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Ex-drug company execs face reckoning in opioid bribery case
BOSTON (AP) — The founder and former top employees of a pharmaceutical company are facing a reckoning for their role in a bribery scheme that prosecutors say boosted sales of a powerful, highly addictive painkiller and helped fuel the national opioid epidemic. Starting Monday, seven people who worked for...
Former Salvadoran congressman arrested on arrival from US
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A former Salvadoran congressman was arrested Wednesday following his deportation from the United States, where he fled in 2007. Roberto Silva Pereira was a congressman from El Salvador's conservative National Conciliation Party who was stripped of his immunity from...
Vietnam sends ex-ministers, executives, to prison for graft
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A Vietnamese court on Saturday sentenced an ex-minister to life imprisonment in a multimillion-dollar corruption case that also saw another minister and a dozen executives receive lengthy prison terms, state media reported. Nguyen Bac Son was accused of taking a bribe of $3 million to...
Top stories of 2019 played out in court in Massachusetts
BOSTON (AP) — 2019's biggest stories in Massachusetts played out in the courtroom. Dozens of wealthy and privileged parents — some of them Hollywood stars — were ensnared in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. A judge tossed a sexual assault case against actor Kevin Spacey...
Giuliani associate got $1 million from indicted Ukrainian
NEW YORK (AP) — A business associate of Rudy Giuliani received a $1 million payment in September from an indicted Ukrainian oligarch who is a fugitive from justice in the U.S., federal prosecutors revealed Tuesday. The disclosure came during a court hearing in New York for Lev Parnas, who is awaiting trial...
Israel says defense officials caught in major bribery case
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Justice Ministry said Tuesday it plans to prosecute suspects involved in a “serious corruption affair” in one of the country's defense bodies. Most details of the case, including the names of the suspects, were unavailable because of a gag order. But a statement by...
Ericsson will pay over $1 billion to resolve fraud case
NEW YORK (AP) — Sweden-based telecommunications company Ericsson will pay over $1 billion as part of a deal to resolve bribery conspiracy charges, prosecutors in New York said Friday. Prosecutors said Ericsson and the company's subsidiary Ericsson Egypt Limited were charged with conspiring to bribe...
Senator under investigation for possible bribery resigns
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois state senator under federal investigation for fraud has resigned his office. In a letter sent Wednesday to the secretary of the senate, Chicago Democrat Martin A. Sandoval said his resignation is effective Jan. 1. FBI agents raided Sandoval’s Springfield and...
Man pleads guilty to cheating medical insurance companies
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A former pharmacy owner has admitted to cheating insurance companies out of millions of dollars and bribing a psychiatrist. Eduard Shtindler pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and paying illegal bribes. The 36-year-old Paramus man faces up to 15 years in...
Samsung Heavy Industries to pay criminal fine in bribe case
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A major South Korean shipbuilder has agreed to pay a $75 million criminal fine to avoid prosecution in the U.S. for a conspiracy to bribe officials in Brazil. Samsung Heavy Industries entered a deferred prosecution agreement Friday with federal prosecutors in Alexandria. At a...
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