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The gilded age of billion-dollar political bribery

Remember long, long ago in the old-timey days of politics, way back ... maybe 10 years or so? In those olden times, if ...
Yahoo

Illinois deja vu? Appellate arguments for ex-Speaker Michael Madigan to focus on line between politics and bribery

CHICAGO — In Illinois, the line between legal politics and bribery has always seemed a blurry one. Through the years, it's been debated in bars, argued in newspapers, litigated in court, decided by ...
U.S. News & World Report

Republicans Plan Big Spending to Keep Ohio's Senate Seat. A Bribery Scandal Adds to Their Challenges

Republicans Plan Big Spending to Keep Ohio's Senate Seat. A Bribery Scandal Adds to Their Challenges COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — As he seeks to retain his U.S. Senate seat this fall, Ohio Republican Jon ...
WRAL

Opinion Roundup: Partisan dirty plan; bribery charges; student voting; feds hit Duke-UNC courses; and more

STEVEN LEVITSKY & DANIEL ZIBLATT: Why Republicans Play Dirty (New York Times column) -- They fear that if they stick to the rules, they will lose everything. Republicans across the country seem to ...
KITV

5 officials, including Sylvia Luke, indicted by Oahu grand jury in political bribery case

HONOLULU (Island News) -- An Oahu grand jury indicted Sylvia Luke among four others on Friday in connection to an ongoing political bribery case. The indictments made by a grand jury on Friday, July ...
Newsday

Republicans plan big spending to keep Ohio's Senate seat. A bribery scandal adds to their challenges

COLUMBUS, Ohio — As he seeks to retain his U.S. Senate seat this fall, Ohio Republican Jon Husted has been unable to escape the shadow of a $60 million bribery scandal that has roiled state politics ...