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 federal public corruption offenses for conduct while in office. The list is organized by office. Acquitted officials are not listed (if an official was acquitted on some counts, and convicted on others, the counts of conviction are 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(s) under which the conviction(s) 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 (1987) and Skilling v. United States (2010) and narrowing the Hobbs Act in McCormick v. United States (1991).

The Hobbs Act (enacted 1934),^[1] the mail and wire fraud statutes (enacted 1872), including the honest services fraud provision,^[2] the Travel Act (enacted 1961),^[3] the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) (enacted 1970),^[4] and the federal program bribery statute, 18 U.S.C. § 666 (enacted 1984),^[5] permit the prosecution of such officials. These statutes are also applicable to corrupt federal officials.^[6] 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.^[6]

Governors

• 
  Gov. Blagojevich
• 
  Gov. Blanton
• 
  Gov. Kerner
• 
  Gov. Langer
• 
  Gov. Leche
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  Gov. Ryan
• 
  Gov. Siegelman

Governor	Office	Crime(s)	Investigation	Notes
Rod Blagojevich	Governor of Illinois	Hobbs Act and mail fraud	Operation Board Games	[7]
Ray Blanton	Governor of Tennessee			[8]
Edwin Edwards	Governor of Louisiana	Hobbs Act, mail fraud, and RICO		[9]
David Hall	Governor of Oklahoma	Hobbs Act and Travel Act		[10]
Otto Kerner, Jr.	Governor of Illinois	Mail fraud and Travel Act		[11]
William Langer	Governor of North Dakota	Conspiracy to defraud the United States		[12]
Richard W. Leche	Governor of Louisiana	Mail fraud		[13]
Arch A. Moore, Jr.	Governor of West Virginia	Hobbs Act and mail fraud		[14]
John G. Rowland	Governor of Connecticut	Mail fraud		[15]
George Ryan	Governor of Illinois	Mail fraud and RICO	Operation Safe Roads	[16]
Don Siegelman	Governor of Alabama	Mail fraud and program bribery		[17]

Cabinet members

Cabinet member	Office	Crime(s)	Investigation	Notes
Robert J. Burkhardt	Secretary of State of New Jersey			[18]
R. Budd Dwyer	Treasurer of Pennsylvania	Mail fraud and RICO		[19]
Gilbert L. Dozier	Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Louisiana	Hobbs Act and RICO		[20]
Richmond Flowers, Sr.	Attorney General of Alabama	Hobbs Act		[21]
Barney Grabiec	Director of the Illinois Department of Labor			[22]
John A. Kervick	New Jersey State Treasurer			[23]
Dan Morales	Attorney General of Texas	Mail fraud		[24]
Meg Scott Phipps	North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture	Hobbs Act		[25]
Ernie Preate	Attorney General of Pennsylvania	Mail fraud		[26]
Paul J. Sherwin	Secretary of State of New Jersey	Hobbs Act		[27]
Paul Silvester	Connecticut State Treasurer	RICO		[28]
Robert Vigil	New Mexico State Treasurer	Hobbs Act		[29]

Legislators

• 
  New York Senate majority leader Bruno
• 
  Massachusetts House speaker DiMasi
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  Virginia state representative Hamilton
• 
  California state representative Nolan (left)

