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"corruptly" Definitions
  1. in a way that is not honest or moral, in return for money or to get an advantage

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Here, the evidence strongly suggests that the president acted corruptly.
One can corruptly abuse power without giving or receiving bribes.
Thus, the key question may be: What is the meaning of the word "corruptly," and does Mr. Trump's behavior prove that he was in fact acting "corruptly" when he sought to influence the Flynn investigation?
It did not merely govern badly and corruptly, Mr Bolsonaro says.
If not done "corruptly" -- whatever that means -- it might be okay.
The brothers have rejected the public watchdog's accusations of corruptly influencing Zuma.
A monopoly by definition runs corruptly with high prices and low innovation.
Even lawfully conferred powers wielded by the president cannot be employed corruptly.
A president's constitutional role does not include a prerogative to act corruptly.
It doesn't fit into a clean narrative of rich people corruptly buying policy.
RUDY GIULIANI, PRESIDENT TRUMP&aposS ATTORNEY: The case was fixed, corruptly, we know that.
The president has repeatedly made unfounded claims that the Bidens acted corruptly in Ukraine.
" During his January hearing, Barr offered details on what he thought constituted acting "corruptly.
You were elected and took office early because the outgoing governor was behaving corruptly.
The other question is whether there was an intent to corruptly influence this investigation.
While the president alone has the pardon power, wielding it corruptly could be criminal.
The most difficult thing to prove will likely be that President Trump acted corruptly.
The sore loser mentality launched this sham impeachment & corruptly rigged & jammed it through the House.
If they are underpaid, they will behave corruptly in order to make up the difference.
Demagogues like Hungary's Viktor Orban denounce the European Union but corruptly exploit its farm subsidies.
If the approach "corruptly persuades" a person not to testify, it may be witness tampering.
The pols are grossly incompetent, spend the money foolishly or corruptly, & only take from USA.
Facts First: There is no evidence that Biden acted corruptly in his dealings with Ukraine.
And it could complicate the narrative among Trump's critics that McCabe was corruptly pushed out.
The Taliban, in contrast, have judges who deal with such cases brutally, but much less corruptly.
"Anyone found to have corruptly amassed wealth will not spared," Chilima told Reuters in an interview.
Such results reflect what happens when teachers are hired corruptly, rather than for their teaching skills.
Remember when Robert Lucas accused Christy Romer of corruptly producing "schlock economics" to justify government spending?
The six are charged with money laundering, fraud and corruptly using state office to obtain gratifications.
But if he exercises that authority corruptly, he faces impeachment and removal for obstruction of justice.
Trump and his allies have made repeated and unfounded allegations that the Bidens acted corruptly in Ukraine.
Trump may think that acting corruptly is just something that Presidents do, out of habit or opportunity.
The President has no more right than other citizens to impede official proceedings by corruptly influencing witness testimony.
In July, tourism minister Prisca Mupfumiraa was charged with corruptly misusing $95 million from the state pension fund.
So, too, if the president offered pardons in order to corruptly obstruct justice, that would be a felony.
The more difficult question involves intent — whether Mr. Trump acted "corruptly" when he sought to stymie the investigation.
The Intelligence Committee report sets forth more than just the president's goal of corruptly influencing the 2020 election.
A president who "corruptly" obstructs or impedes "the due and proper administration of the law" commits a crime.
The fact of the matter is Donald Trump has unfettered pardon power but he can&apost use it corruptly.
In any event, it would (will) help if Barr explained what he thinks the notoriously vague term "corruptly" means.
Comey's firing is the best evidence so far (when coupled with the earlier interactions) that Trump was acting corruptly.
In fact, the courts only seem to agree on one thing in defining "corruptly": the phrase itself is ambiguous.
In short, he was attempting to corruptly persuade key witnesses to delay or withhold their testimony in these cases.
Trump and his allies have repeatedly made unfounded and false claims alleging that the Bidens acted corruptly in Ukraine.
Trump and his allies have made unfounded and false claims to allege that the Bidens acted corruptly in Ukraine.
There's no proof they corruptly mixed business and politics, but it's obvious Hunter cashed in on his father's name.
Trump is thus corruptly endeavoring to influence two investigations by pressuring Jeff Sessions to not proceed with the cases.
Mueller concluded that Congress could enforce the obstruction of justice statute when Trump acted corruptly to undermine an investigation.
Both statutes impose liability on anyone who "corruptly" influences a proceeding or who "endeavors" or "attempts" to accomplish that result.
Trump and his allies have repeatedly made unfounded and false claims to allege that the Bidens acted corruptly in Ukraine.
Trump and his allies have repeatedly made unfounded and false claims to allege that the Bidens acted corruptly in Ukraine.
Trump and his allies have repeatedly made unfounded and false claims to allege that the Biden's acted corruptly in Ukraine.
"President Trump has committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors by corruptly abusing the office of the presidency," Mr. Feldman said.
Yet federal obstruction statutes say that a person commits a crime when he "corruptly" impedes a court or agency proceeding.
While many Republican legislators sought to convince the American people that the FBI was operating corruptly, they didn't make much headway.
He left that to his corruptly biased henchman, Andrew Weissmann, who immediately began stacking the deck with angry, anti-Trump prosecutors.
"Whoever corruptly endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede the administration of justice" may be guilty of obstructing justice under US law.
Ukraine is a country struggling to transcend its history of corruption, and Trump has tried to make it behave more corruptly.
