Sentences with phrase «hold by the corruption»

Any possible campaign that Dean Skelos might have planned to run for governor has now been put on hold by the corruption trial.

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Mr. Najib has held fast, denying the corruption allegations and saying the $ 681 million payment, reported in July by The Wall Street Journal, was not improper.

Reconstruction here has been held up by bureaucracy and corruption, while billions of euros were spent on unpopular housing projects, or «new towns», with rows of identical dwellings built on special quake - proof platforms.

Browder said that to protect the vast amounts of money, some of which he said was in American banks, Putin launched a campaign to repeal the Magnitsky Act, a U.S. law that imposed sanctions on Russian officials whom the U.S. held responsible for the 2009 death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Russian jail after being retained by Browder to investigate corruption.

A Resurrection of his physical body, such as is implied by the empty tomb and by some of the stories in the Gospels of his appearances, would point towards a docetic Christ who does not fully share the lot of men; unless, indeed, bodily corruption were to be regarded as being bound up with the sinfulness of man which Christ did not share (but, unless we accept an impossibly literalistic interpretation of Genesis 3 as factual history, it is impossible to hold that physical dissolution is not part of the Creator's original and constant intention for his creatures in this world).

What we're facing in this country is an administration characterized by unprecedented levels of authoritarianism, dishonesty, incompetence, and corruption, and a legislative branch unwilling to hold the president accountable.

We sigh under the burden of our own imperfection, we are shamed again and again by the corruption the old Adam ever holds between us and the new life.

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Our wicked society is so determined not to be discovered for what it is that it stands unflinching as its very life and vitality is ripped apart by the sins and corruption it holds so dear.

They have alluded to the time that Mr Turnbull's predecessor Tony Abbott asked the Senator to briefly stand aside while the Independent Commission against Corruption looked into donations to the Liberal Party from Australian Water Holdings - which the Senator was a former senior office holder of and was part - owned by corrupt former Labor kingpin Eddie Obeid.

February 20 — Jack Warner, the most wanted man of all among powerbrokers snared by US authorities in the $ 200 million FIFAGate corruption scandal, has again managed to thwart extradition by having committal proceedings against him put on hold — for another nine months.

We must hold the line against further capitulation to the foul rot in the White House by rooting out the deep corruption in Albany.

A summit on corruption will be held on Thursday in a city that is internationally recognised (by the IMF, among others) as a tax haven.

The push from Senate Republicans comes after Democrats successfully flipped the district on Long Island once held by former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was ousted in December following his conviction on corruption charges.

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.

Despite a corruption scandal among Republicans on Long Island, incumbent GOP Senators apparently kept their seats, and won an open seat formerly held by a Republican.

The second hearing by New York Governor Cuomo's Moreland Act Commission on corruption in the legislature will be held Tuesday evening in Albany.

A commission appointed by Governor Cuomo to investigate public corruption is holding its first series of hearings.

«Although this decision puts on hold the justice that New Yorkers got upon Silver's conviction, we look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history.

The second public hearing held by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's commission to probe public corruption featured testimony from long time government reform groups.

Kim's statement goes on to say, «Although this decision puts on hold the justice that New Yorkers got upon Silver's conviction, we look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history.

The President is by all noble means setting a cardinal dais, diminishing the sturdy hold that corruption has on some major facets; features like money laundering represent in bold relief one of the major ways corruption criminals utilizes to loot the country's commonwealth.»

The special elections on Tuesday for the seats formerly held by Dean G. Skelos and Sheldon Silver, the two state legislative leaders who were forced to depart Albany after being convicted on corruption charges last year, were supposed to be a test of how long a shadow corruption could cast on a race.

Asked whether unified Democratic governance in the state capital would be a net benefit, Cuomo answered in the negative, recalling the period between 2008 and 2010 when his party held the Assembly, State Senate and governor's mansion — a period characterized by infighting, backbiting, chaos and corruption scandals.

Nassau County legislative leaders talk about a new law proposed by majority Republicans on Monday, May 1, 2017, that would bar individuals convicted of felonies involving public corruption from running for county office or holding a county - appointed board or commission seat.

The meeting was sequel to a paper delivered by Magu on Wednesday, November 8, 2017, at the ongoing 7th Session of Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption holding in Vienna, Austria.

Mayor Bill de Blasio held a short press conference this afternoon to defend himself against allegations made by a witness in the Norman Seabrook corruption trial.

