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The Indictment Of Longtime Harrisburg Mayor Stephen Reed, Center For The Advancement Of Public Integrity

Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (Inactive)

Stephen Reed, the Democratic mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania from 1982 to 2010, has been charged by state prosecutors with 499 counts ranging from bribery to theft by receiving stolen property.

The Indictment Of Congressman Chaka Fattah, Center For The Advancement Of Public Integrity

Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (Inactive)

Congressman Chaka Fattah has represented Pennsylvania’s 2nd District, which includes parts of Philadelphia, for 20 years.

On July 29, a federal Grand Jury indicted Congressman Fattah on 29 counts, including conspiracy to commit racketeering (RICO), bribery, money laundering, and fraud. The charges included four co-conspirators as well, including Fattah’s chief of staff as well as a former Philadelphia deputy mayor.

Chris Christie And Jerry Jones, Center For The Advancement Of Public Integrity

Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (Inactive)

Christie is the Republican Governor of New Jersey. He previously served as the US Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2008. He is a likely contender in the 2016 presidential race.

Christie's penchant for accepting luxury perks, paid for by groups who arguably have significant interests in his decisions as Governor, was highlighted in a New York Times article on February 2, 2015. Questionable gifts include: travel on Sheldon Adelson's private plane, a 2012 trade mission partly funded by a group of businesses (Choose N.J.) barred from donating to the Governor directly by pay-to-play laws, and …

The Fifa Corruption Charges, Center For The Advancement Of Public Integrity

Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (Inactive)

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is the global governing body for soccer, the world’s most popular sport. A Swiss-based nonprofit, FIFA has long been criticized for a culture of impunity and corruption, most prominently in connection with the World Cup host-country bidding process.

Culpability And Modern Crime, Samuel W. Buell

Faculty Scholarship

Criminal law has developed to prohibit new forms of intrusion on the autonomy and mental processes of others. Examples include modern understandings of fraud, extortion, and bribery, which pivot on the concepts of deception, coercion, and improper influence. Sometimes core offenses develop to include similar concepts, such as when reforms in the law of sexual assault make consent almost exclusively material. Many of these projects are laudable. But progressive programs in substantive criminal law can raise difficult problems of culpability. Modern iterations of criminal offenses often draw lines using concepts involving relative mental states among persons whose conduct is embedded …