political fraud

Welcome to Leith is a 2015 documentary film about Craig Cobb's real attempt to seize control of Leith, North Dakota. Available on Apple TV and more.

Netflix docuseries about Francisco Nicolás Gómez Iglesias, the young Spanish con man who infiltrated political, royal, and intelligence circles — and was arrested in 2014.

Kwame Kilpatrick, Detroit's mayor from 2001 to 2008, orchestrated one of America's most brazen municipal corruption schemes, systematically extorting over $1 million from contractors and diverting hundreds of thousands in public funds for personal luxury. His conviction in 2013 on 24 federal felony counts exposed a network of co-conspirators—including his father Bernard and contractor Bobby Ferguson—who weaponized city contracts and pension fund access for personal enrichment.

U.S. federal prosecutors charged four members of China's People's Liberation Army on February 10, 2020, with orchestrating one of the largest data breaches in history. The defendants allegedly exploited a vulnerability in Equifax's systems to steal sensitive information from approximately 145 million Americans over a two-month period in 2017.

Brazilian police kill an average of 17 people per day nationwide, with Rio de Janeiro recording over 1,000 deaths annually. Most cases are closed as self-defense with few arrests, while the Comando Vermelho cartel consolidates control of the illegal drug market amid systemic corruption.

In May 1987, Queensland's government ordered a public inquiry into police corruption that would ultimately uncover decades of systemic abuse of power, jail a police commissioner and three ministers, and end the National Party's three-decade stranglehold on state politics.

Olof Palme was shot dead on a Stockholm street in 1986. A 34-year investigation ended with Stig Engström named as the prime suspect — but he died before charges could ever be filed.

In 1998, the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division erupted into one of the largest corruption scandals in U.S. law enforcement history when former officer Rafael Perez was caught stealing cocaine from an evidence locker—a discovery that would unravel years of abuse, planted evidence, and false convictions.

In 2014, entertainment giant Sony was hit by one of the largest cyberattacks ever carried out against a private company, with around 100 terabytes of data stolen. The attack was attributed to North Korea and seen as an attempt to suppress a film's release.

A sprawling corruption investigation has resulted in charges against eight Toronto Police Service officers—seven active and one retired—accused of leaking confidential data to organized crime networks. The February 2026 charges reveal deep entanglement between law enforcement and criminal enterprises in Canada's largest city.