• the 20-year tenure of District Attorney Joe Rubio, Jr. was marred by corruption which led to his father having spent more than three years in U.S. federal prison for conspiracy and extortion?
• Mike J. Manning was threatened with deportation from Papua New Guinea for a report criticizing corruption in the government?

Facts on topics related to Corruption

Political corruption

• Queens Borough President Joseph Bermel fled the country an hour after promising to return to a grand jury corruption inquiry?
• Anthony Impreveduto lost his Secaucus, New Jersey Town Council seat to reform candidate Dennis Elwell, with both later resigning from political office following corruption charges?
• the Norwegian communist politician Erling Folkvord (pictured) is well-known for his work as a corruption watchdog?
• the first Director of Singapore's Commercial Affairs Department, Glenn Knight, was also the first legal officer in the country to be charged for corruption?

Bribery

• John Warren Davis, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, was indicted for receiving a bribe from film producer William Fox?
• Robert Sommers, who became British Columbia Minister of Forests in 1952, was the first cabinet minister in the British Commonwealth to be imprisoned for taking bribes?
• during the 1905 Chicago Teamsters' strike, 21 people were killed and the strike ended only after union leaders were accused of taking bribes?

Government

• Arthur MacMahon was one of the first political scientists to use empirical methods to study government?
• L. B. Henry of Pineville, overcame a missing forearm at birth to become a plumber-businessman and then a statewide figure in Louisiana parish government?
• Playland, often called Rye Playland, is America's only government owned and operated amusement park?
• sociocracy is a form of government relying on principles of consensus?
• Tadeusz Pyka was appointed in 1980 to lead a Polish government commission to negotiate with strikers at Gdańsk, despite vowing that he would have "nothing to do" with the strikers' main representative body?
• In re Debs was a 1895 Supreme Court case that resulted in an unanimous ruling affirming the right of the United States government to issue an injunction to halt strikes affecting interstate commerce and U.S. Mail?
• the minesweeper USS Threat was transferred to the government of Mexico after being decommissioned by the US Navy and renamed the Francisco Zarco?
• the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland of 1815, considered among the most liberal constitutions of its time, was increasingly disregarded by the Polish government, leading to the November Uprising of 1830?
• the Three-Self Patriotic Movement is part of the only government-sanctioned Protestant church in the People's Republic of China?