Sentences with phrase «for outright corruption»
When elected officials have outside employment, it can present opportunities to distort an official's judgment and for outright corruption,» said Assemblyman Dick Gottfried, a Manhattan Democrat who was first elected in 1970.
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This package is a big step toward ending the «public corruption» tax — the extra money our citizens pay for sweetheart deals and even outright criminal behavior in our Legislature.
We feel it's outright disingenuous for a blog of this caliber to promulgate such bullshit about how great Tony Avella and Paul Graziano are without so much as mentioning how many times Tony has been caught up in the universe of corruption: from allowing convicted Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin's to throw him lavish fundraisers, «Avella has served Assemblymember McLaughlin faithfully since he took office in 1992, according to City Limits,» to the favor trading with convicted felon Richard Lipsky, right down to supporting anti-Asian racist Sonny Carson not to mention his personal vendetta against young activists.
The charm and the humor with Liman and Cruise regale us with Barry's adventures, as charming and as humorous as they are, feels kinda inappropriate for a movie about these levels of corruption and outright lawless banditry from the U.S. federal government.
The corruption and graft that have tainted so much of Africa's leadership in the post-independence period are well - known; the misappropriation of funds, outright theft, incompetence, and cronyism that have characterised too many African governments for decades have been often catalogued.
At the moment, the pattern for a blockbuster release seems to be overwhelming positive reviews prior to release, then a slowly building groundswell of disatisfaction followed by a wave of outright backlash, following the patterns laid down by BioShock, Metroid Prime: Corruption, Super Smash Bros and others in the so - called golden year of gaming of 2007.
In her new memoir / exposé «Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington» (Harper), Attkisson unloads on her colleagues in big - time TV news for their cowardice and cheerleading for the Obama administration while unmasking the corruption, misdirection and outright lying of today's Washington political machine.
Likewise, an industry requiring volumes of rules / regulations is obviously responding in kind to the potential for, and outright practice of, by too many of its members, corruption.