A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted U.S. Rep. Mario Biaggi (D., N.Y.), his son, his law partner and four other people in the expanding investigation of influence-peddling by Wedtech Corp., a ...

The New York Times reports that former Bronx Congressman and hero New York City police officer Mario Biaggi died Wednesday at the age of 97. Biaggi was convicted of a variety of financial crimes in ...

A consultant to Wedtech Corp. created a series of phony financial transactions to transfer illegally $400,000 of the defense firm`s money to Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese`s financial adviser in the spring of ...

NEW YORK — Rep. Mario Biaggi, the senior member of New York City’s congressional delegation, was convicted on Thursday of 15 felony counts in the Wedtech racketeering trial. Five other defendants, ...

Federal investigators say they have obtained evidence that former executives of Wedtech Corp. paid more than $100,000 to Teamsters officials in a “sweetheart” deal to avoid pension payments and other ...

It was campaign ’84, and the White House desperately wanted to showcase a successful minority-run business, preferably one from the inner city. The search brought them to the South Bronx in the City ...

A minority-owned Silver Spring computer software firm and its former chairman have been indicted in Baltimore on charges of paying $103,000 in bribes to a former Navy civilian official who already has ...

Wayne Franklyn Chinn, a former director of the defunct Wedtech Corp., was sentenced Friday to nine months in federal prison after pleading guilty to filing a false statement with the Small Business ...

She “brought moral force to her work” in a 1980s bribery and extortion case that took down two Bronx congressmen and a borough president. By Sam Roberts Mary Shannon Little, who investigated and ...

NEW YORK — The Wedtech Corp. paid a consultant more than $100,000 after he said he was representing Attorney General Edwin Meese III without pay and was having trouble meeting his expenses, according ...