The probe has uncovered union officials accepting bribes and kickbacks.
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He spent 16 months in jail for accepting bribes from real estate developers.
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A former prime minister, Ehud Olmert, went to prison last year for accepting bribes.
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Glas was convicted of accepting bribes in exchange for government infrastructure contacts through intermediaries.
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A security officer was caught accepting bribes in exchange for smuggling foreigners through security.
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Other executives tied to Huarong have also been arrested on allegations of accepting bribes.
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García, who was in trouble for allegedly accepting bribes, closed the door behind him.
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Elected officials are, however, now having a much easier time getting away with accepting bribes.
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Prosecutors had accused the senator of accepting bribes from Melgen in return for political favors.
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Lin admitted to accepting bribes in a video last month, Xinhua said late on Thursday.
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Batista, one of J&F's owners, has in turn accused President Temer of accepting bribes himself.
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Ms Saguto, who denies wrongdoing, is accused of accepting bribes and favours that influenced her decisions.
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Kuti, the county governor, denied allegations that officials are accepting bribes in exchange for title deeds.
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Terry Spicer (D) admitted to accepting bribes while in office, including $22,000 in free concert tickets.
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Herman Benjamin voted to annul the 2014 Rousseff-Temer ticket for accepting bribes and illegal donations.
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The prime minister is under indictment for charges of fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes.
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Two years ago, a former Guatemalan leader admitted to accepting bribes from Taiwan for diplomatic recognition.
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He also is accused of accepting bribes while working on a 2010 law that regulates mining concessions.
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Joe Percoco, the governor's enforcer and right-hand man, was also convicted this year for accepting bribes.
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I had to monitor him constantly to stop him from picking fights, insulting strangers, and accepting bribes.
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Awerbuch pleaded guilty to accepting bribes and health care fraud and has been sentenced to jail time.
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He is also accused of accepting bribes in exchange for helping The Community's criminal SIM swapping activities.
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In 2017, two finance ministry officials were arrested on suspicion of demanding and accepting bribes from Dongsong.
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They got away with it, the Justice Department charges, because coaches went along with it, accepting bribes.
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Several of the coaches accused of accepting bribes have been fired, placed on leave or have resigned.
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The EFCC has also charged a former petroleum ministry official with accepting bribes and failing to follow protocol.
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In January, he survived a criminal trial for accepting bribes after the jury failed to return a verdict.
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Offenses included: selling a castle, accepting bribes to release captured ships, and failing to properly guard the sea.
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In 2007, a former Democratic speaker of the House, Jim Black, pleaded guilty to accepting bribes from chiropractors.
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A Chinese court in September jailed the former Tianjin mayor, Huang Xingguo, for 12 years for accepting bribes.
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Two years ago, a former Guatemalan leader admitted to accepting bribes from Taiwan in exchange for diplomatic recognition.
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Two former Peruvian presidents also face charges of accepting bribes, with one in jail and another at large.
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His first feature film was 1977's "Report," about the life of a tax collector accused of accepting bribes.
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Last year prosecutors accused him of accepting bribes, although he denies wrongdoing and Congress voted to reject the charges.
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Out of that group, 55 percent said accepting bribes or favors from foreign governments would be the most serious.
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There is also his wife, Monica, a former city councilwoman in Detroit who did prison time for accepting bribes.
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A video confession surfaced on Chinese websites and social media in April in which Ma admitted to accepting bribes.
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Siri has been placed under investigation last month for allegedly accepting bribes to promote the interests of renewable energy firms.
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Last week, former deputy prime minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi was charged with 45 offences including money laundering and accepting bribes.
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In a separate complaint, prosecutors have charged three mobile phone company operators with accepting bribes as part of the crime.
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Authorities also indicted prominent college athletic leaders for allegedly accepting bribes and helping to fabricate athlete profiles for the teenagers.
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That at least one university administrator and several coaches are accused of accepting bribes to funnel children into their school.
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Yang Gang, who was indicted for accepting bribes last year, served as party secretary of Urumqi between 1999 and 2006.
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Park, the country's first female president, was ousted in March and later charged with abuse of power and accepting bribes.
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Mr. Molinaro singled out Joseph Percoco, the Cuomo aide who was convicted of accepting bribes, among other charges, in March.
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Former assistant coach Tony Bland pleaded guilty in January to accepting bribes to steer U.S.C. players to certain financial advisers.
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International sports officials have occasionally run afoul of their own rules and even the law over the years, from the Olympic officials caught accepting bribes to award the 2002 Winter Games to Salt Lake City, to the soccer officials who were more recently accused of accepting bribes related to TV contracts and World Cup bids.
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Countless government leaders have pleaded guilty to charges accusing them of accepting bribes and giving government contracts to businesses they favor.
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More than a month after the chief prosecutor, Rodrigo Janot, indicted him for accepting bribes, his approval rating stands at 5%.
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Williams previously served as counsel to Hastings when he was accused of accepting bribes as a federal judge in the 1980s.
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He was a former vice mayor Tianjin and has been accused of abusing his positions and accepting bribes in "huge amounts".
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He was originally indicted in 2007 on 18 charges of corruption, fraud and racketeering, including accepting bribes from a military contractor.
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Countless government leaders have pleaded guilty to charges accusing them of accepting bribes and giving government contracts to businesses they favor.
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U.A.W. leaders have recently been the subject of a corruption investigation, in which a few have been convicted of accepting bribes.
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Additional JBS testimony disclosed on Friday accused Temer and former Presidents Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff of accepting bribes.
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The officials were handed jail terms of between three to seven years for dereliction of duty, abuse of power and accepting bribes.
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There is none of the unanimity witnessed in 1992, when Congress impeached Brazil's first popularly elected president, Fernando Collor, for accepting bribes.
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Forty-six percent of that group said violating campaign finance laws, and 44 percent said accepting bribes or favors from foreign governments.
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After he was charged with accepting bribes, Mr McDonnell apologised for causing "embarrassment" to the state and repaid most of the loans.
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Xu died of cancer last year before he could be bought to trial while Guo was accused of accepting bribes last month.
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Duke Cunningham, who confessed to accepting bribes; the fallout from the lobbying scandal engulfing Jack Abramoff; and the resignation of Florida Rep.
