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Michael Cohen - Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to a slew of charges in August, including lying to banks, violating campaign finance laws, and tax evasion. He has been sentenced to three years in prison today.
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Michael Cohen - He admitted to paying both Stormy Daniels, a porn star, and Karen McDougal, a Playboy model, hush-money before the 2016 election. He also lied to Congress about a tower that the Trump Organization was trying to build in Russia.
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Michael Cohen - Among the biggest bombshells that have come of the trial were the implications that Cohen committed these crimes at the behest of Donald Trump, the President of the United States. As of now, Trump has not been charged with any crimes.
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Mariano Rajoy (Spain) - Mariano Rajoy is part of the PP (People's Party) and was Spain's Prime Minister from 2011 to 2018. On June 1, 2018, he was voted out of office.
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Mariano Rajoy (Spain) - In 2007, an ongoing corruption investigation into what has become known as the 'Gürtel Case' began, which has involved many of the PP's key members. Other related scandals include the high profile 'Bárcenas Affair.'
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Mariano Rajoy (Spain) - On May 24, 2018, the Spanish National Court claimed that the PP had been running a parallel accounting scheme, as stated on 20 minutos. Following this and other widespread corruption accusations, a motion of no confidence was proposed on May 31 against Rajoy to vote him out of power.
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Mariano Rajoy (Spain) - The PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party), together with other political groups, was the trailblazer of this sudden move. Rajoy was voted out and Pedro Sánchez will now take on the role of Prime minister, as reported by El Mundo.
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Mariano Rajoy (Spain) - Mariano Rajoy kept his composure in face of the vote, saying that it had been "an honor" to serve as Spain's Prime Minister and to have left the country better than he had found it, stated El Mundo.
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil) - The former Brazilian leader, popularly known as Lula, was sentenced to prison in April 2018, after his requests for habeas corpus were denied by the Brazilian Supreme Court.
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil) - The former president was sentenced to 12 years and one month in prison owing to the 'Triplex Case,' which included charges of passive corruption and money laundering.
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil) - The country was split by protests for and against the former leader, who had been hoping to run again for the elections this year.
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Park Geun-hye (South Korea) - The former president was sentenced to 24 years in prison on April 6 for abusing her power and for corruption in a scandal which unveiled two-way dealing between conglomerates and politicians, reported The Guardian.
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Park Geun-hye (South Korea) - According to Reuters, the court ordered the ex-president to pay fines totaling 18 billion wons, equivalent to about US$16.2 million.
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Park Geun-hye (South Korea) - Her sentence was delivered live on TV, owing to the huge public interest in the case. The scandal caused several protests across the country.
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Silvio Berlusconi (Italy) - Italy's former Prime Minister was sentenced to three years in jail in 2015 for corruption charges when he was a Senator. Berlusconi got out of serving this sentence, however, as the statue of limitations on bribery had expired by the time the appeals process was finished, according to the Independent.
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Silvio Berlusconi (Italy) - The former leader has already been involved in many other court cases, said the BBC in 2013, and was even sentenced to one year of community service for tax fraud.
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Silvio Berlusconi (Italy) - In March 2018, Berlusconi was also accused of witness tampering. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Italian politician had bribed four women to lie about his relationship with an underage prostitute.
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Ehud Olmert (Israel) - In July 2017, the former Primer Minister was released from jail after completing 16 of his 27-month prison sentence for fraud and bribery, reported the Telegraph.
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Ehud Olmert (Israel) - When he was sentenced in 2014, Olmert was the country's first Prime Minister to go to prison. However, he was accused of receiving bribes when he was Mayor of Jerusalem and Minister of Commerce.
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Ricardo Martinelli (Panama) - In June 2017, Panama's former president, was arrested in Miami, US, on charges of corruption, embezzlement, and phone tapping.
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Ricardo Martinelli (Panama) - According to The New York Times, Martinelli had moved to the south of Florida shortly after he left office and requested political asylum, saying that the new president had presented a case against him for political reasons.
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Ricardo Martinelli (Panama) - In June of 2018, the US extradited Martinelli to Panama, according to Reuters.
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Nicolas Sarkozy (France) - On March 29, 2018, the BBC revealed that the former French president would face trial for corruption and influence peddling.
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Nicolas Sarkozy (France)
- More specifically, Sarkozy, who was the president of France from 2007 to 2012, was accused of the "'active corruption' of a judge to secure leaked details of an inquiry into alleged electoral funding fraud," according to The Telegraph.
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Nicolas Sarkozy (France) - The BBC further reported that the French politician was held on March 20 for questions about a sum of €50 million, which he allegedly received from Libya to finance his presidency campaign. Fast forward to October of 2018, and he lost his first appeal, according to Reuters.
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Alejandro Toledo (Peru) - Reuters reported that Peruvian Judge Richard Concepcion released an international arrest warrant for the former president, Alejandro Toledo, in February 2017.
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Alejandro Toledo (Peru) - Toledo has been accused of accepting US$20 million in bribes from the Brazilian construction company, Odebrecht SA, while he was in power from 2001-2006.
