Sentences with phrase «culture of corruption in»

This may not come as a shock to veteran filmgoers: There is a culture of corruption in the department, and one character is guilty, one is innocent, and one is conflicted in his loyalties.

«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.

As he said the key to undoing a culture of corruption in any institution is the good actors taking action rather than enabling the bad actors, the U.S. attorney said he expects more legislators will soon buck the closed leadership system.

When a federal prosecutor the other day compared the culture of corruption in New York politics to «barnacles on a boat bottom,» I felt bad for the barnacle.

Hawkins said it was time to «clean up the culture of corruption in Albany.

NEW YORK - Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Monday inserted himself squarely in the debate on ethics reforms by proposing a slate of measures that would tackle the culture of corruption in Albany.

«We have a culture of corruption in Albany that allows this,» Doyle said in a phone interview.

«The trend that I see is not prosecutors being the problem, but a culture of corruption in Albany,» he said, noting corruption has hit Democrats, Republicans, lawmakers and members of Cuomo's executive branch.

In order to solve the culture of corruption in Albany, Dadey said major ethics reforms such as severely limiting outside employment while increasing pay need to be put in place.

But I also believe that when the U.S. Attorney keeps going after and saying that there is a culture of corruption in Albany, you should also keep in mind that it's not only in Albany.

Yet again we are receiving national headlines for the culture of corruption in New York State.

«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.

Curran repeatedly decried the «culture of corruption in Nassau» and labeled long - standing practices of giving jobs to the politically connected and contracts to campaign contributors as the «corruption tax.»

Help us stop this culture of corruption in Washington.

«Much of the coverage in the press suggests that there is a significant culture of corruption in Europe's institutions.

It was an investigation that was supposed to leave no stone unturned and was designed to change the culture of corruption in Albany, NY.

Ad No. 1 resurrected Denenberg's 2005 guilty plea on petition fraud charges, saying he would «fit right in» with the culture of corruption in Albany.

The culture of corruption in Albany is seated in the coziness between elected officials and monied interests that longevity in office invariably brings.

Bharara said Silver's alleged actions were indicative of a larger culture of corruption in Albany, where Silver has served since winning election in 1974.

One day after charging one of New York's leading lawmakers with exploiting his office to obtain millions of dollars in kickbacks and bribes, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York delivered a stinging condemnation of the culture of corruption in Albany and said the system was set up to breed misdeeds.

«We've got a culture of corruption in Nassau County, and we're in desperate need of a fresh start,» Curran said.

The day following the then - Assembly speaker's (now overturned) conviction, Bharara gave a speech urging New Yorkers to «join him in taking on the culture of corruption in Albany» — remarks that earned him an admonishment from the judge for «unfairly grouping Silver in with all that is pervasive and distasteful about our state politics.»

Fitzpatrick said Cuomo didn't create the culture of corruption in Albany, «but he sure as hell did his best to stop it.»

Governor Cuomo proposed a broad set of laws including stricter limits on campaign contributions and party spending on behalf of candidates, public financing of elections to match small contributions from individuals, and new public corruption crimes in an attempt to reduce the culture of corruption in Albany.

But by then his investigation had cast the Cor executives as part of a culture of corruption in Albany, Williams wrote.

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.

Commentary by John Kaehny and Andrew Rasiej, Like other New Yorkers, we are dismayed by the culture of corruption in state government.

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.

Not exact matches

Owned by Sina Corp., a Yahoo - like web portal that came to prominence in the early day, it's become prominent in Chinese politics, especially around environmental issues, corruption over food safety, disaster response and in Chinese celebrity culture, where a number of actors and singers have gained millions of followers (or «fans» as their called in Weibo lingo).

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.

The inquiry was welcomed by Jeff Morris, a financial planner who in 2013 exposed a culture of corruption and coverup in the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the nation's largest bank, that targeted vulnerable customers.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

The rigidity of social institutions in a «vertical culture» creates numerous opportunities for corruption and injustice, because it creates strongholds of power that the oppressor can colonize and exploit.

The Church's teaching on sexuality seems puzzling to many people whose understanding has been clouded by the corruption of a culture that practises and glorifies sex without commitment or even deep feeling, a culture in which the most lucrative internet business is pornography.

The Lutheran heritage in music is far from barren — Luther himself was a musician of note and to be Lutheran is to know that J. S. Bach is to music as Shakespeare is to literature — but the musical culture of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS) had by the 1940s been considerably corrupted by American evangelical Protestantism, and I wallowed in the corruption.

All of this is really an elaborate attempt on my part to explore the specifically political dimensions of H. Richard Niebuhr's questions in Christ and Culture: Is the present political order a «corrupted order» or is it an «order for corruption»?

Ironically, the 2016 — 2017 Supreme Court roundup also appearing in the October issue of First Things («A Less Corrupt Term») quotes Justice Samuel Alito saying of the Court's majority opinion on same - sex marriage that it «evidences... the deep and perhaps irremediable corruption of our legal culture's conception of constitutional interpretation.»

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.

Without discounting that theory, one must also keep in mind the capacity of popular culture to produce its own corruptions.

Even where these virtues of the One who alone is the only perfect atonement are wistfully alluded to in Kiefer's work, his constantly interjected reminder that all things are completely subject to the same corruption that Hitler brought upon German culture so overwhelms his visual field that nothing remains except scorched - earth, dead gods and the shattered ruins of the Third Reich.

Organized religion is the root of most evils today: Abuse of children and women, wars over religious territories, terrorists with radical religious beliefs, denial of a women's right to choose, denial of gay rights, oppression of differing cultures, corruption in churches, synagogues, mosques, etc..

«The culture of corruption has given us the highest taxes in the nation and has bred silence from too many lawmakers afraid to rock the status quo.

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.

In the letter dated 29 April 2018 and signed by SERAP executive director Adetokunbo Mumuni the organization said: «Applying the Presidential Proclamation 7750 would be very helpful to Nigeria's efforts to fight grand corruption and end entrenched culture of impunity of perpetrators in the countrIn the letter dated 29 April 2018 and signed by SERAP executive director Adetokunbo Mumuni the organization said: «Applying the Presidential Proclamation 7750 would be very helpful to Nigeria's efforts to fight grand corruption and end entrenched culture of impunity of perpetrators in the countrin the country.

The federal corruption conviction of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former fixer and longtime top aide, Joe Percoco, further yoked the two - term governor to a broken culture in Albany that he has long tried to campaign against, marking a nadir in Cuomo's governorship and only the start of a political headache that is likely to intensify.

Obviously, with the Skelos verdict coming earlier in the day on Friday, and people lamenting the lack of transparency in Albany as part of a «culture of corruption,» the timing of the vetoes could not have been worse.

«What we know for certain is he created these elaborate economic development schemes to take in millions of pay - to - play campaign donations by creating a culture of corruption that allowed his closest aide to line to his own pockets the way the Governor was lining his campaign coffers.

Killian and her allies have portrayed Mayer as a creature of Albany's culture of corruption, noting that prior to serving in the Assembly, she was counsel to the Senate Democrats during their scandal - plagued tenure in charge of the Senate in 2009 and 2010.

«The culture of corruption that has clearly existed now in this county and in law enforcement for decades has continued unabated and has only worsened.»

The conflict of interest is obvious, and Mr. Agata is the wrong choice to run JCOPE less than six months after Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos were convicted in corruption trials which laid bare Albany's culture of legal and illegal corruption.