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Reviewer: Pyrotec ( talk · contribs) 11:38, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
This article appears to be well referenced and quite comprehensive, although possibly the lead appears to be a bit short for an article of this length. At this basis, the nomination successfully passes the "quick fail" hurdle, so I'm reviewing the nomination in more depth, starting at History working down to the end and then going back to do the WP:Lead. Pyrotec ( talk) 10:57, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
...Stopping for now. To be continued. Pyrotec ( talk) 14:44, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
The prosecution of state and local political corruption became a "major federal law enforcement priority" in the 1970s.[10] ..........
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. These schemes are at least as corrosive of the governmental process as corruption at the federal level. From the time of Tammany Hall this country has been painfully aware of the existence of corrupt practices in many of our metropolitan areas, and of the "machines" and "rings" which siphon off millions of dollars from public treasuries for private gain. Most state and local prosecutors, beset by inadequate resources and the overwhelming demands of a rising rate of street crime, are simply unable to deal with this type of corruption. Moreover, in some cases, local law enforcement is part and parcel of the problem itself, due to the outright corruption of its own establishment.
To fill this enforcement role, federal prosecutors during the last decade began to assume a much more active and creative role in attempting to use federal statutes to attack corruption at the state and local level.[17]
In 1976, there were 337 indictments of state and local officials for public corruption, compared to 63 in 1970.[18] 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.[19] In 1986, there were 916 indictments of public officials for corruption, 320 of which concerned state and local officials.[20] In 1990, there were 968 such indictments, 353 of which were against state and local officials.[21]
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), 15 U.S.C. § 78dd-1, was passed in 1977. The program bribery statute, 18 U.S.C. § 666, was passed in 1984.[22] In the program bribery statute, "Congress, for the first time, directly federalized the crime of bribery of or by local officials."[23]
For example, between 1985 and 1991, over 75 public officials were convicted of corruption offenses in the Southern District of West Virginia alone.[24] By comparison, the only appellate court decision citing West Virginia's Bribery and Corrupt Practices Act, in 1991, was a federal court decision involving the state statute as a federal RICO predicate.[25]
At this point I'm putting the review On Hold. The article should make GA, but it has a few "rough edges" that need to be addressed first. Pyrotec ( talk) 19:23, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria
The article has been considered improved in those areas where I raised comments and is somewhere easier for the layperson to follow. I'm therefore awarding it GA status. Pyrotec ( talk) 16:55, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
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Reviewer: Pyrotec ( talk · contribs) 11:38, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
This article appears to be well referenced and quite comprehensive, although possibly the lead appears to be a bit short for an article of this length. At this basis, the nomination successfully passes the "quick fail" hurdle, so I'm reviewing the nomination in more depth, starting at History working down to the end and then going back to do the WP:Lead. Pyrotec ( talk) 10:57, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
...Stopping for now. To be continued. Pyrotec ( talk) 14:44, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
The prosecution of state and local political corruption became a "major federal law enforcement priority" in the 1970s.[10] ..........
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. These schemes are at least as corrosive of the governmental process as corruption at the federal level. From the time of Tammany Hall this country has been painfully aware of the existence of corrupt practices in many of our metropolitan areas, and of the "machines" and "rings" which siphon off millions of dollars from public treasuries for private gain. Most state and local prosecutors, beset by inadequate resources and the overwhelming demands of a rising rate of street crime, are simply unable to deal with this type of corruption. Moreover, in some cases, local law enforcement is part and parcel of the problem itself, due to the outright corruption of its own establishment.
To fill this enforcement role, federal prosecutors during the last decade began to assume a much more active and creative role in attempting to use federal statutes to attack corruption at the state and local level.[17]
In 1976, there were 337 indictments of state and local officials for public corruption, compared to 63 in 1970.[18] 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.[19] In 1986, there were 916 indictments of public officials for corruption, 320 of which concerned state and local officials.[20] In 1990, there were 968 such indictments, 353 of which were against state and local officials.[21]
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), 15 U.S.C. § 78dd-1, was passed in 1977. The program bribery statute, 18 U.S.C. § 666, was passed in 1984.[22] In the program bribery statute, "Congress, for the first time, directly federalized the crime of bribery of or by local officials."[23]
For example, between 1985 and 1991, over 75 public officials were convicted of corruption offenses in the Southern District of West Virginia alone.[24] By comparison, the only appellate court decision citing West Virginia's Bribery and Corrupt Practices Act, in 1991, was a federal court decision involving the state statute as a federal RICO predicate.[25]
At this point I'm putting the review On Hold. The article should make GA, but it has a few "rough edges" that need to be addressed first. Pyrotec ( talk) 19:23, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria
The article has been considered improved in those areas where I raised comments and is somewhere easier for the layperson to follow. I'm therefore awarding it GA status. Pyrotec ( talk) 16:55, 2 August 2012 (UTC)