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Alejandro Toledo (Peru) - Toledo is still living in the USA as a free man despite numerous requests for his extradition back to Peru from the nation's Supreme Court, according to Peru Reports.
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Alberto Fujimori (Peru) - According to Reuters, in 2009 the former Peruvian president, who was in power from 1990 to 2000, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for corruption and violating human rights.
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Alberto Fujimori (Peru) - The news agency confirmed that at the time, Fujimori was the first democratically-elected Latin American president to have been found guilty of crimes in his own country.
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Alberto Fujimori (Peru) - Last December, Peru's people rose up in arms when the former president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, pardoned Fujimori and granted him an early release from his 25-year prison sentence. Less than two months later, however, he was called on trial again for the murder of six farmers, says the BBC.
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José Sócrates (Portugal) - In 2014, Portugal's former Prime Minister was imprisoned for suspected involvement in tax fraud, money laundering, and corruption, reported the BBC.
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José Sócrates (Portugal) - The politician was released after 10 months' incarceration, which he served under house arrest and in Évora jail.
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Hosni Mubarak (Egypt) - In March 2017, the former President of Egypt was released after six years of imprisonment, even though he had spent most of this time in military hospital, reported The Guardian.
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Hosni Mubarak (Egypt) - The dictator was accused of conspiring in the murder of 239 demonstrators, which led to him being handed down a life sentence, according to The Guardian.
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Pervez Musharraf (Pakistan) - According to the BBC, the former president was convicted of treason for imposing emergency rule and subverting the constitution in 2007.
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Pervez Musharraf (Pakistan) - Musharraf has been in Dubai since March 2016. On June 1, 2018, Pakistan requested that his national identity card and passport be suspended, meaning his bank accounts will be frozen and his international travel will be restricted, says NDTV.
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Otto Pérez Molina (Guatemala) - Involved in a huge corruption scandal, Molina gave up his position as president in 2015 and was arrested in September of the same year.
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Otto Pérez Molina (Guatemala) - According to The New Yorker, Otto Pérez Molina's imprisonment was the result of the efforts of the Guatemalan Department of Justice, who worked closely with the United Nations International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala.
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Michael Cohen - Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to a slew of charges in August, including lying to banks, violating campaign finance laws, and tax evasion. He has been sentenced to three years in prison today.
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Michael Cohen - He admitted to paying both Stormy Daniels, a porn star, and Karen McDougal, a Playboy model, hush-money before the 2016 election. He also lied to Congress about a tower that the Trump Organization was trying to build in Russia.
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Michael Cohen - Among the biggest bombshells that have come of the trial were the implications that Cohen committed these crimes at the behest of Donald Trump, the President of the United States. As of now, Trump has not been charged with any crimes.
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Mariano Rajoy (Spain) - Mariano Rajoy is part of the PP (People's Party) and was Spain's Prime Minister from 2011 to 2018. On June 1, 2018, he was voted out of office.
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Mariano Rajoy (Spain) - In 2007, an ongoing corruption investigation into what has become known as the 'Gürtel Case' began, which has involved many of the PP's key members. Other related scandals include the high profile 'Bárcenas Affair.'
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Mariano Rajoy (Spain) - On May 24, 2018, the Spanish National Court claimed that the PP had been running a parallel accounting scheme, as stated on 20 minutos. Following this and other widespread corruption accusations, a motion of no confidence was proposed on May 31 against Rajoy to vote him out of power.
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Mariano Rajoy (Spain) - The PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party), together with other political groups, was the trailblazer of this sudden move. Rajoy was voted out and Pedro Sánchez will now take on the role of Prime minister, as reported by El Mundo.
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Mariano Rajoy (Spain) - Mariano Rajoy kept his composure in face of the vote, saying that it had been "an honor" to serve as Spain's Prime Minister and to have left the country better than he had found it, stated El Mundo.
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil) - The former Brazilian leader, popularly known as Lula, was sentenced to prison in April 2018, after his requests for habeas corpus were denied by the Brazilian Supreme Court.
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil) - The former president was sentenced to 12 years and one month in prison owing to the 'Triplex Case,' which included charges of passive corruption and money laundering.
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil) - The country was split by protests for and against the former leader, who had been hoping to run again for the elections this year.
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Park Geun-hye (South Korea) - The former president was sentenced to 24 years in prison on April 6 for abusing her power and for corruption in a scandal which unveiled two-way dealing between conglomerates and politicians, reported The Guardian.
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Park Geun-hye (South Korea) - According to Reuters, the court ordered the ex-president to pay fines totaling 18 billion wons, equivalent to about US$16.2 million.
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Park Geun-hye (South Korea) - Her sentence was delivered live on TV, owing to the huge public interest in the case. The scandal caused several protests across the country.
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Silvio Berlusconi (Italy) - Italy's former Prime Minister was sentenced to three years in jail in 2015 for corruption charges when he was a Senator. Berlusconi got out of serving this sentence, however, as the statue of limitations on bribery had expired by the time the appeals process was finished, according to the Independent.