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Prosecutors had accused the senator of accepting bribes from Dr. Salomon Melgen, a wealthy ophthalmologist in Florida, in return for political favors.
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Several high-ranking soccer officials were accused of accepting bribes from marketing companies that wanted to obtain commercial rights to major competitions.
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And three weeks before the tally, news broke that FIFA had suspended two voting members for accepting bribes in exchange for votes.
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China's anti-corruption unit is investigating the Interpol head for "alleged violations of the law," which included suspicions of "accepting bribes," authorities said.
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Former Yale women's soccer coach Rudy Meredith was charged with accepting bribes to designate two applicants as soccer recruits to get them admitted.
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And then, that cycle, Duke Cunningham, then a California Republican representative, pleaded guilty to accepting bribes from contractors with business before the government.
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In Oman, Adel al-Raisi, the boss of a state-owned oil company, was sentenced to 23 years in prison for accepting bribes.
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Historically, judges have been impeached for a variety of reasons — from showing up to work drunk, to joining the Confederacy, to accepting bribes.
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They alleged that Kane acted on anger about a local newspaper article that accused her of dropping an investigation into politicians accepting bribes.
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Meng, who was also a vice minister of public security in China, has been accused of accepting bribes and committing unspecified other crimes.
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That hasn't happened since 1991, when former Boeing executive Melvyn Paisley was convicted of accepting bribes while an assistant secretary of the Navy.
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Capping a three-year investigation, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit charged Netanyahu with fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in three different scandals.
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Wake Forest said it had placed head volleyball coach Bill Ferguson on administrative leave after he was among the coaches accused of accepting bribes.
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Mario Herrera, 48, is accused of accepting bribes from Leonard Francis, the former CEO of Singapore-based defense contractor Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA).
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Mr. Diack, of Senegal, is under criminal investigation in France, suspected of money laundering and soliciting and accepting bribes, the French authorities have said.
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In federal court in Texas, Yarrington is accused of accepting bribes from the Gulf cartel in exchange for letting them operate in his state.
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A new retirement home A military court in China jailed a retired general, Guo Boxiong, for life for accepting bribes in return for promotions.
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The last of a group of 16 defendants from the U.S. Postal Service has been sentenced for accepting bribes to deliver cocaine in Atlanta.
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A former Yale soccer coach, Rudolph "Rudy" Meredith, is set to plead guilty on Thursday to accepting bribes to designate applicants as soccer recruits.
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He is accused of accepting bribes from several media tycoons including expensive gifts and overwhelmingly positive media coverage in exchange for lucrative official favors.
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Mr. Percoco is charged with accepting bribes in return for official actions on behalf of upstate developers; Mr. Howe claims he facilitated the bribes.
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The scandal involves misappropriation of union funds, and in some cases, union officials accepting bribes from officials at one of the automakers, Fiat Chrysler.
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Lozoya later became director of Pemex, Mexico's state-run oil company, and is currently the subject of an investigation for allegedly accepting bribes from Odebrecht.
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Still, the doctored photos very quickly became part of a narrative propagated by Duterte, who had accused de Lima of accepting bribes from drug pushers.
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The charges had alleged that Kane acted in anger about a local newspaper article that accused her of dropping an investigation into politicians accepting bribes.
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Critics included President Michel Temer, who faced a criminal charge for allegedly accepting bribes from J&F executives, and other politicians accused of taking kickbacks.
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The recordings can still be used, but only against some of Berlusconi's 30 co-defendants, who have been accused of accepting bribes or facilitating corruption.
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The pivotal vote was cast by Justice Rosa Weber against Lula's request to avoid jail and begin serving his 12-year sentence for accepting bribes.
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Agnew had been under investigation by the U.S. attorney for Maryland on suspicion of accepting bribes while governor of that state and as vice president.
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A former chief of staff to Mr. Netanyahu, David Sharan, is accused of accepting bribes from an Israeli agent for the shipbuilder, ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems.
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As part of "Operation Varsity Blues," Meredith has been charged with wire fraud for allegedly accepting bribes to endorse students like the unnamed student as recruits.
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Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, stands accused of accepting bribes from a long-time friend turned co-defendant, Dr. Salomon Melgen, in exchange for political favors.
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Even before Watergate broke wide open, Nixon's "law and order" Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned in disgrace for accepting bribes when he was governor of Maryland.
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But no Mexican officials have been charged with accepting bribes, and Mr. Cervantes, who stepped down last October, has said publicly that the investigation was complete.
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A local manager for China Mobile, the country's largest wireless operator, was found guilty last year of accepting bribes from several companies, including a ZTE subsidiary.
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A Frenchman, Valcke has been out of the public eye since leaving FIFA in disgrace in 2015, is also accused of accepting bribes and falsifying documents.
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Netanyahu, who accused prosecutors of staging "an attempted coup," was charged with fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in three different scandals (The Associated Press).
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Tokyo prosecutors arrested Tsukasa Akimoto on Wednesday on suspicion of accepting bribes from employees of a company that wanted to set up a casino in Japan.
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Prosecutors charged Mangano and Venditto with accepting bribes and kickbacks from Oyster Bay restaurateur Harendra Singh in exchange for favorable treatment, including government contracts and loans.
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The last time was in 2010, when G. Thomas Porteous, a Louisiana district court judge, was impeached and removed for accepting bribes and lying under oath.
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He stood accused of accepting bribes from lawyers with business before him, and of failing to recuse himself from cases involving people who allegedly bribed him.
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Siri, an economic adviser to League chief Matteo Salvini, was placed under investigation last month for allegedly accepting bribes to promote the interests of renewable energy firms.
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Brazil's Attorney General Rodrigo Janot filed the charges accusing Temer of accepting bribes, including a $150,00 payoff from the former chairman of JBS, a Brazilian meatpacking company.
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Despite his criminal trial for accepting bribes, which ended in a hung jury, Democratic incumbent Bob Menendez beat Bob Hugin in the race for New Jersey senator.
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Huffman paid $15,000 to admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer and his nonprofit organization, Key Worldwide Foundation ("KWF"), which prosecutors said was actually a front for accepting bribes.