" Jeffries said, "We are here, sir, because President Trump corruptly abused his power and then he tried to cover it up.
Two of the cases against him involve attempts to corruptly court the media, using policy favors to get more favorable coverage.
The benefits of such a power, Hamilton believed, outweighed the possibilities that a future president might use pardons to corruptly benefit himself.
To show obstruction, a prosecutor must demonstrate a nexus between the particular conduct and the "proceeding" it is corruptly intended to obstruct.
"President Trump corruptly abused his power by soliciting foreign interference in an American election solely for his personal political gain," said Rep.
"He considers a pardon from somebody who has acted so corruptly as president to be something he would never accept," Davis said.
North-east Nigeria, where Boko Haram operates, is largely Islamic, but it is also poor, despite Nigeria's oil wealth, and corruptly governed.
Once one attempts to persuade, and does so "corruptly," the activity violates any of a dozen different obstruction and related federal crimes.
Washington is charged with corruptly interfering with internal revenue laws, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, obstruction of justice and aggravated identity theft.
Congress has made it a felony for any person — including the president — to "corruptly" interfere with a proceeding before a federal agency.
If the president corruptly demanded or sought anything of value to influence an official act, then he would be guilty of bribery.
At Trump's insistence, Pompeo recalled Yovanovitch from Ukraine in May as Giuliani circulated unsubstantiated reports claiming the veteran ambassador was acting corruptly.
"The evidence is overwhelming that Donald Trump corruptly abused his power" by pressuring Ukraine to announce the Biden probe, Jeffries said Wednesday.
" They said Manafort's "limited communications cannot be fairly read, either factually or legally, to reflect an intent to corruptly influence a trial witness.
The Justice Department lawsuits said that high-level officials of 1MDB corruptly diverted more than $3.5 billion from the fund over six years.
Indeed, the inexplicable nature of Trump's Syria retreat proved just as baffling as his decision to (corruptly) withhold crucial military aid to Ukraine.
In a series of tweets, Trump also argued that the island's politicians spend money "foolishly and corruptly" and "take" from the United States.
Trump and his allies have repeatedly made unfounded and false claims to allege that Biden or his son, Hunter, acted corruptly in Ukraine.
It also doesn't make sense to suggest that Mr. Trump's unquestioned legal right to fire Mr. Comey allows him to do so corruptly.
Here's the thing: Trump and his allies have repeatedly made unfounded and false claims to allege that the Bidens acted corruptly in Ukraine.
" The point about the President's intent is crucial, because a question in determining whether obstruction of justice occurred is whether someone acted "corruptly.
If obstructing justice means "corruptly" impeding an investigation, then doesn't the White House's deliberate undermining of Congress' investigation into Ukraine meet that threshold?
His team questioned more than a dozen administration officials, attempting to establish whether Trump was corruptly trying to interfere with investigations into his associates.
He also said he believed a police detective had corruptly attempted to influence the case by keeping a witness from testifying about her misstatements.
Since he had the authority to bring these investigations to a screeching halt, he cannot have acted corruptly by taking lesser lawful action. Period.
Moreover, it would allow the government to broaden the element of trying to "corruptly" influence to an extent never reached in any prior case.
There are several different statutory obstruction provisions, but, to summarize, obstruction pertains to corruptly influencing or obstructing a proceeding or the administration of justice.
The law weakened the D.E.A.'s power to stop prescription opioids from being shipped to rogue doctors and pharmacies suspected of corruptly distributing them.
If Mr. Trump intervened to save a close associate and political ally from indictment, then the argument that he acted "corruptly" would be strong.
"There is no question that she was acting corruptly in that position and had to be removed," he said in his Fox News interview.
That includes protecting leaders, Trump and Netanyahu, who have proven themselves willing to corruptly recruit core state institutions in service of their own interests.
And while some have asked if Trump acted "corruptly," most courts interpret this to mean just a specific intent to influence an official act.
He has also been charged with attempting to corruptly obstruct and influence testimonial evidence of a Supreme Court employee in an imminent grand jury investigation.
"It requires proof that the person corruptly or by threat influences, impedes, or endeavors to influence or impede the due administration of justice," Dressler says.
The problem is that even the federal appellate courts have disagreed in defining what it is to "corruptly persuade" in certain kinds of obstruction cases.
The union cofinances a large share of all public investments; inside the union, many of those investments have come under suspicion of being corruptly handled.
Trump and his allies have repeatedly made unfounded and false claims to allege that the former vice president and his son acted corruptly in Ukraine.
It's not that they place any stock in Mr. Trump's unfounded claims that Mr. Biden or his son behaved corruptly in their dealings with Ukraine.
Protests spread across rural Morocco, where many feel the powerful coterie of those who enjoy royal patronage corruptly profits at the expense of the people.
Unlike the social media companies, some cable outlets have refused to run the false Trump campaign ad that said Mr. Biden acted corruptly in Ukraine.
Again, this claim would allow the government to broaden the element of trying to "corruptly" influence to an extent never reached in any prior case.
Bernie Sanders fights for the people, cannot be bought, and is under no obligation to fulfill any transaction with a corporation trying to corruptly buy access.
The president's tweets about the territory spending the money it has received "foolishly or corruptly" have not encouraged his allies in Congress to expedite this process.
The obstruction of justice laws make it a crime for anyone to corruptly influence/interfere with a congressional or grand jury investigation or other agency proceedings.
