Sentences with phrase «low by corruption»

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.

Mr. Cuomo, who dubbed the package of laws the «Clean Up Albany Act of 2011,» hailed it as a groundbreaking step for a statehouse brought low by corruption scandals in recent years.

Not exact matches

Voter turnout was extremely low, in part because the populace was totally disillusioned by the broken promises, ineffectiveness and corruption of Duarte's Christian Democratic government; moreover, the Christian Democrats» candidate, Fidel Chavez Mena, was a lackluster technocrat.

Corruption in China's healthcare industry is widespread, fuelled in part by low base salaries for doctors at the country's 13,500 public hospitals.

The jury in the Joe Percoco federal corruption trial resumes its work today, after appearing to focus much of its attention last Friday on the low - show job given to Percoco's wife, Lisa, by a Maryland - based energy company, Competitive Power Ventures, which is behind a controversial new power plant in Orange County.

In a large population, any corrupt decision by government (using the non-criminal meaning of corruption) has very low relative negative (obvious) impact on random populace member; and very high immediate positive impact on a special interest benefiting from that corrupt decision.

The former Lower East Side assemblyman is undergoing a second trial after the first guilty verdict on corruption charges was nullified by an appeals court.

Even by Albany standards, it was a new low: its two longtime legislative leaders convicted on corruption charges just days apart late last year.

Consider the fact that Feldman, a Democrat, referred to two Republican ex-senators felled by corruption scandals — Vincent Leibell and Guy Velella — «pretty likable» and «very well liked,» respectively, and you get the feeling of just how low Kruger is on the Albany popularity pole.

«Primarily because of grand corruption under successive governments since the return of democracy in 1999, millions of Nigerians continue to live in extreme poverty, a condition manifested by the lack of clean water, malnutrition, high rates of child mortality and morbidity, low life expectancy, illiteracy, perception of hopelessness and social exclusion.»

In testimony during Silver's corruption trial in lower Manhattan, prosecutors produced a document from January 2004, requesting a $ 250,000 grant for a mesothelioma research center out of Columbia University run by Dr. Robert Taub.

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.

Silver's 2015 conviction on corruption charges was overturned last month by a federal appeals court, which remanded the case back to a lower court for retrial.

Russia has unfavorable economic factors - the lack of inter-country navigation combined with out of date technological base combined with entrenched culture of corruption means far more relative expenses and greater friction in economic activity and far lower average standards of living (not exactly helped by 70 years of Socialism; but Russia was economically screwed over by the Czars for centuries before that; and by post-Soviet governments after that too).

There were also special elections yesterday to fill two state legislative seats left vacant by the federal corruption convictions of their former occupants — ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (lower Manhattan) and ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (Nassau County, Long Island).

A federal judge rejected attempts by four of the Buffalo Billion defendants to move next year's corruption trial to Buffalo, keeping the high - profile case in lower Manhattan instead.

Often referred to by colleagues as a coalition builder with a low - key personality, Heastie will be pressured to crack down on corruption in an Assembly still reeling from the Silver scandal.

«A complete lack of accountability» under NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is to blame for a deed lifting to allow a nonprofit nursing home on Manhattan's Lower East Side to be flipped to luxury condos and a $ 72 million profit, according to an investigation released by the city's corruption watchdog.

Working together, we will bring real change to Albany that will advocate for working families by lowering taxes, rooting out corruption, and keeping our communities safe and healthy.»

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.

Governor Aregbesola stated that the nation has been ruthlessly damaged to palpable corruption and low productivity in all sectors of the economy, saying in spite the nation's God - given natural resources, the country had been run aground by the successive administrations.

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.

But after Cuomo won the attorney general's job in 2006, he brought a series of corruption cases, retooled his reputation and lay exceedingly low as his likely opponent, appointed Gov. David Paterson, self - destructed over a scandal broken by the Times.

«A complete lack of accountability» under Mayor Bill de Blasio is to blame for a deed lifting to allow a nonprofit nursing home on Manhattan's Lower East Side to be flipped to luxury condos and a $ 72 million profit, according to an investigation released Thursday by the city's corruption watchdog.

Some intriguing ideas are stranded by an overarching concept that severely strains credibility in this low - budget drama that takes place in a small town in northern California, where an exiled Afghan journalist (Dominic Rains) gets a job as a freelance crime reporter and settles with a local police officer (Melissa Leo)-- the mother of a friend — allowing him to experience firsthand the town's surprisingly extensive web of corruption and violence.

The hard - boiled MGM film of urban corruption, low - life alienation, and claustrophobic, small - time despair was adapted by John Huston and Ben Maddow from W. R. Burnett's novel of the same name.

The state took over the district more than 20 years ago, striving to fix a system it said was mired by corruption, crumbling facilities and low - performing students.

But the damage might be irreparable: thousands of closed schools, worse conditions in those left open, an extreme degree of «teaching to the test,» demoralized teachers, rampant corruption by private management companies, thousands of failed charter schools, and more low - income kids without a good education.

The result is that communities often end up dealing with governments or companies interested mainly in taking advantage of the vacuum created by the culture of corruption to extract as many resources as possible at as low a price as they can.

Interestingly, controlling graft was also highlighted by Venter and colleagues (2016) as a factor influencing why economically growing countries have differential human - footprint outcomes between 1993 and 2009; lower corruption scores and greater urbanization percentages were associated with decreased human influence at the national scale.

Whether it is probing allegations of corruption overseas or something as potentially mundane as a star professional athlete allegedly conspiring with low - level employees to deflate footballs, the public brand of the company is going to be impacted by the quality of the internal investigation.