Mack is a graduate of Yale Law School and joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2008. He is currently the lead prosecutor in the Office’s ongoing corruption investigation into Los Angeles City Hall. While in the PCCR Section he helped author the Office’s first wiretap of a sitting state senator in decades.
Mr. Jenkins was appointed Chief of the Public Corruption and Civil Rights (PCCR) Section in May 2017, after previously serving as Deputy Chief. Mr. Jenkins is a graduate of Yale Law School and joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2008.
Between 1970 and 1981, there were 520 federal indictments of state officials, and 1,757 indictments of local officials, for public corruption; over that period, 369 state officials, and 1,290 local officials, were convicted. In 1986, there were 916 indictments of public officials for corruption, 320 of which concerned state and local officials.
Several statutes, mostly codified in Title 18 of the United States Code, provide for federal prosecution of public corruption in the United States.
Mack Jenkins. Mack Jenkins was appointed Chief of the Public Corruption and Civil Rights (PCCR) Section in May 2017, after previously serving as Deputy Chief. Mack is a graduate of Yale Law School and joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2008. He is currently the lead prosecutor in the Office’s ongoing corruption investigation into Los Angeles City ...
The Section’s public corruption work involves the investigation and prosecution of bribery, extortion, fraud, and embezzlement committed by elected and appointed officials, government employees, and those doing business with city, state, and federal government.
Attorneys in the Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section prosecute impactful cases aimed at preserving the government’s integrity, reforming corrupt behavior, and protecting citizens’ constitutional rights. The Section works in close partnership with the FBI and other investigative agencies to achieve its goals.
This successful prosecution received the Anti-Defamation League’s Combatting Hate Award in 2020. Mack ’s public corruption and civil rights work also earned him the Daily Journal’s “Top 100 Lawyers in California” recognition in 2020. While previously in the OCDETF Section, Mack prosecuted the District’s first RICO case against a Bloods/Crips gang.
While previously in the OCDETF Section, Mr. Jenkins prosecuted the District’s first RICO case against a Bloods/Crips gang. This 45-defendant indictment of the Pueblo Bishop Bloods resulted in four separate multi-week trials. Across the four trials, all defendants were convicted of RICO and related charges, and two defendants—who were previously acquitted on state charges—were both separately convicted of federal murder. The Pueblo Bishops case and trials earned Mr. Jenkins another California Lawyer’s Attorney of the Year Award. Mr. Jen kins followed that with a 72-defendant RICO indictment of the Broadway Gangster Crips, which was then the largest pending in the District. That impactful prosecution and multiple trials earned Mr. Jenkins and his team the DOJ Director’s Award in 2019, given to only a handful of AUSAs nationwide.
When it comes to prosecution of DC federal public corruption cases, the key aspects are that prosecutors look for evidence of a promise, evidence of the conferring of a benefit or thing of value, any evidence they can find. Prosecutors focus on the chronology of events, for example, the timing of phone calls, when contracts are granted, or when other benefits or what could be determined to be deemed benefits are transferred.
Public corruption is a breach of trust or the abuse of an individual’s position. It is any scenario where someone is in a federal, state, or a local public position and accepts something of value to be influenced in the performance of their duties.
Rather, investigators look at circumstantial evidence to prove intent. They look for witnesses and at the level of sophistication alleged in the transaction to show intent. They look at the circumstances surrounding the transaction to see if they can prove intent; which can be a difficult thing to show in a bribery case.
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Federal prosecutions of public corruption under the Hobbs Act (enacted 1934), the mail and wire fraud statutes (enacted 1872), including the honest services fraud provision, the Travel Act (enacted 1961), and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) (enacted 1970) began in the 1970s. "Although none of these statutes was enacted in order to prosecute official corruption, each has been interpreted to provide a means to do so." The federal official bribery and gratuity statute, 18 U.S.C. § 201 (enacted 1962), the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) 15 U.S.C. § 78dd (enacted 1977), and the federal program bribery statute, 18 U.S.C. § 666 (enacted 1984) directly address public corruption.
In 1977, Thomas H. Henderson, Jr., the Chief of the Public Integrity Section, wrote: Until recently, the full panoply of potential federal resources had not been brought to bear effectively on corruption schemes at the state and local level.
Brewster reinstated a dismissed § 201 indictment because the crime of bribery is complete once the bribe is accepted, whether or not the official performs the promised act. In United States v. Helstoski (1979), the Court held that the prosecution may not introduce any evidence of a past "legislative act" at trial.
The First Congress passed the "first federal law against bribery" in 1789, which provided that bribed customs officers would be disqualified from office and payors would be liable for the amount of the bribe. The judicial bribery provision of the Crimes Act of 1790, passed the following year, provided for disqualification, and a fine and imprisonment "at the discretion of the court," for both the judge and the payor. The Crimes Act of 1825 added the offenses of extortion under color of office, theft or embezzlement by a Second Bank employee, and coin embezzlement or dilution by a Mint employee.
The federal bribery and gratuity statute, 18 U.S.C. § 201, was enacted in 1962 as part of a comprehensive conflict-of-interest legislative reform. The Supreme Court considers subsections (b) and (c) to be "to separate crimes—or two pairs of crimes."
States (8th Cir. 1973) was the first case to rely on honest services fraud as the sole basis for a conviction. The prosecution of state and local political corruption became a "major federal law enforcement priority" in the 1970s. United States v. Addonizio (3d Cir. 1971) and United States v.
In 1976, there were 337 indictments of state and local officials for public corruption, compared to 63 in 1970. Between 1970 and 1981, there were 520 federal indictments of state officials, and 1,757 indictments of local officials, for public corruption; over that period, 369 state officials, and 1,290 local officials, were convicted. In 1986, there were 916 indictments of public officials for corruption, 320 of which concerned state and local officials. In 1990, there were 968 such indictments, 353 of which were against state and local officials.