Less is known about Trump's personal role in the core substance of the Russia investigation: whether his campaign colluded with Moscow to corruptly influence the election.
"I am satisfied that there was no evidence to show that the donation was a form of gratification given corruptly," Mr. Apandi said in a statement.
The articles, unveiled on Tuesday, accuse the president of "corruptly soliciting" Ukraine to assist his re-election campaign and obstructing Congress by stonewalling the impeachment inquiry.
Literally while Giuliani was spinning new conspiracies about the Bidens corruptly pillaging Ukraine, two Trump associates attended court hearings about their own alleged Ukraine-related crimes.
The statutory provision in 18 U.S.C. 1512 addresses an effort to "corruptly persuade another person" to "influence" testimony of that person in the withholding of information.
The trial revealed how willing Mr. Manafort was to corruptly leverage his position of influence over Mr. Trump during the campaign for his own personal benefit.
Under federal statute 183 U.S.C. 1512, "whoever corruptly obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so," is guilty of obstruction of justice.
"I'm a big believer ... that we didn't just happen to stumble upon one time in his presidency that he happened to act corruptly," Swalwell told The Hill.
Bemba and his co-accused were convicted of offences against the administration of justice by corruptly influencing 14 defense witnesses and coaching them to present false testimony.
Armanna is both a defendant and prosecution witness in the trial in which Eni is accused of acquiring a Nigerian oilfield in 2011 by corruptly paying middlemen.
It proved that under a consistent spotlight, legislation as cruel and corruptly conceived as the Republican health care bills would have a very hard time becoming law.
The impeachment inquiry is focused on whether Trump corruptly sought to advance his personal interest in seeking the investigations and used withheld held military aid as leverage.
The question now is if McCabe's firing will strengthen the broader GOP-led movement to discredit federal law enforcement over allegations that it is corruptly anti-Trump.
Protests have since spread across rural Morocco, where many feel the powerful coterie of those who enjoy royal patronage corruptly profits at the expense of the people.
"He considers a pardon from somebody who has acted so corruptly as president to be something he would never accept," Mr. Davis said on NBC's "Today" show.
The collusion investigation itself depends on the federal statutes protecting the prosecutors and congressional committees by making it a felony to corruptly influence or impede their work.
But what he cannot do is exercise that power corruptly, to spare himself or those associated with him, like Mr. Flynn, from scrutiny and possible criminal liability.
Bribery under Title 18, Section 201 of the U.S. Code occurs when a public official corruptly demands anything of personal value in exchange for an official act.
In a filing last month, Flynn's lawyers accused special counsel Robert Mueller's team of suppressing key evidence and manipulating press coverage to corruptly "extort" a guilty plea.
The American people now know – beyond a shadow of a doubt – that President Trump directly (and corruptly) withheld crucial aid to an ally at war for personal gain.
Was the former FBI Director corruptly "ordered" to end an active criminal investigation of General Michael Flynn by the President and, if so, what was the President's motive?
Its unofficial legislative body is the floating quid pro quo Favor Bank that has always made New York tick at its highest levels, however corruptly, since Tammany Hall.
But it's also potentially open to abuse — Lyndon Johnson and his wife deployed licensing authority corruptly to prevent anyone from competing with a station they owned in Texas.
In 2002, the accounting firm Arthur Andersen was convicted of obstruction of justice for "corruptly persuading" others to withhold or alter documents to be used in official proceedings.
A dossier distributed by a private investigative firm alleges that a Pentagon aide corruptly promoted Amazon's bid for a giant Defense Department cloud-computing contract, Defense One reports.
Barr then said "the evidence does not establish" Trump committed any crime or acted corruptly, he wrote to Congress and repeated in follow-up letters and public statements.
He considers a pardon from somebody who has acted so corruptly as president to be something he would never expect," Davis said in an interview on NBC's "TODAY.
He wasn't merely acting corruptly — he does that all the time — but actively undermining the integrity of the 2020 election and thus the health of the democratic system.
Because the president was pursuing his personal interests and had no public justification for withholding the aid, he did these things "corruptly" within the meaning of the statute.
There is a broad consensus that a president exercises the pardon power properly — not "corruptly" — when he grants clemency based on considerations of mercy or the public welfare.
Rather than emphasize Trump's personal behavior, as the 2016 Clinton campaign did, they cast him as a greedy billionaire who corruptly used the presidency to enrich himself further.
In Venezuela's pastiche of the Cuban revolution, installed by the late Hugo Chávez, another Che fan, the masses have been impoverished while insiders have become fabulously and corruptly rich.
The pols are grossly incompetent, spend the money foolishly or corruptly, & only take from USA.... ....The best thing that ever happened to Puerto Rico is President Donald J. Trump.
Vincenzo Armanna is both a prosecution witness and a defendant in the trial in which Eni is accused of acquiring a Nigerian oilfield in 2011 by corruptly paying middlemen.
"There are things we can and must do together," Johnson said, adding that Britain was "going after the money that has been illicitly or corruptly obtained," without giving details.
As we have repeatedly explained, obstruction requires prosecutors to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a public official acted corruptly in endeavoring to influence or interfere with an investigation.
Furthermore, if the Party decides that he is under investigation, or acted corruptly (which seems to be what has happened), it doesn't feel the need to explain what happened.
The rally crowd began chanting "lock him up" in attacking Biden, referencing unsubstantiated allegations by the president that Biden and his son acted corruptly in their dealings with Ukraine.
