Corporate bribery
FILE — In this Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018 file photo, Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia speaks to the media after leaving federal court in Boston. Correia heads to trial in federal court in April 2021 on charges that he stole more than $230,000 from investors in a smartphone app he created to pay for things like a Mercedes, casino trips and adult entertainment. As mayor, he's accused of convincing his chief of staff to give him half of her salary in order to keep her city job and extorting hundreds of thousands of dollars from marijuana businesses seeking to operate there. (Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via AP)
Wunderkind ex-mayor to face jurors in fraud, bribery case

By Alanna Durkin Richer Apr. 18, 2021 07:58 AM EDT

FILE - In this July 5, 2011, file photo, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Jacques Rogge, right, meets with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, left, and Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee in Durban, South Africa, ahead the opening ceremony for the 123rd IOC session that would decide the host city for the 2018 Olympics Winter Games. Lee, the ailing Samsung Electronics chairman who transformed the small television maker into a global giant of consumer electronics, has died, a Samsung statement said Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020. He was 78. (AP Photo/Rajesh Jantilal-Pool, Pool, File)
Lee Kun-Hee, force behind Samsung’s rise, dies at 78

By Kim Tong-Hyung And Hyung-Jin Kim Oct. 25, 2020 07:57 AM EDT

After 'Fishrot' scandal, Namibia earns little from auction

By Sonja Smith Oct. 01, 2020 01:55 PM EDT
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Following Namibia's “Fishrot” scandal, in which two Cabinet ministers are in jail awaiting trial for allegedly accepting bribes for...

FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2012, file photo, Chinese real estate mogul Ren Zhiqiang poses for photos in his office in Beijing. Ren, former chairman of a state-owned real estate company who publicly criticized Chinese President Xi Jinping’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic has been expelled from the ruling Communist Party and will be prosecuted on corruption charges, the party announced Friday, July 24, 2020. (Color China Photo via AP)
Critic of Chinese leader expelled from party on graft charge

Jul. 23, 2020 11:30 PM EDT

Ex-CEO, citing virus, seeks home sentence in college scam

Apr. 24, 2020 04:09 PM EDT
BOSTON (AP) — The former CEO of a top investment company who got nine months in prison in the college admissions bribery scheme asked a judge if he could begin...