O'Mara said all politicians were hurt by corruption, and other Republicans have noted that Democrats, too, have been convicted and they made none of the changes they are currently promising when they held the majority in 2009 and 2010.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo called the special election — held on the same day as the closely watched New York presidential primary — to fill the seat left vacant by Silver, who represented Lower Manhattan for 35 years before he was found guilty of corruption charges related to two separate bribery schemes.

«On July 31, 2009, I was indicted by a Bronx County Grand Jury for committing perjury in a 2008 civil matter, held prior to my election to the Assembly... Thereafter, I agreed to cooperate with the Bronx District Attorney's Office and, later, the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, in conjunction with various investigations aimed at rooting out public corruption,» Castro said.

«Although this decision puts on hold the justice that New Yorkers got upon Silver's conviction, we look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history,» he said.

The seat was held by former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver until last year, when he was ousted following his conviction on corruption charges.

According to the Ghana Integrity Initiative, the African Automobile cars left to rot at the Institute of Local Government Studies even after the Judgment Debt Commission has concluded its work and some indicted officials by the Commission still holding public positions shows that the country has not put in enough effort and commitment in tackling corruption.

The minority conference is eyeing the seat currently held by former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who is on trial this month on corruption charges alongside his son Adam.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari speaks after British Prime Minister Cameron opened the international anti-corruption summit Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari speaks after British Prime Minister Cameron opened the international anti-corruption summit Photograph: POOL / Reuters Cameron called corruption «the cancer at the heart of so many of the problems we need to tackle in our world» and said tax - dodging holds back growth and undermines security by making poorer citizens more vulnerable to «poisonous ideology of extremists».

Assembly Democrats on Friday evening released a package of ethics and campaign finance reform measures including limits to outside income, while holding out for negotiations for a constitutional amendment for pension forfeiture by public officials convicted of corruption.

The requests by Mr. Skelos, 68, a Republican from Long Island who forfeited his Senate seat upon his conviction, and his son, 33, come less than a month before both are to be sentenced on April 13 for their convictions in one of the two most prominent public corruption trials to be held in New York City in decades.

For the first time in 20 years, real solutions to end government corruption begin by voting «yes» on Election Day to hold a constitutional convention.

Meanwhile, the Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, has urged the police to work hard to correct the largely held perception of corruption held against them by the public.

According to the former president, corruption must be dealt with completely by holding both present and past government appointees accountable.

«In our commitment to assist this government to fight corruption, we must stand on our feet that every spirit of our law must be obeyed by those holding public offices.

He thus called on the president to «show that he is serious about corruption» by holding someone accountable for the launch of the $ 2.5 million digital addressing system.

«Certain Nigerian leaders, having been blindfolded by corruption, assume the possibility of using money in manipulating the national security agencies to intimidate, suppress and hold down certain ethnic nationalities or playing one ethnic nationality against the other with a view to undermining the constitution and perversely upturning the rule of law.

McGrath this month was picked by Nassau County Republicans to fill the vacant Senate seat held by former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was convicted on corruption alongside his son Adam in December.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said the seat held for more than two decades by former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver before his corruption conviction Monday will be filled in a special election on the day of New York's presidential primary next year.

Yuh - Line Niou won a six - way race on Tuesday for the Democratic nomination to inherit the State Assembly seat once held by Sheldon Silver, in a repudiation of the stubborn grip Mr. Silver held on his Lower Manhattan district for four decades — held, that is, until his conviction late last year on federal corruption charges.

Cuomo called the election — held on the same day as the closely watched New York presidential primary — to fill the seat left vacant by Silver, who represented Lower Manhattan for more than 35 years before he was found guilty of corruption charges related to two separate bribery schemes.

Azibaola and his wife, Stella, were arraigned alongside their company, One Plus Holding Limited on a seven 7 - count charge bordering on money laundering, criminal breach of trust and corruption by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

But in the state Senate, where Democrats are hobbled by a redistricting plan drawn by Senate Republican lawmakers (and signed off on by Cuomo) and the poor image of dysfunction and corruption from their time in control, the minority conference still holds out hope that the presidential election year will help put them over the top.

Well, he has to show concrete proof of how this is happening before the charge can hold water, not by merely pointing to a refusal of the agencies to turn in files of the corruption cases they initiated.