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«I'm glad to see there are some Republicans in the county who can at least read a poll and see this is the way to go,» said County Legislative Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams (D - Freeport), referencing public anger at corruption arrests.

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Saudi's Attorney General said in November that the government estimated that «at least $ 100 billion has been misused through systematic corruption and embezzlement over several decades» and said 208 individuals had been arrested as part of the crackdown, with seven released without charge.

The arrests follow a purge that has seen more than 80 executives at PDVSA and its suppliers jailed for alleged corruption as the state firm's new chief, Major General Manuel Quevedo, has sought to stamp his authority on the sector - the financial lifeblood of Venezuela's unraveling socialist government.

For the 85 - year - old pontiff, the three - day trip outside the Vatican walls was a break from the Vatileaks scandal, which has seen his butler, Paolo Gabriele, arrested on suspicion of disclosing dozens of embarrassing letters alleging corruption and nepotism at the Holy See.

By coming at once to the primitive model and rejecting all human inventions, the Church was to be at once released from the controversies of eighteen centuries, and the primitive gospel of salvation was to be disentangled and disembarrassed from all those corruptions and perversions which had heretofore delayed or arrested its progress [Memoirs of Alexander Campbell, by Robert Richardson (Lippincott, 1868 - 70), Vol.

Two directors of Indoguna, Juardi Effendi and Arya Abdi Effendi, were arrested by Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission at a city hotel on Wednesday with 1 billion rupiah ($ 101,000) in cash in the car boot.

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At the same time, the ethics watchdogs criticized Cuomo, who proposed the initial measure in June, for not going far enough on reform measures in Albany in the wake of a series of corruption scandals and arrests that have plagued the Legislature.

Today's testimony at the corruption trial of a former top aide to Cuomo, Joe Percoco, has been canceled due to the illness of a defense lawyer whose questioning last week led to the arrest of the prosecution's star witness, Todd Howe.

The corruption arrests and convictions convulsed Albany at the time.

The very day after Silver was arrested, Bharara gave a talk at New York Law School where he urged people to focus their outrage and join him in taking on the culture of corruption in Albany.

Cuomo appointed the Moreland Act Commission at the close of a legislative session that saw numerous lawmakers arrested, indicted and jailed for corruption, and with no agreement on any reform measures.

The governor frowned at the publicized arrest of President Buhari's associate and All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Jafaru Isa, and his reported refund of N100 million to the EFCC describing it as the first trick used by the Federal Government in its attempt to deceive Nigerians into believing that the fight against corruption was not selective.

Flanagan says those allocations were made before he became leader in May, after the previous leader was arrested on corruption charges, and that he's going to take another look at the distribution of the funds.

Earnings at Manhattan - based Weitz & Luxenberg fell after Silver was arrested and convicted of corruption, including for pocketing referral fees for cases he steered to the firm from an oncologist who received $ 500,000 in state research grants

The mayor said that if lawmakers don't act on reforms, they'll lose a shot at redemption after a year in which leaders in both houses of the Legislature have been arrested on federal corruption charges.

«Top aides arrested, signature initiatives plagued by corruption, widening scandals at every turn,» the Republican committee said in a release on its website, which made reference to «ziti,» a code used for illicit payments according to the 2016 criminal charges.

The Manhattan Democrat resigned at 11:59 p.m. Monday following his arrest on federal corruption charges.

In court papers filed immediately after the hearing, the defense cited a news conference held to announce Silver's arrest, a speech on public corruption Bharara delivered at New York Law School the following day, and an extensive interview he gave to the MSNBC cable network two weeks later.

All together, the package was billed as a five - point plan designed to enhance disclosure and regulation of campaign finance and lobbying at a Capitol rocked by scandal and corruption arrests in recent years.

It was business as usual at Assemblyman William Boyland Jr.'s district office in Brooklyn despite his arrest on (a second round of) corruption charges yesterday.

Senate IDC Leader Jeff Klein is throwing the kitchen sink at the problem of pay - to - play corruption after one of his own conference members, Sen. Malcolm Smith, was arrested last week and accused of attempting to bribe his way onto the New York City mayoral ballot so he could run as a Republican.

Cuomo has insisted that ethics legislation should be, more broadly, directed at the Legislature considering the spate of corruption arrests and scandals that has engulfed both chambers.

Akinrinade while delivering the 50th Year Memorial Lecture in honour of Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola, last Premier of defunct Western Region and the 13th Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, at the Trenchard Hall of the University of Ibadan, noted that in as much as arresting, prosecuting and jailing of offenders can not be discarded as a means of tackling corruption and deterring others, «it is time we explored building the structures for a sustainable long term response that will transcend regimes and administrations in the country».

