Sentences with phrase «financial scandals as»

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As investigators wrap their case against more than a dozen traders involved in the recent LIBOR scandal — which involves executives at Barclays and a growing list of international banks attempting to manipulate the benchmark figure for trillions of pounds» worth of financial contracts — they're revealing a curious fact about how some of the details were leaked in the first place.

Monti was widely credited with tightening Italy's public finances and restoring its international credibility after the scandal - plagued Berlusconi, whom he replaced as the 2011 financial crisis threatened to spin out of control.

On February 9, 2006, after many scandals regarding financial mishandling at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Corzine nominated Robert Del Tufo, the former Attorney General of New Jersey and U.S. Attorney, as chairman of the board of trustees.

Wells Fargo has earned a reputation as one of the financial industry's worst actors in the wake of a string of recent scandals.

Financial markets have not reacted to the latest fall in Abe's support as many investors think he can survive, as he did last year when the cronyism scandals eroded his ratings.

As one financial scandal follows another, it seems the good guys are having a tougher time catching the bad guys.

After a one week scandal, it will be hailed as financial genius and forgotten.

All my friends have left, It's a shame, as we were an active, supportive, faith - inspired community that went down the tubes with the disrespect shown towards women and children, financial scandal, crcxkdowns of authority, etc. from a local to the highest levels.

In part - agreement, part - contrast with Phillip Blond's description of the riots as «libertarian», and Maurice Glasman's view of the socially disruptive effects of neoliberalism, I argue that the riots — in a way not unrelated to the MPs» expenses scandal or the daredevil practices of the financial sector — exemplify a particularly corrosive brand of materialistic libertinism.

Four years ago, Cuomo installed a special reorganization board to run NYRA, which was facing bankruptcy as it became mired in scandal and financial difficulties.

In contrast to their one - on - one televised debates, which have consisted largely of Stringer alluding to the «black socks» prostitution scandal that ended Spitzer's career as governor (and Spitzer countering by pointing to the array of entrenched financial interests who along with Lena Dunham are backing his opponent), the candidates used this forum (co-hosted by Democracy for NYC, Living Liberally, and ACT NOW) to fill out their visions for how the office might be more of a progressive force than it has been under incumbent John Liu, the longshot Democratic mayoral hopeful.

Low - January 11th: Robinson scandal - DUP leader Peter Robinson was forced to temporarily stand down from his role as first minister after the scandal about his wife Iris Robinson's financial and sexual activities with a 19 - year - old broke.

«Did the PDP expect him to come back with sex or financial scandals, or both as they did while in office?»

There are riveting inside accounts of all the key events from 9/11 and the Iraq War to the financial crisis and the parliamentary expenses scandal; and entertaining portraits of the main players as Rawnsley takes us through the triumphs and tribulations of New Labour as well as the astonishing feuds and reconciliations between Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Peter Mandelson.

Since 2001, they have also been joined by a financial crisis, parliamentary expenses scandal and, more recently, seemingly «new» issues such as «Muslim sex gangs».

The banking and financial services industry is being demonised and as with the expenses scandal in Westminster, a few bad apples have tarred the whole system.

Still, Koppell has the endorsement and financial support of Klein's Manhattan colleague Liz Krueger — who is also backing Liu in Queens — as well as Bronx Senator Gustavo Rivera, a hard - charging progressive and relative newcomer who knocked off scandal - ridden incumbent Pedro Espada four years ago.

Pay - Per - View / Video - On - Demand Matthew McConaughey strikes Gold as entrepreneur Kenny Wells in this tale of American adventurism inspired by a true story that became an international financial scandal.

Students at Howard University (HU) have taken over their administration building as a form of protest against the financial aid scandal uncovered at their... Read More

,» «The Big Bucks Behind Charter School Secrecy,» «Financial Scandal and Corruption; The Ugly Charter School Scandal Arne Duncan Is Leaving Behind and As Scandals Plague Charter Schools, Calls for Oversight Grow» becoming increasingly commonplace.

They have been cited for abusive discipline practices, such as suspending 5 - year - olds and violating the civil rights of students with disabilities, failing to serve needy populations, such as English Language Learners and students with disabilities, and even financial fraud, mismanagement and self - dealing scandals.

More school business managers must «aspire» to become senior executives as the rise in multi-academy trusts — and damaging financial scandals — require greater scrutiny of school accounts,...

But just two months ago Philadelphia voted to close two ASPIRA charter schools for their low academic quality, as well as a host of financial scandals and mismanagement issues.

Where it could go wrong VW's diesel scandal will rear its soot - covered head, and though we don't yet know its full financial implications, expect cost - cutting to affect niche products such as this.

For instance, investors saw a couple of weeks ago what can happen to a bank's share price when a «scandal» (such as the upselling news was) hits financial institutions.

The investment is a bet by Baupost's chief executive, Seth Klarman, that Toshiba, which has been rocked by accounting scandals as well as the financial demise of its bankrupt U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse Electric Corp, will stand by its pledge to pay out these claims.

His Haute Bricolage show at Mary Boone in 1999 was by all accounts a financial boon, and exhibitions of his work are usually accompanied by juicy scandals of some kind, whether it is the night Boone spent in jail as a result of his show in her gallery or the outrage that bubbled from his Prada Death Camp sculpture shown in a recent Jewish Museum exhibition.

Today's letter comes from School of Art graduate Amy Davis (BFA «78), on her son's decision to turn down Cooper Union in 2012, just as the facts about the college's financial scandal were beginning to surface.

As a financial consultant to small minerals - exploration companies, he was mindful of how wrong estimates of the size of Borneo gold deposits lay behind the 1997 Bre - X Minerals scandal.

Known now as the biggest journalistic investigation to date, the Panama scandal will surely push for better and more accurate measures on tax minimization in the long term, but for now, Bloomberg states that «in the short - term, this will be accompanied by even stronger resistance to the kind of political unity that is needed in several countries to deliver high growth and genuine financial stability.»

Risk management has been a hot topic in the corporate community for about 10 years, springing mostly from scandals such as Enron, Worldcom and more recently the financial crisis of 2008.

Prior to being called to the Bar, Oberon had experience as an intern at the Financial Conduct Authority, where he worked on the Libor rigging scandal.

We agree that the figures may not look good at the moment and most likely will get worse as we watch more financial institutions take a dive in the next 12 months especially if the LIBOR scandal gets investigated properly (and also who know what else traders can dream up in the next 12 months).

The answer of course, is that that it is not simple, each case must be evaluated on its own merits to determine whether the latest financial scandal was a systemic failure within a financial institution or the devious ways of a master manipulator or indeed as is most often the case, an uncertain mix of both with the heady addition of big juicy bonuses thrown in.

Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg gave a round of interviews Thursday to NBC News, CNBC, the Financial Times, Bloomberg and PBS as the company attempts to recover from the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal.

The law is aimed at overhauling financial regulations as a response to the subprime mortgage scandal and financial meltdown a few years ago.