Download or read book The FBI and Public Corruption written by Robert Grayson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a national agency dedicated to investigation federal crimes. Founded as a small team of special agents on July 26, 1908, the Bureau was first charged with enforcing the growing body of federal laws covering the United States as a whole. Almost from the beginning of its 100-year history, the Bureau has been the subject of legend and controversy. It has also evolved into a vast and sophisticated national law-enforcement agency. Whether as a federal crime-fighting force or a source of investigative support of local and state police forces, the modern FBI strives to embody its ideals of fidelity, bravery, and integrity. When people who commit bribery, extortion, or embezzlement work in local, state, or federal government, then their crimes are a form of public corruption. The perpetrators may be elected officials, judged, building and health inspectors, or even police officers. What these people have in common is a position of public trust, and they have chosen to violate that trust in exchange for money or something else of value. Rooting our corrupt officials and bringing them to justice is a task that falls to special agents of the FBI.
Download or read book Public Corruption in the United States written by Jeff Cortese and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Corruption in the United States provides a comprehensive view of public corruption, including discussion on its types, methods, trends, challenges, and overall impact. It is the first book of its kind to examine in plain language the breadth of criminal public corruption in the United States, not just at a superficial level, but in a deeper context. By critically examining acts of corruption of elected, appointed and hired government officials (legislators, law enforcement, judges, etc.) at the local, state, and federal levels, the reader gains insight into the inner workings of corruption, including its relationship to terrorism and organized criminal networks. Using simple language and easy-to-understand examples, this book is about empowering investigators, compliance professionals, educators, public officials, and everyday citizens who seek to better serve, support, and protect their communities and their country.
Download or read book The Prosecution and Defense of Public Corruption written by Peter J. Henning and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prosecution and Defense of Public Corruption: The Law and Legal Strategies is the first comprehensive, practice-oriented treatment of the law of public corruption in the U.S. legal market.
Download or read book Investigating and Prosecuting Corruption written by Richard Denholm and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating and Prosecuting Corruption: An Anthology features a collection of curated readings that help students learn about the history of corruption in the United States and around the world. The book educates readers regarding the specific legal meaning of corruption and reviews the framework of laws used to combat corruption nationally and internationally. The opening chapter provides students with an overview of public corruption and anticorruption case law. Topics covered include the corruption of ethics, domestic bribery of public officials, the Hobbs Act, and more. Additional chapters explore corruption at various levels and within specific contexts, including federal public corruption, state and local public corruption, and law enforcement corruption. Closing chapters examine the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and corruption in governments outside the U.S. The anthology features pre-reading introductions and end-of-chapter review questions to support the reading and learning experience. Designed to provide students with an enlightening and timely exploration of the topic, Investigating and Prosecuting Corruption is an ideal resource for courses and programs in law, corruption, criminal justice, criminology, and political science.
Download or read book International Corruption written by Paul Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at anti-corruption laws & treaties in a number of key jurisdictions worldwide.
Download or read book The G Men in Kabul The FBI Combating Public Corruption in Afghanistan written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Afghanistan is using an innovative approach to battle public corruption. The FBI is utilizing an advance investigative tool: The Enterprise theory of Investigation (ETI). This holistic and flexible approach to conducting complex investigations allows the investigator, within the parameters of specific laws, to creatively investigate, disrupt, and eventually dismantle intricate criminal organizations. ETI as applied by the FBI in a task force setting in Afghanistan is the most effective way to combat high-level public corruption afflicting this troubled nation. This paper will examine the U.S. current anti-corruption policy in Afghanistan and the state of corruption in Afghanistan, and will illustrate the depth of the problem facing the U.S. and what is being done to address it. The reader will be introduced to the role the FBI plays in combating public corruption in Afghanistan using the ETI as the operational art foundation for its work. Finally, a detailed discussion of the FBI led Major Crimes Task Force-Afghanistan (MCTF-A), its structure, training, and cases, will support the thesis that the ETI based investigations conducted by the MCTF-A are the best way to attack public corruption.
