David R. Lewis is an American former politician of the Republican Party who served as a member of the North Carolina General Assembly from 2002 to 2020,representing the state's 53rd House District. His district encompassed most of Harnett County including the City of Dunn and Towns of Angier,Coats,Erwin,and Lillington.
Melvin Reynolds is an American politician from Illinois. A member of the Democratic Party,he served in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 1995. He resigned in October 1995 after a jury convicted him of sexual assault charges related to sex with an underage campaign worker.
Jeremy Young Hutchinson is a former politician and convicted felon. A Republican,he served in the Arkansas State Senate for District 33 in the capital city of Little Rock,Arkansas. He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from two different districts in Pulaski County between 2000 and 2007 and as a state senator from 2011 to his resignation in 2018.
Salvatore Francis "Sal" DiMasi is a former Democratic state representative in Massachusetts. The former Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives originally joined the state legislature in 1979,as a member of the Democratic Party. He eventually resigned from this post in January 2009,just six months prior to being indicted on several Federal charges,including conspiracy to defraud the federal government,extortion,mail fraud and wire fraud. DiMasi was found guilty on 7 of 9 federal corruption charges on June 15,2011. DiMasi is the third consecutive Massachusetts house speaker to later become a convicted felon due to crimes committed in office.
In 2005,Dale Graybill and his wife Shirley were charged in Connecticut with mail fraud and tax fraud. They had previously been charged in Alabama with securities fraud. They pleaded guilty to all of these.
Corruption in Illinois has been a problem from the earliest history of the state. Electoral fraud in Illinois pre-dates the territory's admission to the Union in 1818. Illinois had the third most federal criminal convictions for public corruption between 1976 and 2012,behind New York and California. A study published by the University of Illinois Chicago in 2022 ranked Illinois as the second most corrupt state in the nation,with 4 out of the last 11 governors serving time in prison.
Willie B. Cochran is an American politician and former Chicago Police Department officer. Cochran served as alderman of Chicago,Illinois' 20th Ward from 2007 until 2019.
Patrick Daley Thompson is an American former politician and convicted felon who most recently served as an alderman from Chicago's 11th ward and was previously a commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago. A member of the prominent Daley family,he is a grandson of Richard J. Daley and a nephew of Richard M. Daley,both of whom served as longtime mayors of Chicago.
Richard William Gates III is an American former political consultant and lobbyist who pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States for making false statements in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. He is a longtime business associate of Paul Manafort and served as deputy to Manafort when the latter was campaign manager of the Donald Trump presidential campaign in 2016,and after under Kellyanne Conway.
Dean A. Tran is an American politician from Fitchburg,Massachusetts,who was elected to the Massachusetts Senate in 2017 in a special election. He represented the Worcester and Middlesex District,and is a Republican. Before his election to the Massachusetts Senate,Tran was a member of the Fitchburg City Council.
Gerard Thomas Indelicato is an American academic administrator who served as education advisor to Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis and president of Bridgewater State College. He was convicted on federal and state conspiracy,fraud,and tax evasion charges.
Brian Kolfage is an American far-right political activist,former United States Air Force airman,and convicted fraudster. He co-founded We Build the Wall,a private organization that purportedly aimed to construct a privately funded barrier on the Mexico–United States border;he pleaded guilty in 2022 to federal fraud and tax crimes for defrauding donors to the group.
Joel Micah Greenberg is an American politician and former tax collector of Seminole County,Florida. In 2020,Greenberg was arrested and charged with multiple federal offenses. He was indicted on 33 criminal counts:theft,stalking,sex trafficking,cryptocurrency fraud,and Small Business Administration loan fraud. On May 17,2021,he pleaded guilty to six federal charges,including sex trafficking of a minor,as part of a plea deal.
