Robert Cannon "Robin" Hayes is an American politician and businessman from North Carolina. A member of the Republican Party,he represented North Carolina's 8th congressional district in the House of Representatives from 1999 to 2009,and was the Republican nominee for Governor of North Carolina in 1996. Hayes served as chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party from 2011 to 2013,and from 2016 to 2019. Accused in a bribery scheme in 2019,Hayes pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. On January 20,2021,Hayes was pardoned by President Donald Trump.
The 2006 Republican Party scandals resulted in four resignations and three election losses for Republican politicians during the first two years of George W. Bush's second term as President and leading up to the 2006 midterm elections.
Anthony Chiappone is an American Democratic Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly,where he represented the 31st Legislative District from 2004 to 2006 and again from 2008 until his resignation in 2010.
Bertram "Bert" Johnson is a Democratic former member of the Michigan Senate.
Joseph A. Ferriero is an American Democratic Party political leader from New Jersey and former chairman of the Bergen County Democratic Organization. Ferriero,an attorney by profession,resides in Old Tappan.
Derrick D. T. Shepherd is an attorney and Democratic politician,formerly a member of the Louisiana Senate.
Monica Ann Conyers is an former American politician and convicted felon in Detroit,Michigan. Elected to the Detroit City Council in 2005,she was elected by its members to serve as president pro tempore of the council for the four-year term.
Peter J. Cammarano III is an American disbarred attorney,former Democratic politician and a convicted felon. He was the 37th mayor of Hoboken,New Jersey,serving from July 1 until July 31,2009. Cammarano was arrested by the FBI on corruption charges on July 23,2009,as part of an international criminal investigation known as Operation Bid Rig;he resigned from office eight days later. He pleaded guilty to extortion in April 2010 and was later sentenced to 24 months in federal prison.
Operation Bid Rig was a long-term investigation into political corruption in New Jersey conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation,the Internal Revenue Service,and the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2014.
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.
Larry Charles Inman is an American politician in the Republican Party who formerly represented the 104th District—which includes Grand Traverse County—in the Michigan House of Representatives after being elected in November 2014.
Jewell Jones is an American politician from the state of Michigan. He served on the city council of Inkster,Michigan,and was elected to represent the 11th district of the Michigan House of Representatives as the youngest representative in state history. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Daniel Henry Coakley was an American Democratic politician and attorney from Massachusetts. He was a key figure in early 20th century Boston politics,as an ally to District Attorney Joseph C. Pelletier and as an on-again-off-again ally to Mayor James Michael Curley. As an attorney,Coakley took part in numerous badger game extortion schemes and was disbarred in 1922 for deceit,malpractice,and gross misconduct.
Operation Lost Trust was the name of an FBI investigation into the South Carolina General Assembly from 1989 to 1999. By the end of the investigation,seventeen members of the South Carolina General Assembly were arrested for bribery,extortion,or drug use. Operation Lost Trust is often considered the greatest political scandal in the history of the state of South Carolina. It directly influenced the passing of South Carolina's Ethics Reform Act of 1991,and led to the restructuring of the state government in 1993. In its wake,the once-dominant South Carolina Democratic Party was weakened as a political party,and the Republican Party emerged as a viable political entity in the state.
Mary D. Waters is an American politician serving as an at-large member of the Detroit City Council since 2022. A member of the Democratic Party,Waters previously served as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2001 to 2007,serving as the chamber's first Black minority leader from 2003 to 2006.
