List of United States local officials convicted of federal corruption offenses
County executives and commissioners
Table:
County commissioner

Office

Crime(s)

Investigation

Notes

John M. Beeler

Knox County, Tennessee Commissioner of Welfare

Hobbs Act

[93]

William T. Boston

County Commissioner of Major County, Oklahoma

Hobbs Act and mail fraud

[94]

Bernard Nettles Brown

County Commissioner of Bowie County, Texas

Hobbs Act and mail fraud

[95]

James J. Coyne, Jr.

Albany County Executive

Hobbs Act, mail fraud, and program bribery

[96]

Jimmy Dimora

Commissioner of Cuyahoga County, Ohio

RICO

[97]

A. Reginald Eaves

Fulton County Board of Commissioners

Hobbs Act

[98]

Charles Eugene Edwards

County Commissioner of Fannin County, Texas

Hobbs Act and mail fraud

[99]

John H. Evans, Jr.

Board of Commissioners of DeKalb County, Georgia

Hobbs Act

[100]

Joseph J. Forszt

Board of Commissioners of Lake County, Indiana

Hobbs Act and RICO

[101]

Gary A. Greenough

Board of Commissioners of Mobile, Alabama

Hobbs Act and mail and wire fraud

[102]

F. Lee Hyden

Shelby County Tennessee Board of Commissioners

Hobbs Act

[103]

Dario Herrera

Commissioner of Clark County, Nevada

Hobbs Act and wire fraud

Operation G-Sting

[104]

Michael Hooks, Sr.

County Commissioner of Shelby County, Tennessee

Program bribery

Operation Tennessee Waltz

[105]

Robert C. Janiszewski

County Executive of Hudson County, New Jersey

Hobbs Act

[106]

Jack B. Johnson

County Executive of Prince George's County, Maryland

[107]

Erin Kenny

Commissioner of Clark County, Nevada

Wire fraud

Operation G-Sting

[108]

Mary Kincaid-Chauncey

Commissioner of Clark County, Nevada

Hobbs Act and wire fraud

Operation G-Sting

[109]

Joseph Kotvas

Hillsborough County Commission in Tampa, Florida

Hobbs Act, mail fraud, and RICO

[110]

Dean Shannon Loftus

Board of County Commissioners of Sarpy County, Nebraska

Hobbs Act

[111]

Lance Malone

Commissioner of Clark County, Nevada

RICO

Operation G-Sting

[112]

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The Hobbs Act , named after Congressman Sam Hobbs ( D-AL ) and codified at 18 U.S.C . § 1951 , is a U.S. federal law enacted in 1946 that provides :
Mail fraud and wire fraud are federal crimes in the United States that involve mailing or electronically transmitting something associated with fraud . Jurisdiction is claimed by the federal government if the illegal activity crosses interstate or international borders .
James C. Dimora ( born June 21 , 1955 ) is an American politician who served as Cuyahoga County Commissioner from 1998 until 2010 , and as chairman of the county Democratic Party from 1994 until 2009 . Before being elected county commissioner , Dimora served as mayor of Bedford Heights , Ohio for 17 years . In 2012 Dimora was convicted of 32 charges including racketeering , bribery , conspiracy , and tax charges and sentenced to 28 years in federal prison in one of the largest criminal corruption cases in Ohio history . He is currently serving his sentence at Federal Correctional Institution , Elkton , with a release date of 2036 . His inmate number is 56275-060 . The corruption case led to a change in the nature of the county government : one year after the beginning of the case , county voters elected to change the form of government from commission-based to one with a county executive .
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations ( RICO ) Act is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization . The RICO Act focuses specifically on racketeering and allows the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes they ordered others to do or assisted them in doing , closing a perceived loophole that allowed a person who instructed someone else to , for example , murder , to be exempt from the trial because they did not actually commit the crime personally . RICO was enacted by section 901 ( a ) of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 ( Pub.L . 91-452 , 84 Stat . 922 , enacted October 15 , 1970 ) and is codified at 18 U.S.C . ch . 96 as 18 U.S.C . §§ 1961-1968 . G. Robert Blakey , an adviser to the United States Senate Government Operations Committee , drafted the law under the close supervision of the committee 's chairman , Senator John Little McClellan . It was enacted as Title IX of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 , and signed into law by Richard M. Nixon . While its original use in the 1970s was to prosecute the Mafia as well as others who were actively engaged in organized crime , its later application has been more widespread . Beginning in 1972 , 33 states adopted state RICO laws to be able to prosecute similar conduct .
Dario Herrera ( born June 27 , 1973 ) is a former Democratic politician from Nevada . Herrera was considered a rising star in the Democratic Party until his defeat for election to the United States House of Representatives in 2002 and his subsequent convictions on federal public corruption charges .
Robert Charles Janiszewski ( born September 18 , 1945 ) is a former American Democratic Party politician who served as County Executive of Hudson County , New Jersey from 1988 to 2001 . In 2002 he pleaded guilty to taking more than $ 100,000 in bribes , and in 2005 was sentenced to 41 months in prison , despite cooperating with federal investigators . He was the highest-ranking elected official in state history ever to work undercover for the FBI .
Jack Bruce Johnson ( born April 3 , 1949 ) is a former American politician and lawyer . He was a Maryland state 's attorney and was , from 2002 to 2010 , the county executive of Prince George 's County , Maryland . He was elected state 's attorney in November 1994 and served as county executive from December 2002 to December 2010 . On November 12 , 2010 , both Johnson and his wife were indicted on federal charges as part of a larger political corruption scandal in the county . On May 17 , 2011 , Johnson pleaded guilty to extortion and witness- and evidence-tampering . He served most of his seven-year and three-month sentence at the Cumberland Federal Correctional Institution , with prisoner number 52777-037 . On December 15 , 2016 , Johnson was released to a federal halfway house near Baltimore . He was released from federal custody in June 2017 .
Erin Leigh Callin Kenny ( born December 21 , 1960 ) is a former Democratic politician from Nevada . Kenny earned her law degree on May 17 , 2002 , from William S. Boyd School of Law , University of Nevada , Las Vegas . She subsequently failed the Nevada bar exam .
Mary J. Kincaid-Chauncey is a former Democratic politician from Nevada . Kincaid-Chauncey served on the Clark County Commission until she was defeated for reelection and subsequently convicted of federal corruption charges .