Ky. candidate charged in vote-sale case
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A federal grand jury indicted the only remaining candidate in a rural county attorney's race on charges of soliciting vote-buying during the May primary election and obstructing justice.
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UNDATED California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has joined a lawsuit against voting equipment company Diebold. It alleges the company sold the state shoddy hardware and software, exposing elections to hackers and software bugs.
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A Florida motorist was arrested Wednesday on charges of trying to run down US Rep. Katherine Harris at an intersection where the controversial former state elections chief was campaigning for re-election to Congress.
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California Attorney General Bill Lockyer joined a lawsuit Tuesday alleging that voting equipment company Diebold Inc. sold the state shoddy hardware and software, exposing elections to hackers and software bugs.
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A Republican state senator may not take any official action or get paid because she was not a qualified resident of Kentucky before the election, a judge ruled Friday.
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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 threaten someone the senator believed was abusing a relative.
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The arrest of a state campaign chairman highlights potential problems for the law and order candidate
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Disgraced Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu was charged Thursday with defrauding investors of more than $60 million through a massive Ponzi scheme and then using some of his profits to make illegal donations to political campaigns.
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The state's chief elections officer, accused of mishandling the presidential vote in Ohio, sent a fund-raising letter for his own 2006 gubernatorial campaign that was accompanied by a request for illegal contributions.
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Norman Hsu, one of the top fundraisers for big-name Democrats, was charged Thursday with swindling at least $60 million from investors and using some of his profits to make illegal donations to political campaigns.
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German prosecutors said Friday they have charged a U.S. citizen with attempted treason for allegedly trying to sell German military secrets to a country outside NATO.
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The prosecutor in the county where Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick has admitted to bankrolling a dogfighting operation plans to present evidence to the grand jury, Tuesday, that could possibly lead to an indictment
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An investigation begins into allegations of "electoral offences" in the Ealing Southall by-election.
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A former congressman was indicted Wednesday as part of a terrorist fundraising ring that allegedly sent more than $130,000 to an al-Qaeda and Taliban supporter
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A group funded in part by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that plans to run ads criticizing Democratic ties to trial lawyers is the target of a complaint filed with election officials Wednesday.
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A fund-raising e-mail from a Democratic congressional candidate contained a hidden expletive directed at his opponent, a newspaper reported Saturday.
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Political motives suspected in the matter of a Venezuelan/U.S. citizen's visit with a cash-stuffed case.