List of United States state officials convicted of federal corruption offenses


This is a list of notable U.S. state officials convicted of only certain select federal public corruption offenses for conduct while in office. The list is organized by office. Acquitted officials are not listed. Officials convicted of state crimes are not listed.
For a more complete list see: List of American state and local politicians convicted of crimes.
The criminal statute under which the conviction were obtained are noted, as are the names of notable investigations or scandals, if applicable. If a defendant is convicted of a conspiracy to commit a corruption offense, the substantive offense is listed.
Criminal convictions such as making false statements, perjury, obstruction of justice, electoral fraud, and campaign finance regulations, tax evasion, and money laundering even if related, are not included in this list.
Certain details, including post-conviction relief, if applicable, are included in footnotes. For example, several officials obtained post-conviction relief after the Supreme Court's decisions narrowing the mail fraud statute in McNally v. United States and Skilling v. United States and narrowing the Hobbs Act in McCormick v. United States.
The Hobbs Act, the mail and wire fraud statutes, including the honest services fraud provision, the Travel Act, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act , and the federal program bribery statute, 18 U.S.C. § 666, permit the prosecution of such officials. These statutes are also applicable to corrupt federal officials. In addition, federal officials are subject to the federal bribery, graft, and conflict-of-interest crimes contained in Title 18, Chapter 11 of the United States Code, 18 U.S.C. §§ 201–227, which do not apply to state and local officials.

Governors

GovernorOfficeCrimeInvestigationNotes
Governor of IllinoisHobbs Act and mail fraudOperation Board Games
Governor of TennesseeHobbs Act and mail fraud
Governor of LouisianaHobbs Act, mail fraud, and RICO
Governor of OklahomaHobbs Act and Travel Act
Governor of IllinoisMail fraud and Travel Act
Governor of North DakotaConspiracy to defraud the United States
Governor of LouisianaMail fraud
Governor of West VirginiaHobbs Act and mail fraud
Governor of ConnecticutMail fraud
Governor of IllinoisMail fraud and RICOOperation Safe Roads
Governor of AlabamaMail fraud and program bribery

Cabinet members

Cabinet memberOfficeCrimeInvestigationNotes
Mail fraud and RICO
Hobbs Act and RICO
Hobbs Act
Hobbs Act
New Jersey State TreasurerHobbs Act
Mail fraud
North Carolina Commissioner of AgricultureHobbs Act
Mail fraud
Hobbs Act
RICO
New Mexico State TreasurerHobbs Act

Legislators

State legislatorOfficeCrimeInvestigationNotes
Alaska state representativeHobbs ActAlaska political corruption probe
RICO
South Carolina state representativeHobbs ActOperation Lost Trust
Louisiana state senatorTravel Act
Program bribery
Hobbs Act and RICOOperation Boptrot
Tennessee state senatorProgram briberyOperation Tennessee Waltz
Maryland state senatorRICO
Kentucky state representativeHobbs ActOperation Boptrot
New Jersey state senatorMail fraud and program bribery
Mississippi state senatorConspiracy to defraud the United States
Tennessee House majority leaderMail fraudOperation Rocky Top
Illinois state representativeMail fraud
California state senatorHobbs Act and RICOBRISPEC sting operation
Illinois state senatorMail fraud
Rhode Island state senatorMail fraud
Pennsylvania state senatorMail fraud and RICO
New Jersey state senatorHobbs Act and mail fraud
Illinois state senatorMail fraud
Illinois state representativeMail fraud and Travel Act
Alaska state senatorProgram briberyAlaska political corruption probe
Kentucky state representativeTravel ActOperation Boptrot
Tennessee state senatorProgram briberyOperation Tennessee Waltz
Illinois state senatorHobbs ActOperation Gambat
Alabama state representativeHobbs Act
North Carolina state representativeHobbs Act and mail fraud
South Carolina state representativeHobbs ActOperation Lost Trust
Massachusetts state senatorHobbs Act and Travel ActMBM investigation
Hobbs Act and mail fraud
Tennessee state senatorHobbs Act and program briberyOperation Tennessee Waltz
South Carolina state representativeHobbs ActOperation Lost Trust
South Carolina state representativeHobbs ActOperation Lost Trust
Connecticut state representativeProgram bribery
Tennessee state senatorWire fraud and program briberyOperation Tennessee Waltz
Speaker of the Rhode Island House of RepresentativesWire fraud, bribery, and filing a false tax return
Pennsylvania state senatorMail fraud
Kentucky state senatorMail fraudOperation Boptrot
Pennsylvania state representativeHobbs Act
Tennessee state senatorHobbs Act and mail and wire fraud
New York state senatorMail fraud
South Carolina state representativeHobbs ActOperation Lost Trust
Mail fraud and program bribery
Virginia state representativeHobbs Act and program bribery
California state representativeHobbs ActBRISPEC sting operation
Pennsylvania state representativeHobbs Act
Ohio state senatorHobbs Act
Massachusetts state senatorHobbs Act
South Carolina state representativeHobbs ActOperation Lost Trust
Alaska state representativeHobbs Act and program briberyAlaska political corruption probe
Hobbs Act, mail fraud, and program briberyAlaska political corruption probe
New York state senatorMail fraud and Travel Act
Mississippi state senatorConspiracy to defraud the United States
Kentucky state representativeHobbs ActOperation Boptrot
South Carolina state representativeHobbs ActOperation Lost Trust
New Jersey state representativeMail fraud
Massachusetts state senatorHobbs Act and Travel ActMBM investigation
Rhode Island House majority leaderMail fraud
Alaska state representativeTravel ActAlaska political corruption probe
Pennsylvania state senatorHobbs Act
Kentucky state representativeHobbs Act and Travel ActOperation Boptrot
Alabama state senatorMail fraud
California state senatorHobbs Act and RICOBRISPEC sting operation
Oklahoma state senatorProgram bribery
Tennessee state representativeHobbs Act and program briberyOperation Tennessee Waltz
Connecticut state senatorMail fraud
California state representativeRICOBRISPEC sting operation
Illinois state representativeMail fraud
Kentucky state senatorMail fraudOperation Boptrot
New York state senatorMail fraud
Hobbs Act and mail fraud
California state senatorHobbs Act and RICO
Kentucky Senate minority leaderHobbs Act and mail fraudOperation Boptrot
South Carolina state representativeRICOOperation Lost Trust
Louisiana state representativeHobbs Act
Maryland state representativeHobbs Act
New York state representativeMail fraud
Kentucky state senatorMail fraudOperation Boptrot
Alabama state representativeMail fraud and program bribery
Alabama state representativeProgram bribery
Kentucky state representativeMail fraudOperation Boptrot
South Carolina state representativeHobbs ActOperation Lost Trust
West Virginia Senate PresidentHobbs Act
New Jersey state representativeHobbs Act and program briberyOperation Bid Rig
Washington Senate Majority LeaderMail fraud, RICO, and Travel Act
Georgia Senate majority leaderMail fraud
Illinois state senatorMail fraud
Massachusetts state senatorHobbs Act
Massachusetts state representativeMail and wire fraud and Travel Act