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
Governor | Office | Crime | Investigation | Notes |
Governor of Illinois | Hobbs Act and mail fraud | Operation Board Games | ||
Governor of Tennessee | Hobbs Act and mail fraud | |||
Governor of Louisiana | Hobbs Act, mail fraud, and RICO | |||
Governor of Oklahoma | Hobbs Act and Travel Act | |||
Governor of Illinois | Mail fraud and Travel Act | |||
Governor of North Dakota | Conspiracy to defraud the United States | |||
Governor of Louisiana | Mail fraud | |||
Governor of West Virginia | Hobbs Act and mail fraud | |||
Governor of Connecticut | Mail fraud | |||
Governor of Illinois | Mail fraud and RICO | Operation Safe Roads | ||
Governor of Alabama | Mail fraud and program bribery |
Cabinet members
Cabinet member | Office | Crime | Investigation | Notes |
Mail fraud and RICO | ||||
Hobbs Act and RICO | ||||
Hobbs Act | ||||
Hobbs Act | ||||
New Jersey State Treasurer | Hobbs Act | |||
Mail fraud | ||||
North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture | Hobbs Act | |||
Mail fraud | ||||
Hobbs Act | ||||
RICO | ||||
New Mexico State Treasurer | Hobbs Act |
Legislators
State legislator | Office | Crime | Investigation | Notes |
Alaska state representative | Hobbs Act | Alaska political corruption probe | ||
RICO | ||||
South Carolina state representative | Hobbs Act | Operation Lost Trust | ||
Louisiana state senator | Travel Act | |||
Program bribery | ||||
Hobbs Act and RICO | Operation Boptrot | |||
Tennessee state senator | Program bribery | Operation Tennessee Waltz | ||
Maryland state senator | RICO | |||
Kentucky state representative | Hobbs Act | Operation Boptrot | ||
New Jersey state senator | Mail fraud and program bribery | |||
Mississippi state senator | Conspiracy to defraud the United States | |||
Tennessee House majority leader | Mail fraud | Operation Rocky Top | ||
Illinois state representative | Mail fraud | |||
California state senator | Hobbs Act and RICO | BRISPEC sting operation | ||
Illinois state senator | Mail fraud | |||
Rhode Island state senator | Mail fraud | |||
Pennsylvania state senator | Mail fraud and RICO | |||
New Jersey state senator | Hobbs Act and mail fraud | |||
Illinois state senator | Mail fraud | |||
Illinois state representative | Mail fraud and Travel Act | |||
Alaska state senator | Program bribery | Alaska political corruption probe | ||
Kentucky state representative | Travel Act | Operation Boptrot | ||
Tennessee state senator | Program bribery | Operation Tennessee Waltz | ||
Illinois state senator | Hobbs Act | Operation Gambat | ||
Alabama state representative | Hobbs Act | |||
North Carolina state representative | Hobbs Act and mail fraud | |||
South Carolina state representative | Hobbs Act | Operation Lost Trust | ||
Massachusetts state senator | Hobbs Act and Travel Act | MBM investigation | ||
Hobbs Act and mail fraud | ||||
Tennessee state senator | Hobbs Act and program bribery | Operation Tennessee Waltz | ||
South Carolina state representative | Hobbs Act | Operation Lost Trust | ||
South Carolina state representative | Hobbs Act | Operation Lost Trust | ||
Connecticut state representative | Program bribery | |||
Tennessee state senator | Wire fraud and program bribery | Operation Tennessee Waltz | ||
Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives | Wire fraud, bribery, and filing a false tax return | |||
Pennsylvania state senator | Mail fraud | |||
Kentucky state senator | Mail fraud | Operation Boptrot | ||
Pennsylvania state representative | Hobbs Act | |||
Tennessee state senator | Hobbs Act and mail and wire fraud | |||
New York state senator | Mail fraud | |||
South Carolina state representative | Hobbs Act | Operation Lost Trust | ||
Mail fraud and program bribery | ||||
Virginia state representative | Hobbs Act and program bribery | |||
California state representative | Hobbs Act | BRISPEC sting operation | ||
Pennsylvania state representative | Hobbs Act | |||
Ohio state senator | Hobbs Act | |||
Massachusetts state senator | Hobbs Act | |||
South Carolina state representative | Hobbs Act | Operation Lost Trust | ||
Alaska state representative | Hobbs Act and program bribery | Alaska political corruption probe | ||
Hobbs Act, mail fraud, and program bribery | Alaska political corruption probe | |||
New York state senator | Mail fraud and Travel Act | |||
Mississippi state senator | Conspiracy to defraud the United States | |||
Kentucky state representative | Hobbs Act | Operation Boptrot | ||
South Carolina state representative | Hobbs Act | Operation Lost Trust | ||
New Jersey state representative | Mail fraud | |||
Massachusetts state senator | Hobbs Act and Travel Act | MBM investigation | ||
Rhode Island House majority leader | Mail fraud | |||
Alaska state representative | Travel Act | Alaska political corruption probe | ||
Pennsylvania state senator | Hobbs Act | |||
Kentucky state representative | Hobbs Act and Travel Act | Operation Boptrot | ||
Alabama state senator | Mail fraud | |||
California state senator | Hobbs Act and RICO | BRISPEC sting operation | ||
Oklahoma state senator | Program bribery | |||
Tennessee state representative | Hobbs Act and program bribery | Operation Tennessee Waltz | ||
Connecticut state senator | Mail fraud | |||
California state representative | RICO | BRISPEC sting operation | ||
Illinois state representative | Mail fraud | |||
Kentucky state senator | Mail fraud | Operation Boptrot | ||
New York state senator | Mail fraud | |||
Hobbs Act and mail fraud | ||||
California state senator | Hobbs Act and RICO | |||
Kentucky Senate minority leader | Hobbs Act and mail fraud | Operation Boptrot | ||
South Carolina state representative | RICO | Operation Lost Trust | ||
Louisiana state representative | Hobbs Act | |||
Maryland state representative | Hobbs Act | |||
New York state representative | Mail fraud | |||
Kentucky state senator | Mail fraud | Operation Boptrot | ||
Alabama state representative | Mail fraud and program bribery | |||
Alabama state representative | Program bribery | |||
Kentucky state representative | Mail fraud | Operation Boptrot | ||
South Carolina state representative | Hobbs Act | Operation Lost Trust | ||
West Virginia Senate President | Hobbs Act | |||
New Jersey state representative | Hobbs Act and program bribery | Operation Bid Rig | ||
Washington Senate Majority Leader | Mail fraud, RICO, and Travel Act | |||
Georgia Senate majority leader | Mail fraud | |||
Illinois state senator | Mail fraud | |||
Massachusetts state senator | Hobbs Act | |||
Massachusetts state representative | Mail and wire fraud and Travel Act |