Sentences with phrase «corrupt deals»

We will see corrupt deals where public school space is handed over to entrepreneurs who have made contributions to the politicians making the decisions.

Some officials of SADA were reportedly involved in corrupt deals during its initial years, notably the use of over GHc 250,000 on unapproved and «wasteful» trips to Birmingham, Berlin and Istanbul.

Zhou also tried to turn Howe's bad behavior back on the defendants, arguing that Howe was inserted into the case by their decision to use him as a middleman for corrupt deals.

Ghanaians have referred the president to the fact that the country is still developing and therefore can not accept corrupt deals like designing websites at the cost of Ghc800, 000.00 and stating Ghc2, 000,00.00 as cost for preparing one ministry's budget.

Mr. Navalny became a prominent opposition figure after exposing corrupt deals in government companies, including contracting fraud at the state pipeline operator Transneft that he said cost the company $ 4 billion.

The general public has in recent times expressed disappointment in the ruling government for the merciless corrupt deals it has engaged in since it wrestled power from the main opposition National Democratic Congress barely eleven months ago.

If we decide to reduce everything to party politics, it will be business as usual and no one should question why some of the most corrupt deals go through parliament without notice until the transactions begin to bite the nation.

You never compromised, never involved in any corruption or corrupt deals regardless being in position of high and mighty where you could have amassed wealth for yourself and your children.

Shining a light on corrupt deals like OPL 245 prevents multinational companies from scheming with greedy government officials to get rich at the expense of ordinary people.»

Mr. Bharara, while reiterating he was not advocating any specific reform, said the trial showed how a lack of transparency and no restriction on outside incomes made it easier for lawmakers involved in corrupt deals to carry out their crimes undetected.

A physical therapy assistant's legal settlement has reversed the corrupt deal between Northwell Health and 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East (SEIU 1199) officials that forced her and her colleagues into union ranks without a vote.

Later one of Grant's cabinet members was involved in a corrupt deal.

«New Yorkers are the ones on the hook for these corrupt deals, and it's partly why we pay the highest taxes in the nation.

Former Gov. George Pataki traveled to Reno and assailed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for making «corrupt deals» to get health care reform passed.

Established papers, such as the Telegraph, debase their content and engage in corrupt deals to protect revenues, blurring the line between editorial and advertising.

Chris Bryant: Corrupt deals and bribery are age - old offences.

One published report noted that the criminal charges against former Speaker Sheldon Silver contain «vague references to how he sold out tenants the last time the protections expired in 2011 as part of a corrupt deal with a developer.»

For instance, Hudson County is in the process of suing sullied whistleblower Oscar Sandoval, seeking to recover what they claim his corrupt deals cost other public contractors.

«We didn't make any corrupt deal or bargain with Shelly Silver.

I absolutely believe that their manipulation and corrupt dealing, like removing from a committee the only Republican committee member, disgusted the voters and that it was a major contributor in how the voters of New Hampshire voted in November.

He said the fall of Fernando Collect de Mello of Brazil in 1992, Albert Fijimor in 2000, Atdala Bucarain of Ecuador in 1997 and others were caused by investigative reporting on their complicity in corrupt deals.

I'm no fan of Reid, but doesn't Pataki remember his corrupt deal with 1199 SEIU?

RE: «Former Gov. George Pataki traveled to Reno and assailed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for making «corrupt deals» to get health care reform passed.»

In one documented by the Africa Progress Panel, mining rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo were sold for knockdown prices in deals that involved a series of secretly - owned firms in the BVI, leaving it unclear who had benefited from what may have been corrupt deals.

The court ruled that bribery requires a more substantial exercise of government power as part of a corrupt deal.

There is money only when it's time for SADA, GEEDA, WOYOME, KARPOWER, SUBAH, AMERI POWER and every corrupt deal there is money for it»

Prosecutors allege it was part of a corrupt deal that steered state grants to Dr. Robert Taub, a mesothelioma specialist who sent potential clients to Silver.

Jasmine was always something of a phony, averting her eyes as corrupt deals were hatched on shady verandas in the Hamptons.

The clarity provided by this corrupt deal allows us to focus on what matters: using the March as a strategic retreat to develop our political, legal and organizing strategy to achieve victory — not just for Diablo Canyon, but all nuclear plants threatened by anti-nuclear organizations, corrupt unions, craven policymakers and short - term corporate executives.

I said it last year and I'll say it again: this corrupt deal will not stand.

Today's new evidence shows senior executives at the world's fifth biggest company knowingly entered into a corrupt deal that deprived the Nigerian people of $ 1.1 billion.

Shell and Eni's corrupt deal had huge consequences for ordinary Nigerians.