Sentences with phrase «in corrupt deals»

He said the fall of Fernando Collect de Mello of Brazil in 1992, Albert Fijimor in 2000, Atdala Bucarain of Ecuador in 1997 and others were caused by investigative reporting on their complicity in corrupt deals.

Some officials of SADA were reportedly involved in corrupt deals during its initial years, notably the use of over GHc 250,000 on unapproved and «wasteful» trips to Birmingham, Berlin and Istanbul.

Established papers, such as the Telegraph, debase their content and engage in corrupt deals to protect revenues, blurring the line between editorial and advertising.

Later one of Grant's cabinet members was involved in a corrupt deal.

Not exact matches

Over the next decade, Cohn used his mob connections to smooth the younger Trump's relations with construction unions; inked a stingy prenuptial agreement with Trump's first wife, Ivana; leaned on city politicians to favor Trump deals; traded favors in Atlantic City's notoriously corrupt casino industry; and tried to strong - arm the National Football League into a merger that would give Trump a first - tier team at a fraction of the going rate.

Mr. Navalny became a prominent opposition figure after exposing corrupt deals in government companies, including contracting fraud at the state pipeline operator Transneft that he said cost the company $ 4 billion.

In essence, Denton County homeowners are dealing with a a double whammy of two of the most operationally corrupt systems in the U.S... the Texas property tax system and the Federal ReservIn essence, Denton County homeowners are dealing with a a double whammy of two of the most operationally corrupt systems in the U.S... the Texas property tax system and the Federal Reservin the U.S... the Texas property tax system and the Federal Reserve.

Four out of five respondents agree that Canada's laws for dealing with companies involved in unethical or corrupt corporate practices should be similar to those in other developed countries, so that Canadian companies are operating on a level playing field with their foreign competitors.

These churches do this because their leaders are in fact, themselves wealthy so they'll always pretend like issues such as «gay marriage» are vital issues for the church while ignoring issues like corporate outsourcing thanks to the sweetheart trade deals our corrupt officials pass with bi-partisan support.

Faced with so much violence around me, watching friends die one by one because of either drugs or other bad choices, watching corrupt politicians win local elections, and dealing with the same sort of racism, homophobia, and other things that caused me to flee to Ohio in the first place, it became clear to me that if I stay here any longer, I'll never be able to leave a place I'm so unhappy with.

I find it more likely that it is a case of venal, morally corrupt people abusing their power and influence to shape events in their interests, with, quite likely, a great deal of bias in play as well.

Claim: The use of single - sourcing and non-transparent procurement processes for even, large, capital - intensive, complex, projects has led to billions of dollars being wasted, sometimes in shady deals that suggest corrupt motives on the part of some parties.

Skelos said the IG report «confirms what I said in February, that the initial award of the Aqueduct VLT contract to AEG reeked of favoritism and was a corrupt a backroom deal,» adding:

The general public has in recent times expressed disappointment in the ruling government for the merciless corrupt deals it has engaged in since it wrestled power from the main opposition National Democratic Congress barely eleven months ago.

He called out Teachout for her opposition to the property tax cap, which saved New Yorkers $ 4.5 billion in 2015; her support of an energy tax that would cost families more than $ 1,700 a year; her support of President Obama's disastrous Iran deal and her support for Hillary Clinton, despite calling her «corrupt.»

Gamal and Alaa are charged along with their father over a corrupt land deal, in which they received five luxurious villas at Sharm El - Sheikh said to be worth $ 7 million.

«He will still have to deal with many who argue New York is one of the most corrupt states in the country,» he said.

Hawkins will also speak on the need to end wasteful, corrupt «corporate welfare» and instead devote investment toward an aggressive «Green New Deal» of public works, such as improving mass transit and achieving 100 % clean and renewable energy in 15 years.

First, to deal briefly with the introduction of extraneous matters not forming part of the Commissioner's report and attempts to amend, vary, modify and rewrite the Commissioner's report in some parts, to show that it does no credit to the legal advisors to the Government as it converts them into conduits of a corrupt political elite in Government contrary to their constitutional mandate specifically provided for under Article 88 of the Constitution.

One published report noted that the criminal charges against former Speaker Sheldon Silver contain «vague references to how he sold out tenants the last time the protections expired in 2011 as part of a corrupt deal with a developer.»

He said in dealing with the canker, the government was looking at two fronts — «exposing and dealing with corrupt practices when they come up, to serve as a...

President Jerry John Rawlings is in a position to tell Ghanaians in minute detail what happened between the late P. V. Obeng, the most brilliant and intelligent, and equally the most corrupt Chairman of the PNDC Committee of Secretaries and NDC Government official I have ever dealt with.

Cuomo, a Democrat, said Cappuccilli, a Republican, had corrupted the important cultural institution with graft and backroom deals to his own personal benefit, in part, when he threw his daughters» two weddings at the fairgrounds.

I absolutely believe that their manipulation and corrupt dealing, like removing from a committee the only Republican committee member, disgusted the voters and that it was a major contributor in how the voters of New Hampshire voted in November.

Not real influence — corrupt former Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos described his deal with Klein and the IDC (the same deal they have with current GOP Leader Flanagan) as follows in a wiretapped conversation:

Cuomo is corrupt, his oronies in ever state office have made it so unpleasant for workers, there is no 5 - 10 year plan for state workers who are leaving as quickly as possible not to have to deal with King Cuomo and his thugs.

He said although the country had done well in establishing the needed legal frameworks to deal with corruption, including the Public Procurement and the WhistleBlowers acts, a lot more needed to be done by way of punishing corrupt public officials.

