Sentences with phrase «ago in a corruption scandal»
NEW HAVEN — Former Gov. John G. Rowland, a political rising star who crashed a decade ago in a corruption scandal, fell again Friday when a jury in federal court found him guilty in a low - rent scheme to collect secret paychecks from rich Republican congressional candidates.
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BRIDGEPORT — Bridgeport Mayor - elect Joseph Ganim will be naming members of his transition team as he prepares to reclaim the seat he lost more than a decade ago in a corruption scandal.
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Najib, who denies any wrongdoing, has fired critics in his government and muzzled the media since the corruption scandal erupted three years ago.
Since the unveiling a year ago, Roma have made some slow progress on the new facility The mafia corruption scandal at city hall played in their favor, neutralizing their opponents on the council and empowering Mayor Ignazio Marino, a surgeon who studied in the United States and whose outsider status in Roman politics kept him clear of the dirty business.
Ten years ago, Rowland served a prison sentence in a corruption scandal that led to his resignation.
The process to replace (Squadron) involves obscure mechanisms that could empower old allies of Sheldon Silver, whose corruption scandal cost him the Assembly speakership two years ago... Voters do not decide who runs on each political party's ballot line in such an election.
Prominent Democrats were on the defensive in both public episodes — one a legislative controversy, the other a trial in Hartford Superior Court — relating to the clean - election program established a decade ago by the Democrat - controlled General Assembly after a corruption scandal sent Republican Gov. John G. Rowland to federal prison.