Sentences with phrase «abuse of public money»

«I have never seen a report as strongly worded as this, it is clear that the committee was shocked by the abuse of public money.

The report uncovered enough evidence that any reasonable person would doubt that this abuse of public money was limited to Redford's office,» said Notley.

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«All the appropriate concern about public office, public integrity or the lack thereof in too many situations where you have corruption, you have waste, you have abuse of power and of the taxpayers» money — that's what we look at in our respective roles,» he said.

The improper use of campaign money and the abuse of travel reimbursements were among the subjects investigated by the Moreland Commission, a panel that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, created last year to investigate public corruption, but shut down in March.

Hundreds of billions of dollars in public money are required each year to address societal problems associated with crime, substance abuse, and poor physical and mental health in general (e.g., Insel, 2008; McCollister, French, & Fang, 2010; Rehm et al., 2009).

This opinion piece argues that the financial autonomy of charter schools should be severely curtailed, as there are multiple examples of charter schools abusing public money.

We talk about transparency in public programs and we spend a lot of time talking about fraud and abuse and misuse of taxpayers» money in a number of other programs.

«Electoral intervention is not supposed to be a non-profit's main activity, but these dark money groups are abusing their tax - exempt status by existing primarily as vehicles for corporations and wealthy donors to secretly influence elections,» Fischer noted, adding, «Some dark money non-profits might now use lobbying as an accounting trick to balance their books between electoral and non-electoral spending, leading to a spiraling cycle of non-stop campaigning and special interest influence, but with zero transparency or public accountability.»

In my opinion, whenever there is a large pot of money available there will be politicians abusing their power to the disadvantage of the public.

While the panel took into account «the investment in these proceedings, in terms of time, emotion and money and the genuine public interest and importance in knowing the findings of the panel in respect of the allegations which have been made,» it found that the disclosure failings were «an abuse of the process which is of such seriousness that it offends the panel's sense of justice and propriety».

Rates of incarceration and recidivism, let alone abuses such as illustrated by the Four Corners program demonstrate that these public monies are misdirected.

Hundreds of billions of dollars in public money are required each year to address societal problems associated with crime, substance abuse, and poor physical and mental health in general (e.g., Insel, 2008; McCollister, French, & Fang, 2010; Rehm et al., 2009).