NEWARK, N.J. – Attorneys in the bribery trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez gathered on Tuesday to hash out the legal instructions the judge is to give to the jury before deliberations, a crucial phase of ...

WASHINGTON -- Using increasingly combative language, attorneys for the U.S. Justice Department and former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson are battling in legal briefs about whether his alleged demand of ...

It looks like it’s about to become harder for the federal government to prosecute public officials on charges of corruption. But don’t blame the Supreme Court just yet. The high court has steadily ...

WASHINGTON -- Claiming that corruption has become commonplace in the nation’s capital, a group of Democratic U.S. Representatives including Akron’s Emilia Sykes introduced legislation yesterday that ...