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A federal jury in Newark, New Jersey, failed to reach a unanimous verdict in a case where Menendez was accused of accepting bribes from a wealthy patron.
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Hong Kong (CNN)A military court in China on Monday sentenced former top official Guo Boxiong to life in prison for accepting bribes, according to state media.
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According to the complaint, Singer and Loughlin discussed audits of Singer's fraudulent non-profit organization, the Key Worldwide Foundation, which was actually a front for accepting bribes.
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Lula, who has denied any wrongdoing, was convicted of accepting bribes and has been accused in other ongoing cases of orchestrating a kickback scheme while in office.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. authorities on Tuesday charged Philadelphia's top prosecutor with accepting bribes, including a Caribbean vacation, furniture, a car and cash, in exchange for favors.
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De Lima, a former justice minister, was last month arrested in her Senate office after being accused of accepting bribes from convicts engaged in the drug trade.
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He is accused of leaking confidential information and accepting bribes, including K-pop concert tickets from singer Seungri, an official at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said.
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Nearly all the defendants, which include several of FIFA's top leaders, were accused of soliciting, paying or accepting bribes in exchange for valuable television and marketing rights.
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Mr. Williams, 50, was charged in March and May with 29 counts of accepting bribes from businesspeople in exchange for offering to help them with their cases.
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In addition to his conviction, Mr. da Silva has been charged in several other cases in which he stands accused of accepting bribes of relatively modest sums.
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Menendez had been accused of accepting bribes from a campaign donor — including flights on a private jet and access to exclusive clubs and hotels — and making false statements.
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Huffman, 183, paid $15,000 to admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer and his nonprofit organization, Key Worldwide Foundation ("KWF"), which prosecutors said was actually a front for accepting bribes.
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Huffman, 56, paid $15,000 to admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer and his nonprofit organization, Key Worldwide Foundation ("KWF"), which prosecutors said was actually a front for accepting bribes.
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But the transcript shows that he denied accepting bribes—despite Musk's later Twitter claims to the contrary—and he said he hadn't given the information to anyone else.
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The country's domestic politics were already in disarray after President Park Geun-hye was impeached and indicted for alleged corruption, with charges including accepting bribes and extorting businesses.
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In December, the former second-highest UAW official in the FCA department, Nancy Johnson, was sentenced to 12 months in prison for accepting bribes from Fiat Chrysler executives.
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This will range from dealing drugs and accepting bribes to administering torture, all in a day's work should you decide your Jack's a man of few upstanding morals.
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The marker for Joseph Huston highlights his work as architect of the State Capitol but does not mention his conviction for accepting bribes for work on the building.
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Huffman allegedly paid $15,000 to admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer and his nonprofit organization, Key Worldwide Foundation ("KWF"), which prosecutors said was actually a front for accepting bribes.
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Huffman allegedly paid $15,000 to admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer and his nonprofit organization, Key Worldwide Foundation ("KWF"), which prosecutors said was actually a front for accepting bribes.
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Meng Hongwei, who also was a vice minister of public security in China, has been accused by the Chinese government of accepting bribes and committing unspecified other crimes.
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Reddick also said she felt physically threatened by Monica Conyers, the congressman's wife, who once pleaded guilty to accepting bribes when she was on the Detroit City Council.
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Prosecutors have accused Menendez of accepting bribes from Melgen and, in exchange, lobbying Medicare officials to alter their billing practices after the agency concluded Melgen had overbilled it.
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He alluded to the fact that all major parties in the South American country stand accused of accepting bribes and illegal funds at the time of the election.
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Rodrigo Janot submitted the charge in a document presented to the Supreme Court, saying "he fooled Brazilian citizens" and owed the nation millions in compensation for accepting bribes.
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The Harvard-educated former model and pop singer is accused by the United States of accepting bribes to allow a Dutch telecom company to enter the Uzbek market.
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Fattah was also found guilty of accepting bribes while trying to secure an ambassadorship or appointment to the U.S. Trade Commission for former Philadelphia Deputy Mayor Herbert Vederman.
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Armando Siri, a transport ministry undersecretary and economic adviser to Salvini, has been put under investigation for allegedly accepting bribes to promote the interests of renewable energy firms.
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Yale women's soccer coach Rudy Meredith has been charged with accepting bribes in exchange for "recruiting" two applicants, including the young woman whose acceptance was rescinded, for his team.
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According to court documents, they are accused of accepting bribes in exchange for designating admissions candidates as recruited athletes to increase their chances of gaining acceptance at elite universities.
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Atlanta (CNN)Sixteen US Postal Service workers got sentences of between three to nine years in federal prison for accepting bribes to deliver cocaine on their routes in Atlanta.
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Monica Conyers, a former Detroit city councilwoman, was sentenced in 2010 to 37 months in prison for accepting bribes from a waste management company trying to win city business.
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At Mr. Cannon's trial the next year, the judge, who was later sent to prison for accepting bribes in unrelated cases, denied a motion to have the confession suppressed.
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Last year, investigators charged a Maryland state senator with accepting bribes, and said he had used the word "lollipop" to refer to $1,000 cash payments, The Baltimore Sun reported.
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Mr. Glas has not been charged, but investigators have said that he is a key figure in their investigation and that they believe he worked with those accepting bribes.
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The country's central bank governor, a top policymaker at the European Central Bank whose term in office ends in late December, is accused of accepting bribes and money laundering.
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The prime minister is accused of accepting bribes and of attempting to persuade Israel's second largest newspaper to give him positive coverage in exchange for damaging a rival paper.
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On Wednesday three legislators who split from the opposition amid allegations of accepting bribes from the ruling Socialist party asked the Supreme Court to void the National Assembly decision.
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It's worth noting that Netanyahu's predecessor, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, went to prison after being convicted of accepting bribes, so it's not a charge to be taken lightly.
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"While disgraced Senator Bob Menendez was accepting bribes in Washington, Bob Hugin was creating jobs for New Jerseyans," National Republican Senate Committee Executive Director Chris Hansen said in a statement.
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As part of the scandal, former Yale women's soccer coach Rudy Meredith was charged with accepting bribes in exchange for designating two applicants as soccer recruits to get them admitted.
