Sentences with phrase «into scandal»

The leaking of Bosworth's post comes two weeks into the scandal over data privacy created by revelations that data - mining firm Cambridge Analytica had improperly gained access to as many as 50 million user profiles.

Which is why they tried to turn the genuinely unfortunate and embarrassing failure of a high - profile cleantech project like Solyndra into a scandal that represented the entire industry.

Meanwhile, two days into scandal, [Heartland Institute's] CEO Joe Bast and the other players at HI have had time to write any number of blog posts, and a fund - raising letter but still... STILL!

The MSMs eventually picked up the stories and their investigative journalists started delving into the scandal to reveal yet many more skeletons, and whipping up a general hysteria among the general public because of the lies that had been told to them in order to justify policies which caused the rape of our countryside with thousands of ugly wind turbines, which caused the numbers of people in fuel poverty to increase by five fold in only a couple of years and which caused many energy dependant jobs to be permanently exported.

A word to beltway pundits and the chattering classes: It must have been fun to breathlessly attempt to turn Solyndra into a scandal, but Americans still aren't buying it.

What began as a middle - school level attempt to spin some overwhelmingly bad press at the sake of the studio's credibility has ballooned into a scandal that links the creators of Everquest to a scummy target of the Mueller investigation.

The murder investigation uncovers a matryoshka doll of corruption: what begins as an open - and - shut homicide case festers into a scandal reaching from deep within the police department to the posh penthouses of the rich and famous.

Harding's story may not be traditional, but it was a natural fit for the frenzied media ecosystem of the early»90s, when made - for - TV movies were more common than prestige awards bait and tuning into scandal did not involve Olivia Pope.

It eventually comes out that Ronit and Esti had a romantic relationship, and Ronit's continued presence threatens to blow up into a scandal as the film bears on.

Sampson's lack of funds has raised eyebrows in the Smitherman camp, with the candidate alleging misconduct and calling for a probe into the scandal - plagued senator's campaign.

Tony Blair could be called to give evidence about so - called «get out of jail free» letters for IRA terrorists after David Cameron set up an independent inquiry into the scandal

Comptroller John Liu, for example, told reporters that he was fine with Mr. Weiner running, but jokingly urged the potential candidate to stay away from Twitter — lest he run into a scandal similar to the one that infamously ended his congressional career in 2011.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo had said that if JCOPE refused to broaden its investigation, he would launch his own investigation into the scandal via special powers granted under the Moreland Act.

A special investigation into the scandal found that though Mr. Paterson and his advisers made errors of judgment in their handling of a domestic violence case involving Mr. Johnson, their actions were not criminal.

He instead focused on his accomplishments in office, presenting a lengthy list of programs and initiatives coupled with a broader claim to have «restored confidence to an organization that had been dragged into scandal.»

A criminal investigation could delay the parliamentary inquiry into the scandal which was agreed yesterday.

Twice he emphasised that the FSA's report into the scandal found the worst abuses occurred in the build - up to the financial crisis, under Labour, calling the report «a shocking indictment of culture at banks like Barclays in the run up to financial crisis.»

It noted that he was widely seen to have panicked into announcing the Leveson inquiry into the scandal.

That system will be based on advice from the firm run by Bart Schwartz, the private investigator Cuomo hired to look into the scandal.

That system will be based on advice from the firm run by the private investigator that Cuomo hired to look into the scandal, Bart Schwartz.

We are only a day or so into the scandal and already the press is pressing for the release of who had dinner with David Cameron in his private apartments at 10 Downing street, as if where you have a post-donation off - the - record dinner with the Prime Minister is somehow important.

In July 2011, following the revelation that the News of the World had paid private investigators to hack into the phones of Milly Dowler, as well as the families of murder victims and deceased servicemen, Miliband called for News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks to resign, urged David Cameron to establish a public, judge - led inquiry into the scandal, and announced that he would force a Commons vote on whether to block the News International bid for a controlling stake in BSkyB.

He said that if the Government did not set up an Investigation into the scandal that he would refer his evidence to the Police.

The announcement came after Novartis was dragged into the scandal over Cohen's payment of $ 130,000 to US adult film actor Stormy Daniels just days before the 2016 presidential election.

