Category: Public Corruption
Tiara McGill-Rushing, Embezzlement, Missouri 2024
⏱ 2 min read Tiara McGill-Rushing, a 34-year-old former US Postal Service employee from Kansas City, Missouri, pleaded guilty to embezzling at least 70 individual letters containing gift cards on March 22, 2024. McGill-Rushing, who worked for the USPS, used her position to steal the mail with the intent to convert the gift cards to…
Joely Rodríguez-Villega, Lying to FBI, Puerto Rico 2024
⏱ 2 min read Joely Rodríguez-Villega, a 28-year-old woman from San Juan, Puerto Rico, has been indicted for lying to the FBI about her whereabouts on the evening of March 29, 2024. According to court documents, Rodríguez-Villega willfully and knowingly made false statements to FBI agents, which is a federal crime. The indictment was returned…
Charles Wilson, Railroad Switch Tampering, New York 2025
⏱ 2 min read Charles Wilson, a 66-year-old Niagara Falls man, has admitted to attempting to disable a CSX railroad switch, putting the safety of train passengers and crew at risk. On June 29, 2025, Wilson entered the CSX Railyard and replaced a 102 switch lock with a different lock, impairing the operation of the…
Joseph Huffaker, Extortion Under Color of Official Right, California 2026
⏱ 3 min read Two former Rohnert Park police officers, Joseph Huffaker and Brendon Jacy Tatum, were sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a marijuana extortion scheme that involved impersonating federal agents and obstructing justice. The scheme, which took place between 2012 and 2019, involved pulling over drivers suspected of possessing significant amounts…
Brendan Conklin, Impersonating a Federal Officer, Ohio 2026
⏱ 2 min read Brendan Conklin, a 45-year-old Westerville man, posed as a federal law enforcement agent and made an unlawful arrest in December 2023. Conklin, driving a former police SUV with police lights, pulled over a victim who had just left her Westerville home with her minor child. He pointed a firearm at the…
Christopher Flanagan, Embezzlement, Massachusetts 2021
⏱ 2 min read Massachusetts State Representative Christopher Flanagan, 38, of Dennis, has been charged with stealing over $36,000 from the Home Builders Association in Cape Cod, where he served as Executive Officer. The alleged theft occurred between November 2021 and January 2023, with Flanagan facing personal financial difficulties, including thousands of dollars in outstanding…
Dekarri Nixon, Bribery, Florida 2023
⏱ 2 min read Dekarri Nixon, a 28-year-old former correctional officer at the Citrus County Detention Facility, pleaded guilty to accepting a $4,000 bribe to smuggle a cellphone into the facility. Nixon, from Jasper, Florida, worked at the facility where federal detainees are held while awaiting trial and sentencing. The bribe was in exchange for…
Victor Manuel Rocha, Unregistered Agent, Florida 1978
⏱ 2 min read A high-ranking government official turned Cuban spy, Victor Manuel Rocha, is facing the music in Miami. The native Colombian was convicted of serving as an unregistered agent for the Republic of Cuba and now the US Department of Justice is seeking to revoke his citizenship. Rocha, who naturalized in 1978, had…
Victor Manuel Rocha, Espionage, Florida 1978
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Afrim Kupa, Mustafa Fteja, and Valmir Krasniqi, Juror Bribery, New York 2025
⏱ 2 min read Three Staten Island men tried to buy justice for $100,000. In mid-November 2025, Afrim Kupa, Mustafa Fteja, and Valmir Krasniqi offered a juror in the trial of Goran Gogic up to $100,000 to vote not guilty. Goran Gogic was on trial for a crime in Brooklyn’s federal court. Now Kupa, Fteja,…
