Sentences with phrase «damaging allegations about»

Hours before the Observer published fresh, damaging allegations about how the various pro-Brexit campaigns colluded, possibly illegally, in the weeks before the UK's knife - edge EU referendum, Vote Leave Campaign Director Dominic Cummings published a long screed of pre-emptive defence on his blog.

MPs from both sides of the Commons have been hit by more damaging allegations about their expenses claims on Sunday, including a Labour minister who asked the parliamentary authorities to «please pay as much as you are able».

Once Kennedy bowed out, Paterson aides leaked damaging allegations about her to Newsday and other news outlets.

John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, told Trump last week that Scott Pruitt, the embattled administrator of the EPA, needed to go following damaging allegations about ethical infractions and spending irregularities, according to two officials briefed about the conversation.

But those have paled next to damaging allegations about a male - chauvinist company culture that resulted in CEO Travis Kalanick going on the hunt for a chief operating officer while former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder conducts an internal investigation.

Not exact matches

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in his first public appearance since a potentially damaging news story about allegations his staff tampered with an ethics probe, tried to change the subject by talking about economic development.

The result comes in the wake of a series of damaging revelations about both the DUP leader and his wife Iris, who dramatically quit politics in disgrace over allegations about her financial involvement with her teenage lover.

The News of the World was closed after a string of damaging revelations and there have also been allegations made about activities at the Sun and Sunday Times.

In addition to tightening the distinction between fact and opinion, the time is long overdue for lawmakers to undo the absurdity they have created — and the real damage caused to all citizens» prerogatives of democratic participation — when they equate a journalist's controversial allegations about a George Galloway with Joe's controversial allegations about Dr Bright.

Much of the focus has been on the fate of Tory co-chairman Sayeeda Warsi, who faces not one but two ever - so - slightly damaging allegations, about her expenses and an accompanying lobbyist.

Eleven SSP members, including Mr Fox and MSPs Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, gave evidence against him in the case, in which Mr Sheridan won # 200,000 in damages for the defamatory allegations made by the newspaper about his personal life.

Low February 22nd: Brown's bullying row - Personality politics quickly came back to damage the PM, however, after allegations contained in Andrew Rawnsley's new book about Brown's behaviour towards civil servants rocked No 10.

There's no doubt that the cash for honours allegation is damaging, and it does not do much for the Conservative brand, but it's also a reminder to people about where political parties get thier money from.

And despite the allegation that Jeff Bezos never cared at all about books, choosing to focus on those initially because they were hard to damage in shipping, the man has almost single - handedly revived a culture of reading and writing that was floundering, to say the least.

In addition to making misleading statements about the progress of their inquiry and investigation, it appears that GMU split the investigation into two committees, narrowed the scope, and wore blinders, as an effort to limit the damage to Wegman while giving the appearance that the allegations were being seriously investigated.

I see there is a recent 304 paragraph decision in B.C. — Newman et al v. Halstead et al, 2006 BCSC 65 — in which the court awarded damages totalling $ 681,000 against an individual defendant (who did not appear at the trial, hence there was no defence per se) for her liability in making defamatory statements on her website, chat rooms and email about various teachers in which she made allegations of misconduct and allegations that the School Board mishandled or covered up this activity.

Employment litigation can come about for numerous reasons and some of the most damaging to a Louisiana business or institution are when there are allegations of discrimination.

Nursing homes typically do not take allegations of negligence seriously unless the injured party files a lawsuit and is serious about pursuing damages.

I previously wrote about the trial decision which saw the trial judge order Altus to pay $ 100,000 in punitive damages because Altus had fabricated allegations that it had cause to dismiss Gordon.

He now plans to go for «huge exemplary damages» for about 20 other Iraqi families with allegations of mistreatment by British soldiers.

And, as allegations continue to surface around how Cambridge Analytica was able to get data on 50m Facebook users in the first place using a third - party app, the social network has seen its share value plunge 7pc, wiping nearly $ 40bn off its market value as investors, worried about how new regulations could damage Facebook's advertising business, take flight.