Sentences with phrase «fraud scandals of»

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After allegations of phone hacking, fraud and general nastiness surfaced at its highly - profitable News of the World newspaper, the company decided that the best way to starve the scandal of oxygen was to shutter the 168 - year - old muckraking juggernaut.

By game time, all of that was forgotten, as was the shameful number of concussions to student athletes, the academic fraud, the rash of criminal behaviour and countless other scandals that continue to swirl around U.S. college football.

The same could be said of uniquely Canadian scandals where fraud was suspected (notably Bre - X and Livent) and where the investigations dragged on for years.

Ultimately, UNC said the academic scandal fell short of its standards but did not constitute academic fraud.

Investors may be dismayed by the headlines — on Tuesday Arthur Porter, former head of SNC's building project McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), was arrested in Panama on fraud charges — but analysts do not see the scandals harming the company in the long term.

He sent a certified letter about the practice in 2006 to Carrie Tolstedt — the bank exec who oversaw the fraud and retired weeks ahead of the scandal with a $ 125,000,000 bonus — and held onto the receipts.

Former Volkswagen Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn has been indicted on charges of conspiracy and wire fraud for his alleged role in the emissions scandal.

For years, web 2.0 gambling was plagued with fraud and scandal equating to a small community of merely 5 % of the 100 million + players worldwide.

The fact that we are being regaled almost weekly with stories of banking fraud and scandals suggests just how unsteady credit in China has been.

When news broke in 2015 of Volkswagen's massive diesel emissions - cheating scandal, Hagens Berman was the first firm in the nation to file suit against the automaker for its egregious fraud, going on to represent thousands of owners in litigation and take a leading role on the Plaintiffs» Steering Committee that would finalize a $ 14.7 billion, record - breaking settlement for owners.

The key to understanding the manipulation of the gold market, this enormous scandal and fraud, is that it can be compared to a murder trial.

FILE - In this Friday, March 1, 1996, file photo, Michael Milken, the famed ex-junk bond financier who once was at the center of the biggest Wall Street securities fraud scandal, poses for a photo while visiting the UCLA Nutrition Research Laboratory in the Westwood area of Los Angeles.

From click fraud to misreported video viewability to relying on outdated metrics, our industry has experienced its fair share of data scandals.

A greater integration of faith and life will help us increase in integrity and purpose, and will help avoid the scandals, where even Christians, who by trying to compartmentalise their faith from their work, can become involved in fraud or the exploitation of workers.

Of course it is a real leap from sex scandals and bureaucratic mismanagement to the argument that the Catholic Church will go to murderous lengths to stifle evidence that contradicts its teaching, and that the church's highest officials do this cynically, knowing that the faith is a fraud.

They have attempted on hundreds of occasion that lack of subservience to US sovereignty by repeatedly harbor known criminals in an attempt to avid the scandal of their prosecution, They also engage in ongoing financial fraud denying Americans their rightful revenues, and exploiting their own members.

The recent Brazilian beef and horsemeat scandals highlighted the vulnerabilities in supply chains of food products, the group continued, and in general, the longer and more complex the supply network, the greater the risks of food fraud.

Ahead of its AGM on Wednesday, the jury is still out for investors questioning its response to a wage fraud scandal.

Since the wage fraud scandal broke in February, its shares have fallen sharply and questions have been raised about the profitability of franchisees.

The horsemeat scandal of 2013 was a case of fraud — the substitution of meat such as beef in processed products with a cheaper and unlabelled alternative — horsemeat.

This made it virtually impossible to estimate the dollar size of the wage fraud scandal.

Saunders added Mars's recall was different from the problems at VW, where dishonesty and fraud were involved, and the horsemeat scandal, where dishonesty and a wide - scale failure of the supply chain were to blame.

The recent horsemeat scandal highlighted the potential scale of mislabeling and fraud in the food industry.

Callaway has sexual assault, drug possession (regardless of your view of marijuana) and a felony credit card fraud scandal.

Although Johnson himself was cleared of criminal wrongdoing, he was fired in the wake of an academic credit - laundering scandal that led to the conviction of three of his assistants on federal fraud and conspiracy charges.

We knew a report was coming, but the details of the Wainstein report on the North Carolina academic fraud scandal were even more shocking than most expected.

Unfortunately for de Blasio, Silver is embroiled in a bribery and kickback scandal as he now faces five counts of corruption and fraud.

Touching on the fraud allegations made by Mr Mahama, he said his government mounted a strong defense for the bus branding scandal and believes that the former president is better of not wading into such territories.

But while the voting process itself has been described as fair by most international observers, the political campaign and the actual counting of the votes — no doubt the most important part of the democratic election process — has been characterized by the abuse of power, the excessive role of money, extraordinary events such as power cuts in the polling stations, fights between party representatives, accusations of fraud and scandals in denying observers access to polling stations.

