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 - Judges say Berlusconi trial goes on despite conviction overturned for British lawyer
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 - Thai court rules that ousted PM Thaksin abused power, orders $1.4 billion seized
 - Thailand braces for court verdict on seizing ousted PM Thaksin’s $2.29 billion fortune
 - Italy’s high court overturns guilty verdict for Berlusconi’s UK lawyer accused of taking bribe
 - Kenyan leaders tangle over corruption but it’s the poor who are deprived by graft
 - Court ruling on seizing deposed PM’s wealth unlikely to end unrest that has gripped Thailand
 - Former owner of California food supplier indicted on federal charges of price-fixing
 - Ex-congressman James Traficant, now out of prison, skips Ohio primary bid for old seat
 - Judge declares mistrial in Detroit corruption case; jurors point to race as sticking point
 - Afghans skeptical of NATO’s promises to remake their town in wake of Taliban’s routing
 - Governor of Brazilian capital jailed while investigation under way into corruption accusations
 - Deputy mayor in NJ convicted on 2 of 6 counts in 1st trial in federal corruption sting
 - Iraqi minister says hundreds of former Blackwater guards cannot appeal expulsion
 - Indonesia’s former anti-graft chief convicted of ordering killing, sentenced to 18 years
 - China to put detained Rio Tinto employees on trial on commercial espionage, bribery charges
 - Iraq gives hundreds of former Blackwater security guards 7 days to leave country
 - Iraq orders hundreds of private security guards linked to Blackwater to leave within 7 days
 - Iraq gives hundreds of former and current Blackwater employees 7 days to leave country
 - Ex-Illinois governor headed to federal court to answer revised corruption charges
 - Former Hawaii-based soldier sentenced to prison for taking bribes while in Iraq
 - Pa. legislative ex-aide testifies about affair, sex life at corruption trial for his old boss
 - Trial ends for former Chinese police chief accused of gang ties, bribery, rape
 - Haitian lawyer for 10 jailed US missionaries fired by lead attorney over alleged bribe plan
 - BAE systems to pay $400 million to settle on regulatory charges with US, UK governments
 - Feds arrest former California food company owner in alleged tomato price-fixing plot
 - NATO chief denies that Afghanistan’s reconciliation plan aims to “bribe” Taliban fighters
 - 2 gang leaders sentenced to death, 2 to life imprisonment in southwestern China
 - Democratic state lawmaker pleads guilty in Dallas bribery case, agrees to resign
 - Trial begins for former police chief accused of gang connections in southwestern China
 - Pa. attorney general’s public corruption case gets under way against former Rep. Veon, 3 aides
 - Chicago alderman pleads guilty to corruption charges; says he took bribe from developer
 - AP source: Justice Dep’t investigating whether officials of Blackwater sought to bribe Iraqis
 - Opening statements begin in Pa. corruption trial of former high-ranking state House Democrat
 - Report: Justice Dep’t investigating whether officials of Blackwater sought to bribe Iraqis
 - Ex-Nevada deputy acquitted in ‘Girls Gone Wild’ case says she’s hurt by colleagues’ treatment
 - Jury acquits former Nevada sheriff’s deputy in ‘Girls Gone Wild’ bribery case
 - Nev. jury begins deliberating in bribery case involving treatment of ‘Girls Gone Wild’ founder
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 - 2 ex-contractor execs sentenced in Houston to prison in scheme to bribe Nigerian officials
 - Ex-Louisiana congressman’s brother gets 10 years in prison, $975K fine in bribery case
 - Ex-deputy says she didn’t take bribes to help ‘Girls Gone Wild’ founder in Nevada jail
 - Judge refuses to halt bribery trial in Reno involving ‘Girls Gone Wild’ creator
 - Informant and secretly recorded tapes take center stage as NJ federal corruption trial begins
 - Bahamas appeals court rejects US bid to extradite fugitive financier to New York
 - Nevada deputy on trial for allegedly taking jail bribes to help ‘Girls Gone Wild’ creator
 - Jury selection begins in first trial of NJ corruption probe in which 44 people were arrested
 - DA: Dozens of juvenile cases thrown out after Pa. kids-for-cash scandal won’t be retried
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 - Justice Department charges another arms executive in a foreign bribe probe
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 - State media says 3 top Chinese soccer officials questioned in match-fixing probe
 - Sentencing delayed until March for LA film producers in Thai film festival bribery case
 - Los Angeles film producers to be sentenced in Thai film festival bribery case
 - US prosecutors in California charge ex-Thai tourism official in film festival bribery case
 - 22 who work for military, law enforcement suppliers accused of scheming to pay foreign bribes
 - In Berlusconi’s Italy, a disgraced former premier enjoys an unlikely rehabilitation
 - Afghans forced to pay one-quarter of country’s GDP in bribes, United Nations report says
 - Former Chinese Supreme Court justice sentenced to life in prison on corruption charges
 - Amazon groups in Ecuador seek to block Chevron from taking environmental suit to arbitration
 - Ohio pediatrician pleads guilty to sexual conduct with minor, sentenced to 13 years in prison
 - Indonesians enraged by luxury conditions for wealthy prison convicts
 - Australia: China’s investigation of Rio Tinto executive complete, case with prosecutors
 - Ex-Yonkers city councilwoman charged with accepting bribes to vote for real estate development
 - Reporter sentenced to 16 years in conspiracy to cover up China mine accident ahead of Olympics
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 - Accounting firm partner di Florio named to head SEC inspections office blamed in Madoff fiasco
 - Disgraced Miss. judge reports to federal prison for lying to FBI in bribery investigation
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 - Disgraced Miss. judge to report to federal prison for lying to FBI in bribery investigation
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