Sentences with phrase «crooked politicians»

«Putting crooked politicians in jail may be necessary, but it is far from sufficient.»

NEW YORK (AP)-- Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison Tuesday, capping one of the steepest falls from grace in the state's lineup of crooked politicians for a consummate backroom dealer who wielded power for over two decades.

In two state races overshadowed by the presidential primaries, voters will elect replacements Tuesday for crooked politicians Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos.

Sooner than later someone is going to have the tape recorder rolling when he makes one of his famous phone calls, and he will be just the latest crooked politician to have been hung with his own rope.

Authorities have turned to using digital billboards along the interstate to urge citizens to report crooked politicians, dirty bureaucrats and other bad actors, the latest indication of just how big a problem political corruption has become in Albany.

Bharara, a corruption - busting prosecutor whose office convicted crooked politicians Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver, told top aides in his office Friday he might not exit on his own, the Daily Beast reported.

There's also a Russian mob muscling in, crooked politicians taking pay - offs, music impresarios, a wild - card drug addict on a mission of vengeance, lots of freelance muscle and a gorgeous bookkeeper (Thandie Newton) playing her own scams with the help of part - time lover and partner - in - crime One Two.

Hard - charging Manhattan federal prosecutor Preet Bharara loves busting crooked politicians and bankers — almost as much as he appreciates a good headline.

New York has mostly known economic decline during my lifetime because of crooked politicians like Andrew Cuomo.

ALBANY — Taxpayers in Queens have seen too many crooked politicians — and now they say enough is enough.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a backroom master whose name was synonymous with political power in New York for a generation, was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in prison, destined to take his place atop the state's crowded lineup of crooked politicians behind bars.

Gerry (not to be overly familiar, but Liz and Gerry will work better going forward) in his scholarly fashion attempted to put New York corruption in perspective, offering arcane research that proved that there were crooked politicians everywhere.

Sized up as a patsy by crooked politician Kirkwood (Edwin Maxwell), poor Wilbur is plied with champagne as part of Kirkwood's scheme to land a sweetheart playground - equipment contract.

The film has a plethora of these familiar stories about crooked politicians, war - mongering defense contractors and journalists grappling with the quandary of everything from the «fair and balanced» slogan to gossip Web sites like the Drudge Report.

True, it hinges on an unlikely coincidence involving William Fichtner's haughty billionaire — a heist target for Damon, a crooked partner - in - crime for crooked politician Jodie Foster — but it gives Blomkamp the chance to align his worlds.

As more crooked politicians are picked off with similar long - range shots, public opinion is divided — is the marksman a vigilante or a hero?

Brasilia is not only the capital city of Brazil (and some say the workplace of some of the most blatantly crooked politicians in the world!)

If youre going to gravitate to the best, why not the best crack dealer in town, the best whorehouse, the best crooked politician.

Ex-state Sen. Malcolm Smith is the latest crooked politician to appeal his conviction in light of a recent Supreme Court ruling tied to public - corruption cases.

In this Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016, photo, a billboard with a message about reporting public corruption, upper left, stands along Interstate 90 in Albany, N.Y. Authorities in New York's corruption - plagued capital city are using billboards to urge citizens to report crooked politicians, using a tactic more commonly employed to find missing people or fight drunk driving.

The court's ruling, they warned, could make it more difficult to prosecute and convict crooked politicians.

Today, his Carnival Time (1990) feels eerily apropos in the DIA's collection, as the skewered heads of crooked politicians are coupled with the mercenary icons of big business, a voracious sow, and composite figures of the dissenting Motor City punk scene.

well they get restrained by the same politicians and judges and policy manuals... the crooked politicians even put soldiers on trial for murder (what!).

Especially towards your crooked politicians..

And I bet none of those healed had any kind of health insurance with huge rip - off insurance companies who charged them ridiculous premiums and then said they wouldn't cover whatever their illness was, or had limits on what they would pay, or gave payoffs to crooked politicians to keep people from getting decent health care at reasonable prices, or forbade them from buying the medications they needed from anywhere they were available, or even had forms to fill out.

But there's definitely a case to say Wenger is guilty of a level of hypocrisy usually only usually reserved for corrupt and crooked politicians, or say, bankers.

«On August 11th we can have a bi-partisan spirited discussion at a community center of Senator Schumer's choosing to discuss these important matters facing New Yorkers rather than Chuck prioritizing fundraising and dancing to the sounds of Aretha Franklin at the Plaza in order to raise money for yet another crooked politician.

The average Union worker makes 30 — 50,000 at best and has to pay for thier own health insurance premiums (they are not free like some think), union dues (for fair representation from the crooked politicians in Albany and NYC).

Slotnick likened the crooked politicians to former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, whose corruption convictions were vacated by a US Supreme Court ruling that redefined what constitutes «official acts.»

Mark Poloncarz is the most honest, credible and sincere county executive we have had here in Erie County is DECADES, and for this crooked politician (in the sleaziest sense of the word) Tim Kennedy to suggest otherwise is just laughable.

Nice to know that he has now fully embraced th ethicse of a crooked politician.

Bharara, whose office brought down crooked politicians from both parties, leveled a subtle parting shot at Trump.

His list of targets includes spending and crooked politicians, reports CBS 2's Marcia Kramer.

Authorities in New York's corruption - plagued capital city are using billboards to urge citizens to report crooked politicians, using a tactic more commonly employed to find missing people or fight drunk driving.

Malcolm Smith still doesn't think he deserves jail time By Lia Eustachewich October 6, 2016 Ex-state Sen. Malcolm Smith is the latest crooked politician to appeal his conviction in light of a recen...

It may even be the best newspaper movie since All the President's Men, although its conspiracy story cuts deeper — molested children rather than crooked politicians — and its villain (the Catholic Church) more dangerous.

Now Milo is free - falling into another country, a land of big money and small armies of corruption, of crooked politicians and two women willing to share their lust with a private eye with a bad back.

The action takes place in New Bordeaux, an equally glamorous clone of New Orleans, which is on the surface a wholesome place to raise a family but underneath is rotting away under a deluge of drug deals, prostitution rings and crooked politicians.