Sentences with phrase «backroom dealings of»

Heineman is granted almost unimaginable access to the violence and backroom dealings of the lawless region, capturing everything from an entire village, housewives and all, turning on police who try to crack down on the Autodefensas to scenes of the white shirts slipping into the same, sadistic tactics as their enemy.

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Amazingly, Spielberg found a way to make the minutiae of 19th - century backroom political dealings extremely entertaining.

Expected to last four to six weeks, the trial will have plenty of details about backroom dealings in Albany right under Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's nose, court filings suggest.

The trial, expected to last four to six weeks, will have plenty of seamy detail about backroom dealings, court filings suggest — from jokes about wanting more «zitti» in alleged coded references to bribes taken from «The Sopranos,» to using clout to influence state agencies and routing more than $ 300,000 in alleged payoffs to Percoco through his wife.

While secrecy and backroom dealings are hardly the qualities of a well - functioning democracy, they represent business as usual in Albany — a place that 89 percent of New Yorkers believe has a serious corruption problem, according to a recent Quinnipiac poll.

While the accused are certainly innocent until proven guilty, these sort of backroom double dealings are exactly why I have been pushing to bring open and honest governance to this county, with the same ethical leadership I have demonstrated in police departments and the corporate world.

Through a constitutional convention, we can demand transparency to backroom dealings in Albany by mandating public oversight of budgetary decisions and requiring narrow, set purposes for all money funneled into the budget.

If you like paranoid thrillers filled with backroom dealings and hidden agendas that make you question how much information is out there that is too dangerous for the general public to know, Closed Circuit could have you looking at major events with a slightly more cynical point of view than you might have had going in.