The question of what type of inquiry would look into the scandal was fought out earlier at prime minister's questions with Labour pushing for a judge - led approach and the government a parliamentary inquiry.

NYC elected officials looking to curry favor with a the anti-Wal-Mart segment of organized labor rushed to release statements comdemning the retail giant following this weekend's New York Times story that detailed how it had used bribes to win market dominance in Mexico and then shut down an internal probe into the scandal despite its own investigators» recommendation to widen it.

Political parties in Belfast are in dispute over whether to hold a public inquiry into the scandal - which would have the power to compel witnesses to give evidence - or an investigation which would allow Stormont to set the terms and procedures.

His son James, a cloned version of his father complete with push - it - and - I - talk anti-BBC phrases, is slowly coming into the scandal spotlight, as the buffer zone between him and calamity, sometimes referred to as Rebekah Brooks, disintegrates away.

The company will also be carrying out an internal probe to look into the scandal.

But then Driscoll's ministry exploded into scandal.

Some of them said, with regret, that they were convinced his ministry would eventually and inevitably explode into scandal at some point.

They don't sink their teeth far enough into the scandal of their own message.

German regulator Bafin looked into the scandal, saying at the time that the potential precious metals manipulation case could be worse than Libor.

Even as Donald Trump's surprise election may ease pressure from Washington, the arbitration issue injects new life into the scandal and could further tarnish the firm's reputation.

Wells promoted a go - go sales culture that exploded into scandal with the disclosure in 2013 that employees were opening fake accounts to generate bonuses for boosting sales.

Cuomo initially launched investigations into both scandals, but handed them off to former Chief Judge Judith Kaye after his own poll numbers dipped.

The incumbent president is however seen to be fighting corruption by some government members, [134] and a fellow politician of an opposition party, [135] after ordering investigations into scandals.

McInnes delves into scandals related to Peter Toigo and the Expo Lands; the missteps of Minister of Tourism and provincial secretary, Bill Reid («The Blue Box Scandal»), and Hughes» two rounds with Vander Zalm — the first over Fantasy Gardens and the second involving Hughes» defamation suit to rectify Vander Zalm's defamatory comments about Hughes in Vander Zalm's self - published autobiography.

They went down the list explaining how Oakland not only has the highest murder rate and the highest property crime rate but its also has problems with its police force coming into scandals in the past and again just this past week.

Not exact matches

NEW YORK — A private equity firm emerged Tuesday as the winning bidder for the Weinstein Co., the studio forced into bankruptcy by the sexual misconduct scandal that brought down Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.

Hart was on the investigative Senate committee that looked into CIA abuses in the 1970s, and became an outspoken critic of the excesses of the spy establishment — just as Richard Nixon was secretly battling the CIA, the Pentagon, and corporate interests at the time that the Watergate scandal began to undo his presidency.

It zoomed into hydrogen, only to put on the brakes in the mid-2000s after regulators found that Shell vastly overbooked oil reserves, a scandal that prompted Shell to refocus on what it saw as the part of its business that really counted.

VW has skidded into the guardrails at every turn since the scandal emerged.

The FTC's reported investigation into Facebook is the latest development in a scandal involving Cambridge Analytica, which The New York Times and The Guardian in explosive reports over the weekend revealed had access to the information of 50 million Facebook users.

The increased transparency around ingredients ties into Yum's international plans as the company slowly recovers from an expired meat scandal in China.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's appearances this week at congressional hearings delving into the Cambridge Analytica data scandal mark a crucial moment for the company, its users, and the broader public — and it's important that members of Congress use it wisely.

(There's also the little matter of an FBI probe into a possible Heinz insider trading scandal...)

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne went into a 40 - day election campaign facing a Red Sea of troubles: a massive $ 12.5 - billion deficit, several spending scandals and a police investigation that reached all the way to the premier's office.

Defending a newspaper empire amid scandal, splitting a global media conglomerate into two public companies, enduring a high - profile divorce, and struggling to repair frayed relationships with grown children — it's been a trying few years for Rupert Murdoch.

CNBC's Jane Wells looks into golfer Phil Mickelson's involvement in the Dean Foods insider trading scandal.