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.
Edwin Everett Pawlowski is an American politician who served as the 41st Mayor of Allentown,Pennsylvania. He held the office from 2006 until his resignation in 2018,following his election to a fourth term in 2017. He resigned after being convicted on 47 federal charges related to corruption as mayor of Allentown.
William Frank Boyland Jr. is an American convicted felon and former politician from the state of New York. A Democrat,Boyland represented District 55 (Brooklyn) in the New York State Assembly and was first elected in a 2003 special election. He forfeited his Assembly seat on March 6,2014 due to his conviction on federal felony charges related to extortion,bribery,and official corruption,and he was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Anthony Cobos is an American politician from the State of Texas in the United States. He served as the El Paso County Judge from 2007 to 2011 and is a former member of the El Paso City Council. El Paso County,Texas,is located on the border of the United States and Mexico.
Samuel Rivera was an American politician,the Democratic mayor of the U.S. city of Passaic,New Jersey,from 2001 until 2008. Rivera came to national attention on September 6,2007,when he was indicted and arrested on charges of accepting bribes in exchange for agreeing to direct municipal contracts to an insurance broker acting as a cooperating witness. Rivera pleaded guilty to attempted extortion,stepped down as mayor,and was sentenced to 21 months in prison. He was succeeded in office by Gary Schaer.
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.
Dwaine R. Caraway is an American former politician,and convicted felon who served as the 60th mayor of Dallas in 2011,in an interim capacity. He pleaded guilty in 2018 for taking bribes while serving as mayor pro tem. He served as a Dallas City Council member until his resignation on August 9,2018.
Ernest E. Newton II is an American politician in Bridgeport,Connecticut. Newton served for seventeen years in the Connecticut General Assembly,serving in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1988 to 2003 and in the Connecticut State Senate from 2003 to 2006. He pleaded guilty to federal felony corruption charges in September 2005 and served several years in federal prison. Newton was released in February 2010 and in 2012 unsuccessfully attempted a political comeback,losing in the primary in a race for his old state Senate seat. He pleaded guilty to three campaign finance violations in 2019,relating to his 2012 legislative campaign.
The Federal Prison Camp,Morgantown is a minimum-security United States federal prison for male inmates in West Virginia. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons,a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility has been nicknamed 'Club Fed' because of its amenities which include a large college-like campus,a movie theater,a bocce ball court and a basketball court as well as housing many white collar,nonviolent offenders.
The biennial Charlotte mayoral election was held on Tuesday,November 5,2013. Primary elections were held on Tuesday,September 10,2013. Unaffiliated voters were allowed to vote in either the Democratic or Republican primary.
Rodney W. Moore is an American politician from the state of North Carolina. He is a member of the Democratic Party,and served in the North Carolina House of Representatives,representing the 99th district,until 2019.
Michael Barnes was the mayor pro tempore of Charlotte,North Carolina. He also served as acting mayor for a short time following the resignation of former mayor Patrick Cannon,who was arrested on March 26,2014 for corruption charges. Barnes immediately became acting mayor upon Cannon's resignation. The City Council was then required to appoint a mayor to serve out the remainder of Cannon's term. On April 7,the council voted to appoint Dan Clodfelter,a state senator,as the new mayor.
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.
The 2015 Charlotte mayoral election took place on November 3,2015,to elect the Mayor of Charlotte,North Carolina. Mayoral elections in Charlotte are biennial,with the winner being sworn in in December.
Paul Pisasale is a former mayor of the City of Ipswich in Queensland,Australia,and convicted extortionist. Pisasale was mayor of Ipswich from 2004 to 2017,making him one of Queensland's longest-serving mayors,and was last elected in 2016 with 83.45% of the popular vote. He resigned as mayor in 2017 following a raid on his office by the Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission. He was subsequently charged with corruption in 2017. He was committed to stand trial on a number of other charges in 2019,including charges of sexual assault where he was accused of "unlawfully and indecently" assaulting an Ipswich woman,and charges of perjury. Pisasale subsequently pleaded guilty to these charges which included two counts of sexual assault,official corruption,unlawful drug possession,27 counts of fraud,secret commission by an agent,and fraud of property.