In 2008, another Saudi royal, Prince Bandar, suggested «another 7/7» might be in the offing, unless the Serious Fraud Office called off an investigation into corrupt arms deals implicating several Saudi princeIn 2008, another Saudi royal, Prince Bandar, suggested «another 7/7» might be in the offing, unless the Serious Fraud Office called off an investigation into corrupt arms deals implicating several Saudi princein the offing, unless the Serious Fraud Office called off an investigation into corrupt arms deals implicating several Saudi princes.

«It will be a legal framework which will reasonably give that office holder protection and security of tenure and an appointing mechanism that will produce a Ghanaian of extraordinary integrity in whom we can repose confidence, so that when Minister A from the NPP is caught in corrupt conduct and another person from the NDC is engaged in corruption, both will be dealt with in accordance with the law,» he stated.

In one documented by the Africa Progress Panel, mining rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo were sold for knockdown prices in deals that involved a series of secretly - owned firms in the BVI, leaving it unclear who had benefited from what may have been corrupt dealIn one documented by the Africa Progress Panel, mining rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo were sold for knockdown prices in deals that involved a series of secretly - owned firms in the BVI, leaving it unclear who had benefited from what may have been corrupt dealin the Democratic Republic of Congo were sold for knockdown prices in deals that involved a series of secretly - owned firms in the BVI, leaving it unclear who had benefited from what may have been corrupt dealin deals that involved a series of secretly - owned firms in the BVI, leaving it unclear who had benefited from what may have been corrupt dealin the BVI, leaving it unclear who had benefited from what may have been corrupt deals.

A good deal of that money will be put to use trying to assure we get another corrupt TEAPublican in Skelos» seat.

First, to deal briefly with the introduction of extraneous matters not forming part of the Commissioner's report and attempts to amend, vary, modify and rewrite the Commissioner's report in some parts, to show that it does no credit to the legal advisors to the Government as it converts them into conduits of a corrupt political elite in Government contrary to their constitutional mandate specifically provided for under Artilce 88 of the Constitution.

It's sad that the government could be trying to scare and intimidate me with the EFCC when I was not even involved in any corrupt practice or shady deals.

«This explosive scandal touches virtually every member of the Senate Democrat conference and nearly every Democrat challenger, whether they played a key role in wiring this deal to AEG or accepted campaign contributions from corrupt politicians like John Sampson and Malcolm Smith,» said SRCC spokesman Scott Reif.

We're developing a new Corruption Prevention Strategy to deal with the small number of corrupt staff who allow contraband in our prisons.

He reminded the NPP that it had accused the National Democratic Congress, when it was in power, of «dealing with Zoomlion [which is owned by Jospong] in ways that they deemed were corrupt.»

Politics here in our home state is systematically corrupt, in the sense that self - dealing and lack of accountability are the norm in Albany.

On the fight against corruption, Ms Lamptey said she would apply her professional experience in criminal prosecution law in effectively dealing with corrupt officials.

Robert Culp, Adam Skelos's lawyer, argued that in addition to the senator's arguments, his client's conviction should also be reversed because there was no evidence he actually knew of any corrupt quid pro quo legislative deals to secure the work.

Nichole Beharie as Dee Roberts gives a truly inspiring performance as a mother, living in the projects, who is wrongly accused of drug dealing, and then is caught up in a corrupted criminal justice system that railroads those who have little way of defending themselves against a system created to protect them.

It's effectively directed from a tough script co-written by John C. Higgins, who wrote Anthony Mann's early noirs T - Men (1947), Raw Deal (1948), and Border Incident (1949), and here offers a pretty stark corrupt cop drama that remembers the bad cop was once a good cop and still has glimmers in him.

In these scenes, we witness perverted, corrupt cop McAvoy seeing a man about a dog and getting some drugs out of the deal, and we listen in as he talks about the through misuse and abuse of the office copieIn these scenes, we witness perverted, corrupt cop McAvoy seeing a man about a dog and getting some drugs out of the deal, and we listen in as he talks about the through misuse and abuse of the office copiein as he talks about the through misuse and abuse of the office copier.

New Deal Used Cars, the scrappy underdog, is run by kindly but simple Luke Fuchs (Jack Warden), whose small sales staff includes Russell as corrupt Rudy Russo, Gerrit Graham as superstitious sex addict Jeff, hyper intelligent dog Toby, and clueless mechanic Jim, last seen in Spielberg's 1941.

During his time there he drinks, takes drugs, falls in love, gets arrested and becomes embroiled in corrupt land deals that threaten to wreak havoc on the natural beauty of the island transforming it into a capitalist paradise.

Boyd is subsequently transferred to the worst precinct in Detroit, and discovers himself stuck in the middle of drug dealing thugs and corrupt fellow cops.

Jasmine was always something of a phony, averting her eyes as corrupt deals were hatched on shady verandas in the Hamptons.

Danny Trejo (a Rodriguez favorite) is the former Mexican federalé who turns into a one - man strike force after his family is massacred by a drug lord (Steven Seagal — who can't keep his accent consistent, let alone convincing — as the pudgiest Mexican drug lord yet seen in the movies) and he's framed for the attempted assassination of a corrupt Senator (Robert De Niro) by his drug - dealing campaign manager (Jeff Fahey).

(High - performing faith - based schools in Cameroon, for instance, primarily educate students from wealthy — and likely more academically - engaged — families, and the schools don't have to deal with the corrupt local officials that plague state schools.)

One of the best anime to surface out of the mecha genre, Eureka Seven deals with underlying themes of religious persecution, corrupt militarism, government testing and love that transcends human nature, all to the backdrop of fighting in giant robots.

The game stars Cole Phelps, a beat cop in LA trying to rid the streets of crime while dealing with a corrupt police department and his dark past from his time served in WWII.