Democratic anti-corruption bill may impact 'large list' of lawmakers
New legislation that will appear shortly before the Senate Judiciary Committee will make it significantly more difficult for public officials to escape indictment or conviction for corruption.In what may be a sign that the bill will have an easy time in committee, a judiciary aide contacted by RAW STORY couldn't say precisely when the bill would go before the committee, saying instead that it wasn't yet clear "if we'll even have to schedule hearings."
According to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), "the bill authorizes $25 million in additional federal funds over each of the next four years to give federal investigators and prosecutors needed resources to go after public corruption."
The bill, released along with a war-profiteering prevention act as part of an anti-corruption package by the Senate Judiciary leader, works mainly by extending the statute of limitations on "bribery, deprivation of honest services, and extortion by a public official" by three years...
