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Corrine Brown
Corrine Brown (born 1946) is a former Democratic U.S. Representative from Florida, 1993–2017; one of the first Black Floridians in Congress since Reconstruction, convicted in 2017 of charity fraud tied to One Door for Education, with the conviction overturned on appeal in 2021.
Corrupt bargain
Corrupt bargain: the accusation that Henry Clay backed John Quincy Adams in the 1825 House contingent election in exchange for the Secretary of State post, after Jackson led the 1824 electoral vote with 99 of 261; historians find no conclusive evidence of a deal.
Corruption
Corruption, the abuse of public office for private gain, also called bribery or state capture; measured mainly by Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, which ranked 182 countries in 2025 with a global average of 42.
Corruption in India
Corruption in India covers public-sector bribery, procurement fraud, and opaque political financing. Key markers: CPI score 39/100, rank 91/182; 39% of public service users paid a bribe; electoral bonds struck down by the Supreme Court in February 2024.
Corruption in Nigeria
Corruption in Nigeria: abuse of entrusted power for private gain spanning bribery, embezzlement, and patronage since 1960. CPI score 26/100, rank 142/182; agencies EFCC, ICPC, CCB; 2024 bribery rates up to 67% for police assistance.
Corruption in the Philippines
Corruption in the Philippines: abuse of public power documented since 1946, marked by Marcos-era plunder, procurement reform, CPI rank 120/182 in 2025, and the 2025 flood-control kickbacks scandal.
Corruption in the United States
Corruption in the United States: misuse of public office for private benefit. Covers Gilded Age machine corruption, Progressive Era and Watergate reforms, federal statutes (18 U.S.C. 201, 666), Snyder v. United States (2024), and CPI scores.
Corruption in Ukraine
Corruption in Ukraine: abuse of public office in Ukrainian state institutions. Covers the post-2014 anti-corruption bodies (NABU, SAPO, NACP, HACC), public perception surveys, wartime energy and defense scandals, and OECD and EU-related assessments.
Corsair
Corsair: a state-licensed Mediterranean privateer, from Latin cursus (excursion). Distinct from the pirate by letters of marque; centered on the Barbary regencies of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, with tribute treaties and captive ransoming until nineteenth-century abolition.
Corsair V Financial Services Capital Partners
Corsair V Financial Services Capital Partners is the fifth buyout fund of Corsair Capital, a New York firm specializing in financial services, closed in 2020 at about $1.0 billion.
Corsican language
Corsican, or Corsu, is a Romance language closely related to Italian, spoken by about 150,000 people in Corsica; France recognizes it as a regional language, and UNESCO considers it endangered.
Corteiz
Corteiz, also written CRTZ, is a London streetwear label founded in 2017 by Clint Ogbenna, known as Clint419, which sells limited runs through password-protected drops rather than retail.
Corten Capital
Corten Capital is a London-based private equity firm, founded by Joseph Schull and Simon Begg, that invests in B2B software, services, and data companies across Europe and North America.
Corteria Pharmaceuticals
Corteria Pharmaceuticals is a Paris-based clinical-stage biotech founded in 2021 by two former Sanofi executives, developing therapies for underserved heart failure subpopulations and, since 2025, obesity.
Cortes Generales
Cortes Generales: the bicameral Spanish Parliament (Congress of Deputies and Senate) established by the 1978 Constitution; Congress holds legislative primacy, Senate represents territories.
Cortes of Cádiz
The Cortes of Cádiz, or Cortes de Cádiz, was the assembly that governed patriot Spain during the Peninsular War and wrote Spain's first constitution in 1812.
Cortés's expedition to Honduras
Cortés's expedition to Honduras (Expedición a las Hibueras) was Hernán Cortés's overland march from Tenochtitlan to Honduras from 1524 to 1526, undertaken to punish the rebellious captain Cristóbal de Olid.
Corteva
Corteva, Inc. is an American agriscience company selling seed and crop protection products, spun off from DowDuPont in 2019 and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, with the Pioneer seed brand.
Corus Entertainment
Corus Entertainment is a Toronto-based Canadian media company spun off from Shaw Communications in 1999, operating Global Television, W Network, Showcase, and radio stations across Canada.
Corvée
Corvée, also called statute labor, is unpaid labor owed by peasants or subjects to a state or lord, exacted by legal obligation rather than ownership.
Corvée labor system
The corvée labor system (徭役制度) of the Qin dynasty legally requisitioned ordinary subjects' labor for construction, transport, and guard duties, with rules reconstructed from excavated law codes.
Corwin Amendment
The Corwin Amendment, proposed March 2, 1861 by Thomas Corwin of Ohio, was an unratified constitutional amendment that would have permanently barred Congress from abolishing or interfering with slavery in states where it existed.
Corxel Pharmaceuticals (箕星药业)
Corxel Pharmaceuticals (箕星药业), known until 2026 as Ji Xing Pharmaceuticals, is a Shanghai-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company founded in 2019 that develops oral GLP-1, stroke, and hypertension drugs.
Cory Bernardi
Cory Bernardi, born 1969, Australian conservative politician; South Australian senator 2006–2020 (Liberal, then Australian Conservatives founder, then independent), now a One Nation SA Legislative Council member.
Cory Booker
Cory Booker (Cory Anthony Booker), Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey since October 2013, former Newark mayor 2006–2013, failed 2020 presidential candidate, holder of the longest recorded Senate floor speech (about 25 hours, April 2025).
Cory Booker's marathon speech
Cory Booker's marathon speech, a 25-hour 5-minute Senate floor address on March 31 to April 1, 2025, protesting Trump administration policies; longest individual Senate speech in history, breaking Strom Thurmond's 1957 record, though not technically a filibuster.
Cory Gardner
Cory Gardner (born 1974) is a Colorado Republican who served in the U.S. House (2011-2015), as U.S. senator (2015-2021), NRSC chair, and led the Great American Outdoors Act; he lost his 2020 Senate race to John Hickenlooper.
Cory McCray
Cory McCray, born in Baltimore in 1982, is a Democratic member of the Maryland State Senate from the 45th district, holding the seat since 2019.
Cory Mills
Cory Mills, born in 1980, is an American Republican politician and Army veteran who has represented Florida's 7th district in the U.S. House since 2023.
Cory T. Wilson
Cory T. Wilson, born 1970, is an American jurist serving as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit since 2020.