SAN FRANCISCO—Chinese billionaire Zhang Li, who was extradited from London, appeared in the U.S. District Court on the night of July 18 and faces charges of bribing a top San Francisco public official, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of California. According to an information filed on July 18, Mr. Zhang, 70, was…

FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate has admitted that the agency redacted parts of a document it handed over to Republican lawmakers last week that the GOP says contained references to alleged audio recordings between a Burisma executive and President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. Abbate made the admission during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on June 13 while being questioned…

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Thursday that she had reviewed the FBI’s unclassified document allegedly implicating President Joe Biden in a bribery scheme while disclosing what she believes voters should know about it. “I just read the FBI’s FD-1023 form implicating Joe Biden in a political bribery pay-to-play scheme. Here’s what the American people…

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Thursday that she had reviewed the FBI’s unclassified document allegedly implicating President Joe Biden in a bribery scheme while disclosing what she believes voters should know about it. “I just read the FBI’s FD-1023 form implicating Joe Biden in a political bribery pay-to-play scheme. Here’s what the American people…

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Thursday that she had reviewed the FBI’s unclassified document allegedly implicating President Joe Biden in a bribery scheme while disclosing what she believes voters should know about it. “I just read the FBI’s FD-1023 form implicating Joe Biden in a political bribery pay-to-play scheme. Here’s what the American people…

Chen Jun, the man recently arrested over a bribery scheme to help the Chinese communist regime carry out its repression in the United States, is no stranger to sculptor Chen Weiming. He had heard Chen Jun’s threats years ago. “Let me tell you, if you have a Chinese passport, and we take a photo of…

NEW YORK—A former civilian employee at a U.S. Army facility in South Korea has been arrested on charges of receiving $400,000 in kickbacks from military contractors, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said on Monday. Young Beom Kim, 62, was responsible for overseeing construction contracts at the Army Garrison Yongsan-Casey from 2017 to 2021. Prosecutors said he…

LOS ANGELES—A Chinese real estate company was fined $4 million and placed on five years probation May 12 for bribing former Los Angeles City Councilman José Huizar with more than $1.5 million in cash, gambling trips, and escorts in exchange for the then-councilman’s support of a planned downtown hotel project. Although he was also charged,…

A federal jury convicted former Ohio House of Representatives Speaker Larry Householder and former Ohio Republican Party chair Mathew Borges of participating in a bribery scheme of $60 million, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday. Householder, 63, and Borges, 50, were charged in 2020 in a bribery case related to a nuclear plants…

LOS ANGELES—An orthopedic surgeon was found guilty of accepting more than $315,000 in bribes and kickbacks for performing spinal surgeries at a now-defunct Long Beach hospital whose owner was imprisoned for committing workers’ compensation insurance fraud, officials announced March 6. Dr. David Hobart Payne, 65, of Irvine, was found guilty late Friday at the conclusion…