State legislator	Office	Crime(s)	Investigation	Notes
Thomas T. Anderson	Alaska state representative	Hobbs Act	Alaska political corruption probe	[30]
John Bagnariol	Speaker of the Washington House of Representatives	RICO		[31]
Kenneth E. Bailey Sr.	South Carolina state representative	Hobbs Act	Operation Lost Trust	[32]
Larry Bankston	Louisiana state senator	Travel Act		[33]
James B. Black	Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives	Program bribery		[34]
Don Blandford	Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives	Hobbs Act and RICO	Operation Boptrot	[35]
Kathryn I. Bowers	Tennessee state senator	Program bribery	Operation Tennessee Waltz	[36]
Thomas L. Bromwell	Maryland state senator	RICO		[37]
Jerry Bronger	Kentucky state representative	Hobbs Act	Operation Boptrot	[38]
Wayne R. Bryant	New Jersey state senator	Mail fraud and program bribery		[39]
William G. Burgin	Mississippi state senator	Conspiracy to defraud the United States		[40]
Tommy Burnett	Tennessee House majority leader	Mail fraud	Operation Rocky Top	[41]
Louis F. Capuzi	Illinois state representative			[42]
Paul B. Carpenter	California state senator	Hobbs Act and RICO	BRISPEC sting operation	[43]
Donald D. Carpentier	Illinois state senator	Mail fraud		[44]
John A. Celona	Rhode Island state senator			[45]
Henry Cianfrani	Pennsylvania state senator	Mail fraud and RICO		[46]
Joseph Coniglio	New Jersey state senator	Hobbs Act and mail fraud		[47]
Kenneth Course	Illinois state senator	Mail fraud		[48]
Robert Craig	Illinois state representative	Mail fraud and Travel Act		[49]
John Cowdery	Alaska state senator	Program bribery	Alaska political corruption probe	[50]
Clay Crupper	Kentucky state representative	Travel Act	Operation Boptrot	[51]
Ward Crutchfield	Tennessee state senator	Program bribery	Operation Tennessee Waltz	[52]
John A. D'Arco, Jr.	Illinois state senator	Hobbs Act	Operation Gambat	[53]
Patricia Davis	Alabama state representative			[54]
Michael P. Decker	North Carolina state representative	Hobbs Act and mail fraud		[55]
Paul Derrick	South Carolina state representative	Hobbs Act	Operation Lost Trust	[56]
Joseph DiCarlo	Massachusetts state senator	Hobbs Act and Travel Act	MBM investigation	[57]
Salvatore DiMasi	Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives	Hobbs Act and mail fraud		[58]
Roscoe Dixon	Tennessee state senator	Hobbs Act and program bribery	Operation Tennessee Waltz	[59]
Ennis Fant	South Carolina state representative	Hobbs Act	Operation Lost Trust	[60]
James C. Ferguson				[61]
Richard Foley, Jr.	Connecticut state representative	Program bribery		[62]
John Ford	Tennessee state senator	Wire fraud and program bribery	Operation Tennessee Waltz	[63]
Gordon Fox	Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives	Wire fraud, bribery, and filing a false tax return		[64]
Vince Fumo	Pennsylvania state senator	Mail fraud		[65]
Helen Garrett	Kentucky state senator		Operation Boptrot	[66]
Frank Gigliotti	Pennsylvania state representative	Hobbs Act		[67]
Edgar Gillock	Tennessee state senator	Hobbs Act and mail and wire fraud		[68]
Efrain Gonzalez	New York state senator	Mail fraud		[69]
Benjamin J. Gordon	South Carolina state representative	Hobbs Act	Operation Lost Trust	[70]
Bob F. Griffin	Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives	Mail fraud and program bribery		[71]
Phil Hamilton	Virginia state representative	Hobbs Act and program bribery		[72]
Frank Hill	California state representative	Hobbs Act	BRISPEC sting operation	[73]
Max Homer	Pennsylvania state representative			[74]
Jeffrey D. Johnson	Ohio state senator			[75]
James A. Kelly, Jr.	Massachusetts state senator			[76]
Robert A. Kohn	South Carolina state representative		Operation Lost Trust	[77]
Vic Kohring	Alaska state representative	Hobbs Act and program bribery	Alaska political corruption probe	[78]
Pete Kott	Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives	Hobbs Act, mail fraud, and program bribery		[79]
Carl Kruger	New York state senator	Mail fraud and Travel Act		[80]
David Flavous Lambert, Jr.	Mississippi state senator	Conspiracy to defraud the United States		[40]
Ronnie Layman	Kentucky state representative	Hobbs Act	Operation Boptrot	[81]
Jefferson Marion Long, Jr.	South Carolina state representative		Operation Lost Trust	[82]
John A. Lynch, Jr.	New Jersey state representative	Mail fraud		[83]
Ronald MacKenzie	Massachusetts state senator	Hobbs Act and Travel Act	MBM investigation	[57]
Gerard M. Martineau	Rhode Island House majority leader	Mail fraud		[84]
Beverly Masek	Alaska state representative	Travel Act	Alaska political corruption probe	[85]
Frank Mazzei	Pennsylvania state senator	Hobbs Act		[86]
William K. McBee	Kentucky state representative	Hobbs Act and Travel Act	Operation Boptrot	[87]
Edward McClain	Alabama state senator	Mail fraud		[88]
Joseph B. Montoya	California state senator	Hobbs Act and RICO	BRISPEC sting operation	[89]
Mike Morgan	Oklahoma state senator	Program bribery		[90]
J. Chris Newton	Tennessee state representative	Hobbs Act and program bribery	Operation Tennessee Waltz	[91]
Ernie Newton	Connecticut state senator	Mail fraud		[92]
Pat Nolan	California state representative	RICO	BRISPEC sting operation	[93]
Frank P. North, Jr.	Illinois state representative	Mail fraud		[94]
Virgil Pearman	Kentucky state senator		Operation Boptrot	[95]
Joseph R. Pisani	New York state senator			[96]
Richard J. Rabbitt	Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives	Hobbs Act and mail fraud		[97]
Alan Robbins	California state senator	Hobbs Act and RICO		[98]
John Rogers	Kentucky Senate minority leader	Hobbs Act and mail fraud	Operation Boptrot	[99]
John I. Rogers, III	South Carolina state representative	RICO	Operation Lost Trust	[100]
Michael Russo	Louisiana state representative	Hobbs Act		[101]
George Santoni	Maryland state representative			[102]
Anthony Seminerio	New York state representative	Mail fraud		[103]
Landon Sexton	Kentucky state senator		Operation Boptrot	[104]
Suzanne L. Schmitz	Alabama state representative	Mail fraud and program bribery		[105]
Terry Spicer		Program bribery		[106]
Bill Strong	Kentucky state representative	Mail fraud	Operation Boptrot	[107]
Luther Langford Taylor, Jr.	South Carolina state representative	Hobbs Act	Operation Lost Trust	[108]
Dan R. Tonkovich	West Virginia Senate President	Hobbs Act		[109]
Daniel Van Pelt	New Jersey state representative	Hobbs Act and program bribery	Operation Bid Rig	[110]
Gordon Walgren	Washington Senate Majority Leader	Mail fraud, RICO, and Travel Act		[111]
Charles W. Walker, Sr.	Georgia Senate majority leader	Mail fraud		[112]
Jack E. Walker	Illinois state senator			[113]
Dianne Wilkerson	Massachusetts state senator	Hobbs Act		[114]
Francis H. Woodward	Massachusetts state representative	Mail and wire fraud and Travel Act		[115]

See also

List of federal political scandals in the United States