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Public Corruption and the Limits of Federal Fraud Statutes
Legal Sidebar · Jan 9, 2026
Over time, Congress has shown interest in policing public-sector corruption, enacting a number of criminal provisions aimed at holding corrupt officials and those who entice them accountable for...
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The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA): An Overview
Resources · Jun 29, 2020
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) of 1977 generally prohibits corrupt payments to foreign officials in exchange for obtaining or retaining business. Congress enacted the FCPA in response to an...
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Prosecution of Public Corruption: An Overview of Amendments Under H.R. 2572 and S. 2038
Reports · Apr 11, 2012
The House Judiciary Committee has approved an amended version of the Clean Up Government Act (H.R. 2572). The Senate has passed nearly identical provisions as Title II of the Stop Trading on...
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Prosecution of Public Corruption: An Abridged Overview of Amendments Under H.R. 2572 and S. 2038
Reports · Apr 11, 2012
The House Judiciary Committee has approved an amended version of the Clean Up Government Act (H.R. 2572). The Senate has passed nearly identical provisions as Title II of the Stop Trading on...
Hearing Crime, Corruption, and Power: The Rise of CCP-linked Scam Networks Targeting Americans And Threatening U.S. Security
house Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party · May 19, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine how the corruption of science has impacted public perception and policies regarding vaccines.
senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations · Sep 9, 2025 · Request transcript
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Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Sanctions: The Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act
InFocus · Jul 23, 2026
The Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (Global Magnitsky Act; Title XII, Subtitle F of P.L. 114-328, as amended; 22 U.S.C. §§10101 et seq.) authorizes the President to impose economic...
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Central America: Policy Options Following Expiration of Targeted Sanctions Authority
Resources · Oct 1, 2024
On December 27, 2023, a targeted sanctions authority created by Congress to respond to corruption and democratic backsliding in four Central American countries (Figure 1) expired along with any visa...
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Campaign Contributions and the Ethics of Elected Officials: Regulation Under Federal Law
Reports · Jul 12, 2016
Allegations of political corruption often involve questions regarding a public official or candidate’s use of campaign funds or the relationship between campaign contributors and the candidate or...
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Campaign Finance and the First Amendment: Supreme Court Considers Constitutionality of Limits on Repayment of Candidate Loans
Posts · Apr 26, 2022
Campaign finance is back before the Supreme Court. In Federal Election Commission (FEC) v. Ted Cruz for Senate, the Court is faced with a challenge to a federal campaign finance law that establishes...
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Bulgaria: An Overview
Resources · May 21, 2024
After decades of single-party communist rule and a difficult transition period in the 1990s, Bulgaria joined NATO in 2004 and the European Union (EU) in 2007. Bulgaria’s Black Sea location and NATO...
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Supreme Court Invalidates Cap on Repayment of Candidate Loans Under the First Amendment: Considerations for Congress
Posts · Jul 27, 2022
In Federal Election Commission (FEC) v. Ted Cruz for Senate, the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated a provision of federal campaign finance law establishing a $250,000 limit on the amount of...
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India: Human Rights Assessments
Resources · Apr 24, 2024
Overview India is a multiparty, federal, parliamentary democracy. As reported by the State Department’s 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (Human Rights Reports or HRRs), India is the...
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Parliamentary Elections in Mongolia
Posts · Jul 9, 2024
Mongolia, an important U.S. partner in the Indo-Pacific region, held parliamentary elections on June 28. Sharing borders with Russia and the People’s Republic of China (PRC, or China), Mongolia...
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Paraguay: An Overview
Resources · Oct 31, 2024
Paraguay is a landlocked country in South America bordered by Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil. The United States has had good relations with Paraguay for decades, providing assistance to counter...
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Presidential Authority to Suspend Entry of Aliens Under 8 U.S.C. § 1182(f)
Posts · Feb 21, 2024
The President has the authority “to suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens” whenever the President “finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States...
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Angola: Key Developments and U.S. Relations
Reports · Oct 18, 2024
The Biden Administration, which has emphasized global strategic competition in its 2022 U.S. Strategy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa, has pursued high-level engagement with the Angolan government. It has...