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Percoco was found guilty in March by a Manhattan jury of accepting bribes from Kelly and from Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi, founders of the real estate company Cor Development.
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The former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka was found guilty in 1983 of accepting bribes then worth about $2.1 million to arrange the purchase of Lockheed aircraft by All Nippon Airways.
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Joseph Percoco was convicted of soliciting and accepting bribes from executives in two companies, in exchange for helping the firms reach agreements with the state that were beneficial to them.
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The company launched an internal investigation in May, when Eric Broussard, a vice president at Amazon, learned that several employees in China were accepting bribes from sellers, the Journal reported.
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Gomez says he suspected that the man was conducting an "integrity test" — a procedure in which undercover Internal Affairs officers try to tempt fellow cops into accepting bribes or drugs.
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But negotiations took place as the union is hit by a scandal involving misappropriation of union funds, and in some cases, union officials accepting bribes from officials at Fiat Chrysler.
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Meredith, the former women's soccer coach at Yale University, admitted to accepting bribes in exchange for designating prospective students as recruits on the soccer team, according to the plea agreement.
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The last big splash came with Villanueva's arrest in 2016, around the same time two top NYPD officers were arrested for accepting bribes in exchange for services unrelated to firearms licensing.
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Prosecutors say the pair paid the money to admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer and his nonprofit organization, Key Worldwide Foundation ("KWF"), which prosecutors said was actually a front for accepting bribes.
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Rodrigo Garcia Berkowitz, who was a trader at Petrobras' Houston office until he was charged with accepting bribes in late 2018, reached the deal in principle in December, the lawyers said.
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Following a longstanding investigation, police will recommend the Israeli prime minister be indicted on charges including bribery, fraud and breach of trust, for allegedly accepting bribes and gifts from wealthy benefactors.
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Dr. Rodchenkov — who has acknowledged making mixtures of steroids that sports officials provided to top athletes, and has also said he destroyed hundreds of tainted urine samples — has denied accepting bribes.
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"My father had a tempestuous relationship with the press, and I was looking to improve on that," said Mr. Bustamante, whose father was convicted of accepting bribes and racketeering in 1993.
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Petrobras is the subject of an extensive investigation known as Lava Jato (Car Wash), in which executives are suspected of accepting bribes to award contracts to construction firms at inflated prices.
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Among them is a former government official from Wuhan accused of "embezzlement, accepting bribes and abuse of power, for which the maximum punishment in China is death," according to the affidavit.
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The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) said on Thursday it had filed an indictment against former FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke, who it has charged with accepting bribes.
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Seoul, South Korea (CNN)Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, who was removed from office earlier this month, was arrested Friday on charges related to abuse of power and accepting bribes.
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Menendez, 63, is accused of accepting bribes from Melgen, including luxury vacations, private flights and campaign contributions, in exchange for using his political influence to help Melgen in a variety of ways.
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Although Forbes was ultimately found guilty of accepting bribes at Perryville, the issue was ultimately about control, access, and trying to appease the President, not the actual price of the contracted goods.
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Armando Siri, a transport ministry undersecretary and economic adviser to League chief Matteo Salvini, was put under investigation last week for allegedly accepting bribes to promote the interests of renewable energy firms.
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SHANGHAI, April 7 (Reuters) - Two former China South Airlines executives, including the firm's ex-chief financial officer, have pleaded guilty to accepting bribes, the official news Xinhua agency said late on Wednesday.
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Go deeper: Ex-FEMA official arrested for allegedly accepting bribes after Hurricane Maria $400M in Puerto Rico recovery projects deferred over Trump border wall How little we know about Puerto Rico's economy
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LONDON (Reuters) - A former banker at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) was jailed for six years by a top UK court on Tuesday for accepting bribes totaling over $3.5 million.
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Seth Williams, who was twice elected as Philadelphia's DA, is accused of accepting bribes between 2000 and 2015 to help two business owners, said William Fitzpatrick, the acting US attorney of New Jersey.
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UL, the world's third-largest smartphone maker, said on Wednesday that Chinese police are conducting an investigation, after the China sales head of its smartphone unit was detained on suspicion of accepting bribes.
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Police captain Alexander S. "Clubber" Williams allegedly said that due to all his extra income from accepting bribes in the hedonistic urban playground, he went from eating chuck steak to dining on tenderloin.
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The Public Security Bureau for Lufeng, the city that oversees Wukan, said in a written statement on Saturday that Mr. Lin was being held on suspicion of abuse of power and accepting bribes.
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According to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), an investigation showed Chen, 64, had violated a range of party rules governing the behavior of cadres and he was suspected of accepting bribes.
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Olmert was found guilty in 2014 of accepting bribes from real estate developers when he was Jerusalem's mayor, before his 2006-09 term as prime minister and head of a centrist political party.
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A legal source said De Vito was suspected of accepting bribes in return for helping advance business projects, including the planned construction of a new soccer stadium for Serie A squad AS Roma.
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Mr. Lai was accused of violating political rules including "squandering waste of state property, illegally organizing public banquets" and accepting bribes, according to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the party's graft watchdog.
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In a 2013 guilty plea, Blazer acknowledged that for years he had been accepting bribes linked to the awarding of soccer tournaments, including several World Cups, and for lucrative television and sponsorship contracts.
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In 2017, the US suspended imports of fresh beef after Brazil Federal Police arrested dozens of food inspectors for allegedly accepting bribes to allow expired meat to be sold and falsifying sanitary permits.
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Ms. Navot noted, for example, that the Basic Law does not differentiate between a prime minister charged with a lesser crime like failing to pay taxes, or a major one like accepting bribes.
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Beijing (CNN)Ling Jihua, who served as the top aide to former Chinese President Hu Jintao, was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of accepting bribes, stealing state secrets and abusing power.
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Prosecutors alleged in a criminal complaint that Huffman paid $15,000 to admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer and his nonprofit organization, Key Worldwide Foundation ("KWF"), which prosecutors said was actually a front for accepting bribes.