Download or read book Compromised written by Seamus Bruner and published by Bombardier Books. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you ask most Americans what they think about the FBI, they would tell you it’s far and away the government agency they trust the most. The Bureau has, for decades, sold an image of itself as efficient, professional, unbiased, and untouchable by corruption. That portrait is a sham. Seamus Bruner and the Government Accountability Institute have spent years cataloging the widespread conflict-of-interests of the D.C. political class. They have found massive self-enrichment and political bias at the highest levels of government—including the Justice Department and the FBI. Indeed, the nation's most important law enforcement agency has become so compromised that every major investigation should face intense scrutiny from the public, the media, and from Congress. James Comey, Robert Mueller, Andrew McCabe, and the rest of the recent FBI leadership should be forced to answer for the way the Bureau has abused the public trust under their watch.
Download or read book Operation Pretense written by James R. Crockett and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1980s fifty-seven of Mississippi's 410 county supervisors from twenty-six of the state's eighty-two counties were charged with corruption. The FBI's ploy to catch the criminals was code-named Operation Pretense. Ingenious undercover investigation exposed the supervisors' wide-scaled subterfuge in purchasing goods and services. Because supervisors themselves controlled and monitored the purchasing system, they could supply sham documentation and spurious invoices. Operation Pretense was devised in response to the complaint of a disgruntled company owner, a Pentecostal preacher who balked at adding a required ten percent kickback to his bid. Detailing the intricate story, this book gives an account of the FBI's stratagem of creating a decoy company that ingratiated itself throughout the supervisors' fiefdoms and brought about a jolting exposé, sweeping repercussions, and a crusade for reform. The case was so notable that CBS's Mike Wallace came to Mississippi to cast the 60 Minutes spotlight on this astonishing sting and on the humiliated public servants it exposed to public shame. The conditions that gave rise to such pervasive malfeasance, the major players on both sides, the mortifying indictments, and the push to finish the clean up are all discussed here. In the wake of Operation Pretense were ruined careers, a spirit of watchdog reform, and an overhauled purchasing system bared to public sunshine. However, this cautioning book reveals a system that remains far from perfect. This narrative report on the largest public corruption scandal in Mississippi history serves as a reminder of the conditions that allow such crime to flourish.
Download or read book The FBI Mission written by United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Law Enforcement written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Capitol Hill s Criminal Underground written by Richard Lawless and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2019-02-23 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps one of the most thorough explorations of government corruption ever put in writing, this nonfiction account investigates the theft of trillions of U.S. dollars—money laundered in countries that are hostile to the United States. The ratings agencies, the banks, and our politicians are funding anti-American activity against their own people—and they couldn’t care less. The FBI refuses to investigate, the U.S. Attorneys refuse to prosecute, and the Securities and Exchange Commission refuses to protect the public. With enough evidence to investigate and prosecute over one thousand high-ranking government employees, bankers, and politicians, Capitol Hill’s Criminal Underground will show that the level of arrogance and contempt our political leaders hold for the American people is boundless.
Download or read book The Mighty Have Fallen written by Derek Bluford and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mighty Have Fallen is the account of a multi-year federal political corruption investigation by the FBI and its sole, confidential human source for the case, Derek Bluford. Mr.Bluford's work started with former Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson and his corrupt elected friends, and then expanded throughout the nation as he was recruited by other FBI and law enforcement agencies. Learn how these dirty politicians used their influence, money, and power to siphon millions from taxpayers across the country through government contracts and more.Written by Derek Bluford, who worked with the FBI, this insider account provides detailed information regarding investigations in Mayor Eric Garcetti, Mayor Toni Harp, Mayor Michael Tubbs, Congressman Greg Stanton, and other politicians in cities throughout the United States.Mr.Bluford started as a young entrepreneur and was recruited into the world of dirty politics by former NBA superstar, Kevin Johnson. Little do Johnson and other corrupt politicians know that Mr.Bluford is working for the FBI and will soon bring down their crooked house of cards.This tale of corruption and greed takes the reader inside the double life of Derek Bluford, whose code name was "The Lobbyist." Discover not only how Derek Bluford assisted the government in finding corruption, but how he learned and found corruption within the FBI - the unfair targeting of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, and more.While primarily an intriguing story of what is wrong in American politics, this is also a story of redemption for Derek Bluford, as he fights to redeem himself amid a political landscape riddled with corruption.
