FBI SAYS IT IS WORKING ON MORE THAN 4,000 PUBLIC CORRUPTION CASES IN USA
June 8th, 2014
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is currently working on more than4,000 public corruption cases around the nation, it has revealed in an update on its work in this arena. It has also declared the investigation of public corruption to be its “top criminal priority”. Some 1,200 federal indictments and ‘informations’ (a formal accusation by a government attorney that the defendant committed a misdemeanour) against corrupt officials were recorded in fiscal year 2013, the bureau added.“Investigating the corruption of federal personnel - in ...
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