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Va. USPS official pleads guilty to taking bribes
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A U.S. Postal Service official has pleaded guilty to accepting at least $40,000 in bribes in exchange for helping a Maryland company receive $6 million in contracts. […]
Feds: Substance-abuse counselor took bribes to falsify urine-test results
A former substance-abuse counselor took bribes from drug-treatment program participants who wanted to dodge their urine tests, according to a federal grand jury indictment. Lauren Jeannette Diggs, 50, of Rockville, […]
Developer who bribed former Prince George’s county executive sentenced
GREENBELT— A real estate developer who acknowledged bribing former Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. Sixty-eight-year-old Dr. Mirza Hussain Baig of Burtonsville […]
Former Prince George’s housing director sentenced to 3 years
GREENBELT — A former Prince George’s County housing director has been sentenced to three years and one month in prison for his role in a corruption scheme involving former county […]
Prosecutors want Johnson to pay fine before prison
GREENBELT — Prosecutors say former Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson has the money to pay a $100,000 fine related to his extortion conviction before he heads to prison. The […]
Court of Appeals disbars former P.G. County Executive Jack Johnson
Maryland’s top court has disbarred former Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson. The Court of Appeals court issued an order disbarring Johnson on Friday. Johnson, the county executive from 2002 […]
Ex-Prince George’s County leader Johnson sentenced to more than 7 years
GREENBELT — The former county executive of Prince George’s County was sentenced Tuesday to more than seven years in prison for collecting more than $1 million in bribes and gifts […]
Prosecutors: Jack Johnson deserves long sentence
WASHINGTON — Former Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson deserves a severe and lengthy prison sentence for orchestrating “one of the most egregious and notorious” corruption schemes in state history, […]
SHA head testifies in Currie case
State Sen. Ulysses Currie never disclosed he was being paid by a grocery store chain as he pressed the head of the Maryland State Highway Administration to install traffic lights […]
Currie bribery trial to open this week
ANNAPOLIS — Prominent Maryland Sen. Ulysses Currie will stand trial in federal court this week accused of taking bribes from two former executives of Shoppers Food Warehouse. Currie, who served […]
NY jury convicts 3 in NYC hedge fund trial
NEW YORK — The second trial to result from a massive investigation into insider trading at hedge funds ended Monday with the conviction of a trio of Wall Street traders […]
