The resident camp ranger at the Boy Scouts of America's Camp Echockotee was arrested Tuesday on bribery charges after men and women on court-ordered probation paid to get out of doing community service hours at the Orange Park site, authorities said.U.S. Newspapers...
Rechnitz expected to testify in the bribery kickback trial ofCorrection Officers' Benevolent Association President Norman Seabrook, and hedge fund officer Murray Huberfeld. He is also set to testify in the corruption trials offormer Deputy Inspector James Grantand former Deputy Chief Michael Harrington....
pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges for soliciting and accepting money from three men--including Alfred R. Villalobos, now Los Angeles’ deputy mayor for economic development. Villalobos, who worked as a consultant for the nonprofit agency at the time, was not charged. Below ...
Bob Menendez to resign, saying in a statement the sweeping federal bribery charges unveiled against his fellow New Jersey Democrat contain "shocking allegations of corruption and specific, disturbing details of wrongdoing." FOX 5 NY's Briella Tomassetti has the latest. NEW YORK...
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The rebellion was put down by European troops in 1901. China was then divided into zones of influence between the major European states and Japan. With imperial authority weakened, much of the country was ripe for rebellion. In 1911 the Kuomintang (Guomintang or Nationalist movement) of Sun ...
A Soviet-style five-year plan was put into action in 1953, but the relationship with Moscow was already showing signs of strain. The two Communist powers fell out over interpretations of Marxist orthodoxy. By the end of the 1950s the Soviet Union and China were rivals, spurring the Chinese...
Beijing rejected the choice and appointed Gyaltsen Norbu (b. 1989) in his place. Gendu Choekyi Nyima has been missing since 1995. The borders were opened for trade with neighbouring countries in 1980. In July 1988 Tibetan was reinstated as a 'major official language', competence in which is...
The Ming empire collapsed in a peasants' revolt in 1644. Within months the peasants' leader was swept aside by the invasion of the Manchus, whose Qing dynasty ruled China until 1911. Preoccupied with threats from the north, China neglected its southern coastal frontier where European traders ...