And Derek Draper and Damian McBride have been creating it in large quantities, and they're by no means the first or the most obvious examples, given the loans - for - peerages scandal, various bits of chicanery around the Iraq war and subsequent investigations (e.g. David Kelly), ministerial expense fraud (or at least it would be fraud if you or I tried the same thing on our tax returns), pretty much anything to do with Peter Mandelson and the various leaks, briefings and spin cycles that have characterised the Labour party for the last fifteen years.

Postal voters in the scandal - hit London borough of Tower Hamlets are to be closely monitored as part of new pilot schemes designed to stamp out electoral fraud, a government minister has said.

Rob Astorino is asking US Attorney Preet Bharara — already probing Gov. Cuomo in the Moreland Commission scandal — to widen his investigation to include a widespread «pattern of fraud» involving Cuomo's newly created Women's Equality Party.

A joint probe by Schneiderman and Connecticut AG George Jepsen into whether their states incurred losses as a result of interest - rate manipulation by banks in the LIBOR scandal could lead to civil enforcement action, including possible breaches of antitrust and fraud laws.

Sheldon Silver was convicted last week on all seven counts of honest services fraud, extortion and money laundering that he faced over five weeks of trail in Federal District Court in Lower Mnahattan — becoming the latest New York politician convicted in a corruption scandal tied to real estate interests.

The article, entitled «EXCLUSIVE: Minister Adeosun, Saraki, Dogara, Accountant General in N10 billion fraud scandal», in its style, substance, and deliberate spin struggles to connect the Senate President to the receipt and apportioning of funds which the publication describes as «illegal.»

Amid a push to clean up Albany following a series of scandals that rocked the Senate and Assembly — including the convictions of both legislative leaders last year — as well as ongoing corruption probes into economic development spending in upstate New York, most voters, 56 percent to 27 percent, believe the measures approved in June won't lead to a significant reduction in fraud and corruption.

The prime minister has committed «seven mortal sins» that have degraded politics, Sir Alistair continued, including; the cash for honours scandal, his alleged disregard for cabinet government, the «shocking political interferenace» in the fraud investigation of BAE's arms deal in Saudi Arabia, his dismissal of concerns over postal voting, the handling of investigations in ministerial disconduct, an «undue reliance on spin», and «politicising» the civil service.

Seabrook was arrested on fraud charges last week, accused of accepting a $ 60,000 bribe — reportedly delivered by Jona Rechnitz, a de Blasio donor at the center of a gift - for - favors scandal in the NYPD — in exchange for investing COBA money into a risky hedge fund.

The expenses scandal of 2009 demonstrated that public opinion can be raised to boiling point over parliamentary misbehaviour, but little distinction was made in the media between serious fraud and accidental claims for single portions of dog food.

This area has seen perhaps the two worst corruption scandals of Labour history - the Poulson scandal of the late 60s and early 70s, and the Donnygate affair of the 1990s, which saw at least 21 Doncaster councillors convicted of fraud and other crimes.

Tierney is also in the midst of a scandal involving his wife's role in an illegal gambling operation, which led to her tax fraud conviction in October 2010.

One political operative said Castro's resignation is a serious blow to the legislative hopes of Dominicans, especially for the community that is still licking its wounds after the 2009 corruption scandal saw City Councilman Miguel Martinez imprisoned for five years after facing fraud charges.

In the following year, Jarvis was elected to serve as Labour MP for Barnsley Central, replacing Eric Ilsley, who stood down after being convicted of fraud for his part in the MPs» expenses scandal.

Though the GOC is said to be investigating the matter which has caused hue and cry in the country, the Minority MPs want full scale independent investigation to establish the extent of fraud and identify personalities involved in the scandal.

CITY HALL — The project manager of the scandal - plagued CityTime project has been fired for padding his timesheets, City Comptroller John Liu announced Wednesday, marking the latest controversy surrounding the new automated payroll system designed — ironically — to prevent timekeeping fraud.

Scandals: Gatling has come under fire for her ties to former district attorney Charles Hynes, whose tenure was marred by accusations of fraud and wrongful convictions.

Discover caught up with Baltimore on his final presidential vacation at his second home near Missoula, Montana, where his plans to fly - fish were interrupted by our questions about the future of AIDS prevention, the usefulness of stem cell research, and what really happened in the most famous fraud scandal prior to this year's South Korean stem cell debacle.

You had to resign from the presidency of Rockefeller University after only one year because of the fraud scandal.

Several new regulations and laws, such as the Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002 — put in place after the Enron scandal — required banks and other major corporations to better manage risk and address fraud.

► Ryoji Noyori, who won the 2001 Nobel Prize in chemistry, «plans to resign as president of RIKEN, the network of Japanese national labs that has spent much of the past year embroiled in a fraud scandal,» wrote Dennis Normile at ScienceInsider earlier today, drawing on Japanese news reports.