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The U.S. Justice Department said each had admitted to accepting bribes from two Venezuelan businessmen, Roberto Rincon and Abraham Jose Shiera Bastidas, who were charged in December with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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A court in Beijing found Yang guilty of abusing his position, including when he was former vice mayor of northeastern Tianjin, by accepting bribes to grant contracts to companies, China Central Television (CCTV) said.
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In the former case, Solicitor General Robert Bork concluded that Vice President Spiro Agnew could be prosecuted by US Attorney for the District of Maryland George Beall for accepting bribes as governor of Maryland.
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Prosecutors alleged in a criminal complaint that Huffman paid $15,000 to admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer and his nonprofit organization, Key Worldwide Foundation ("KWF"), which prosecutors said was actually a front for accepting bribes.
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On trial for accepting bribes and money laundering in connection to a beachfront apartment, Lula says he has done nothing wrong, denies ownership of the property and denounces his prosecution as a witch-hunt.
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In July, Shin Young-ja, a 73-year-old sister of the Lotte chairman, was arrested on charges of accepting bribes from a local cosmetics company that sought access to Lotte's duty-free outlets.
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In Chinese courts, which are often criticized as lacking due process and transparency, Mr. Hu ultimately pleaded guilty to accepting bribes as a part of deals to provide iron ore to Chinese steel mills.
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Brazil's Car Wash investigation, which began in 2014 with a routine money-laundering inquiry, has reverberated across South America as senior officials, including two former presidents of Peru, have been charged with accepting bribes.
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Prosecutors said in a criminal complaint that Huffman paid $15,000 to admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer and his nonprofit organization, Key Worldwide Foundation ("KWF"), which prosecutors said was actually a front for accepting bribes.
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And when Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigned in disgrace in October 1973 after pleading no contest to accepting bribes, Mr. Laird did much to persuade Nixon to replace the vice president with Ford.
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The case culminated in 191977 with charges against federal legislators and local officials in New Jersey and Pennsylvania for accepting bribes from agents posing as Arab sheikhs and businessmen in return for political favors.
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An indictment charged Mr. Echevarria, a former deportation officer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with seven counts of accepting bribes, and single counts of harboring an undocumented immigrant and making false statements to immigration authorities.
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Last month, police recommended that Netanyahu be indicted for accepting bribes, fraud, and breach of trust in relation to his dealings with Milchan, and for fraud and breach of trust in connection with Packer's gifts.
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According to court documents, Salcedo was among the university officials who are accused of accepting bribes in exchange for designating admissions candidates as recruited athletes to increase their chances of gaining acceptance at elite schools.
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The coalition was thrown into turmoil on Thursday when Armando Siri, an economic adviser to League leader Matteo Salvini, was placed under investigation for allegedly accepting bribes to promote the interests of renewable energy companies.
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Prosecutors had charged Mangano and John Venditto, a former town supervisor of Oyster Bay, Long Island, with accepting bribes and kickbacks from restaurateur Harendra Singh in exchange for favorable treatment, including government contracts and loans.
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Prosecutors said in a criminal complaint that Huffman had paid $15,000 to admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer and his nonprofit organization, Key Worldwide Foundation ("KWF"), which prosecutors said was actually a front for accepting bribes.
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Earlier this year, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, the former CEO of Chicago Public Schools, was convicted of accepting bribes in return for awarding more than $20 million in no-bid contracts to education consulting firm SUPES.
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Valcke, already banned by FIFA's ethics committee for 10 years for ethics violations, was charged with accepting bribes, aggravated criminal mismanagement and falsification of documents, the Swiss Attorney General's (OAG) office said in a statement.
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Valcke, already banned by FIFA's ethics committee for 10 years for ethics violations, was charged with accepting bribes, aggravated criminal mismanagement and falsification of documents, the Swiss Attorney General's (OAG) office said in a statement.
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Zhou Yuehai, former vice general manager, was also charged with accepting bribes of about 600,000 yuan and seeking gains for others in adding air routes and the supply of airline food, according to the court.
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It is why Louisiana State, for example, is playing without its head coach, Will Wade, and why Auburn recently had an assistant coach suspended and a former assistant plead guilty of conspiracy for accepting bribes.
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert finally began a 19-month jail sentence for accepting bribes on Monday after a protracted series of indictments, court cases, and appeals that begun more than six years ago.
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert finally began a 210-month jail sentence for accepting bribes on Monday after a protracted series of indictments, court cases, and appeals that begun more than six years ago.
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Prosecutors in Brazil filed new corruption charges against Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a former president who was recently jailed, and other leaders of the Workers' Party for allegedly accepting bribes from Odebrecht, a construction firm.
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In an internal memo to staff, however, Huawei said Teng Hongfei, the Greater China sales head for its consumer business division, had been detained for "the suspected crime of accepting bribes as a non-state functionary".
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Former president of the IAAF and member of the International Olympic Committee, Lamine Diack, was detained by France in 2015 and "accused of accepting bribes for covering up the doping violations of Russian athletes," per NYT.
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Yale University has rescinded the admission of a student linked to the national college admissions scandal that implicated 50 people, including celebrities, coaches and administrators, in paying and accepting bribes to get students into elite colleges.
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Brazil's top federal prosecutor charged President Michel Temer on Monday with accepting bribes, the first of what is expected to be a series of formal graft charges against the deeply unpopular leader in the coming weeks.
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The current interior and justice minister, Nestor Reverol, faces a federal indictment in Brooklyn charging him with assisting drug traffickers in Venezuela in his previous posts — tipping them off to raids, obstructing investigations and accepting bribes.
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In a criminal complaint released last month, prosecutors alleged that Huffman paid $15,000 to admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer and his nonprofit organization, Key Worldwide Foundation ("KWF") — which prosecutors said was actually a front for accepting bribes.
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Beijing (CNN)Chinese prosecutors have charged Ling Jihua, a top aide to former President Hu Jintao, with accepting bribes, stealing state secrets and abusing power, paving way for a criminal trial, state news agency Xinhua reported Friday.
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The Nigerian government has accused former President Goodluck Jonathan and his then oil minister of accepting bribes and breaking the country's laws to broker a $1.3 billion oil deal eight years ago, a London court filing shows.
