The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization.
John W. Oxendine is an American politician and businessman who served four terms as Insurance Commissioner of the U.S. state of Georgia. A member of the Independent party,he was first elected commissioner in 1994 and was reelected in 1998,2002,and 2006. Prior to entering politics,Oxendine owned and operated a small business and was a lawyer practicing in Gwinnett County,Georgia.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is a Nigerian law enforcement agency that investigates financial crimes such as advance fee fraud and money laundering. The EFCC was established in 2003,partially in response to pressure from the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF),which named Nigeria as one of 23 countries non-cooperative in the international community's efforts to fight money laundering. The agency has its head office in Abuja,Nigeria.
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Georgia:
Humberto Hernandez Jr. was a City of Miami Commissioner and attorney.
Derrick D. T. Shepherd is an attorney and Democratic politician,formerly a member of the Louisiana Senate.
The Cockerham bribery case involved the investigation and subsequent trials of United States Army contracting officers and their family members who were accused of accepting bribes in return for steering multimillion-dollar contracts to companies providing services for the US Army in Iraq and Kuwait between 2004 and 2007. The alleged ringleader of the accused officers was US Army Major John L. Cockerham,who was sentenced to 17 and 1/2 years in prison for accepting bribes from Army contractors. The contracts,mainly for bottled water,involved at least three US Army contracting officers,two of their family members,six companies from India,Saudi Arabia,Kuwait,and the United States,and up to $15 million in bribe money.
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.
Frank Elroy Vennes Jr. is an American multimillionaire and convicted felon.
Douglas D. Green,known as Doug Green,is the former Louisiana insurance commissioner who held the office from 1988 to 1991,when he received a 25-year federal sentence for taking $2 million in illegal campaign contributions from owners of insurance companies doing business with the state. Green's predecessor and fellow Democrat Sherman A. Bernard,whom he unseated in the 1987 nonpartisan blanket primary,pleaded guilty to extorting bribes disguised as campaign contributions and served forty-one months during the middle 1990s in a federal prison in Alabama.
David Hai Bitan is an Israeli lawyer and politician. He currently serves as a member of the Knesset from the Likud party. During 2016-2017 he served as the Chairman of the Coalition and Chairman of the Likud party in the Knesset,and in the 23rd Knesset served as Chairman of the Immigration and Absorption Committee. Israeli attorney general Avichai Mandelblit announced on 26 January 2020 that Bitan would be indicted for "bribery,fraud and breach of trust,as well as money laundering and tax offenses" following a hearing.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Georgia on November 6,2018. All of Georgia's executive officers were up for election as well as all of Georgia's fourteen seats in the United States House of Representatives. Neither U.S. Senate seat was up for election in 2018. The Republican Party won every statewide office in 2018.
Greg Evan Lindberg is an American former business executive and founder of Global Growth,a conglomerate private-equity firm. He also donated large sums of money to political causes. In 2020 he was convicted of bribery and conspiracy to commit wire fraud,and sentenced to seven years and three months in federal prison. The conviction was overturned by a federal appeals court in June 2022 and a new trial was scheduled for March 2023.
George Cottrell is a British financier and convicted felon. He was a senior advisor to Nigel Farage and served as head of fundraising for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) until his arrest in the USA following the 2016 Republican National Convention.
John F. King is a retired American military officer and the state of Georgia's Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner. He was appointed by Governor Brian Kemp as commissioner on July 1,2019,replacing Jim Beck. Beck was elected in 2018,but suspended by Governor Kemp on May 16,2019,pending an investigation into allegations of illegal activity committed prior to his taking office. After Beck's conviction of 37 criminal counts of fraud and money laundering on July 22,2021,Beck was fully and immediately removed from office as per Georgia law,and King became the permanent insurance commissioner. King was re-elected to this position in 2022. King's appointment makes him the first Hispanic statewide official in Georgia's history. A native of Mexico,King is fluent in Spanish.
Abba Alhaji Kyari is a former Nigerian police officer who was a Deputy Commissioner of Police currently on suspension and relieved from all police duties pending the outcome of an internal investigation into his alleged connection with Gucci King,popular alleged fraudster Ramon Abbas "Hushpuppi". He was a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). Prior to his appointment as IGP-IRT,he served at Lagos State Police Command as a unit Commander in one of the PMF bases located in Lagos before he was promoted and transferred to serve as the Officer-In-Charge of the dis-banded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
