Sentences with phrase «number of scandals over»

The board of trustees has overseen an inexcusable number of scandals over the past seven years.

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Why, after a number of Facebook privacy scandals over the past decade, are users finally thinking about why they trust Facebook?

Zuckerberg told the New York Times in an interview published on Wednesday he had not seen a «meaningful number of people» deleting their accounts over the scandal.

Tove Ryding, a tax coordinator for Eurodad, told CNBC she wasn't surprised by Germany's ranking and money laundering risk, given the number of recent scandals involving German banks including Deutsche Bank, which was fined by South African anti-money laundering regulators in February, and saw investigations launched over alleged money laundering for Russian clients in June.

Yet recent scandals over privacy are causing a growing number of people to realize what Apple CEO Tim Cook once said best: «when an online service is free, you're not the customer... you're the product».

The number of new recruits to the priesthood has fallen sharply in the recent decades - and as Ireland has become engulfed in a series of child sex abuse scandals over the past few years.

The Braves turned over their front office and lost a number of prospects to MLB punishment over an international signing scandal, but the farm system is still loaded, and top prospect Ronald Acuña is still in the 2018 plans.

Last spring, after Albany's long season of scandals, plus a battering from the state teachers union over evaluations and Common Core, the governor was on the defensive, his poll numbers falling.

Following the conviction of Abuga Pele and Philip Assibit over the GYEEDA scandal, the MP for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, will, next week, start a chain of events that may result in an injunction at the Supreme Court against the operations of a number of state agencies.

Over the past few years, agriculture and food production in Germany, and throughout Europe, have been severely shaken by a number of food scandals.

The source document, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), has been under harsh scrutiny over the past weeks for a number of blunders, including the Climategate scandal, bogus claims about Himalayan glacier melt, false assertions The Netherlands are drowning, deceptive hysteria over conditions in the Amazon, exaggerations of vanishing polar ice caps, and fraudulent cover - up of Chinese temperature data.

Mr. Placitella's career has been commemorated a number of times in written works, including: Poison Pills, The Untold Story of the Vioxx Drug Scandal, Tom Nesi; Dispensing with the Truth: The Victims, the Drug Companies, and the Dramatic Story Behind the Battle over Fen - Phen, Alicia Mundy; Civil Warriors, the Story of the Tobacco Litigation, Dan Zeigart; No Contest, Corporate Lawyers & the Perversion of Justice in America, Ralph Nader.

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.

It's almost triple the number of suits filed in 2010 over the iPhone 4's «Antennagate» scandal.