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David Villanueva, a sergeant, was also charged for accepting bribes to expedite gun license applications for Alex Lichtenstein, a member of a volunteer safety patrol in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn who was charged in April.
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"Police have concluded is that there is sufficient evidence against the prime minister on suspicions for the offense of accepting bribes, fraud and breach of trust," a police spokesman said in a statement obtained by NBC News.
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Cardiologist Aiman Hamdan, who operated a practice in Paterson, New Jersey, pleaded guilty in federal court in New York to accepting bribes from Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC in violation of the Federal Travel Act, according to prosecutors.
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WASHINGTON — More than 353 employees of the United States' primary border security agency were charged with drug trafficking, accepting bribes and a range of other crimes over a two-year period, according to reports released on Friday.
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Lin Zuluan, 72, was jailed by a court in the southern city of Foshan for three years and one month, and fined 400,000 yuan ($60,000) on several charges, including accepting bribes, Hong Kong's Ming Pao newspaper said.
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They also accuse Mr. Diack, whom France has sought to extradite from his native Senegal for several years, of facilitating and accepting bribes from officials behind Rio de Janeiro's successful bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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Four months later, the Constitutional Court upheld that vote, ending the presidency of South Korea's first female leader, and on March 24 Park was arrested on charges relating to abuse of power, accepting bribes and leaking important information.
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Xinhua said investigators found Zhang had seriously violated party discipline and broke the law by allegedly giving and accepting bribes as well as possessing a huge amount of money, the sources of which he could not account for.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico will not investigate former president Felipe Calderon after one of his onetime aides was charged in the United States with accepting bribes from a drug cartel, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday.
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The following are some key points about the scandal and its implication: Tokyo prosecutors arrested Tsukasa Akimoto on Wednesday on suspicion of accepting bribes from employees of a company that wanted to set up a casino in Japan.
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The following are some key points about the scandal and its implication: Tokyo prosecutors arrested Tsukasa Akimoto on Wednesday on suspicion of accepting bribes from employees of a company that wanted to set up a casino in Japan.
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In the aftermath of the probe, Fall was convicted of accepting bribes and spent a year in federal prison, thereby becoming the first former Cabinet officer to be sentenced to prison as a result of misconduct in office.
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The Charges Prosecutors allege in a criminal complaint that Desperate Housewives star Huffman paid $15,000 to admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer and his nonprofit organization, Key Worldwide Foundation ("KWF"), which prosecutors said was actually a front for accepting bribes.
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Three of the defendants, Ernst, Heinel and Salcedo, also face new charges of conspiring to commit federal programs bribery by allegedly soliciting and accepting bribes to admit prospective students at Georgetown University, the University of Southern California and UCLA.
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Prosecutors allege dozens of wealthy parents — including Huffman and fellow actress Lori Loughlin — paid exorbitant sums to admissions consultant William Singer and his nonprofit organization, Key Worldwide Foundation ("KWF"), which prosecutors said was actually a front for accepting bribes.
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ABUJA (Reuters) - The Nigerian government has accused former President Goodluck Jonathan and his then oil minister of accepting bribes and breaking the country's laws to broker a $1.3 billion oil deal eight years ago, a London court filing shows.
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That coach was presumably Rudy Meredith, who pleaded guilty in March and admitted to accepting bribes totaling nearly $1 million from Singer in order to give athletic recruit spots to Singer's clients seeking entry to the Ivy League institution.
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In a series of changes announced Wednesday, the government charged Navnoor Kang with accepting bribes in the form of "entertainment, travel, lavish meals, prostitutes, nightclub bottle service, narcotics, luxury gifts and cash payments" from a pair of broker-dealers.
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A former British Airways executive who oversaw the carrier's operations at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport has been indicted for accepting bribes to help a ground handling company win contracts, New York's attorney general said on Tuesday.
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Prosecutors alleged in the original criminal complaint against the couple that Loughlin paid $500,000 to admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer and his alleged nonprofit organization, Key Worldwide Foundation ("KWF"), which prosecutors said was actually a front for accepting bribes.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — The United States on Thursday suspended imports of fresh beef from Brazil because of safety concerns, dealing a blow to one of Brazil's biggest industries just months after Brazilian investigators accused food inspectors of accepting bribes.
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Igor Dvorskiy, who administered SAT and ACT tests in Los Angeles, and Lisa "Niki" Williams, who administered the tests at a public high school in Houston, are both accused of accepting bribes to allow Riddell to take the tests.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has arrested the head of its Customs Authority, Gamal Abdelazim, on suspicion of accepting bribes to permit the entry of banned goods into the country without customs duties, the Administrative Control Authority said in a statement on Monday.
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ABUJA, May 20153 (Reuters) - The Nigerian government has accused former President Goodluck Jonathan and his then oil minister of accepting bribes and breaking the country's laws to broker a $22015 billion oil deal eight years ago, a London court filing shows.
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Mr Moreno and Mr Correa were allies, but the two fell out last year after Mr Moreno's vice-president, Jorge Glas, a protégé of Mr Correa, was accused and then convicted of accepting bribes from Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction firm.
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They are accused of accepting bribes from the state's transportation industry body in exchange for favorable legislation going back to the governorship of Sérgio Cabral, who held power from 2007 to 2014 and was arrested in 2016 on corruption charges.
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SAO PAULO, March 2 (Reuters) - Brazil's Supreme Court voted to accept corruption charges against lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha on Wednesday, putting him on trial for allegedly accepting bribes on contracts for two drill ships leased by state oil company Petrobras.
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The giant-killing began on March 103rd, when the supreme court voted to charge Eduardo Cunha, Speaker of the federal Chamber of Deputies, with accepting bribes linked to the award by Petrobras of contracts for building two oil-drilling ships.
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The U.S. investigation of soccer has sent Switzerland-based FIFA and other governing bodies into an unprecedented crisis, as executive committee members and national federation presidents have been charged with accepting bribes in exchange for awarding broadcast and marketing contracts.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - A majority of Brazil's Supreme Court voted to accept corruption charges against lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha on Wednesday, putting him on trial for allegedly accepting bribes on contracts for two drill ships leased by state oil company Petrobras.
