Sentences with phrase «of corrupt activity»

Defended a national mortgage company charged with multimillion - dollar violations of Ohio's RICO (Engaging in a Pattern of Corrupt Activity), theft, money - laundering and record - tampering statutes, resulting in dismissal of all state charges within 10 days of indictment.

Despite a steady flow of scientific challenges to its role in weather and climate, coupled with exposure of corrupt activities, it continues to dominate global energy and environmental policies.

Not exact matches

Similarily, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a release, «Russian oligarchs and elites who profit from this corrupt system will no longer be insulated from the consequences of their government's destabilizing activities.»

China's financial system is plagued by unlicensed financial activity and illegal fundraising, thanks to a system of corrupt regulators colluding with wrongdoers, said Xu Jia'ai, the newly appointed head of discipline at China's central bank, this week.

There can be no doubt left that the Canadian government has taken seriously the criticisms levied against it by the OECD for not actively enforcing the CFPOA, and now intends to improve its international reputation by actively combating foreign bribery and corrupt activities of Canadian nationals and corporations.

This is hypothesized to happen for many different reasons, including a decline in the competitiveness of other economic sectors (caused by appreciation of the real exchange rate as resource revenues enter an economy, a phenomenon known as Dutch disease), volatility of revenues from the natural resource sector due to exposure to global commodity market swings, government mismanagement of resources, or weak, ineffectual, unstable or corrupt institutions (possibly due to the easily diverted actual or anticipated revenue stream from extractive activities).

@JohnQuest — with the prevelance of cellphone cameras and quick posting to sites like youtube these days and all the police brutality and other unlawful activity videos going up on a daily basis involving police, I would be surprised if the percentage of police force that are corrupt, underqualified, discriminatory and just plain stupid is not only a lot higher than 5.0 % but also extends into the higher - ups of the system that are harder to pin - point.

Although the congregation knits itself together by inspired strands such as liturgies, musical programs, and water systems, each by the activity of the same congregation also corrupts its nature and threatens the congregation's own life together.

The undercover Journalist in a two - year investigative piece has established the complicity of some 34 Judges who have been found neck deep in corrupt activities in cases they presided over.

Again, he wondered why President Akufo - Addo who has portrayed himself as an anti-corruption campaigner has allowed his administration to be marred with numerous corrupt activities such as the `' Cash for seat saga, Ghana Post GPS and finance minister Ken Ofori Atta's 2.5 billion bound and also GHS800, 000 for the creation of a website.

Reform advocates are taking exception to remarks made by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who said there is already enough oversight of potentially corrupt activities in Albany.

Reform advocates are taking exception to remarks made by Governor Cuomo, who said there already is enough oversight of potentially corrupt activities in Albany.

In other words, commercial activity and markets themselves were viewed as corrupting of citizens in their relationships with each other by changing their practices, perspectives and mores.

It mentioned Rowland Agambire's Asongtaba Cottage Industry (ACI) and its activities at the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) suggesting there had been a GH cents 47 million case of corruption from the Guinea fowl business, and proceeded to mention Selassie Ibrahim's GH cents 3.6 million Metro Mass bus branding saga, as among the corrupt cases.

As I explained in that article, the cumulative effect of going round the world proclaiming that your nation was corrupt, large sums of money were missing from the country's treasury and declaring that your state's treasury was now «empty»; frittering away scarce foreign reserves through an over-valued currency; absence of policy and substantive governance; and drastically reduced investment, would be to put the economy out of activity!

According to the organization, «The orders sought are necessary to know exactly what happened to the Paris Club refunds, and the release of the information including on a dedicated website would be deemed incidental to the power of the federal government to achieve effective implementation of anticorruption legislation such as the Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Act, which is applicable in all states of the federation, and will not amount to interference with activities within the states involved.»

Nothing makes this more obvious than the APC ward congresses and Local government elections held last week in which there were accusations of vote buying, harassment, violence, parallel congresses, anti-party activities, and corrupt practices.

«Not one single dollar earned by Mr. Banks while a member of the PD or subsequent to his retirement, is any way related to illegal or corrupt activities,» said attorney Benjamin Brafman.

Reform advocates are taking exception to remarks made by Governor Andrew Cuomo, who said there already is enough oversight of potentially corrupt activities in Albany.

Our survey in 2011 of public perceptions of the most corrupt sections of British public life revealed that the revolving door comes a close second in the public's ranking of potentially corrupt activities.

