Sentences with phrase «in the corruption scandals involving»

NYC real estate developer and mega-donor Leonard Litwin, who made an art of exploiting the so - called LLC loophole and whose company, Glenwood Management, played a big role in the corruption scandal involving former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, has died at the age of 102.

Six Arrested in Corruption Scandal Involving Senator Smith (IDC - Hollis) and NYC Republican Party Chairmen Six individuals have been arrested for their role in a corruption scandal uncovered this week.

The fundraisers continue in Albany, even as legislators there have been ensnared in corruption scandals involving the misuse of money.

Reporters questioned Cuomo on how that could be true when people so close to his administration were implicated in a corruption scandal involving Upstate development projects, people like SUNY Polytechnic Institute President Alain Kaloyeros, the state's highest paid employee.

Not exact matches

After news broke in November 2006 that Siemens had been involved in a global corruption scandal, involving thousands of acts of bribery in several different countries by hundreds of employees, the company had its work cut out for it in complying with securities investigations, and paying hefty fines (about $ 2.5 billion in total).

Prosecutors began to uncover a string of corruption scandals in 2014 and 2015, involving both private and state - controlled companies, like Petrobras, the nation's oil and gas champion, as well as current and former elected officials — namely, the former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The agency asked Medium to take down a post that alleges the country's Prime Minister Najib Razak was trying to exit the country in the midst of a corruption scandal involving him.

Following the race Salo's Wikipedia page was cheekily edited with all sorts of crazy conspiracy theories, such as: «As a steward of the FIA he helped Ferrari by giving Max Verstappen unreasonable penalties,» and «Mika Salo is rumoured to be involved in the largest FIA corruption scandal of 2016/2017.»

Silver's downfall last year was followed by an unprecedented moment in state politics in which his counter part, Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, was also later felled by a corruption scandal involving securing business for his son through official actions.

Lula is under suspicion of receiving illegal payments from companies involved in the corruption scandal of Petrobras, as well as of withholding details of two properties (both largely renovated by corporations investigated in the so - called Car Wash Operation) from the authorities.

Time and time again, parties and leaders involved in corruption scandals or in the mismanagement of public office were rewarded with re-election.

Between being involved in the persecution of Falun Gong and his corruption scandal, Bo Xilai is too controversial to get a satisfactory answer to this question.

Indictments are due by Wednesday in an economic development corruption scandal involving Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former top aide and other former associates.

Gov. Cuomo said Monday voters will just have to trust him to do the right thing when asked why he won't return more than $ 1 million from a real - estate firm involved in two of Albany's biggest corruption scandals.

Several former close associates go on trial later this year on bribery and bid - rigging charges in connection with a corruption scandal involving the governor's signature economic development projects.

The scandal is a hit parade of corruption issues involving money, politics and bribes in exchange for public spending.

He said his outfit had already began interrogating persons believed to have been involved in various corruption scandals in order to establish a «very holistic investigation that will uncover the rot to the core.»

The proposed nanotechnology center in Marcy is losing its main investor after the project has become entangled in the state corruption scandal involving the governor's upstate development programs.

The Press and Sun Bulletin's obit: Libous was a towering figure in Binghamton and his Southern Tier district, who knew how to use his power to accomplish things needed for his district, but laid low by a corruption scandal involving his son.

The scandal involving Percoco — and which featured a trial in which a who's who of Cuomo administration current and former officials testifying or mentioned in evidence by prosecutors — is the most serious to tag someone so close to Cuomo, who rode into office in 2011 pledging to end Albany's notorious reputation as a hotbed of corruption.

The process to replace (Squadron) involves obscure mechanisms that could empower old allies of Sheldon Silver, whose corruption scandal cost him the Assembly speakership two years ago... Voters do not decide who runs on each political party's ballot line in such an election.

Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, which supports many of the measures opposed by Senate Republicans, said there are other reforms that can be achieved with a GOP Senate, and he said a corruption scandal involving Republicans in the state Senate stronghold of Long Island could spur them to action in the new session.

Governor Andrew Cuomo appointed the commission in July following corruption scandals involving several legislators in Albany and the failure of the legislature -LSB-...]

At debates, forums and fairs, and in television ads and mailers, Curran, a Democrat, and Martins, a Republican, frequently have presented ethics reform as their top issue — a response to recent corruption scandals involving top state, county and town officials from Nassau.

