Sentences with phrase «many powerful politicians»

Yet his flight led to the removal and subsequent sentencing to life imprisonment for corruption of Chongqing's leader, Bo Xilai, formerly one of China's most powerful politicians.

The hectoring of three global giants in the world's largest manufacturing industry by the most powerful politician sent shudders through head offices from Japan to Detroit to Ontario.

You are making it needlessly hard, or are perhaps just plain too stupid to understand such a simple fact as: there's no point debunking myths that virtually no one and no one at all with any real clout believes in anyway, but MUCH point in debunking myths that large numbers of people, including powerful politicians, believe should be the guiding principles for the country's entire political culture and laws.

``... the combination can not fail», the Presidency's fourth most powerful politician said in a room that rippled with applause.

Silver, who for years was one of the most powerful politicians in the state, was «blinded by greed,» Assistant U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in opening statements.

Critics accuse Vucic, who remains the country's most powerful politician, of being a populist authoritarian who has clamped down on media freedom.

If successful, Lammy would become one of the most powerful politicians in the country, with a # 17 billion budget and a huge international platform.

NEW YORK (AP) A jury has convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

The office of the two most powerful politicians in New York are under subpoena.

This afternoon, the Liberal Democrat's most powerful politician will take to the stage.

If the sentencings of two ex-house leaders of one state weren't enough, now New York's two most powerful politicians are under the microscope.

Mr. Skelos is hardly the first powerful politician to make the pilgrimage to Brooklyn's kosher soup kitchens, but he is the most notable Republican to do so in recent years, demonstrating a new reality that a swath of heavily Democratic Brooklyn and Queens is ready to vote for candidates who belong to the same party as Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.

The power of Mukerjee's telling of this man - made famine that killed — following Amartya Sen's analysis of famine mortality — around 3 million people, lies in the formidable marshalling of a wide range of data, from cabinet meeting records and papers of powerful politicians and officials to interviews in Bengal villages with survivors of the famine and militant rebels against the Raj.

«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.

For powerful politicians and the big businesses they court, getting around New York's campaign donation limits is easy.

He's the most powerful politician in the state and his embrace of the concept «immediately makes it viable,» said transit advocate Jon Orcutt.

Prosecutors say the 74 - year - old Silver earned $ 4 million illegally in fees for his work on behalf of a cancer researcher and real estate developers who stood to benefit from his clout as one of the three most powerful politicians in New York state government.

Prosecutors had accused Silver, for two decades one of the most powerful politicians in New York, of abusing his office for years.

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.

Silver, who was one of the most powerful politicians in New York for two decades, was also required to repay $ 5.18 million and will be fined an additional $ 1.75 million.

One of the state's most powerful politicians badgered companies reliant upon his legislative support to funnel more than $ 300,000 to his son, a prosecutor told a jury at the start of a corruption trial Tuesday as defense lawyers countered that she was trying to criminalize a typical father - son relationship.

MANHATTAN — Icons of the civil rights movement, the city's most powerful politicians and hundreds of regular New Yorkers jammed into Riverside Church in Morningside Heights Wednesday to pay their respects to Harlem's Percy Sutton, who died last month at the age of 89.

Had a constitutional amendment been approved in 2013, said Stec, the discussion now would have been to determine how the legislation would apply stripping one of the state's most powerful politicians of his benefits.

Dean Skelos is the latest in a series of powerful politicians whose convictions unraveled because of a recent Supreme Court decision.

Governor Andrew Cuomo may be the most powerful politician in the State of New York, but that doesn't mean he can't embarrass his kids just like the rest of us.

A lawmaker who was one of New York's most powerful politicians has been convicted by a federal jury of charges that he used the power of his office to earn $ 5 million illegally.

This is a case about a powerful politician who betrayed those he was supposed to serve to line his pockets,» she said.

Brady is the most powerful politician on the list, as his role as chair of the 1922 Committee makes him the keeper of any letters of no confidence in the prime minister from Conservative MPs.

A jury convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges Friday, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid years in prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

Silver, once one of New York's most powerful politicians, was sentenced in May to 12 years in prison, along with a fine and forfeiture of more than $ 6 million, after a federal jury found him guilty of a host of corruption charges related to two bribery schemes in which he received millions in kickbacks by trading political favors for money.

Those complaints have, of course, taken down two of the state's most powerful politicians: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who both resigned their leadership positions after coming under fire.

Leaders of the Kings County Democratic Party — the organization former Assemblyman Vito Lopez kept under his thumb for seven years until deposed by scandal — today lamented the once - powerful politician's death this morning.

A longtime friend of state Sen. Dean Skelos testified at the former majority leader's corruption trial Thursday that he couldn't fire the powerful politician's son for not showing up to the cushy job he'd arranged because he feared he'd «have a problem in Albany.»

New York, NY (AP / WBEN)- A jury convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges Friday, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid years in prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

Bharara, of course, is the federal prosecutor whose corruption investigations resulted in the convictions of two of New York's most powerful politicians, ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

In their opening statement in the corruption trial of state Senator Dean Skelos on Tuesday, federal prosecutors painted a picture of a powerful politician who abused his office to benefit his son and co-defendant, Adam.

Silver, 74, is on trial for the second time in three years on charges that he sold his office as one of the three most powerful politicians in the state — along with the Senate majority leader and governor — in exchange for $ 4 million in illegal kickbacks.

In their view, this is not justice denied, and it will only be a matter of time until Silver — «one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history» — gets a just punishment.

Cody testified in Manhattan federal court that Levy introduced him to Silver, and that the then - powerful politician's first investment with his firm was $ 25,000 in January 2007.

Minutes after pleading not guilty to sweeping corruption charges, the once - powerful politician barely dodged another embarrassing fall from grace when he slipped on a mound of ice and barely avoided landing on his butt.

Sheldon Silver, who for years was one of the most powerful politicians in the state, was «blinded by greed,» Assistant U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in opening statements at Silver's bribery trial in federal court in Manhattan.

«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.

Needless to say, sex scandals involving powerful politicians predate the current movement.

Sheldon Silver, an assemblyman who rose from the Lower East Side of Manhattan to become one of New York State's most powerful politicians, was found guilty on Monday in a federal corruption trial.

Silver has been one of the most consistently powerful politicians in New York state, but he is elected not by voters, but individual members of the Democratic conference.

«It was a sudden and highly politicized end to (Bharara's) seemingly apolitical tenure, which was noted for prosecutions of powerful politicians of both parties,» though he had his critics who accused him both of overreach and, at times, an unwillingness to be forceful enough.

In another indication that the world's most powerful politician has few qualms about battling local public officials, Trump again has sued the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser over the valuation of his Trump National Golf Club.

Anthony Bonomo, a longtime friend of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and head of a medical malpractice firm, testified at the lawmaker's corruption trial that he couldn't fire the powerful politician's son, Adam, for not showing up to the cushy job he'd arranged because he feared he'd «have a problem in Albany.»

He claimed too many powerful politicians were «afraid» of the power of newspapers.

Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, once considered one of the state's most powerful politicians, was convicted Monday of charges that he traded favors in exchange for $ 5 million and then lied about it.