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Within months, though, the State Department began suspecting that the office of Mr. Poroshenko's first prosecutor general was accepting bribes to protect Mykola Zlochevsky, the oligarch owner of Burisma Holdings, the gas company where Hunter Biden was a board member.
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And while the International Association of Athletics Federations, track and field's world governing body, has under widespread pressure barred Russian athletes from Rio, its former president, Lamine Diack of Senegal, stands accused of accepting bribes to cover up positive tests.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Authorities in southern China have detained the chief of a village that was once hailed as a model for grassroots democracy, accusing him of accepting bribes, while deploying hundreds of riot police to stave off potential trouble.
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In another high-profile case, Mr. Xi's government sentenced a powerful security official, Zhou Yongkang, the nation's former chief of domestic security, to life in prison last year, accusing him of abuse of power, accepting bribes and revealing state secrets.
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Slightly tipsy on tips, I splurged on a bowl of miso ramen with salmon chorizo at the Rookery Café and a king-size bed at the Westmark Baranof Hotel, where state legislators have been caught accepting bribes from oil industry executives.
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As detailed by news reports and ethics investigations commissioned by FIFA, Mr. Leoz was accused of accepting bribes in the late 20163s and early 2000s from a Swiss sports marketing company in exchange for awarding that company lucrative broadcasting contracts.
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Lamine Diack, who ran the international track federation for 16 years and served as a longtime member of the I.O.C., has been detained in France since November 2015, accused of accepting bribes for covering up the doping violations of Russian athletes.
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The Case Against Felicity Huffman Prosecutors allege in a criminal complaint that Desperate Housewives star Huffman paid $15,000 to admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer and his nonprofit organization, Key Worldwide Foundation ("KWF"), which prosecutors said was actually a front for accepting bribes.
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Rimsevics, a top policy-maker at the European Central Bank, was detained by the Latvian anti-corruption agents in mid-February last year and was later charged with accepting bribes – a pleasure trip and 250,000 euros from a Latvian bank - and money laundering.
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He is proof, she argued, that experience in government can be corrosive anyway: Already this year, the architect of Mr. Cuomo's signature economic development initiative was convicted in a bid-rigging scheme, and a former top aide was found guilty of accepting bribes.
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In the new ruling on Wednesday, Judge Gabriela Hardt found Mr. da Silva guilty of accepting bribes from construction companies in the form of a $235,000 renovation of a country house and sentenced him to 12 years and 11 months in prison.
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Mr Janot is expected to file formal charges against him—for obstruction of justice, as well as for accepting bribes—based on the fateful tape and on testimony from Joesley Batista, a billionaire meat mogul who surreptitiously recorded it, and from Mr Batista's brother.
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In 2015, for instance, the former vice president of Agricultural Bank of China Ltd, Yang Kun, was sentenced to life imprisonment for accepting bribes of more than 30 million yuan ($4.4 million) in connection with loans, among other things, according to local media reports.
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Shlomo Benizri, a former minister of health and social welfare minister who was released from prison in 2012 after serving about two and a half years for charges that included accepting bribes, offered Mr. Olmert some advice about how to get by in prison.
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As reported by The Guardian on Sunday, Juan Pedro Damiani of Uruguay, a founding member of the ethics committee, has ties to offshore companies connected to Eugenio Figueredo, also of Uruguay, who has been accused by the United States of soliciting and accepting bribes.
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The Times of Israel reported Wednesday that police chiefs, including the general commissioner of Israel's police force, were in "unanimous agreement" that Netanyahu should be indicted for allegedly accepting bribes and receiving lavish gifts from wealthy benefactors, including Israeli-born Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan.
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THE BOTTOM LINE According to the police, Mr. Netanyahu should be charged with accepting bribes, fraud and breach of trust in relation to Mr. Milchan and only the latter two crimes in connection with Mr. Packer, and Mr. Milchan should be charged with giving bribes.
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The Seoul Central District Court found Lee guilty of embezzlement of about 24.6 billion won ($21.77 million) from a private auto parts maker headed by his brother, and accepting bribes from Samsung and others, fining Lee 13 billion won in addition to the jail sentence.
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Details of the unusual arrangement first appeared in a plea agreement involving a company charged in the United States' sprawling soccer investigation, and emerged again when the Swiss authorities this month accused FIFA's former top administrator of accepting bribes in return for lucrative TV contracts.
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LONDON — Swiss prosecutors on Thursday charged Nasser al-Khelaifi, a Qatari businessman who is one of the most prominent figures in soccer, with inciting a former secretary general at FIFA to break the law and the official, Jérôme Valcke, with accepting bribes and criminal mismanagement.
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A number of countries suspended Brazilian meat imports in March after a two-year investigation by Brazil's Federal Police led to the arrests of dozens of federal inspectors who were accused of accepting bribes to allow expired meats to be sold and falsifying sanitary permits.
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ABUJA, Sept 20183 (Reuters) - Nigeria's anti-fraud office on Friday charged a former petroleum ministry official with accepting bribes and failing to follow protocol over an ill-fated gas deal that has left the government facing a disputed bill of more than $9 billion.
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Igor Dvorskiy, test administrator for the College Board and AC.T., accused of accepting bribes to facilitate the cheating scheme at the West Hollywood Test Center Niki Williams, assistant teacher at a public high school in Houston and a test administrator for the College Board and AC.T. who is accused of accepting bribes Mark Riddell, a test proctor accused of tampering with students' test papers to improve scores, and of secretly taking exams in place of students Martin Fox, president of a private tennis academy and camp in Houston, accused of acting as a middleman for bribe payments Patti Cohen, Susan Beachy, Matthew Goldstein and Tiffany Hsu contributed reporting.
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Villagers gathered near dusk, waving red China flags and calling for the return of seized land and the release of Lin Zuluan, a former protest leader who was directly elected village chief in 2012 and who has since been accused of abuse of power and accepting bribes.
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"They haven't taken me out of the game," Lula told supporters at the headquarters of his Workers Party a day after he received a nearly 10-year sentence for accepting bribes in return for helping an engineering company win contracts with state oil company Petroleo Brasileiro.
