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Frank Thompson (D-NJ) Sentenced to 3 years. [79] John M. Murphy (D-NY) Served 20 months of a 3-year sentence. [80] Jon Hinson (R-MS) was arrested for having homosexual oral sex in the House of Representatives' bathroom with a government staffer. Hinson, who was married, later received a 30-day jail sentence, and a year's probation, on condition ...
Bill Thompson (New York politician) William Colridge Thompson Jr. (born July 10, 1953) [1][2][3] is an American politician who served as the 42nd Comptroller of New York City; sworn into office on January 1, 2002, he was reelected to serve a second term that began on January 1, 2006. He did not seek re-election in 2009.
Mary Walker Wyse. . (m. 1901) . Signature. William Hale Thompson (May 14, 1869 – March 19, 1944) was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931. Known as " Big Bill ", [1] he is the most recent Republican to have served as mayor of Chicago. Historians rank him among the most unethical ...
Ohio. Matt Borges (R) Chairman of the Ohio Republican Party, was accused of accepting $366,000 in bribes. He was tried and found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison. (2023) [109][110] Larry Householder (R) Ohio House Speaker from Glenford, was accused of a conspiracy involving nearly $61 million in bribes.
U.S. Representative Michael Myers, second from left, holds an envelope containing $50,000 that he just received from undercover FBI agents. Abscam, sometimes written ABSCAM, was a Federal Bureau of Investigation sting operation in the late 1970s and early 1980s that led to the convictions of seven members from both chambers of the United States Congress and others for bribery and corruption. [1]
Recorded January 29, 2008. Lawrence Edwin Craig (born July 20, 1945) is an American retired politician who served in the United States Senate representing Idaho from 1991 to 2009 and in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Idaho's 1st District from 1981 to 1991. [1] A Republican, his 28 years in Congress rank as the second-longest in ...
Bill de Blasio (/ dɪˈblɑːzioʊ /; born Warren Wilhelm Jr., May 8, 1961; later Warren de Blasio-Wilhelm) is an American politician who was the 109th mayor of New York City from 2014 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he held the office of New York City Public Advocate from 2010 to 2013. De Blasio was born in Manhattan and raised ...
The Committee, chaired by Republican Fred Thompson, adopted a Republican-written final report (the Wikisource referenced and appearing herein) on a straight party-line vote, 8 in favor and 7 opposing, in March 1998. Thompson described the findings as "not any one real big thing" but "a lot of things strung together that paint a real ugly picture."