Sentences with phrase «allegations of corruption among»

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World football's governing body confirmed the news on Friday morning as the spiral of allegations over corruption among the rulers of the game continues.

Menendez, who just survived a federal corruption trial involving allegations he took bribes from Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgin, is among the least wealthy members of the Senate.

The new Premier has also been tainted by the corruption scandals which felled Beijing's former favourite candidate, consisting of claims of illegal extensions to houses among other allegations of sleaze.

The Toronto lawyer was suspended on an interlocutory basis in June 2010 amid claims she repeatedly sought to litigate allegations of conspiracy and corruption among Superior Court judges, despite an earlier attempt to resign from practice.

It's pretty much all there, the trappings of a moral panic argument: emphasis on the vulnerable among us (whether young or ignorant or simply «innocent»), the allegation of insidious corruption working in ways that are out of the sight of the ordinary person, the confident assertions of the experts, the reification of the danger in print («I hold in my hand a book...», «I have here in my hand a list of 205 — a list of names... «-RRB- and the use of very large (and rising) numbers that need only be tangentially related to the actual scourge...

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Clifford Chance (CC) are among the firms that have landed roles acting for FIFA and its officials as the football body handles multiple allegations of corruption in its ranks.