The protests are motivated by a broadly shared, non-sectarian consensus that elites are not only corruptly benefiting from their power but destroying the national economy through poor governance.
In December, Trump was impeached largely along party lines by the Democratic House majority led by Pelosi over claims he had corruptly pressured Ukraine to investigate his political opponents.
Trump has repeated unsubstantiated allegations that Biden acted corruptly in dealing with Ukraine in relation to his son Hunter Biden's role on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.
"He considers a pardon from somebody who has acted so corruptly as president to be something he would never expect," Davis said in an interview on NBC's "TODAY" show.
If you read the statute carefully, it says you can obstruct the course of justice one of three ways: corruptly, by a threat, or by an act of intimidation.
"I am satisfied that there was no evidence to show that the donation was a form of gratification given corruptly," Mr. Apandi said in a statement released by his office.
Rincon, president of Texas-based Tradequip Services & Marine, and another businessman were arrested in December on charges of taking part in a $1 billion conspiracy to corruptly secure energy contracts.
U.N.-appointed investigators said in 2015 that Saleh was suspected of having corruptly amassed as much as $60 billion, equivalent to Yemen's annual GDP, during his 33 years in office.
The first is that bad policies, corruptly implemented, can wreck a country with alarming speed and go on wrecking it long after you would have thought there was nothing left.
Local 961 has gone to court to block the transfer of the axle plant to a Fiat Chrysler supplier and has accused UAW officials of corruptly acquiescing to the sale.
The American people need to know whether the Mr. Trump campaign coordinated with Russia in the 2016 election, and whether President Trump corruptly intervened to stop that or other investigations.
Indeed, since as far back as October 2016 when he was a presidential candidate, Trump has been baselessly arguing that McCabe corruptly used his FBI position to help Hillary Clinton.
"The defendants allegedly betrayed their client's confidence, and corruptly manipulated the foreign exchange market to benefit themselves and their bank," Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell said in a statement on Wednesday.
But the president's defenders have weaponized them to suggest that Joe Biden acted corruptly as vice president and Ukraine — opposite of Russia — meddled in the 2016 election on Hillary Clinton's behalf.
Trump claims that during the Obama years, Biden corruptly sought to pressure Ukraine's government to fire prosecutor general Viktor Shokin because Biden wanted to protect his son's job from Shokin's investigations.
" Trump did just this, according to the first article of impeachment, which argues Trump "persisted in openly and corruptly urging and soliciting Ukraine to undertake investigations for his personal political benefit.
To charge someone with obstructing justice, prosecutors have to prove that "the defendant corruptly endeavored to influence, obstruct, or impede" an investigation, according to legal and national-security experts writing for Lawfare.
In the plea deal, Maggio admitted that he "corruptly accepted and agreed to accept from another something of value, that is campaign contributions," in connection with a business matter in his court.
For example, if a person corruptly destroys incriminating evidence or tampers with witnesses out of concern over the possibility that he could be prosecuted in the future, that can amount to obstruction.
So even if Comey violated executive privilege it wouldn't change the fact that Trump obstructed justice, or acted corruptly, in firing Comey to stymie a federal investigation into his campaign or administration.
INGRAHAM: Richard GOODSTEIN: You talked about Blagojevich who rightly ended up in jail, because if he had the appointment power, he could have appointed anybody to the senate, but he did it corruptly.
"I am satisfied that there was no evidence to show that the donation was a form of gratification given corruptly," Apandi said in an official statement, as reported by the New York Times.
" If they can't enforce their subpoenas, Schiff said, "Not only this President but future presidents can act as corruptly as they wish without any scrutiny or oversight or ability to be held accountable.
Their main method was to win contracts by making low bids and then corruptly secure big increases in costs through addenda—in some cases when the ink on the contract was barely dry.
The EFF, led by expelled former ANC youth leader Julius Malema, has focused much of its energy on attacking senior ANC members for using their positions to corruptly enrich themselves and their families.
"The intent of going after the gold sector is to target those who are operating corruptly within the Venezuelan government, not those who are operating legitimately," a senior administration official told reporters Wednesday.
"Goldman Sachs's egregious misconduct here apparently was part of a broad pattern of corruptly winning favor with the prime minister in order to further Goldman Sachs's business opportunities in Malaysia," the suit says.
Many legal scholars say that obstruction laws do apply to a president who abuses his powers to corruptly impede an investigation, arguing that the Constitution does not put the president above the law.
The impeachment articles accuse Mr. Trump of "corruptly soliciting" election assistance from the government of Ukraine in the form of investigations that would smear his domestic political rivals in the 225 presidential election.
"Bernie Sanders fights for the people, cannot be bought and is under no obligation to fulfill any transaction with a corporation trying to corruptly buy access," said Josh Orton, Sanders' national policy director.
To prove obstruction of justice, authorities must show that someone intentionally, or "corruptly endeavored to influence, obstruct, or impede the due and proper administration of the law" in an investigation or other proceeding.
The story covered unproven allegations that Biden had corruptly pushed for the firing of Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin while he was investigating a gas company that Biden's son, Hunter, sat on the board of.
You have a sitting president of the United States essentially selling the results of an American presidential election in which he is a candidate and rigging it in his favor against another candidate corruptly.
The actions had been in connection with a scheme to lobby for easing sanctions on Iraq and "to corruptly influence the award and conditions of Oil for Food contracts," according to the Justice Department.
