Sentences with phrase «culture of corruption at»

However, the culture of corruption at the company is extensive and worrying.

The trial also raised questions about the structure of Albany and what some good - government advocates see as a culture of corruption at the Capitol.

Not exact matches

Recent developments, including ongoing investigations into bribery and corruption at the Company's subsidiaries in Mexico, China, Brazil, and India; new revelations of accounting fraud at the Company's China operations; a recent ruling by a National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge against the Company for its illegal discipline of employees; and, the NLRB decision to authorize a nationwide complaint against the Company for violations of the National Labor Relations Act, highlight the need for enhanced oversight of Wal - Mart's corporate culture and behavior.

A converted church in a corrupt civilization withdraws to its upper rooms, into monasteries and conventicles; it issues forth from these in the aggressive evangelism of apostles, monks and friars, circuit riders and missionaries; it relaxes its rigorism as it discerns signs of repentance and faith; it enters into inevitable alliance with converted emperors and governors, philosophers and artists, merchants and entrepreneurs, and begins to live at peace in the culture they produce under the stimulus of their faith; when faith loses its force, as generation follows generation, discipline is relaxed, repentance grows formal, corruption enters with idolatry, and the church, tied to the culture which it sponsored, suffers corruption with it.

The split verdict is nevertheless a blow to Cuomo, who had took office in 2011 on a pledge to rid Albany of corruption and change the culture of pay to play at the Capitol.

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.

NEW YORK (AP)-- A former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo was convicted on corruption charges Tuesday at a trial that further exposed the state capital's culture of backroom deal - making.

He opened the broadcast with a blast at the culture of corruption in Albany that enabled Silver, the Democratic former Assembly speaker, and Skelos, the Republican ex-Senate majority leader.

AG Andrew Cuomo pulled no punches at at his gubernatorial campaign kick - off today, condemning fellow Democrats and Republicans alike for contributing to Albany's culture of corruption and pledging to do whatever it takes to clean up the Capitol.

A former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo was convicted on corruption charges Tuesday at a trial that further exposed the state capital's culture of backroom dealmaking.

Percoco was convicted on corruption charges Tuesday at a trial that further exposed the state capital's culture of backroom deal - making.

A former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo was convicted on corruption charges Tuesday at a trial that further exposed the state capital's culture of backroom

«Laura has the vision and the right experience to end the culture of corruption and give Nassau County the fresh start it deserves,» Schumer, the Democratic Senate minority leader, said at a news conference in Baldwin.

Yet the Times will not back the nomination of someone who comes from outside of the state's culture of political corruption — not some reckless crank, a goldbug or anti-vaccinationist or animal - rights activist, but a degree - holding product of Yale and Duke, a former law clerk, a person who works full - time at understanding the process of political reform.

«Let's be clear, Ali has no plans on taking money advice from someone who consistently fails to pay his own taxes but if he wants to look at connections, let's look at the fact that Murphy was elected only two years ago after taking over a million dollars from convicted felon Dean Skelos to help him join Albany's culture of corruption.

Also at noon, faith leaders and low - wage workers will gather at the state Capitol for a Moral Monday press conference and vigil to call on lawmakers to end the culture of on - and off - the - books corruption that characterizes the policy - making process in Albany, War Room, 3rd Floor.

«Our investigation thus far reveals a pay - to - play political culture driven by large checks, anemic enforcement of the weak laws we have on the books, and loopholes and workarounds that make those laws weaker still,» says the report, which was released today at 6:05 p.m. by the Cuomo - appointed Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption.

Let's be clear about what the Congressional Republican tax plan really is: It is Washington's culture of soft - corruption at its worst - nothing more than paying back wealthy donors and lobbyists through corporate welfare, at the expense of the middle class.

Past prime ministers know his power: it was good to see Gordon Brown weigh in yesterday with a letter to the culture secretary demanding the takeover be delayed until after the second part of the Leveson inquiry is carried out into corruption of the police and officials at Murdoch - owned newspapers.

Interestingly, that «culture of corruption» line is one that Republicans lobbed at Cuomo back in May.

«I'm trying to change the culture of corruption in Albany,» Friedrich said during an interview at his campaign headquarters on Union Turnpike in Glen Oaks.

Percoco was convicted on corruption charges at a trial that further exposed the state capital's culture of backroom dealmaking.

No matter how Parete speculates about what «65 - year - olds won't like», retirees still bristle at the low - grade corruption that seems to always accompany our county's persistent culture of insider nepotism.

The Democratic culture of corruption it very good at protecting their own I guess.

«Alan Hevesi presided over a culture of corruption,» Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, now governor, said at the time.

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

«This package deals with a lot of different issues, many of which are important, but it doesn't deal with at the heart what U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara called a culture of corruption in Albany, and that's about using your public office for private gain,» Horner said.

But the book is more than a straightforward account of Idov's time at GQ Russia and his slow shift from an earnest editor to a disillusioned minor celebrity — it also touches on tabloid culture, revolution, Russian literature and music, the almost unbelievable levels of corruption in Russia, and, of course, what everyone was wearing.

The result is that communities often end up dealing with governments or companies interested mainly in taking advantage of the vacuum created by the culture of corruption to extract as many resources as possible at as low a price as they can.

What perhaps is less well understood is how, because of a failure of leadership at the top of the social tree, the culture of corruption - and dependency - has too often eaten its way down to the roots.

The escalating military overreach abroad, the corruption of political and financial elites at home, and the market - driven culture of mass distractions on the internet, TV, and radio push toward an inescapable imperial meltdown, in which chauvinistic nationalism, plutocratic policies and spectatorial cynicism run amok.