Governor Andrew Cuomo appointed the commission in July following corruption scandals involving several legislators in Albany and the failure of the legislature to pass comprehensive reform.

Mr. Tagoe was recently embroiled in the attempts by the government and the Ghana Police to cover up the corruption scandal involving two deputy Chiefs of Staff at Korlebu, Francis Asenso Boakye and Samuel Abu Jinapor.

A federal grand jury has returned a second superseding indictment in a major corruption case involving Joe Percoco, a former top aide to the governor who was snared in a state economic development scandal.

Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, which supports many of the measures opposed by Senate Republicans, says there are other reforms that can be achieved with a GOP Senate, and he says a corruption scandal involving Republicans in the State Senate stronghold of Long Island could spur them to action in the new session.

Since last year, Glenwood has been in the spotlight after it emerged the firm was at the center of corruption scandals involving two of the state's most prominent politicians, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Patience Jonathan's corruption scandal is the latest in a string of cases the EFCC has been involved in since president Buhari took office last year.

Litwin's Glenwood Management Co. has recently been caught up in two unrelated corruption scandals involving former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

CBS2 political reporter Marcia Kramer reported that high anxiety about the burgeoning city corruption scandal drove the City Council to suddenly cut off funds to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which has been involved in sensitivity training for cops and correction officers.

On the 10th, we'll hear all about legislative pay raises, or not, and on the 23rd the eagerly awaited indictments are finally due for most of those involved in the biggest state corruption scandal in memory.

If nothing changes, right now Cuomo is sitting on a scandal where top members of his administration, close to him, are accused in federal complaints of corruption involving many millions of dollars, not a small percentage of which has found its way into Cuomo's campaign war chest.

Reforms of the state procurement process have emerged in the wake of an upstate economic development corruption scandal that involves men with long - standing relationships with the governor.

That year, part of the GOP strategy was to remind voters about the House bank scandal and a stamp scandal involving the powerful Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee as symbolic of the corruption that had infiltrated the Capitol building (even though Republican members had also been implicated in the bank scandal).

Several former close associates go on trial later this year on bribery and bid rigging charges, in connection with a corruption scandal involving the governor's signature economic development projects.

But for the past year, they've been enveloped in a pay - to - play corruption scandal involving some of what were some of the governor's closest advisors.

The corruption scandal at GlaxoSmithKline involving sales tactics in China could have significant fallout for a booming pharmaceutical R&D base.

The story explores the police investigation of the unsolved murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls and the corruption within the Los Angeles police department (the Rampart scandal) which the detective in charge of the investigation Russell Poole (Depp) was involved in.

Simon Clydesdale, Oil Campaign Leader at Global Witness said, «The cash - for - votes racket involving Council of Europe parliamentarians is yet another in a lurid litany of corruption scandals linked to Azerbaijan.

Even in Europe, which has stronger institutions than other regions, carbon trading schemes have been hit by billion dollar scandals involving corruption and speculative trading which does not take carbon out of the air.

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The practice's recent representations include: (i) CONMEBOL in connection with U.S. criminal investigations and prosecutions into allegations of bribery and corruption in the international soccer world; (ii) the Special Committee of Banco BTG Pactual S.A. («BTG Pactual») in an internal investigation of alleged corruption involving its former CEO and other bank executives, in which we found no basis to support the allegations against the Bank and its employees; (iii) two of the largest construction companies in Brazil in potential civil and criminal investigations and litigation involving the Petrobras bribery scandal (Lava Jato), the largest corruption scandal in Latin American history, involving allegations of over $ 2.5 billion in bribes and kickbacks; (iv) the Government of Brazil in a corruption matter involving former senior government officials and multiple jurisdictions; (v) the General Manager of one of the largest energy companies in Central America in connection with allegations of bribery in Guatemala; (vi) a Mexican high - ranking executive for Wal - Mart Stores, Inc. in connection with DOJ and SEC FCPA investigations against Wal - Mart; (vii) a large Argentinean oil company and its owner, one of Argentina's wealthiest individuals, in connection with high - profile DOJ and SEC investigations involving alleged FCPA violations to secure an extension of oil rights in an Argentinean oilfield; (viii) the United State's largest chemical and industrial products companies in an internal investigation of alleged corruption involving its Mexican subsidiary; (ix) the Rosenthal family, one of the most prominent families in Central America, in a number of related criminal matters; and (x) a senior executive of one of Venezuela's largest engineering companies in DOJ investigations into corruption and money laundering involving PdVSA.