Mr. Ramos said Whitefish had recently requested security protection because people had started throwing rocks and bottles at the company's crews on the island, in the belief that the contract had been awarded corruptly.
"It requires proof that the person corruptly or by threat influences, impedes, or endeavors to influence or impede the due administration of justice," Joshua Dressler, a law professor at Ohio State University, told me.
They are variations on the theme that anyone who "corruptly" or by "any threatening letter or communication" tries "to influence, obstruct, or impede, the due administration of justice" will be subject to criminal penalties.
They have agreed to the language, which spans only nine pages and says that Trump acted "corruptly" and "betrayed the nation" when he asked Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and the 2016 U.S. election.
"On the basis of the testimony and evidence before the House, President Trump has committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors by corruptly abusing the office of the presidency," Feldman said in his opening statement.
Trump proceeds to ask Zelensky to look into the Ukrainian business dealings of Joe Biden's son Hunter and mentions totally unsubstantiated allegations that Joe Biden was corruptly working to shield his son from prosecution.
Trump "abused his office by corruptly soliciting [Ukrainian] President Volodymyr Zelensky to announce investigations of his political rivals in order to gain personal advantage, including in the 2020 presidential election," Feldman told the committee.
Wittingly or unwittingly, the president and his allies are helping to propagate another disinformation campaign — one that will most likely aid Russia, yet again, in its efforts to intervene corruptly in the American electoral process.
Rosemary Rogers, former chief of staff to NAB's chief executive officer, presented herself to police in Sydney and was charged with 56 counts of corruptly receiving benefits and obtaining financial advantage by deception, authorities said.
To use the words of the statute, did Trump (and perhaps others advising him) "corruptly ... endeavor() to influence, obstruct, or impede the due and proper administration of the law" with respect to the pending investigating?
US officials believe Kim Jong Un's decision to replace the three officials may have been driven by his concerns the three were in positions to corruptly take advantage of outside investment coming into North Korea.
But now, in advance of the Thursday hearing, ABC News has reported that Comey plans to testify that he did not believe the president was corruptly attempting to impede the FBI's investigation into matters Russian.
For example, Section 1512 of Title 18 makes it a crime if someone corruptly "obstructs, influences or impedes any official proceeding," even if the proceeding was not yet pending at the time of the act.
The public evidence that Trump committed obstruction of justice — defined as "corruptly" attempting to "influence, obstruct, or impede, the due administration of justice" — is quite a bit stronger, particularly when it comes to the Comey firing.
He has argued, for example, that Congress cannot make it a crime for a president to exercise executive powers corruptly; and that presidents have authority over law enforcement investigations even when investigators are scrutinizing their activity.
And look finally — this impeachment is taking place precisely because President Due Process tried corruptly to muscle a dependent country to launch a bogus show trial against President Due Process's most likely campaign opponent in 2020.
The perception of a political structure run by and for elites who use it to enrich themselves — sometimes corruptly, but more often perfectly legally — is helping propel the far-right National Front candidate, Marine Le Pen.
" Biden claims 'not credible' The former US envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker, said that he told Giuliani his claims that Biden was acting corruptly in Kiev on behalf of his son Hunter were "simply not credible.
"On the basis of the testimony and evidence before the House, President Trump has committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors by corruptly abusing the office of the presidency," the Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman said.
In nine short pages, the draft articles accused Mr. Trump of carrying out a scheme "corruptly soliciting" election assistance from the government of Ukraine in the form of investigations that would smear his Democratic political rivals.
"On the basis of the testimony and the evidence before the House, President Trump has committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors by corruptly abusing the office of the presidency," said Harvard Law School Professor Noah Feldman.
"The Special Counsel's investigation focused on questions that go to the integrity of our democracy itself: whether foreign powers corruptly interfered in our elections, and whether unlawful means were used to hinder that investigation," they added.
The filings last week, signed by Mueller, alleged that Manafort and Kilimnik 'knowingly and intentionally attempted to corruptly persuade another person…with intent to influence, delay, and prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding.
First, Trump may not be prosecuted for obstructing investigations because he did not act corruptly – he had the authority to take the actions he did; and these actions, even if one finds them inappropriate, were not unreasonable.
JOHANNESBURG — A South African anti-corruption agency has called for a police investigation into the killings of three political figures who had accused their rivals of corruptly diverting money intended for the renovation of a community hall.
The first article accuses Mr. Trump of "ignoring and injuring national security and other vital national interests" by carrying out a scheme to corruptly solicit election assistance from Ukraine through investigations to smear his Democratic political rivals.
Ultimately, the document said, Trump released the hold on military aid when the public learned of his actions "but has persisted in openly and corruptly urging and soliciting Ukraine to undertake investigations for his personal political benefit."
A federal law, known as the bribery statute, makes it a crime for a public official like Trump to corruptly request a thing of value in return for being influenced in the performance of an official act.
If it could be shown that President Trump pardoned his family members and close aides to cover up possible crimes, then that could be seen as acting "corruptly" and he could be charged with obstruction of justice.
Dubray allegedly "did corruptly alter, destroy, mutilate, and conceal an object, to wit: clothing … by laundering them and cleaning the scene of the murder by use of bleach or a bleach-like cleaning substance," according to the documents.
Therefore, we need not even address an additional proof hurdle: Under federal law, even an actual interference with a criminal investigation or a judicial case would not amount to obstruction of justice unless it was done "corruptly" — i.e.
