- Arizona Governor Evan Mecham (R) was impeached and removed from office on charges of obstruction of justice and misuse of government funds. He was acquitted of all federal charges later in the year. (1988)
- Illinois Operation Greylord was an investigation conducted jointly by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the IRS Criminal Investigation Division into corruption in the judiciary of Cook County, Illinois (the Chicago region). A total of 92 people were indicted, including 17 judges, 48lawyers, ten deputy sheriffs, eight policemen, eight court officials, and a member of the Illinois Legislature.
- Illinois Attorney General William J. Scott, (R) served from 1968 until 1982, was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for filing a falsified tax return.
- Maine State Representative Donald F. Sproul (R) was sentenced to 10 days in prison for ballot tampering. (1988)
- Maryland State Senator Clarence Mitchell III (D-MD), sentenced to 2½ years for bribery and obstruction in regards to the Wedtech scandal(1988)
- Maryland State Senator Michael Mitchell (D-MD), (brother of Clarence) sentenced to 2½ years for bribery and obstruction in regards to the Wedtech scandal (1988)
- Massachusetts: Boston School Committee member Gerald O'Leary was arrested and charged with attempting to extort a $650,000 kickback from a school bus company. He pleaded guilty to violating the Hobbs Act and was sentenced to eighteen months in prison. (1980)
- Massachusetts Transportation Secretary Barry Locke was convicted of conspiring to take payoffs as part of a kickback scheme at the MBTA. (1982)
- Massachusetts: An investigation by the United States Attorney's office into the administration of Boston Mayor Kevin White results in the indictments of:
- William P. McNeill, Boston's former budget director (mail fraud)
- George Collatos, former Boston Redevelopment Authority official (perjury)
- Theodore V. Anzalone, former Boston city assessor and chief fund-raiser for White (extortion and evading a US currency reporting law)
- Robert L. Toomey Sr., former aide to the mayor (perjury, fraud, and obstruction of justice)
- Anthony Pepicelli, former director of Department of Inspectional Services (mail fraud and receiving bribes)
- Massachusetts: Former Lowell City Manager B. Joseph Tully was found guilty of attempted extortion and mail fraud and sentenced to three years in federal prison in a case involving a land swap made with an auto dealership during his tenure as city manager. (1988)
- Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Jon Grunseth(R-MN) dropped out of the race two weeks before the election when he admitted to a skinny-dipping party with his 13-year-old daughter and three of her friends. (1989)
- New Jersey Mayor of Jersey City Gerald McCann(D) was convicted of fraud and removed from office in a savings and loan scam in 1981.
- New Jersey State Senator David Friedland was a Democratic Party politician elected to the Senate, until his conviction on racketeering charges in 1980. He faked his death in September 1985 while awaiting sentencing and was one of the U.S. government's most wanted fugitives until his capture in the Maldives in 1987. On December 2, 1988, he was sentenced on the RICO count to a 15-year sentence to be served concurrently with the 7-year term applied for his original conviction.
- Ohio Donald E. "Buz" Lukens (R) was convicted of Contributing to the Delinquincy of a Minor and sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined $500. (See Sex scandals 1990 and Legislative scandals 1982)
- Pennsylvania State Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer (R) was found guilty of one count of bribery and then committed suicide on television before he was to be sentenced. (1987)
- Tennessee State Representative Tommy Burnett(D) was convicted in federal court for willfully failing to file federal income tax returns, and served ten months in prison. While in prison, he was re-elected to the Tennessee House with 60 percent of the vote. (1983) See 1990 listing.
- West Virginia Governor Arch A. Moore, Jr. (R) pled guilty to five felonies for accepting $573,000 in bribes. Moore served three years.
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