- Arkansas State Senator Guy H. Jones (D) was convicted of tax evasion in 1973, he was expelled from the Senate in 1974.
- California Lt. Governor Edwin Reinecke (R) was indicted and convicted on one count of perjury and sentenced to 18 months in prison as part of theWatergate investigation. The sentence was later overturned. (1975)
- Illinois Governor Otto Kerner, Jr. (D) had retired as Governor and was a sitting judge in the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh District when he was charged with 17 counts of bribery, conspiracy and perjury for his actions as Governor. He was found guilty and served three years in prison. (1974)
- Illinois Secretary of State Paul Powell (D-IL) after his death in 1970, shoe boxes containing $800,000 in cash were found in his hotel room. He was never charged. (1970)
- Illinois: Maywood, Illinois Village Manager Paul H. Boucher was arrested and charged with theft by deception, improper use of license plates, and failure to register a vehicle in Illinois. He later pleaded guilty to theft of property under $150.(1970)
- Louisiana Attorney General Jack P. F. Gremillion(D-LA) was sentenced to three years in prison for perjury concerning his cover up of dealings with a failed savings and loan. (1972)
- Massachusetts: Lowell, Massachusetts City Manager Paul J. Sheehy resigned after he was convicted of bank fraud and three counts of making false statements in Lowell Bank and Trust Co.'s books while he was a director there. He was sentenced to 60 days in prison and his lost license to practice laws.
- Massachusetts State Senator George Rogers (D) was convicted of conspiracy to steal and bribe. He was sentenced to two years in prison and fined $5,000 (1978).
- Massachusetts Secretary of Elder Affairs Stephen Guptill resigned when it was revealed that he falsely claimed to have earned two college degrees.(1979)
- New Jersey Secretary of State Paul J. Sherwin (R) was convicted in 1972 of trying to fix a $600,000 state highway contract for a contractor who then kicked back $10,000 to Republican fund-raisers.
- New Jersey Mayor of Jersey City, John V. Kenny(D) In 1971, he was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey and convicted, along with former City Council president Thomas Flaherty, in federal court of conspiracy and extortion in a multi-million dollar political kickbackscheme on city and county contracts. He and others were referred to as the "Hudson County Eight".
- New Jersey Mayor of Jersey Ciy Thomas J. Whelan (D) was convicted of a kickback scheme on city and county contracts.
- New Jersey Secretary of State Robert J. Burkhardt(D) pleaded guilty in 1972 Federal Court to accepting $30,000 in bribes to 'fix' a bridge construction contract in 1964, when he was serving as Secretary of State to Governor Hughes. He was given a suspended sentence and three years' probation.
- New Jersey Chairman Republican State Committee Nelson G. Gross (R) and US Senatorial candidate, was indicted in May 1973 on five counts of tax fraud and perjury. He was convicted on all five counts in March 1974.
- Oklahoma Governor David Hall (D) Three days after leaving office in January 1975, Hall was indicted for conspiracy involving Hall and Secretary of State John Rogers willfully steering State of Oklahoma employee retirement funds to investment funds controlled by Dallas, Texas, businessman W. W. "Doc" Taylor. Upon his conviction two months later for bribery and extortion, he became the first Oklahoma Governor to be convicted of criminal acts committed during his tenure.
- Pennsylvania State Senator Henry J. Cianfrani is a Democratic politician who was convicted ofracketeering and mail fraud for padding his Senate payroll. In 1977, Cianfrani was sentenced to five years in federal prison. After serving for twenty-seven months, he was released in 1980.
- Pennsylvania State Senator Frank Mazzei (D) Was found guilty of extortion in 1975. He entered federal prison in December 1975.
- Pennsylvania State Senator William E. Duffield (D) was sentenced to 6 months in prison for 11 counts of mail fraud. (1975)
- Texas Sharpstown scandal (1971–1972)
- Wisconsin State Representative James R. Lewis (legislator) (R) attempted to persuade scientist Myron Muckerheide to create a laser gun "designed to blind people", and to sell it to Guatemalan Colonel Federico Fuentes. Lewis pled guilty to perjury for lying to a federal grand jury investigating the scheme and was removed from office. (1979)
- West Virginia Governor William W. Barron (D) 1961–65, was found guilty of jury tampering and sentenced to 5 years in prison. (1971)
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