Sentences with phrase «about alleged corruption»

Not exact matches

Hannity has called the alleged corruption within the FBI «the biggest political scandal in American history» and suggested on his Wednesday night show that he had inside information about the memo's contents.

In an exclusive interview, Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas talks to RFI about the ongoing court cases against several judges implicated in his undercover sting operation revealing alleged corruption within Ghana's judiciary.

Yesterday, we wrote about Shafran's role in excuse - making for the corrupt and dysfunctional legislature up in Albany, but what wasn't discussed is that Shafran also worked as the goto political spinmaster for Senator Malcolm Smith — the same Senator that was arrested in a statewide FBI corruption probe that alleges he attempted to rig the Mayoral election through fraud and bribes early this morning.

What about his appointees whose names are associated with so many alleged corruption issues.

Testifying in the White Plains federal corruption trial of the plot's alleged mastermind, ex-City Councilman Dan Halloran, Manhattan GOP Chairman Daniel Isaacs said he called then - Republican mayoral candidate and Gristedes tycoon John Catsimatidis about the illicit offer made outside Spark's Steakhouse in Manhattan on Valentine's Day 2013.

Federal prosecutors have amassed about 11 million pieces of evidence, including more than 28,400 pages of emails and images from the phone Kelly used as an executive with Competitive Power Ventures Holdings, LLC, (CPV) the company that is building a natural gas - fired power plant in Oxford and has not been linked to the alleged corruption.

Also, a Second Republic lawmaker, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, described the APC's short list of names of alleged looters as an «anticlimax» after about three years of talking about fighting corruption and looting of public funds.

Prosecutors in the Sheldon Silver corruption case called two key players, including an official with Glenwood Management, to the stand today to answer questions about the former Assembly speaker's alleged involvement in a real - estate kickback scheme.

Adelakun said, «We pastors want to know what the government that put fighting against corruption on the front burner is doing about Mainagate and other government officials alleged of corruption.

He was convicted last year in a $ 5 million corruption case alleging he traded favors to enrich himself and then lied about it.

Parrying question after question about Gov. Andrew Cuomo's possible knowledge of and involvement in the alleged bribery and bid rigging schemes unveiled by his office Thursday morning, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara declined to insinuate the second - term governor was part of any ongoing investigation — even as he leveled his regular critique of corruption in state government.

Teachout added that «the thing that is so damning» about the complaint against Skelos is that the alleged corruption occurred since Cuomo's been in office, «not like the Silver indictment where things took place before Cuomo took office.

Real questions alluded to in the News» editorial: 1) How much did Cuomo know about the targets of the Commission's investigations; 2) When did he know it; and 3) Did he bargain away, ie, shutter the Commission — at the insistence of Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos — in his own political self - interest; and 4) What legislation (including budget bills, ie, «the big ugly»), if any, were tainted by Silver's alleged corruption?

Whatever Howe might say about the alleged crimes, his testimony could also shed light on Cuomo's Upstate development strategy, which spawned a federal probe and corruption charges.

In the summer of 2014, after a series of news stories came out describing Cuomo secretary Larry Schwartz's alleged interference in the management of the governor's Moreland Commission to investigate corruption in the Legislature, Albany insiders wondered whether Schwartz might give up information about the governor to federal investigators in the Southern District U.S. attorney Preet Bharara's office, as part of a probe they had begun into the circumstances surrounding the commission's demise.

If the Federal Government would demonstrate to Nigerians that it was sincere about fighting corruption, political analysts said the looters» list should had contained the names of APC officials who have also been alleged of looting public funds.

Illinois lawyer Joanne Denison created a blog about courtroom corruption that landed her in hot water with the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (IARDC) for «alleging professional misconduct in making false statements on her Blog.»