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Criminal ethics violations are limited to financial conflicts of interest, accepting bribes, supplementing government salaries, getting involved in lawsuits against the federal government, and being paid in connection to matters affecting the government, as well as restrictions on what government employees can do after they leave office.
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"They used code words, hidden bank accounts all around the world, shell companies, fake contracts," Mr. Edelman said, describing schemes through which Mr. Burga, Mr. Napout and Mr. Marin are accused of soliciting and accepting bribes from business executives in exchange for lucrative television and marketing contracts.
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In addition to his involvement in Mr. Seabrook's trial, Mr. Rechnitz, 34, was entangled in several other recent corruption probes: federal and state investigations into whether Mr. de Blasio doled out favors for donors, and a federal case against three city police officers accused of accepting bribes.
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She later posted the video on her public Instagram account, where it sat for many months, essentially unnoticed, until anti-corruption political activist and Putin critic Alexei Navalny discovered it and explained its import in a YouTube video, accusing the deputy prime minister of accepting bribes from the oligarch.
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"They haven't taken me out of the game," Lula told supporters at the Sao Paulo offices of his Workers Party a day after he received a nearly 10-year sentence for accepting bribes in return for helping an engineering company win contracts with state oil company Petroleo Brasileiro.
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"The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York accuses him of accepting bribes totaling millions of dollars in connection with the sale to various sports marketing firms of marketing rights to football tournaments in Latin America," the Federal Office of Justice said in a statement.
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On Wednesday, Naftali Bennett, the Education Minister and one of the government's key coalition partners, publicly chastised Netanyahu for "not living up to the standard of his office" after police indicated late Tuesday that the Israeli leader could face charges of fraud, accepting bribes, and breach of trust.
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CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — A federal judge declared a mistrial on Thursday in the corruption case of Edward P. Mangano, the former Nassau County executive, who had been accused of accepting bribes from a restaurateur in return for help in obtaining government contracts and millions of dollars in loans.
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The lower house of Congress, which has the authority to decide whether a president should stand trial, began to discuss the new charges on Tuesday and is expected to block them as it did last month with an earlier graft charge brought against Temer for allegedly accepting bribes paid by JBS.
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Federal Judge Sérgio Moro, the most prominent figure in the judiciary's crackdown on political corruption, convicted Mr. da Silva in July on corruption and money laundering charges for accepting bribes from O.A.S., a major construction company, in the form of a seaside apartment that was being renovated to his liking.
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But instead of settling with that shockingly good deal, and despite the fact that FIFA formally admitted to accepting bribes from World Cup hosts during Blatter's reign just yesterday (and asked for that money back from the U.S.), Blatter came out with an appeal to annul his six year ban altogether.
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UNITED NATIONS — Five months after a former president of the United Nations General Assembly was accused of accepting bribes to buy items like hand-tailored suits and Rolex watches, a task force appointed by the United Nations secretary general recommended greater transparency in the way money is raised and spent by that office.
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While Erdoğan has denied Zarrab's allegations, the statement from the U.S. attorney's office says unnamed "high-ranking government officials in Iran and Turkey participated in and protected this scheme," with some of them accepting bribes worth tens of millions of dollars to promote the conspiracy, protect conspirators and conceal the scheme from regulatory scrutiny.
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Lula was found guilty in August and sentenced to 10 years in prison for accepting bribes worth 3.7 million reais ($1 million) from engineering firm OAS, the amount of money prosecutors said OAS spent refurbishing a beach apartment for Lula in return for his help winning contracts with state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro.
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Over the past decade, dozens of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and contract guards responsible for the detention and removal of undocumented immigrants have been arrested and charged with beating people, smuggling drugs into detention centers, having sex with detainees and accepting bribes to delay or stop deportations, agency documents and court records show.
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One accused parent, the complaint says, worked with Singer to create a fake athletic profile for his son and was instructed to provide money to the foundation so that it could pay an SAT and ACT test administrator accused of accepting bribes to allow someone to take tests instead of the prospective college student.
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Villagers gathered near dusk after listening to a speech from a public stage, waving red China flags and calling for the return of seized land and the release of Lin Zuluan, a former protest leader who was directly elected village chief in 2012 and who has since been accused of abuse of power and accepting bribes.
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Lula was found guilty in August and sentenced to 10 years in prison for accepting bribes worth 3.7 million reais ($1 million) from engineering firm OAS, the amount of money prosecutors said OAS spent refurbishing a beach apartment for Lula in return for his help winning contracts with state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro (PETR4.SA).
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Prosecutors alleged that Loughlin and Giannulli paid $500,000 to admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer and his nonprofit organization, Key Worldwide Foundation ("KWF"), which prosecutors said was actually a front for accepting bribes, to have their daughters Olivia Jade, 19, and Isabella Rose, 20, designated as recruits to the USC crew team — despite the fact that they did not participate in crew.
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Prosecutors alleged that Loughlin and her husband paid $500,000 to admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer and his nonprofit organization, Key Worldwide Foundation ("KWF"), which prosecutors said was actually a front for accepting bribes, to have their daughters designated as recruits to the USC crew team — despite the fact that they did not participate in crew — thereby facilitating their admission to USC.
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Prosecutors alleged that Loughlin, 54, and her husband, 55, paid $500,000 to admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer and his nonprofit organization, Key Worldwide Foundation ("KWF"), which prosecutors said was actually a front for accepting bribes, to have their daughters designated as recruits to the USC crew team — despite the fact that they did not participate in crew — thereby facilitating their admission to USC.
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In the most serious, in which he was charged with accepting bribes, fraud and breach of trust, Mr. Netanyahu was accused of providing regulatory benefits worth hundreds of millions of dollars as a bribe to the parent company of Walla, a leading Israeli news website, for favorable coverage of the prime minister and his family, and rough treatment of his adversaries.
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Prosecutors alleged that Loughlin and Giannulli paid $500,000 to admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer and his nonprofit organization, Key Worldwide Foundation ("KWF"), which prosecutors said was actually a front for accepting bribes, to have their daughters Olivia Jade, 19, and Isabella Rose, 20, designated as recruits to the USC crew team — despite the fact that they did not participate in crew — thereby facilitating their admission to USC.
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