Sentences with phrase «alleged scandal by»

The NDC has suddenly risen to the defence of the EC boss, at the expense of her two deputies, who were roped into the EC's alleged scandal by Mrs Charlotte Osei.

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In another bizarre twist to GlaxoSmithKline's 2014 Chinese bribery scandal, two investigators who were hired by Glaxo officials in China have filed a lawsuit alleging that the company's actions eventually led to their unfair imprisonment in the country.

The currency's movement was in response to a massive 34 - hour protest staged by tens of thousands against the incumbent Prime Minister Najib Razak on an alleged scandal involving a $ 700 million cash transfer into his personal bank account.

Glen Clark replaced him, and a scant few months before the election was hit by an alleged BC Hydro scandal where a company set up by Hydro for a deal in Pakistan had a shareholders list that looked like an NDP party rally.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is in charge of repairing the reputation of a company besieged by a variety of alleged shady practices and scandals.

Previously, the closest he had come to directly addressing the scandal was a somewhat cryptic tweet about «Fake News» that he sent out the Monday after Daniels's primetime 60 Minutes interview on March 25, in which she detailed the alleged affair with Trump and said she had been threatened to keep silent by those close to him.

The company has been buffeted by one scandal after another in 2017, from alleged sexual harassment to software designed to evade law enforcement, now the subject of a federal probe.

The Liberals have also attempted to counter the image of Prime Minister Stephen Harper put forth by the Conservative Party, instead portraying him as a controlling and secretive leader with a hidden agenda, and attacking his judgment by tying him to past Conservative scandals, such as the Cadman affair, alleged spending misconduct in the last election, and the conduct of Maxime Bernier, the former Conservative minister of foreign affairs.

Humphrey and Yu had been hired by GSK before the scandal broke out to investigate a former employee the company suspected could be the source of emails alleging wrongdoing at the company sent to upper management as well as a tape filmed secretly of ex-China chief Mark Reilly being intimate with a girlfriend in his home.

Tove Ryding, a tax coordinator for Eurodad, told CNBC she wasn't surprised by Germany's ranking and money laundering risk, given the number of recent scandals involving German banks including Deutsche Bank, which was fined by South African anti-money laundering regulators in February, and saw investigations launched over alleged money laundering for Russian clients in June.

We then have a major section on Ayesha, who is later impersonated by one of the prostitutes, the whores of «The Curtain,» and from that impersonation the reader is given full details of Ayesha's strong - willed character, and the scandal involving her and an apparently innocent young man, Safwan, who rescues her on a desert trail only for idle tongues to wag about their alleged secret conduct.

Anderson says both the alleged abuse by a Penn State coach and the institution's apparent response mirrors the abuse scandal in the Catholic church.

The South American sexpot professed to be some kind of delicious transfer expect, and during the summer, expressed her overwhelming confidence that Benzema — currently under scrutiny by the French authorities for his alleged role in the Mathieu Valbuena sextape scandal — would move to the Emirates Stadium before the end of the transfer window.

The scandal had included months of media reporting on alleged acts of violence against women by roughly a dozen football players, with accusations that the school and athletic department had responded ineffectively.

Yesterday afternoon Charles Robinson of Yahoo! Sports reported that suspended Auburn guard Varez Ward is under investigation by federal authorities for an alleged point - shaving scandal.

The group therefore insisted that «the work and mandate of the committee» set up by the Energy Minister to investigate the scandal continue, adding that «the alleged report at best be considered as one of the materials that the Committee may consider, and with liberty, based on evidence that it might recover, to agree or disagree with what is contained in the BNI Report.»

Edwina Akufo - Addo's alleged involvement in the scandal that hit the Bulk Oil Storage and Transport (BOST) is the outcome of years of lies said against former President John Mahama by her father president Akufo - Addo, according to the MP for Ningo Prampram.

His first frontbench job was as chief whip at the time when the party was being buffeted by the scandal over Thorpe's alleged involvement in a plot to kill Norman Scott, but he was not a conspicuous success in the role.

The State Police, a once highly regarded statewide agency, has been wracked by scandal over the past four years, including Troopergate, during which Spitzer was found to have used investigators to gather information on a GOP foe, and alleged efforts by Paterson's top bodyguard to persuade a Bronx woman not to file assault charges against a top gubernatorial aide.

The Lawyers in an official letter addressed to members of the 5 - member ad - hoc committee tasked to investigate the alleged scandal, said: «we have been instructed by our client to convey to you, which we hereby do, his desire to appear before your committee to be heard on the above allegation and to provide evidence that would assist your Committee to reach a fair and true conclusion on this substantially important matter of public interest.»