Download or read book The Mighty Have Fallen written by Derek Bluford and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mighty Have Fallen is the account of a multi-year federal political corruption investigation by the FBI and its sole, confidential human source for the case, Derek Bluford. Mr.Bluford's work started with former Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson and his corrupt elected friends, and then expanded throughout the nation as he was recruited by other FBI and law enforcement agencies. Learn how these dirty politicians used their influence, money, and power to siphon millions from taxpayers across the country through government contracts and more.Written by Derek Bluford, who worked with the FBI, this insider account provides detailed information regarding investigations in Mayor Eric Garcetti, Mayor Toni Harp, Mayor Michael Tubbs, Congressman Greg Stanton, and other politicians in cities throughout the United States.Mr.Bluford started as a young entrepreneur and was recruited into the world of dirty politics by former NBA superstar, Kevin Johnson. Little do Johnson and other corrupt politicians know that Mr.Bluford is working for the FBI and will soon bring down their crooked house of cards.This tale of corruption and greed takes the reader inside the double life of Derek Bluford, whose code name was "The Lobbyist." Discover not only how Derek Bluford assisted the government in finding corruption, but how he learned and found corruption within the FBI - the unfair targeting of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, and more.While primarily an intriguing story of what is wrong in American politics, this is also a story of redemption for Derek Bluford, as he fights to redeem himself amid a political landscape riddled with corruption.
Download or read book The Corruption Chronicles written by Tom Fitton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discloses secrets and corruption the watchdog group has discovered in the Obama administration through various legal battles, sharing insights into activities related to terrorism, illegal immigration, and the health-care initiative.
Download or read book The Con and the FBI Agent written by David Nadolski and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While FBI Agent David Nadolski risked his career, his informant, Anthony Romano risked his life to quash one of the biggest armed robberies of the twentieth century. During the 1990’s Boston was a world leader in arts, culture, higher education, and medicine. It was also a world leader in organized crime. In this exciting account, former FBI supervisory special agent David Nadolski tells the story of an unlikely alliance between two diametrically opposed people—the con and the FBI agent. While investigating a break-in at the Stone Library in Quincy, MA that houses the personal book collection of John Quincy Adams, the FBI gets a call from prison inmate, Anthony (Tony) Romano, requesting to meet with the case agent on the burglary. Romano provides a helpful tip that leads to the apprehension of the thief and the recovery of four priceless, historically significant books. Recognizing Tony’s potential, Nadolski begins to cultivate a relationship in hopes of recruiting Romano as a criminal informant. Nadolski recruits Romano to play a very dangerous game—infiltrate the Merlino gang, controlled by Carmello Merlino, a career criminal who specialized in bank robberies, armored car robberies, and home invasions. The Merlino gang also became suspects in the largest art theft in history which took place at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum in Boston and remains unsolved to this day. Romano, a former armed robber, agrees. With sights set on the Loomis Fargo Armored Car Company money vault, located south of Boston, the Merlino gang gets to work. Little did they know, Romano, at great personal risk, was a wearing a wire and recording their planning sessions. After two years of being joined at the hip and learning to trust each other unconditionally, special agent Nadolski and Romano run a successful criminal investigation and undercover sting operation to catch four dangerous criminals poised to launch one of the biggest armed robberies of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Disrupt Discredit and Divide written by Mike German and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impressively researched and eloquently argued, former special agent Mike German’s Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide tells the story of the transformation of the FBI after the 9/11 attacks from a law enforcement agency, made famous by prosecuting organized crime and corruption in business and government, into arguably the most secretive domestic intelligence agency America has ever seen. German shows how FBI leaders exploited the fear of terrorism in the aftermath of 9/11 to shed the legal constraints imposed on them in the 1970s in the wake of Hoover-era civil rights abuses. Empowered by the Patriot Act and new investigative guidelines, the bureau resurrected a discredited theory of terrorist “radicalization” and adopted a “disruption strategy” that targeted Muslims, foreigners, and communities of color, and tarred dissidents inside and outside the bureau as security threats, dividing American communities against one another. By prioritizing its national security missions over its law enforcement mission, the FBI undermined public confidence in justice and the rule of law. Its failure to include racist, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, and xenophobic violence committed by white nationalists within its counterterrorism mandate only increased the perception that the FBI was protecting the powerful at the expense of the powerless. Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide is an engaging and unsettling contemporary history of the FBI and a bold call for reform, told by a longtime counterterrorism undercover agent who has become a widely admired whistleblower and a critic for civil liberties and accountable government.
Download or read book Public Corruption and the Law written by David H. Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Softbound - New, softbound print book.
