Sentences with phrase «from public scandal»
Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who knows a little something about recovering from public scandal, doesn't think ex-Rep.
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The researcher at the center of the Facebook personal data scandal, Aleksandr Kogan, also briefly had access to public data from Twitter.
You'd think that after the hue and cry of that scandal, the U.S. automobile industry would have learned from GM's financial, legal, and public relations nightmare wouldn't happen again.
The only hint of a public comment from Rob's family since the scandal came in the form of a nondisclosure agreement sent to ABC News by Kim Kardashian's representatives after the network contacted the family for comment following its «Good Morning America» interview with Chyna.
Right from its opening sentence («One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit,») the book's message resonated with a public outraged by a rash of corporate scandals and feeling deceived by the failure of American forces to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
The Stormy Daniels scandal feels like the kind of salacious yet pointless story that distracts the public from the truly important issues of the Trump era.
Facebook has named a new head of U.S. public policy as the company deals with ongoing fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal and increasing pressure over privacy around the world.
In the face of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, reaction from the public has been swift, emotional and intense.
Perhaps fearing a public scandal, from demanding $ 26m to end the identical components of the two bets, the valuation models of the banks magically changed.
«The B.C. Liberal government is mired in scandals where the truth is never uncovered because records were never kept, or they have been hidden from the public,» said New Democrat spokesperson for citizen services Doug Routley.
In the middle of its worst recession in 25 years, BBC also notes that Brazil is also suffering from a record public sector deficit, inflation of over 10 %, and a fragile investor mindset amidst the scandal surrounding Petrobras, the country's state - owned oil giant.
Can shareholders of Bank of America, Citigroup, or JPMorgan learn anything about their potential exposure to the burgeoning LIBOR - fixing scandal from the banks» most recent public disclosures?
BTW did you happen to glance at the first public annual report from the Vatican bank, it did very well profit not prophet wise, but they have still not managed to clear up all the scandals.
An increasing number of news stories are centered on issues rather than personalities; for one thing, there seems to be a shift in the public's attention from personal scandal to issues of campaign financing and contributions.
A letter written by a now - dead Canadian bishop shows church officials knew of se.xual abuse allegations involving a priest before his promotion to a top Vatican post and then discussed with Vatican officials how to keep the scandal from becoming public.
I wrote this book in careful, plodding prose, Corrected every sentence; all was fit For press and public, free from every pose Or literary scandal, every bit Tidy, exact.
(CNN)-- The Vatican expressed rare public anger Wednesday in blasting the leaking of private papers from the pope's apartment, a scandal that observers say lifts the lid on a secret power struggle going on behind the closed doors of the Catholic Church.
CNN: Vatican shows rare public anger over leak The Vatican expressed rare public anger Wednesday in blasting the leaking of private papers from the pope's apartment, a scandal that observers say lifts the lid on a secret power struggle going on behind the closed doors of the Catholic Church.
The passage most picked up in news reports is this: «We urge those Catholic officials who choose to depart from Church teaching on the inviolability of human life in their public life to consider the consequences for their own spiritual well being, as well as the scandal they risk by leading others into serious sin....
Quite apart from the state of a politician's soul and the related question of excommunication, there is the matter of public scandal when prominent Catholics act contrary to the Church's teaching.
The public is ready to move on from scandals and bad press to fall back in favour with frozen.
Sales of frozen hamburgers from major retailers in the United Kingdom plummeted after the horse meat scandal that has deeply shaken public confidence in processed meat in Europe, a consumer research firm said.
If Mayweather's «A» sample tested positive for a performance - enhancing drug on one or more occasions and he was given a waiver by USADA that concealed this fact from the Nevada State Athletic Commission, his opponent, and the public, it could contribute to a scandal that undermines the already - shaky public confidence in boxing.
His Time interview was even more astonishing, as Tiger openly answered questions about his very public divorce from Elin Nordegren following his sex scandal, their current «more open and honest» relationship as «best friends,» and his role as co-parent to their two kids.
British Cycling, which is due to receive # 43m of public funding for the current Olympic cycle and is trying to recover from a series of scandals, published details of the correspondence on Friday evening after the BBC contacted the organisation for a comment, releasing a statement on its website just 10 minutes after providing a response to the BBC.
Foreign infant formula is a highly coveted item in China after a 2008 scandal when tainted infant formula from a domestic provider left at least six children dead and damaged public trust.
Hiram Monserrate turned himself in to federal authorities in connection with the NYC Council slush fund scandal, a commission of his former legislative colleagues, which rarely takes action against one of its own, found reasonable cause to believe that he violated the Public Officers Law by setting up a legal defense fund and soliciting contributions from from individuals and entities that had business interests in his work as a senator.
