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May 30, 2006
Seek and Ye Shall Find: The FBI Targets Public Corruption Cases
The Christian Science Monitor reports:
Over the past two years, FBI investigations have led to corruption convictions for more than 1,000 government employees, according to bureau figures. Corruption indictments are up 40 percent. . . .
The FBI's latest strategic plan lists "combat public corruption on all levels" as the bureau's highest-ranking criminal priority, ahead of such things as fighting transnational crime organizations (read "the Mafia") and white-collar crime.
Over the past 18 months, some 200 agents have been added to the 400 already working on public corruption cases, according to FBI data.
This new emphasis is due to the fact that "public corruption is different than other crimes," said FBI director Robert Mueller in a May 11 speech in San Diego. "It does not just strike at the heart of good government - it can strike at the security of our communities and our nation."
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