Authorities in Philadelphia snatched over a $1 billion worth of cocaine on Tuesday in what officials describe as one of the largest drug busts in US history.

Margaret Hunter, the wife of US Congressman Duncan D. Hunter, changed her plea on Thursday from not guilty to guilty of misusing quarter of a million dollars of campaign funds to pay for lavish vacations, extravagant parties, and other personal expenses.

U.S. Transportation Department Secretary Elaine Chao oversaw the creation of a special liaison to help the state of Kentucky secure federal funds for state projects, prompting Politico to question whether the state received special treatment because Chao’s husband, Mitch McConnell, is a Kentucky senator.

The Catholic Church in the United States spent US$10.6 million lobbying against state legislation designed to help victims of clerical sex abuse, according to a report released on Tuesday.

The “revolving door” of US legislators leaving their offices to become lobbyists might soon come to a halt, thanks to increased public awareness and an odd Twitter exchange this week.

The District Court of Nevada sentenced 72 year-old Edwin Fujinaga to 50 years in prison for a US$1.5 billion ponzi scheme on Thursday.

A whistleblower lawsuit accused a US pharmaceuticals giant of lavishly bribing doctors and their staff to increase sales of a drug, offering them Starbucks gift cards, free Las Vegas trips and sponsored happy hours to prescribe it even for potentially unsafe uses.

An Indian national who operated a network of fraudulent call centers that intimidated and defrauded US residents out of hundreds of millions of dollars was arrested and extradited from Singapore to the US on Friday.

Washington added more sanctions last week on Venezuela and two of its key allies, Nicaragua and Cuba, as the Trump administration ramps up its efforts to push Venezuela’s leader Nicolas Maduro out of office.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Montana, a nonprofit legal organization, filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against members of the bail bonds industry, including bail bondsmen, bounty hunters and insurance companies, who it says amount to organized crime actors.

Nearly a year after the US government sanctioned him and a slew of others over ties to the Russian government, oligarch Oleg Deripaska said his blacklisting was based on “filthy lies.”

Russia’s lower house of Parliament approved Tuesday the third reading of a draft law aiming to increase the country’s sovereignty over its internet and defend against foreign cyber attacks, the State Duma confirmed in a tweet.

An internal investigation found that Deutsche Bank may have breached anti-corruption regulations through its involvement in money laundering and that it could face penalties, while its senior management could risk prosecution.

Alabama lawmakers shelved last week a new bill that would have eliminated the current ban on public officials receiving gifts and reduce the penalties for low-level bribery convictions to misdemeanors.

Construction and real estate development are the business sectors globally most exposed to corruption, according to a new report by Risk Advisory, a London-based consultancy.

David Bernhardt, a US politician nominated to lead of the country’s Department of the Interior, may have for some years lobbied for a firm controlled by a Russian oligarch and then concealed it before he testified before Congress, claims London-based NGO Global Witness.

The United States imposed sanctions on Venezuela’s state-run gold mining company on Tuesday, accusing it of illicitly propping up the government of President Maduro.

Dozens of parents, including Hollywood actresses, have been arrested and charged alongside test administrators and elite college sports coaches in multiple states across the US in a multi-million dollar scheme that facilitated admission into elite colleges across the US in return for bribes.

A Texas State Representative and a mayoral candidate for the city of Dallas said in a statement Monday he will file a sweeping anti-corruption bill in the wake of the latest Dallas bribery scandal involving a city official and a real estate developer. 

A federal jury in Laredo, Texas found six individuals guilty in connection with a two-year multi-million dollar money laundering scheme, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.