bribery

Insights 02/25/22, 20:29

On February 24, the Intermediate Court of Leshan City, Sichuan Province, opened a trial on Song Liang (宋亮), a former member of the Standing Committee of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee and Vice Governor of Gansu Province. According to state-run media CCTV media, when Song was a senior official of the ...

Insights 02/25/22, 14:43

On Feb. 22, Sun Deshun 孙德顺, the former deputy party secretary and president of CITIC Bank stood trial in Jinan, Shandong Province, for allegations of accepting briberies. Sun was accused of abusing his positions to illegally assist others with credit lines from 2003 to 2019. In return, he accepted money and ...

China 12/12/21, 15:45

The Supreme Procuratorate of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) disclosed more details of Ren Runhou's bribery case at a press conference held on Dec. 9. The disclosure came three years after Ren, former vice governor of Shanxi Province, died shortly after he was expelled from the CCP for "severe violations ...

Central America 06/08/21, 16:08

Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Guatemala on Sunday, June 6, with the objective of implementing joint policies to reduce the traffic of illegal immigrants heading to the United States. Critics point out that the measures they intend to impose are only bribes that do nothing to solve the structural ...

U.S. 04/08/21, 17:57

A partnership between Democratic governors and CVS pharmacy was formed after the Democrats received big cheques from the corporation during the election cycle. CVS has collaborated with some of the country's most influential Democratic governors to deliver COVID-19 vaccines to those who wanted to jump the line waiting for the vaccines, WashingtonFreeBeacon reported on ...

2022 Campaign 09/23/20, 19:49

When Hunter Biden spoke during the Democratic National Convention and told Americans his father would be an "honest president" if elected, that would appear to be hypocrisy, and that's putting it mildly. A Senate report a year in the making was released on Wednesday, Sept. 23, and has concluded that former ...

U.S. 12/31/19, 08:24

On Christmas Eve, Fidel Alejandro Villegas, the police chief of a northwestern Chihuahua town, was placed under federal custody in connection with the murder of nine American citizens on Nov. 4 and is suspected of having ties to organized crime. At least nine dual U.S.-Mexican citizens, including six children and three ...

U.S. 11/29/19, 11:45

An Illinois Democratic senator resigned on Wednesday, Nov. 27, after FBI agents raided his Chicago home in September amid an investigation for fraud and bribery, the Chicago Tribune reported. State Sen. Martin Sandoval said his resignation would take effect Jan. 1, according to his letter to the Senate secretary. "It is with ...

Politics 11/15/19, 12:59

Behind closed doors Democratic lawmakers are doubtful that an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump is enough to convince the American public that the president has engaged in high crimes, despite publicly touting confidently that the process will establish wrongdoing. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who set in motion the impeachment ...

U.S. 11/14/19, 19:45

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday, Nov. 14, accused President Donald Trump of admitting to bribery in the July 25 phone call around which the impeachment inquiry revolves, claiming the president has committed an impeachable offense—without evidence. “The bribe is to grant or withhold military assistance in return for a ...

Politics 11/12/19, 19:19

The media and Democrats have reached a new consensus for their attacks on President Donald Trump and created a new accusation that former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andy McCarthy said only makes them "sink even lower." From MSNBC to CBS, almost all the media have bought the new narrative and now describe ...

U.S. 05/02/19, 16:10

A pharmaceutical company founder accused of paying doctors millions in bribes to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray was convicted Thursday in a case that exposed such marketing tactics as using a stripper-turned-sales-rep to give a physician a lap dance. John Kapoor, the 76-year-old former chairman of Insys Therapeutics, was found ...

U.S. 04/04/19, 17:14

In a scheme to get doctors to write prescriptions in exchange for cash, a wealthy drug company founder put patients at risk to guarantee his business' success, a federal prosecutor told jurors Thursday in his closing arguments in the closely-watched trial. Meanwhile, an attorney for Insys Therapeutics Founder John Kapoor sought ...

U.S. 03/15/19, 01:28

In some ways, the college-admissions bribery scheme newly revealed by federal prosecutors seemed almost inevitable. Ethics experts say Americans these days are barraged with accounts of corruption, greed and amoral behavior to the point that many likely wonder, "Why should I play by the rules?" Whether it's gaming the system to ...

Sports 03/13/19, 02:02

The latest federal probe into the seamy underbelly of college athletics uncovered just the opposite of what we usually expect: Instead of paying recruits to attend schools, coaches and top athletic officials at some of America's finest universities were selling spots on their rosters to the highest bidder. Those spots in ...

California 03/12/19, 23:35

Rich and famous parents accused of buying their children entrance to some of the best universities in the US