Pa. senator says he'll be indicted
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One of Pennsylvania's most powerful politicians announced on the state Senate floor Monday that he expects to be indicted soon in an extortion case and that he was temporarily giving up a key committee post.
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A spokesman said that Senator Larry E. Craig would fight the Senate ethics and misdemeanor charges as he reconsiders his plans to resign.
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WASHINGTON BUREAU; Staff writer Ken Fireman contributed to this story, which was supplemented with news service reports. PITTSBURGH - With Democrats calling on him to sharpen his presidential
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Authorities on Thursday formally charged a billionaire businessman who ran in this month's presidential election with plotting to overthrow the government.
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A legislative leader was arrested Friday on charges that he tried to have a businessman at the center of a federal racketeering probe arrange to rough up someone the senator believed was abusing a relative.
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Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, is expected to plead guilty as early as Friday to at least one criminal charge in an election-year congressional corruption investigation, Republican officials said Thursday night.
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To know Phil Spector is to indict him as far as a Los Angeles grand jury is concerned. Spector was in court Monday for the unsealing of a grand jury indictment that charges the reclusive
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Republican leaders are ready to call for his resignation, but are hoping the senator will act on his own, aides said.
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U.S. Democratic Rep. William Jefferson was indicted on Monday on 16 counts that accuse him of soliciting bribes and paying off a Nigerian official, a U.S. Justice Department official said.
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A former lawmaker already indicted on bribery allegations has been charged with taking more than $800,000 in consulting fees from contractors working for a state Medicare program, according to an indictment unsealed Monday.
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A former Republican congressman from Michigan was indicted Wednesday on federal charges of money laundering and obstruction of justice.
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By Cynthia Burton, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 6--With legislative races this year expected to do little to tilt the balance of power in Trenton, the hottest race in New Jersey could very well be the one for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Frank Lautenberg.
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Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu could return to California as early as today to face the 15-year-old criminal charges that reemerged after he gained prominence as one of the most prolific "bundlers" for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential bid.
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By Rex Springston, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 5--When W. Shelton Miles dropped a bomb on the state Senate subcommittee, you could almost see the blood drain from one lawmaker's face.  "This is extraordinarily unusual," said Sen. John Watkins, R-Powhatan.
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When he was indicted in May, former Democratic Gov. Don Siegelman called fraud charges against him "Republican politics at its worst." But prosecutors argue their case is about cash, not votes.
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Former senator scheduled to speak in New Orleans -- appearance, billed as anti-poverty speech, now expected to serve as platform for ending Democrat's White House bid.
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The prosecutor in the rural county where Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick has admitted to bankrolling a dogfighting operation plans to present "a host of bills of indictment" regarding the case to a grand jury on Tuesday.