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Silvio Berlusconi (Italy) - The former leader has already been involved in many other court cases, said the BBC in 2013, and was even sentenced to one year of community service for tax fraud.
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Silvio Berlusconi (Italy) - In March 2018, Berlusconi was also accused of witness tampering. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Italian politician had bribed four women to lie about his relationship with an underage prostitute.
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Ehud Olmert (Israel) - In July 2017, the former Primer Minister was released from jail after completing 16 of his 27-month prison sentence for fraud and bribery, reported the Telegraph.
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Ehud Olmert (Israel) - When he was sentenced in 2014, Olmert was the country's first Prime Minister to go to prison. However, he was accused of receiving bribes when he was Mayor of Jerusalem and Minister of Commerce.
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Ricardo Martinelli (Panama) - In June 2017, Panama's former president, was arrested in Miami, US, on charges of corruption, embezzlement, and phone tapping.
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Ricardo Martinelli (Panama) - According to The New York Times, Martinelli had moved to the south of Florida shortly after he left office and requested political asylum, saying that the new president had presented a case against him for political reasons.
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Ricardo Martinelli (Panama) - In June of 2018, the US extradited Martinelli to Panama, according to Reuters.
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Nicolas Sarkozy (France) - On March 29, 2018, the BBC revealed that the former French president would face trial for corruption and influence peddling.
© Reuters
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Nicolas Sarkozy (France)
- More specifically, Sarkozy, who was the president of France from 2007 to 2012, was accused of the "'active corruption' of a judge to secure leaked details of an inquiry into alleged electoral funding fraud," according to The Telegraph.
© Reuters
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Nicolas Sarkozy (France) - The BBC further reported that the French politician was held on March 20 for questions about a sum of €50 million, which he allegedly received from Libya to finance his presidency campaign. Fast forward to October of 2018, and he lost his first appeal, according to Reuters.
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Alejandro Toledo (Peru) - Reuters reported that Peruvian Judge Richard Concepcion released an international arrest warrant for the former president, Alejandro Toledo, in February 2017.
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Alejandro Toledo (Peru) - Toledo has been accused of accepting US$20 million in bribes from the Brazilian construction company, Odebrecht SA, while he was in power from 2001-2006.
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Alejandro Toledo (Peru) - Toledo is still living in the USA as a free man despite numerous requests for his extradition back to Peru from the nation's Supreme Court, according to Peru Reports.
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Alberto Fujimori (Peru) - According to Reuters, in 2009 the former Peruvian president, who was in power from 1990 to 2000, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for corruption and violating human rights.
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Alberto Fujimori (Peru) - The news agency confirmed that at the time, Fujimori was the first democratically-elected Latin American president to have been found guilty of crimes in his own country.
© Reuters
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Alberto Fujimori (Peru) - Last December, Peru's people rose up in arms when the former president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, pardoned Fujimori and granted him an early release from his 25-year prison sentence. Less than two months later, however, he was called on trial again for the murder of six farmers, says the BBC.
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José Sócrates (Portugal) - In 2014, Portugal's former Prime Minister was imprisoned for suspected involvement in tax fraud, money laundering, and corruption, reported the BBC.
© Reuters
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José Sócrates (Portugal) - The politician was released after 10 months' incarceration, which he served under house arrest and in Évora jail.
© Reuters
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Hosni Mubarak (Egypt) - In March 2017, the former President of Egypt was released after six years of imprisonment, even though he had spent most of this time in military hospital, reported The Guardian.
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Hosni Mubarak (Egypt) - The dictator was accused of conspiring in the murder of 239 demonstrators, which led to him being handed down a life sentence, according to The Guardian.
© Reuters
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Pervez Musharraf (Pakistan) - According to the BBC, the former president was convicted of treason for imposing emergency rule and subverting the constitution in 2007.
© Reuters
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Pervez Musharraf (Pakistan) - Musharraf has been in Dubai since March 2016. On June 1, 2018, Pakistan requested that his national identity card and passport be suspended, meaning his bank accounts will be frozen and his international travel will be restricted, says NDTV.
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Otto Pérez Molina (Guatemala) - Involved in a huge corruption scandal, Molina gave up his position as president in 2015 and was arrested in September of the same year.
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Otto Pérez Molina (Guatemala) - According to The New Yorker, Otto Pérez Molina's imprisonment was the result of the efforts of the Guatemalan Department of Justice, who worked closely with the United Nations International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala.
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High-profile political figures involved in corruption scandals
Michael Cohen has been sentenced to three years in prison
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Michael Cohen, Trump's longtime lawyer, was sentenced to three years in prison today due to hush-money payments that he gave to Playboy model Karen McDougal and porn star Stormy Daniels, as well as lying to Congress.
While sometimes shocking, political corruption scandals are nothing new. Earlier this year Brazil's former president was given a 12-year prison sentence after he was found guilty of money laundering.
Click here to see the political leaders from around the world who have been caught up in corruption scandals.
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