Twenty-One Of History’s Most Corrupt Politicians

When it comes to politics, everyone has an opinion, even if that opinion is: they don’t like politics. A wise “unknown author” once said, “Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason”. The following list will cover some of history’s most corrupt leaders and politicians. The World Bank defines corruption ” as the abuse of public power for private benefit”. However, for the purpose of this list, the term political corruption will go further, to pertain to any form of abuse of power or deviation from a sound government system.

N.B. This list could easily have surpassed twenty-one.
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (a.k.a Caligula)

Years in Power: 37 CE – 41 CE
Roman Empire
Emperor Caligula began his political career as an admired leader, but took a turn for the worse after falling very ill in the first two years of his rule. Though he recovered, he became cruel and insane. Caligula had his wife banished and his father-in-law, Marcus Silanus and his cousin, Tiberius Gemellus commit suicide. He tried to make his horse, Incitatus, a consul and a priest. He introduced heavy taxation to pay for his personal expenditures, created a tax on prostitutes and opened a brothel in a wing of the imperial palace. “Comments that he could easily order the death of magistrates, or slit the throats of lovers were common.”
 

William Marcy Tweed (Boss Tweed)

Years in Power: 1853-1855
Country: United States
Tweed was the third-largest landowner in New York City. He built his power in Tammany Hall through the appointment and election of his friends- known as the “Tweed Ring”. Tweed was convicted for stealing between $40 million and $200 million from New York City taxpayers through political corruption (based on the inflation rate of the dollar since 1870 of 2.7%, approximately 1.5 and 8 billion 2009 dollars). The “Tweed Ring” managed to steal the money by...

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Yusuph Makamba,

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“Ni kweli tumekuwa tukishirikiana na FBI katika upelelezi ili kuhakikisha kuwa, wahusika wa tukio la kuuawa kwa Padri Mushi wanakamatwa. Hii itasaidia kupunguza vitendo vinavyohusishwa na matukio ya kigaidi yakiwamo mauaji,”alisema Kamishna Musa.Alisema kuwa hilo linafanyika ili kuhakikisha kuwa, zoezi la kuwakamata wahusika wa uhalifu huo linafanikiwa kwa kiasi kikubwa, jambo alilosema linaweza kupunguza matukio ya mauaji.

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