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Oxford Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization Advance Access |
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November 18, 2012 |
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Enforcement and Public Corruption: Evidence from the American States
By James E. Alt, Department of Government, Harvard University and David Dreyer Lassen, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen
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In the United States, corruption cases usually begin with criminal investigations,
which may or may not end in referrals to the US Attorney’s office. For most of the last two decades,80% of such referrals came from
the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Cases are not petty: most frequent lead charges on indictments pursued by US Attorneys were
based on robbery or extortion affecting interstate commerce, theft, and bribery in entities receiving more than $10,000 in federal funds, the mail
fraud statute, conspiracies to defraud the federal government, and the RICO statute (Gordon 2009)......[citing TRAC research].
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Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
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