Two employees with the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles have been charged with taking bribes to let a man avoid a line to pay automobile fees. News outlets report that warrants show 21-year-old Alyson Leigh McFerrin and 25-year-old Anna ...

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U.S. v. McDonnell (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-130-15, 89 pp.) (Thacker, J.) No. 15-4019, July 10, 2015; USDC at Richmond, Va. (Spencer, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: The 4th Circuit affirms former Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell’s conviction on 11 counts of ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — A former South Carolina police chief has pleaded guilty as part of a corruption case involving the state’s longest-serving sheriff. Local media outlets report former South Congaree Chief Jason Amodio pleaded guilty Thursday to lying to a ...

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Former Lexington County Sheriff James Metts has signed a new plea deal that may result in him serving prison time in a federal bribery case, according to court papers filed Monday.

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Suspended Lexington County Sheriff James Metts will plead guilty in a bribery case where prosecutors said he took an envelope of cash to protect people in the country illegally from deportation, according to a plea deal filed Tuesday.

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COLUMBIA — A former adoption agency official has pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to defraud the United States by paying bribes to foreign officials and submitting fraudulent documents to the State Department for adoptions from Ethiopia. U.S. Attorney Bill ...

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Two former sales managers for Humana have been charged with taking more than $4 million in bribes from a South Carolina company to refer insurance brokers their way. In a bill of information filed Wednesday, prosecutors accused Glenn Fine and James Wegner of taking the money and referring insurance brokers and agents to Columbia, S.C.-based Cutler & Associates.

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U.S. v. Jefferson The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds multiple fraud convictions of former Louisiana Congressman William J. Jefferson, with the exception of a wire fraud conviction that is vacated for improper venue.

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U.S. v. Medford A former Buncombe County, N.C., sheriff who participated in a scheme to illegally bring out-of-state video poker machines into the state and who accepted bribes to allow machines to be used in certain locations has his conspiracy and bribery convictions upheld by the 4th Circuit.

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