Sentences with phrase «focus on the corruption»

The 6th Global Focal Point Conference on Asset Recovery in New Delhi stated that Interpol officers have been assigned to focus on corruption and all the crimes that are going on under the name of Dark web and bitcoin.

DeFrancisco, meanwhile, kept the focus on the corruption trial of Joe Percoco, the former close aide to the governor who is accused of fraud and bribery.

In responding, Senate Democratic spokesman Michael Murphy focused on corruption issues in Nassau County, calling McGrath a «Skelos clone.»

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani (right) thinks it's in Dean Skelos» best interests to step aside so he can focus on his corruption case.

In March, Schneiderman hired Howard Master as a senior enforcement counsel, who will directly focus on corruption issues regarding the White House.

Mr. Kaminsky — who is Mel Brooks's great - nephew — may be finding that a relentless focus on corruption, despite its consistent ranking in the polls as a top voter concern, can go only so far.

Opening prosecution arguments in the Joe Percoco trial naturally focused on corruption, but the drama also spotlights the awkward fact that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's «job creation» programs seem to produce...

The organization is focused on corruption cleanup, and they think that Serino is too indebted to donors and interest groups rather than to her constituents.

All these people are there to prey and devour any semblance of innocence for their own gain, focusing on the corruption of spirit and not body.

Stephen Friedman Gallery has announced a new solo exhibition of new works by Yinka Shonibare, MBE.This exhibition of all recent works focuses on the corruption, excess and debauchery that have in part led to the current economic crisis.

Global Witness's work has focused on the corruption that allowed the Kyrgyz economy to fall into the hands of a few powerful individuals, with the help of a network of international shell companies.

This analytical report focuses on corruption risks involved with adaptation and REDD +.

WJP Executive Director Juan Carlos Botero will speak at the World Economic Forum on Latin America on April 7, 2017, on a panel focused on corruption

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Two, make charitable donations, both to humanitarian groups as well as to groups that are focused on issues like good governance and fighting corruption.

His research interests include the areas of corporate governance and corruption as a constraint on business activity, international legal reform and business ethics in the developing world with a focus on the Middle East, and covenants not to compete as an obstacle to employee mobility and knowledge transfer.

Mr. Page, a former Merrill Lynch banker who founded an investment company in New York, Global Energy Capital, drew attention during the summer for a speech in which he criticized the United States and other Western nations for a «hypocritical focus on ideas such as democratization, inequality, corruption and regime change» in Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union.

In the seventeenth century, phenomena such as the environment and the humors became substitutes for original sin in explaining the peculiar tendency to perversity within humankind, but with the loss of corporate corruption and corporate culpability, the focus on sin began its slow shift to sins, individually committed and individually suffered.

He told gathered crowds that at his hospital, doctors and nurses must focus on children and not fall prey to corruption.

John Hinman, in Spirited Magazine (online), continues his review of the regulatory focus on alcoholic beverage industry in Inside Beverage Law: The Corruption Chronicles (Part 2).

After that, not a lot happened policy-wise for weeks as attention turned not to post-budget issues, but to the growing corruption scandal surrounding the governor's key upstate economic development program, the Buffalo Billion, which has focused on lobbyist Todd Howe and former Cuomo aide and confidant Joe Percoco.

The jury in the Joe Percoco federal corruption trial resumes its work today, after appearing to focus much of its attention last Friday on the low - show job given to Percoco's wife, Lisa, by a Maryland - based energy company, Competitive Power Ventures, which is behind a controversial new power plant in Orange County.

It will be tempting to retreat into comfortable platitudes, or ignore domestic corruption and focus on the results of the Anti-Corruption Summit.

Bawumia is unfazed by such things; he is focused on speaking on the ills of this economy, providing alternative solutions and exposing Mahama's incompetence and the corruption in the NDC government.

He cited reforms involving fiscal responsibility and discipline, addressing corruption and unresponsive bureaucracies, focusing on the productive sectors of the economy, and improving the business environment, Ghana with these reforms, according to President Akufo - Addo, «is a land of opportunity for private capital.»