Prosecutors accuse Menendez of corruptly using the power of his office to help a wealthy ophthalmologist from Florida -- Dr. Salomon Melgen -- resolve business disputes in exchange for political donations and a life of luxury the senator couldn't afford.
"The Special Counsel's investigation focused on questions that go to the integrity of our democracy itself: whether foreign powers corruptly interfered in our elections, and whether unlawful means were used to hinder that investigation," Pelosi and Schumer said.
It always will, regardless of which party is in power, if we don't root out and expose those who corruptly used the national security apparatus of this country to lie about, investigate and falsely accuse Americans of treason.
"It's even more important for a president not to corruptly use his power to try to quash investigations of him and his friends," Mariotti said on Twitter, referring to allegations that Trump had attempted to obstruct Mueller's investigation.
Trump and his allies have repeatedly made unfounded and false claims to allege that Biden and his son Hunter acted corruptly in Ukraine, and Biden has said the actions he took had nothing to do with his son.
Specifically, Section 1505 declares that anyone who "corruptly" endeavors to obstruct the proper administration of law "under which any pending proceeding is being had before any department or agency of the United States" is guilty of a felony.
The current Hungarian government, as Guy Verhofstadt wrote earlier this month, is probably the most illiberal and authoritarian in Europe, shutting down newspapers, corruptly capturing major facilities like water and energy, wrenching control of cultural and educational centers.
The reporting form and guidelines have not been altered since mid-28503, a full year before Trump corruptly sought to persuade his Ukrainian counterpart to open a corruption investigation into his chief political rival in the 22019 presidential election.
It was a week and a half after the Democratic-led House opened a formal impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump, following a whistle-blower's complaint alleging that he corruptly pressured Ukraine to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son.
McCabe has been trying to portray himself as corruptly and wrongly persecuted by President Trump for political and self-interested reasons, suggesting Trump hopes to discredit potential testimony from him in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of obstruction of justice.
Two federal agents were eventually found to have acted corruptly during the Silk Road investigation — a DEA agent and a Secret Service agent — but the full evidence was not given to the defense until after Ulbircht's trial, the defense argues.
The charges against Mr. Davis include perjury — authorities said he lied to the S.E.C. during a deposition last year — and obstruction of justice because he "corruptly altered" and destroyed evidence in May 2014 when news of the investigation first emerged.
In December, three former officials at Venezuela's state oil company pleaded guilty in a federal court in Houston, Texas, to charges related to a scheme by two businessmen to corruptly secure energy contracts, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday.
" They pointed to her educational background and political success, alleging that she had exploited her stature "by specifically seeking out potential buyers who might benefit financially if Pugh was politically successful, thus corruptly leveraging her political title and government office.
Mr. Blankenship has run a populist campaign not unlike Mr. Trump's, complete with nativist attacks and allegations that the Justice Department under President Barack Obama corruptly prosecuted him for his role in a 2010 mine explosion that killed 29 men.
The narrower version is that the president may voice his views on individual prosecutions, which is of course correct in the sense that the omnibus obstruction statute prohibits someone from "corruptly" impeding or endeavoring to influence the due administration of justice.
"With the President all but pledging to corruptly abuse his pardon power to allow friends and associates off the hook, it is crucial for us to close the double jeopardy loophole and preserve the rule of law in New York," state Sen.
There is great legal debate on whether the president's exercise of his constitutional authority ever can be considered obstruction of justice, but the president's dismantling of the prosecutor tasked with investigating him may be the epitome of corruptly impeding a federal investigation.
After all, even in its rulings throwing out the initial guilty verdicts, the United States Appeals Court for the Second Circuit was clear on an important point: At both of the men's first trials, there was sufficient evidence to prove they acted corruptly.
The latter relates to his apparent belief that Biden corruptly ordered the Ukrainian government to fire its prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin, in order to stop Shokin's investigation into Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian natural-gas company whose board employed Hunter Biden until last year.
In his view, the American people are powerless to remove a President for corruptly using his Office to cheat in the next election by soliciting and coercing a foreign power to sabotage a rival and spread conspiracy theories helpful to the President.
The premise of the Nunes memo is that the FBI and DOJ corruptly sought a FISA warrant on a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, Carter Page, and deliberately misled the court as part of a systematic abuse of the FISA process.
Specifically, the new charges allege that Manafort and Kilimnik "knowingly and intentionally attempted to corruptly persuade" D22010 and D22016, "with intent to influence, delay, and prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding" and that Manafort and Kilimnik conspired to do so.
That's a standard of conduct that sets the United States up for massive and catastrophic erosion of the rule of law, not only, or even especially, because the president is behaving corruptly, but because Republican Party members of Congress have chosen to allow it.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - An ex-portfolio manager at Visium Asset Management LP corruptly sought to boost the value of one of its hedge fund's holdings, defrauding investors while enabling the investment firm to earn millions of dollars, a U.S. prosecutor told jurors on Wednesday.
"The premise of the Nunes memo is that the FBI and DOJ corruptly sought a FISA warrant on a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, Carter Page, and deliberately misled the court as part of a systematic abuse of the FISA process," Schiff said.
Mr. Trump corruptly demanded something of value — the announcement of investigations into his political rivals — for his personal benefit, in exchange for President Trump's performance of official acts: both hosting a White House meeting and, as Mr. Sondland came to believe, releasing the security aid.
