Chicago's Red Light Cameras Keep Fueling Corruption Scandals
A state senator joins several local officials in federal indictments for taking bribes in exchange for contracts.
A state senator joins several local officials in federal indictments for taking bribes in exchange for contracts.
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The Federal Prison Oversight Act would create an independent ombudsman to investigate complaints about the Bureau of Prisons, something prison advocacy groups have long called for.
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Wanda Vázquez, the latest in a string of Puerto Rican officials to face criminal corruption charges, is accused of bribery and mail fraud charges during her failed 2020 reelection campaign.
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The Harris County, Texas, District Attorney's Office oversees civil forfeitures that make a mockery of justice.
The federal prison system is plagued by corruption and civil rights abuses.
Brookside faces several federal challenges for trying to fund its city by ticketing and towing the cars of anybody they can get away with.
The case shows how lax supervisors, incurious prosecutors, deferential judges, credulous jurors, and inattentive defense attorneys abet police misconduct.
We can condemn the actions of Moscow without forfeiting the right to point out missteps in Kyiv.
Miami and Austin lured people away from California. But the new tech hubs could end up repeating San Francisco’s mistakes.
Despite the abundance of transcripts, FBI reports, and memoirs from those involved, we still know more about the cover-up than we do about the infamous political scandal.
Activist Fadi Elsalameen says U.S. aid doesn’t help Palestinians because of corruption. They need monetary freedom.
Caught stealing from motorists, these towns disbanded their police forces or even disbanded their governments altogether.
The department suffers “a dangerous combination of broad authorities, weak safeguards, and insufficient oversight.”
A new report shows wrongfully convicted people serving 1,849 years behind bars across the United States before being released last year.
Reporting that makes Black Lives Matter look bad should not be covered up by social media companies.
A year and a half after the New York Post broke the story, the Times says it has "authenticated" the messages it previously deemed suspect.
It's a Batman movie that seems distinctly uncomfortable with the idea of Batman.
Last year may have been the year of the Cuomosexual, but 2021 rightly disabused people of the notion that New York's governor had their best interests at heart.
"What they're doing is like robbery," observed one property owner.
Art Acevedo provoked many complaints, but they paled in comparison to his prior record of negligence and obliviousness.
Floyd was arrested for selling crack by a crooked Houston narcotics cop who repeatedly lied to implicate people in drug crimes.
Otis Mallet's ordeal, like the deaths of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas, involved a fictional drug purchase.
A U.S. agency spent 13 years documenting our government's failure to stabilize or rebuild the country.
After allegedly sexually harassing 11 women and issuing nursing home COVID guidance that led to massive outbreaks and huge death tolls, Cuomo is out.
Two rotten politicians demonstrate the sickness of America’s political culture.
Election winner Pedro Castillo plans to end the country’s successful free market reforms.
More Puerto Ricans live in the 50 states than on the island, and it’s not hard to see why.
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The book, which garnered a $4 million deal and touted Cuomo's purported pandemic-handling competence, may have gotten the governor into hot water.
He should've focused on containing nursing home COVID spread, not getting VIP treatment for penthouse-dwelling Manhattanites (and his own family members).
Once an up-and-coming city, Portland was destroyed from within by radical activism and political ineptitude.
Art Acevedo responded to a 2019 drug raid that killed a middle-aged couple with reflexive defensiveness and obstinate obfuscation.
Big businesses gave millions to Newsom’s initiatives and were rewarded handsomely.
Eliminating earmarks didn't make the government smaller. But reinstating them would facilitate legislative corruption.
In 2014, Reason reported on the misbehavior of Rod Ponton, who has suddenly risen to internet stardom after being unable to turn off an adorable filter during an online legal case.
The HHS inspector general says the department misreported over $500 million in administrative spending.