Kaminsky has focused heavily on corruption and ethics issues during the campaign to replace Skelos, a key race that could put the narrowly divided Senate in play.

His campaign has focused heavily on ethics and anti-corruption measures, a theme that he hopes resonates with voters after the ouster of disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was convicted on corruption charges in December.

Quid showed that while the media narrative was focused on corporate control and Washington corruption, people were talking about fairness, diversity of public voices and what it means to be American.

Nevertheless, failing to adopt efficient solutions for high - level political corruption and focusing exclusively on administrative corruption, as did the previous government, will not sit well with the Bulgarian population.

But even as lawmakers sought to stake out a focus on policy, the broadening corruption investigations into the Buffalo Billion economic development project, former Cuomo aide Joe Percoco and, in New York City, an inquiry into Mayor Bill de Blasio's fundraising activities, have provided more than monkey wrench into Albany's cogs.

While he has focused on topics close to his heart, such as disability rights, motivated by the lack of representation for those like his daughter who have Downs Syndrome, he has also long been a fierce critic of corruption, especially in connection to the 2014 World Cup held in Brazil.

The city comptroller campaign of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer released a Spanish - language TV ad today that focuses his heavily on low - income workers and his cursade against Wall Street corruption.

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.

Note: I tried other datasets than CPI but seems most (e.g. Defence corruption risk index) exclude Israel, either specifically or because they focus on OECD.

In May, the governor's multi-billion-dollar economic development programs will be the focus of a corruption trial centering on the former head of those programs, former SUNY Polytechnic President Alain Kaloyeros.

The Democratic candidate focuses on transit woes, school funding, corruption in Brownsville speech.

Many proposals to «fix corruption» focus on creating a taxpayer - funded campaign finance system, similar to New York City's, and do not address changes necessary for true reform and parity amongst all parties impacted by elections.

The government focused on an almost two - year period from April 2011 to March 2013 as the foundation for its corruption charges.

Malliotakis sought to focus attention on recent testimony of de Blasio donor Jona Rechnitz in the federal corruption trial of Norman Seabrook, in which Rechnitz said he donated large amounts of money to Mayor de Blasio in exchange for special treatment.

Democrat Eric Schneiderman has hired one of the top public - corruption prosecutors under former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to focus specifically on issues involving the Trump administration.

While the New York attorney general's office does sometimes investigate public corruption, it often focuses on acting as the attorney for state government agencies in civil matters.

Steven Greenberg, a pollster with the Siena Research Institute, credits the recent Republican bump in the polls to the fact that voters have only recently begun to pay attention to the races, just as allegations, including a damning Inspector General's report, have emerged putting the focus on Democratic corruption in Albany.

We want to expand the commonly accepted definitions of corruption so that they no longer focus only on narrow aspects of the problem such as bribery.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has not held any public appearances since a potentially damaging New York Times story that reported that his top aide interfered in a corruption probe when it focused on Cuomo donors.

But with voters focused on the issue of public corruption, after indictments of key officials including County Executive Edward Mangano, the candidates have said less than usual about the central issue in past campaigns: How to cut high county property taxes.

Macdonald arranged for this evidence to be turned over to the Met, which led to their opening in July 2011 of Operation Elveden, an investigation focused on bribery and corruption within the Met's ranks.

«Even, at the end of the day, if there is no conviction here [Cuomo] is going to have to deal with a continued focus on public integrity and corruption issues.»

Her campaign says Monday's event near the state Capitol will focus on Cuomo's state budget proposal and chronic government corruption.

Commission co-chair William Fitzpatrick has since accused the Legislature of «systematic corruption,» and Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday said he was «guilty» of joining New Yorkers in wanting to see the commission focus its energies there.

Reform groups are focusing attention on Governor Andrew Cuomo's anti corruption commission's recommendations to beef up the anemic State Board of Elections but say they have not given up hope of public campaign financing for state wide races.

The European Union (EU) says it will donate $ 23 million (N9.9 billion, on a four - year programme that would focus on tackling corruption in Nigeria.