Sentences with phrase «difficult public corruption cases»

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He added: «The Silver case is right at the fault line for some of the difficult questions that have been raised by the courts about what exactly constitutes public corruption.»

«If it's a reversal, it's going to make it more difficult for these cases in the future,» said Randall Eliason, a former federal prosecutor specializing in public corruption and government fraud.

«She's been a prosecutor her whole career, has an amazing record of success in important and difficult legal cases, cases involving sexual predators, drunk drivers, public corruption..

The Supreme Court decision in the McDonnell case is expected to make it more difficult for the federal government to prosecute public corruption cases, a prospect Chief Justice John Roberts challenged in his majority opinion.

Calls on the Commission, by the end of 2013, to submit a legislative proposal establishing an effective and comprehensive European whistleblower protection programme in the public and in the private sector to protect those who detect inefficient management and irregularities and report cases of national and cross-border corruption relating to EU financial interests and to protect witnesses, informers, and those who cooperate with the courts, and in particular witnesses testifying against mafia - type and other criminal organisations, with a view to resolving the difficult conditions under which they have to live (from risks of retaliation to the breakdown of family ties or from being uprooted from their home territory to social and professional exclusion); calls also on the Member States to put in place appropriate and effective protection for whistleblowers.

Percoco's attorney, Barry Bohrer of New York City, told news outlets there that Percoco not only denies breaking any laws, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in July, which made it more difficult to prosecute public corruption cases, should help him.

A federal appeals court's decision to overturn the convictions of former New York State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver shows how public corruption cases have become much more difficult to substantiate in the wake of a Supreme Court decision narrowing what qualifies as corruption, legal analysts said.

A Chilean non-profit organisation, the Intelligent Citizen Foundation, has a series of apps that allow the public to identify possible cases of political corruption, including one that makes it easier to request information that would normally be difficult to get hold of.

The facts in the Denison case are complicated, and it's difficult to tell whether the attorney's complaints about judicial corruption really meet the test for «public figure» defamation (meaning they must be made maliciously or with reckless disregard for the truth).