An Albany - area developer was charged Thursday in an alleged corruption scandal connected to SUNY Polytechnic President Alain Kaloyeros, who is also facing federal charges levied against him Thursday by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.

They'll discuss the latest scandals in state government including an explosive report alleging illegal conduct by members of the Commission on Public Integrity.

Knowing how grave it is to bear false witness against a neighbor, Member of Parliament for North Tongu, has vowed not to change his stance on the alleged bribery scandal that hit the Appointments Committee as he prepares to face a five - member committee approved by Parliament.

Apparently miffed by the call of governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state for her probe, erstwhile minister of finance, Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala has explained her role in the alleged arms deal scandal.

The complaint challenges a narrowly drawn provision to the Loft Law, sponsored in the Assembly by the powerful Brooklyn legislator Vito Lopez who has been ensnared in a growing scandal alleging he sexually harassed employees, and in the Senate by Martin Dilan.

It important to recall that, the Committee was caused to investigate the alleged bribery scandal that hit the august house during the vetting of Mr. Boakye Agyarko, now known as the Hon. Minister of Energy by no mean a person, but a member of the august house in the person of Hon. Mahama Ayariga.

Changes that lawmakers want to economic development programs were made ripe following allegations by federal prosecutors that the Buffalo Billion and a couple of other big upstate initiatives were part of a massive, alleged pay - to - play, bid - rigging scandal.

«Nothing restores the faith of a people more than getting big money out of politics,» said the mayor, whose administration has been dogged by scandals involving political fund - raising and alleged favors done for big - money benefactors.

The first phase saw the massive alleged bid - rigging and kickback scandal that rocked state politics when outlined in September 2016 by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office and will loom over

According to a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, in Ado Ekiti on Friday, Fayose alleged that there was a grand plot to release another set of Chibok Girls to shift the attention of Nigerians from the various scandals rocking the government.

The second set of proceedings in less than a week come after Governor Andrew Cuomo, among others, called on the ethics panel to investigate a sexual harassment scandal that centered on Assemblyman Vito Lopez, who was censured by an assembly committee over alleged sexual harassment charges.

The first phase saw the massive alleged bid - rigging and kickback scandal that rocked state politics when outlined in September 2016 by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office and will loom over Cuomo's 2018 reelection campaign.

From Sarah Champion MP laughing at the UAF blocking Ukip leader Nigel farage form opening his Rotherham office, depsite the fact that Ukips increase in support in Rotherham was due to the Child abuse scandal, and labour ignoring it's smearing those who criticised the fact that labour tried to hide it, and then making capital by believing they were better than Ukip, because they alleged Ukip were trying to exploit it, despite Labour ourselves disgracefully hiding the scandal we'd caused.

Schneiderman stepped down late Monday in a whirlwind scandal over his alleged mistreatment of women, revealed by an explosive report in The New Yorker.

The proposal, which was prompted by the scandal enveloping the Los Angeles Unified School District over the long career of former Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt, who now faces 23 charges of what the law politely calls lewd acts upon a child, arose the ire of the two unions because it would have allowed school districts to suspend teachers accused of alleged sexual and substance abuse crimes without pay and allowed dismissals to be presented before an administrative law judge instead of the usual three - person panel of the state's Professional Competence commission that is largely slated in favor of NEA and AFT.

New Mexico AG Latest to File Suit Against Volkswagen: Volkswagen already faces more than 500 lawsuits from individuals and car dealers, as well as suits brought by the U.S. Justice Department and attorneys general in Texas and West Virginia, over the alleged emissions scandal.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is in charge of repairing the reputation of a company besieged by a variety of alleged shady practices and scandals.

Chris Wylie, the 28 - year - old who sparked a scandal around alleged misappropriation of Facebook data by his old employer, said that its micro-targeting efforts were 10 times more effective that those of rivals.

At the centre of a scandal over alleged misuse of Facebook users» personal data, Cambridge Analytica is a communications firm hired by those behind Donald Trump's successful US presidential bid.

The scandal that has erupted around Cambridge Analytica's alleged harvesting of 50m Facebook profiles assembled from data provided by a UK - based academic and his company is a worrying development...

The scandal that has erupted around Cambridge Analytica's alleged harvesting of 50m Facebook profiles assembled from data provided by a UK - based academic and his company is a worrying development for legitimate researchers.