Sentence examples for convicted public from inspiring English sources

His office will seek "appropriate fines" that match the pensions accrued while convicted public officials were engaged in criminal conduct.

The list of indicted and convicted public officials is almost as familiar as the names enshrined in Cooperstown.

The goal, Mr. Christie said, is to prevent him from spending the money for his own benefit, as some convicted public officials in the state have done.

In New Jersey, a committee in the state Treasury Department decides whether to allow pensions for convicted public officials on an individual basis.

On Tuesday, Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, said that he is designing a system of fines and forfeitures to deny convicted public officials retirements "cushioned by a pension paid for by the very people they betrayed in office".

Other cities on the list include Memphis, which came in third thanks to the second-worst rate of violent crime in the U.S. and an alarming rate of convicted public officials.

Michael Clark, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who worked with him for years in Connecticut, said that Mr. Durham's experiences in unraveling the corrupt relationships in Massachusetts as well as in convicting public officials in Connecticut, including former Gov. John G. Rowland, demonstrate why his methods may be well suited to his new task.

By one university's count, 1,000 public officials and businessmen have been convicted of public corruption since 1970.

Two states had even higher numbers of appointees, government employees (and a few private individuals) convicted of public corruption: New York, with 2,522 convictions and California with 2,345 convictions.

By some estimates a thousand public officials and business people in Illinois have been convicted of public corruption in the last 40 years alone — a fact driven in part by decades without limits on political contributions to state candidates.

Mr. Seminerio was convicted of public corruption and died in prison while he was appealing.