The United Nations Convention against Corruption refrains from providing a single definition of corruption. Instead, it focuses on identifying specific acts of corruption that sho ...

Previous posts have discussed the substantial uncertainty around the meaning of “corruptly,” a mens rea term used across a variety of federal criminal statutes in the areas of public corruption, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recent Supreme Court decisions have made it so that bribing a politician must be cartoonishly blatant to qualify as corruption.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ relationship with conservative billionaire Harlan Crow is corrupt. No, there’s no evidence ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is deregulating corruption, with arguably grim consequences for American democracy. The latest example of this troubling trend was the case known as Snyder v. United States. At ...

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Many of the rioters have been charged with (and convicted of) violating 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2): “[w]hoever corruptly . . . obstructs influences, or impedes any ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ relationship with conservative billionaire Harlan Crow is corrupt. No, there’s no evidence yet Thomas changed his views to fit what his benefactor wants, at ...