Plus, there's a little fact that there has been no evidence put forward so far showing that the claims that Rudy Giuliani passed along from Ukrainian officials that say that Hunter and Joe Biden were acting corruptly in Ukraine exist at all, no documents.
"President Trump has committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors by corruptly abusing the office of the presidency," Noah Feldman, a professor at Harvard University, testified on Wednesday in Washington as Mr. Trump was wrapping up the last of his meetings with European leaders abroad.
According to an indictment unsealed on Thursday in federal court in Manhattan, Simmons was charged with tax evasion, evasion of assessment of income tax liability, corruptly endeavoring to obstruct administration of IRS laws and the failure to file a U.S. individual income tax return.
"The premise of the Nunes memo is that the FBI and DOJ corruptly sought a FISA warrant on a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, Carter Page, and deliberately misled the court as part of a systematic abuse of the FISA process," said Rep.
Paraphrasing a bit, the statute would require that President Trump "corruptly" asked for or obtained a thing of value for him personally (like dirt on a political opponent), that he asked for that in exchange for performing an official act (like releasing military aid).
" By allegedly pushing former FBI Director James Comey to end the Russia investigation, by subsequently firing Comey and by allegedly pushing intelligence chiefs to influence the Russia investigation, the president has engaged in a pattern of behavior that could lead to an inference that he acted "corruptly.
"The federal obstruction laws, with their bar on corruptly-motivated actions, apply whether the president obstructs an investigation through firing officials leading it, shutting down the investigation, ordering the destruction of documents, or dangling or issuing pardons to induce witnesses to impede the investigation," the letter reads.
"This office is committed to holding companies that conduct business in the United States accountable when they or their subsidiaries corruptly influence foreign government officials for financial gain," said the United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Richard P. Donoghue, in a news release.
First, charging that President Trump corruptly abused the powers of the Presidency to solicit foreign interference in the upcoming presidential election for his personal political benefit; and second that President Trump obstructed an impeachment inquiry into that abuse of power in order to cover up his misconduct.
He was impeached on only two counts, but President Trump has violated his oath of office in so many other ways as well — lying constantly, obstructing justice, encouraging criminal behavior, corruptly profiting off his office, refusing to defend the United States against foreign attacks and more.
The two articles charge Mr. Trump with abusing his power and obstructing Congress, and assert that he "ignored and injured the interests of the Nation" in "corruptly soliciting" election assistance from the government of Ukraine in the form of investigations that would smear his Democratic political rivals.
The member who takes a job with a K Street lobbying firm serves as a metonymy for the whole phenomenon of the revolving door and the idea that members may be corruptly serving special interests while in office in order to cash in once they leave office.
This admission of error from Nigerian officials feels a world away from four years ago when the very same military was being accused of abusing the people it was meant to protect -- and was being accused of corruptly looting billions of dollars meant to aid the fight against terrorism.
" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer released a joint statement: "The Special Counsel's investigation focused on questions that go to the integrity of our democracy itself: whether foreign powers corruptly interfered in our elections, and whether unlawful means were used to hinder that investigation.
Both federal and state prosecutors in New York and Democratic investigators in the House of Representatives are aggressively moving forward with various inquiries — probing whether Michael Cohen was corruptly offered a pardon, charging Paul Manafort for new real estate offenses, and grilling former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker.
Since then, he's ignored his own corruption and gone to desperate lengths to portray one of the frontrunners for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president, former Vice President Joe Biden, as acting corruptly to help his son enrich himself with a job on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.
But if the president issued those pardons to "corruptly persuade[s] another person or attempt[s] to do so… with intent to (1) influence, delay, or prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding; or (2) cause or induce any person to withhold testimony" he has obstructed justice.
He objected to the obstruction charge brought under a provision known as the "omnibus clause," making it a crime for a person who "corruptly" or by force or by threats of force "obstructs or impedes, or endeavors to obstruct or impede, the due administration of" the Internal Revenue Service laws.
For one, Volker said that "the accusation that Vice President [Joe] Biden acted inappropriately" with regard to Ukraine "did not seem at all credible to me" — contradicting Trump's unsupported insistence that Biden acted corruptly in helping push out Viktor Shokin, a Ukrainian prosecutor whom the administration and American allies considered corrupt.
The president retweeted assertions that Romney "stabbed Trump in the back" by joining Democrats in attempts to overturn the 2016 election, and that the Utah senator was connected to unsubstantiated claims that Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, was corruptly involved with the Burisma Holdings energy company in Ukraine.
The victims of the scam described by federal prosecutors include not only deserving students who might have been offered the spots which, according to the charges, were corruptly offered to students with fraudulent applications, but also current students at these institutions who were admitted based on their own hard work and merit.
False statements and obstruction of justice can often go hand in hand, but from a prosecutor's point of view it's easier to prove false statements because you only need to show that the person acted "knowingly and willfully," rather than "corruptly," which is the intent requirement for obstruction (and harder to prove).
In other words, if an obstruction of justice charge is based on the theory that Trump wanted to shut down the Russia investigation, and to do so corruptly, then the recent revelation might help show — if there was any doubt — that Trump wants and needs to downplay his campaign's involvement with Russia.
"He has a right to withhold funding to that leader should the law be followed and the purpose be just, but he does not under our laws and under our Constitution have a right to use the powers of his office to corruptly solicit foreign aid -- prohibited foreign aid -- in his reelection," Schiff said.
