corruption
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This Black CEO Appeared In Forbes, But Now Is Looking at Prison for … Wait, What!?
The former "Ed" Chatbox star's combined charges carry more than 40 years of possible prison time.
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Former CNBC Commentator Turned Fugitive Has Been Captured! Here’s The Tea
The former CNBC finance expert has finally been caught by the Feds after three years on the run.
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After Infamously Framing a Black Man, This White Prosecutor is in BIG Trouble.
Terra Morehead surrendered her law license after framing a Black man for murder, but is it enough penance for the years her victims spent in prison?
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Huh? A Federal Judge Ruled That Georgia Isn’t Disenfranchising Voters
The state passed one o f the most restrictive voting laws in the country last year
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Trump Continues Crooked Behavior by Saving Roger Stone From Federal Prison
As anyone could have predicted—and as The Root did just a day ago—President Trump has used the power of his office to commute the sentence of his criminal crony Roger Stone. As the New York Times reports, on Friday evening Trump issued a statement announcing his decision to stop Stone from facing the legal consequences of…
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You Get a Pardon! And You Get a Pardon! Career Criminal Donald Trump Passes Out Get Out of Jail Free Cards to Disgraced Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Others
There are some words and phrases in the English language that are open to interpretation, while others—like “criminal”—are pretty cut-and-dried. Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is a fucking criminal. While most would point to his terrible dye job as proof that he belongs behind bars, there’s also the fact that he racked up an astounding…
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Nothing but Bad Apples in This Bunch: Entire Class of Georgia State Troopers Fired Over Cheating Scandal
The Root’s Michael Harriot once asked a simple yet profound question: “Where are the good cops?” Whenever there’s a new story in the news about a police officer committing an act of police brutality, an extrajudicial killing, racial profiling or any other act of corruption, we’re always given this “one bad apple spoils the whole…
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Arizona DHS Agents Allegedly Paid for Sex With Trafficking Victims
In September 2018, a group of agents from the Department of Homeland Security announced that they had successfully broken up a ring of illegal massage parlors that targeted Asian immigrants and forced them into sex slavery. One of the key things they forgot to add, though, was that two of their agents had allegedly paid…