State Sen. John Sampson threatened to «take out» cooperators before his 2013 arrest, a witness testified Thursday at the Brooklyn politician's corruption trial.

«I really believe it will pass this year because... (Sheldon) Silver, who got arrested for corruption — the fact that the guy who was arrested for corruption was against this bill is a testament that no one should have been against it at all,» Rousey said, according to the Albany Times Union.

FBI agents arrested Seabrook at his Morris Park home and charged with taking kickbacks — including $ 60,000 passed hand - to - hand in a Ferragamo bag — in a corruption case that could have dramatic effects in NYC politics and on Rikers Island itself

The changes — primarily aimed at the two nonprofits that SUNY Poly operated called Fuller Road Management Corp. and Fort Schuyler Management Corp. — come less than two months after SUNY Poly president Alain Kaloyeros was arrested Sept. 22 on state and federal bid rigging and corruption charges involving several upstate developers and two former Cuomo aides and family friends, Joe Percoco and Todd Howe.

Announcements of corruption charges no longer surprise anyone in New York, where at least 12 sitting or former state lawmakers have been arrested, convicted or sanctioned, or have resigned, after a host of ethical transgressions in the past two years alone.

The corruption arrests just adds fuel to the fire,» Powell IV, whose father preceded Rangel in Congress, said after the 90 - minute debate at Hostos Community College.

Assembly Democrats are meeting again at the capitol this afternoon to try to resolve what's become a leadership crisis after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested and charged with engineering a major corruption scheme.

The milestone is an enormous step forward in a partnership that had seemed to be on the verge of collapse over the summer amid the corruption investigation at SUNY Poly that resulted in the arrest of its president, Alain Kaloyeros.

U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York Preet Bharara holds a press conference at his office announcing the arrest of Assemblyman Eric Stevenson on corruption charges.

«Top aides arrested, signature initiatives plagued by corruption, widening scandals at every turn,» Chris Martin, an NRCC spokesman, said in an email, referencing federal charges against Cuomo's one - time top aide Joe Percoco.

«Top aides arrested, signature initiatives plagued by corruption, widening scandals at every turn,» an NRCC email states, referencing the corruption scandal that led to charges against former top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco, among others.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who was arrested last month on federal corruption charges, will be vacating the post at 11:59 p.m. Monday evening.

Just days after one of his closest friends and former aides Joe Percoco was arrested on corruption charges, Governor Andrew Cuomo once again was looking at transform the former Farley Post Office on Manhattan's West Side to a first - class rail facility.

Deputy Inspector James Grant, the former commanding officer of the 19th and 66th precincts, Deputy Chief Michael Harrington, the former second - in - command in the housing bureau, and Sgt. David Villanueva, who worked in the department's licensing division, were arrested at their homes on public corruption conspiracy and bribery charges, sources and prosecutors said.

Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, at a news conference after the arrest of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, on federal corruption charges on Jan. 22, 2015 in Manhattan.

Outside income was also at the heart of the case against Sheldon Silver, the Manhattan Democrat who served as the Assembly speaker for two decades before being arrested on federal corruption charges in January 2015.

At the time of the arrests, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said the case illustrated a «culture of corruption» in New York politics.

A 63 - year - old was arrested at an address in Surrey as former News of the World editor Andy Coulson was released on police bail after being quizzed for nine hours over allegations of corruption and the phone - hacking scandal that forced the closure of the 168 - year - old newspaper.

The traditional climbing of the steps was a political moment for the cast and producer of the Russian film Leto (Summer), in competition at the 71st Cannes Film Festival: its director, Kirill Serebrennikov, has been under house arrest in Russia since August of last year, on charges of corruption.

What's really the unnecessary toll on Costa Rica's reputation here, the very curiously timed and executed arrest of Paul Watson or the continued illegal shark fin trade (which only exists because of government corruption at some level) that Watson and Sea Shepherd put themselves in harms way to prevent?

Governor Blagojevich has been arrested in the middle of what we can only describe as a political corruption crime spree... Blagojevich and others were working feverishly to get as much money from contractors, shaking them down, pay to play, before the end of the year... At the end of the day, the conduct we have before us is appalling... His press - conference sidekick, the FBI's Rob Grant, was almost as good: If it isn't the most corrupt state in the United States, it's certainly one hell of a competitor... the FBI agents that participated in this wiretap investigation, were thoroughly disgusted and revolted by what they heard, and I think even the most cynical agents in our office were shocked...

Corruption allegations that surfaced at the commission led to Montreal mayor Gerald Tremblay's resignation, and to the arrest of 37 politicians, bureaucrats, and construction bosses, including former Laval mayor Gilles Vaillancourt and Montreal interim mayor Michael Applebaum.