With probes underway of both the Cuomo and de Blasio administrations, it's an extraordinary time in political scandal — even for New Yorkers, who often swing from apathy to cynicism when it comes to public corruption, said Michael Johnston, a Colgate University professor emeritus.
Considering the fact that the Troopergate scandal, ignited by a scathing report from then - AG Cuomo, sparked the last public debate over the AG's public corruption powers, it's likely a plea to Spitzer's office to further strengthen Cuomo would have falled on deaf ears — to say the least.
She says the expenses scandal of 2009 — when MPs» abuses of the allowances system were exposed — sent public confidence in Westminster into a crisis from which it has barely emerged.
It's an extraordinary time in political scandal, even for New Yorkers, who often swing from apathy to cynicism when it comes to public corruption, said Michael Johnston, a Colgate University professor emeritus.
Addressing Labour's annual conference in Brighton, John McDonnell said it was a «scandal» that PFI deals will see nearly # 200 billion paid to private companies from the public sector over the next few decades.
On the afternoon of 19 July 2011, the HASC took evidence from both holders of the position of the Director of Public Prosecutions, for the period which covered the scandal.
Then - Spitzer Communications Director Darren Dopp, a key source for Elkind's book, repeatedly lied to me in July 2007, when I broke the Troopergate scandal, and was almost indicted for perjury on a referral from the Public Integrity Commission.
Jon Campbell from Gannett News, Rick Karlin from the Albany Times Union, Karen DeWitt of NYS Public Radio and Nick Reisman discuss the ethics proposals being floated in the wake of two corruption scandals.
«Despite all the anger that the expenses scandal has generated, it has sparked active engagement from neither the general public nor non-specialist groups in civil society,» the writers add.
A study of the links between the expenses scandal and different kinds of political reform shows the case for the alternative vote is among those which benefit the least from the public's reaction to the MPs» allowances scandal.
Congressman Vito Fossella's final words before he emerged from lockup two weeks ago, just after his drunk - driving arrest and before the maelstrom of public scandal that would erupt:
DiNapoli has suggested his office should be used as a test - case for public campaign financing at the state level to get out from under the pay - to - play pension fund scandal of his predecessor.
In a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor said; «As it still appears, the statement made by the Federal Government on the Halliburton and Siemens corruption scandals may not be more than another decoy to shift the attention of Nigerians from the selective nature of President Buhari's fight against corruption.»
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer is asking the public for a second chance as he starts collecting thousands of signatures needed to enter the race for New York City comptroller, years after he was caught in a prostitution scandal that culminated in one of politics» steepest falls from power.
The stringent new rules, which come in the wake of the expenses scandal, are likely to provoke further objections from MPs, but all three party leaders have indicated their willingness to uphold them, in a bid to allay public anger over the allowances debacle.
The former chief executive of Barclays, who resigned yesterday morning amid rising political and public anger about the Libor scandal, is expected to offer a robust defence of his conduct when he faces MPs from 14:00 BST.
The bad poll numbers come as The Daily News reports on an email excluded from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics report on the Lopez scandal that suggest Silver was conducting an affair with top aide Judy Rapfogel (the speaker's office called the claim ridiculous).
It's the first public comment from Cuomo on Spitzer's re-emergence on the political scene since he was felled by a prostitution scandal in 2008.
The speech and Stringer drew praise from many in the audience, which included council members, fellow borough presidents and three of his presumptive 2013 mayor challengers: Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, campaign finance scandal - scarred Comptroller John Liu and Quinn, who were seated in the front row side - by side.
«To be candid, this leakage of this audit report has all the trappings of diversionary propaganda by a government that was reeling under considerable public heat in light of the fact that they have [moved] from crisis to crisis, scandal to scandal,» he said.
Her claim heaps more pressure on ministers amid the Windrush scandal, in which some migrants who came to Britain from the Caribbean before 1971 have been threatened with deportation by the Home Office and lost access to public services.
Persons found culpable in the $ 72 SSNIT OBS software scandal must be, at least, barred from ever serving in public office, Vice President of IMANI Africa, Bright Simons, has said.
So soon after the latest cash for access scandal involving Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind, is it really sensible to take cash from the former politician who «enjoys the best contacts that money can buy — as do those willing to pay him for access to those contacts» and is the subject of a new book designed to expose «the private dealings of this very public figure ``, who's made his fortune selling his soul to the oil - rich potentates he mixes with as special envoy in the Middle East and brutal dictators like those of Burma and Kazakhstan?