Sentences with phrase «evidence at the corruption»

Federal prosecutors want to introduce evidence at the corruption trial of a former close aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo that he threatened and intimidated state officials into not leaving the executive chamber, court records show.

Federal prosecutors in a letter to U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni filed Thursday signaled they will present evidence at the corruption trial of a former aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo that a Connecticut lobbyist sought an internship for his daughter at the the energy company linked to the case.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

I have met a few exinmates back in hospitals because they have heard such wonderful potions derided at church or from the pulpit as evidence of modern corruption, comparable to subway rapes or God - is - dead theology.

«From the allegations against the Minister for Energy - designate at his parliamentary confirmation hearings to that against the CEO of BOST, to those against the two deputy Chiefs of Staff; to the claims of extortion against the Trade Minister and to those against the Minister for Special Development Initiatives, they have all been investigated and no evidence has been adduced to suggest mildly the perpetration of any act of corruption,» he noted with pride.

From the allegations against the Minister for Energy - designate at his parliamentary confirmation hearings; to that against the CEO of BOST; to those against the two deputy Chiefs of Staff; to the claims of extortion against the Trade Minister; and to those against the Minister for Special Development Initiatives; they have all been investigated and no evidence has been adduced to suggest mildly the perpetration of any act of corruption.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver dodged a prison sentence in 2015 thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court decision redefining public corruption — but experts said he still faces a mountain of evidence at retrial that he used his powerful position for personal gain.

Saladino said at Tuesday's board meeting the indictments «came as no surprise» and were «simply more evidence of the corruption that plagued our town before I got here.»

The court had, on October 23, at the instance of Metuh issued a subpoena to compel Jonathan to appear in court for the purpose of giving evidence in his trial on an alleged corruption.

As at October, 2017, Government of Ghana had no evidence of corruption or fraud against Ameri meanwhile, it has taken a decision to suspend payment to it.

Ed Cox cited evidence presented at Percoco's ongoing corruption trial showing the former aide using the executive chamber's Manhattan offices more than 60 times from May 2014 to December 2014 when he was running the governor's re-election campaign and was not on the state payroll.

«Public corruption, based on all evidence, appears rampant,» Bharara told the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption at its first publicorruption, based on all evidence, appears rampant,» Bharara told the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption at its first publiCorruption at its first public hearing.

A federal judge said she would likely allow the jury in Sheldon Silver's corruption trial to hear evidence that a doctor at the center of kickback allegations disliked the desposed...

Both agencies acted with official city and state misconduct, and in both cases, honest, credible evidence was repeatedly dismissed and ignored, and so was the corruption that remains to date — where knowingly false statements were made to discredit me (then later completely reversed during oral argument by my accusers), and both the DOI investigators (who appeared at my doorstep many times to collect evidence) and MTA Office of the Inspector General investigators invited me back to their headquarters (more than six times), from 1989 to 2008), and continued to take no action to restore and reinstate my city job, pension and social security contributions.

Prosecutors want to present evidence of Smith's alleged payoffs at his upcoming corruption trial, where he's accused of trying to bribe city Republican leaders to get on the GOP line for mayor last year.

Sheldon Silver's $ 3 million - plus gravy train started rolling when a cancer doctor poached a client for him from another assemblyman who considered the now - tainted speaker a friend, according to evidence introduced Monday at Silver's corruption trial.

Preet Bharara, the United States attorney whose office recently won the corruption convictions of two of New York's most powerful legislators, says that Albany's problems are deep and systemic but that potential solutions are not hard to find: They lie in the nitty - gritty evidence presented at the unprecedented trials.

If for any reason, the promotion is not capable of running as planned, including without limitation, any suspected evidence of tampering or technological corruption or if any portion of the contest is compromised by virus, bugs, worms or unauthorized human intervention, fraud, acts of God, strikes, terrorist acts, criminal acts of third parties, an insufficient number of qualified entries, or any other causes beyond Vital Essentials ®» control which, in Vital Essentials ®» sole opinion, corrupts, threatens or impairs the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of the promotion, Vital Essentials ® reserves the right to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the drawing at their sole discretion.

This was particularly unfortunate given that, on the evidence of «Power, Corruption and Lies,» the group exhibition he cocurated with writer Neville Wakefield at Roth Horowitz last summer, McEwen has a comprehensive

In his case, accusations of self - enrichment peaked at the alleged acceptance of a VIP card for the Art Basel fair — hardly a prosecutable act, though one interpreted by some Austrian politicians as evidence of corruption.

Consider this comparison: if you ran a giant food company which produced a particular product for over a hundred years with no basic complaint against it beyond it not being a staple of a standard daily meal diet, and you found yourself accused in just the last 20 years of both knowing it was cancer - causing and paying dietitian experts to tell the public otherwise — despite the lack of irrefutable evidence of its harm and the total lack of credible evidence that you paid «shill experts» to lie on your behalf — why would you suddenly capitulate to arguments against your product while not raising any concern about the corruption accusation hurled at you?

Kajir found evidence of widespread government corruption that allowed logging companies to act as a law unto themselves, ignoring the terms of the government - issued timber permits, and terrorizing the local communities — at gunpoint in some cases — into signing over their land rights.

In my December 31, 2014 post, I hinted at how an utterly casual drop - in of Ross Gelbspan's central bit of evidence indicting skeptic climate scientists of industry corruption ends up looking like a pre-scripted propaganda tactic.

His client, the former chief of orthopedic surgery at UCLA's Geffen School of Medicine, exposed evidence of corruption and cover - up at the highest levels of the medical institution.