drew Angerer/Getty Images Strong memory chip earnings propelled tech giant Samsung Electronics to its best quarterly profit in more than three years, the South Korean firm said on Thursday as it announced its first-quarter results. Samsung said in a regulatory filing that its January-March operating profit was 9.9 trillion won ($ 8.75 billion), compared with […]
© Mexican Navy Press Office/AFP/File Mexican Navy Press Office Mexico City (AFP) – Crooked cops, greedy governors and pusher-prosecutors: Corruption and drug crime reach to high places in Mexico, which is getting a jolt from US efforts to hunt down top suspects. Analysts say officials have been getting away for decades with corruption in a […]
© AFP/File Heuler Andrey Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – The once powerful speaker of Brazil’s lower house of Congress Eduardo Cunha was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison in a landmark for the country’s battle against rampant, high-level corruption. The sentence, detailed in a court document signed by top anti-corruption judge Sergio Moro, likely […]
Published time: 15 Mar, 2017 10:09 All MPs from the LDPR walked out of the Wednesday session of the State Duma after a deputy speaker asked the Parliamentary Ethics Commission to look into their harsh statements accusing the parliamentary majority party of corruption. The controversy began shortly beforehand as the head of the Liberal Democratic […]
AP Photo/Julio Cortez (Reuters) – The mayor of Paterson, New Jersey, has been indicted on public corruption charges accusing him of conspiring to put city employees to work at a warehouse leased by his relatives in a scheme to furnish free labor to his family at taxpayers’ expense. Mayor Jose “Joey” Torres and three supervisors […]
Hundreds of scandals are coming to light as prosecutors and police in smaller cities press corruption probes. They have been emboldened by a three-year-old nationwide case dubbed “Car Wash” that ensnared top political and business figures. WSJ.com: What’s News US
South Korea’s special prosecutors have succeeded in a second attempt to secure the arrest of Samsung Group chief Jay Y. Lee, whose implicated in the high-profile bribery scandal that involves suspended President Park Geun-hye and her secret confidante. Seoul Central District Court decided to arrest the Samsung Group chief early on Friday after an almost […]
When Alabama’s new attorney general issued a statement announcing he was recusing himself from an investigation into the governor, he also revealed that the previous attorney general had been investigating the governor – a fact largely unknown. Newly appointed Attorney General Steven Marshall released a statement on Wednesday saying he would keep his promise to […]
Andrew Burton/Getty Images The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday killed two Obama-era rules, one intended to root out corruption in the extraction sector and one aimed at reducing stream pollution. Required by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s “extraction rule” was approved this summer to require oil, […]
On July 22, the DNC was shaken up thanks to revelations from Wikileaks that included emails and voicemail recordings showing an unfair bias against Bernie Sanders. Now, Wikileaks says that there will be more information released about elections in the future, according to a July 26 interview with Julian Assange. “Get big money out of […]
