Sentences with phrase «about fraud and corruption»

Commissioner Elia rejected Paladino's contention that he was trying to get information about fraud and corruption within the board out to the media, saying that «is not a defense».

Not exact matches

So it wasn't a secret the judges weren't nuts about the statute, and it could not have been a secret to Bharara that if the cases were indeed strong against Skelos and Silver it might make more sense to stick to good old fashioned corruption charges like bribery and mail fraud only.

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.

MPs said DfID's ability to make informed spending decisions was being undermined by its lack of knowledge about levels of fraud and corruption, the report claimed.

Silver is accused of lying and misleading the public about the source of his outside income and of going great lengths to conceal at least 15 years of fraud from the Moreland Commission, which was established to clean up the corruption in Albany.

Nigerians have the right to know more about the allegations, including the names of the states involved, and whether the recently returned $ 321m Abacha loot was affected by the reported fraud and corruption.»

SERAP in a statement today by its deputy director Timothy Adewale said, «While we welcome the reported disclosure of fraud and corruption in the SIP and the request to the EFCC to probe the allegations, we are concerned that sufficient details about the allegations have not been disclosed.

«The other issues for example is the fraud and the corruption that is associated with large sums of money given out by the past National Security Adviser which went to several political figures and again these were huge sums of money, over $ 2bn and the sheer size and the enormity of what we are talking about, must not be diminished in any way or trivialised in anyway by any suggestion that it is partisan.

Also, there's an even juicier (in our opinion) little nugget about indicted State Senator Efrain Gonzalez, who is facing federal fraud and corruption charges.

One of the strangest elements of Anchorman director Adam McKay's goofy 2010 comedy The Other Guys was the inclusion of some credit sequence infographics about corporate fraud and capitalist corruption that seemed to have been crowbarred in from another movie.

The 38 - year - old actor stars in the film about a New York stockbroker who refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration.

If you don't know much about climate science, or about the details of the controversy over the «hockey stick,» then A. W. Montford's book The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science might persuade you that not only the hockey stick, but all of modern climate science, is a fraud perpetrated by a massive conspiracy of climate scientists and politicians, in order to guarantee an unending supply of research funding and political power.

You know, this paper has a great story about the corruption and fraud attached to wind power.

Everything about its actions and deliverables reeks of corruption, fraud, and propaganda, and everyone involved with it has been tained.

«Climategate is the greatest orchestrated fraud in scientific history, but claims about CO2 are the greatest fallacy... Climategate revealed the extent of corruption so more people understand malfeasance and falsities only experts knew or suspected.

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