Article One: Abuse of power As to Article One, the House managers alleged, in essence, that President Trump corruptly asked the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, to launch an investigation (or, at least, announce the launching of an investigation) into Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, for the benefit of his reelection.
Using back channels, Mr Trump also promised Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine's new president, a coveted meeting in the Oval Office if he announced investigations into Ukraine's role in the 2016 American election and, more important, into whether Joe Biden, a potential rival to Mr Trump in the 2020 election, had corruptly protected his son, Hunter.
FITTON: Carter Page was a cooperating informant of the FBI and Strzok knew that, that&aposs why the use the phrase `pretext&apos and the spying on Carter Page was a convenient vehicle to get at the Trump operation and who knows what other Pfizer warrants and applications were corruptly sent over to the court as well.
" In its May 24 statement, BIC said the trash industry "continues to require regulation, but it would be a mistake to apply the same approach today that BIC took 20 years ago … when the entire industry was corruptly influenced by organized crime; and when organized crime's corrupting influence resulted in physical violence, threats of violence and property damage.
II, Page 177: Accordingly, based on the analysis above, we were not persuaded by the argument that the President has blanket constitutional immunity to engage in acts that would corruptly obstruct justice through the exercise of otherwise-valid Article II powers protecting the integrity of its own proceedings and the proceedings of Article III courts and grand juries.
In corruptly using his office to gain a political advantage, in abusing the powers of that office in such a way as to jeopardize our national security and the integrity of our elections, in obstructing the investigation into his own wrongdoing, the President has shown that he believes that he is above the law and scornful of constraint.
The House managers insisted that they had compiled a mountain of evidence capped by new disclosures by John R. Bolton, the former national security adviser, that Mr. Trump had acted corruptly and with his own interest in mind when he conditioned nearly $400 million of military aid to Ukraine and a meeting at the White House on investigations into his political rivals.
The president said Graham should look into former President Obama, former CIA Director James Brennan and former FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien ComeyCNN's Jeffrey Toobin says he regrets role in playing up Clinton email story Federal prosecutors interviewed multiple FBI officials for Russia probe review: report State cites 38 people for violations in Clinton email review MORE, but did not give evidence that they acted corruptly.
In some cases, the GOP witnesses directly undercut Trump, as my colleague Andrew Prokop explains: Volker said that "the accusation that Vice President [Joe] Biden acted inappropriately" with regard to Ukraine "did not seem at all credible to me" — contradicting Trump's unsupported insistence that Biden acted corruptly in helping push out Viktor Shokin, a Ukrainian prosecutor whom the administration and American allies considered corrupt.
The president suggested he look into former President Obama, former CIA Director James Brennan, former FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien ComeyCNN's Jeffrey Toobin says he regrets role in playing up Clinton email story Federal prosecutors interviewed multiple FBI officials for Russia probe review: report State cites 38 people for violations in Clinton email review MORE and others, alleging they acted corruptly in the lead-up to his electoral victory.
Noah Feldman, a Harvard University professor, on Wednesday will testify that President TrumpDonald John TrumpStates slashed 4,400 environmental agency jobs in past decade: study Biden hammers Trump over video of world leaders mocking him Iran building hidden arsenal of short-range ballistic missiles in Iraq: report MORE has "committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors by corruptly abusing the office of the presidency" in his scheduled appearance before the House Judiciary Committee.
Mr. Barr's argument derived from his broad view of executive power: The Constitution, he claimed, does not permit Congress to make it a crime for the president to exercise his executive powers corruptly — even if he were to fire a subordinate, pardon someone or use what Mr. Barr termed his "complete authority to start or stop a law enforcement proceeding" to cover up crimes by himself or his associates.
President Trump engaged in this scheme or course of conduct through the following means: (1) President Trump—acting both directly and through his agents Within and Outside the United States Government—corruptly solicited the Government of Ukraine to publicly announce investigations into— (A) a political opponent, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.; and (B) a discredited theory promoted by Russia alleging that Ukraine—rather than Russia—interfered in the 2016 United States Presidential election.
The grand jury analogy is Schiff's rationale for excluding witnesses Republicans want to call — witnesses who could put the president's demands in context by establishing that Democrats colluded with Ukrainian officials in connection with the 2016 campaign and that prominent Democrats, such as Joe BidenJoe BidenGOP senators balk at lengthy impeachment trial 2020 Democrats make play for veterans' votes 2020 Dems put focus on stemming veteran suicides MORE's son, Hunter, corruptly cashed in on his father's political influence over Ukraine's government.
And on Twitter, White shared 18 USC § 1505, which argues: Generally, a defendant may be found guilty under section 1505 if the government establishes that: (1) there was a proceeding pending before a department or agency of the United States; (2) the defendant knew of or had a reasonably founded belief that the proceeding was pending; and (3) the defendant corruptly endeavored to influence, obstruct, or impede the due and proper administration of the law under which the proceeding was pending.
Earl Simmons, 46, whose stage name is DMX, was arrested on Thursday after federal prosecutors said he engaged in a multiyear scheme to conceal millions of dollars of income from hit songs including "X Gon' Give it to Ya" and "Where the Hood At." He was charged with tax evasion, evasion of assessment of income tax liability, corruptly endeavoring to obstruct administration of IRS laws and the failure to file a U.S. individual income tax return, according to an indictment unsealed on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

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