The Gender Minister alleged that Bugri Naabu engages in corrupt activities by collecting monies, goats, cows and other things from people with a promise of getting them the School Feeding programme job.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Republican candidate for mayor Paul Massey brought his message that Mayor Bill de Blasio is «corrupt» to Staten Island on Wednesday, one day after holding his first press conference on the steps of City Hall, lambasting the mayor for the numerous investigations into his fundraising activities.

One of the counts reads: «That you Dr. Raymond Dokpesi and Daar Investment and Holding Company Limited between October 2014 and March 19, 2015 in Abuja, conducted procurement fraud by means of fraudulent and corrupt act, to wit: receipt of payment into the account of Daar Investment and Holding Company Limited with First Bank of Nigeria Plc of public funds in the sum of N2, 120,000,000 from the account of the office of National Security Adviser (NSA) with the Central Bank of Nigeria for the funding of media activities for the 2015 presidential election campaign for the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and you thereby committed an offence contrary to section 58 (4)(b) of the Public Procurement Act, 2007 and punishable under Section 58 (6) & (7) of the same Act».

«Corrupt activity on behalf of our elected officials leaves the public feeling betrayed,» William Sweeney, Jr., a higher - up at the FBI's New York office, said Wednesday.

Obiang and members of his family have long faced investigations of money laundering, and Exxon's activity in the coastal African nation has raised questions of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations.

More specifically, Acemoglu adds, some investors thought politically connected firms would be «less capable of capturing rents,» the revenues flowing from noncompetitive business activity, and would have «less room for engaging in these corrupt activities.»

Corrupt activity of legislators not stopped by the 82 % MALE superintendents across the country make them just as guilty.

I look forward to conquering all of these other activities when I restart my game, even though I'd already done more than half of the hunts and arena waves by the time my save file was corrupted.

Rather than establish that any kind of deliberate corrupting activity took place, it instead ends up pointing a huge finger back to the origins of the smear of skeptic climate scientists.

This version of the spreadsheet does that and more: it also ignores 1950 - 1990 on the ground that the data being used to estimate SAW has been too badly corrupted by human activities in general (as opposed to CO2 alone) to be trusted.

As I noted above, the first half of CET looks a lot cleaner than the second as judged by the Hale band, suggesting that the second half has been corrupted by human activity.

The third statute is the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act («RICO»), 18 U.S.C. § § 1961 - 1968 (Counts 3 and 4), which provides private parties with a cause of action to recover treble damages due to injuries they received from a defendant's unlawful racketeering activity and the government with a cause of action to seek other equitable remedies to prevent future unlawful acts.

SOCAR, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan, is implicated once again in corrupt Azeri activities, the paragon of which is the recent Azerbaijani Laundromat scheme, cited in the Council's own report.»

For those of you in Rio Linda, it means that the public will not believe human activity causes global warming if they learn about problems the IPCC can't explain, and if Gore's big accusation that skeptic scientists are corrupt can't be proven.

In 2015, IGES, with Shukla as its president, fell under congressional investigation for violating non-profit law with «partisan political activity» by «requesting a RICO («racketeering influenced and corrupt organization») investigation of companies and organizations that disagree with the Obama administration on climate change,» according to the House Science, Space and Technology committee.

Governments * are doing * nothing that could possibly affect total CO2 emissions, true, but the public has already spent over the many years, trillion dollars paying for all kinds of idiotic activity which is ** said ** by corrupt / stupid / evil / greedy / fraudent government policy makers to be done for the purpose of reducing CO2 emissions.

New Global Register To Shine Light on Anonymous Companies, a Root Cause of Corrupt, Illegal Activities

In the wake of the Bribery Bill published earlier this year, the UK enforcement authorities, and in particular the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), are demonstrating that enforcement against individuals and companies involved in corrupt activity is high on their list of priorities.

It may seem undesirable, even distasteful, to permit a person who has been implicated in corruption to continue to act in her or his professional capacity without some sort of censure, and certainly the government and professional regulatory bodies must strike a balance between protecting a professional's right to due process and protecting the public from corrupt activity.

And even if you perceive a local practice of engaging in corrupt activity, you have to make sure you comply with the law, not the custom.»

Hopefully, we will see this issue introduced in the debates over Bill 62, and the government will address the presumption of innocence with respect to professionals implicated in corrupt activities in the Bill itself or related regulations.

Kevin LaCroix at D & O Diary has an update on the rising tide of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement activity.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the City of London Police Overseas Corruption Unit have taken significant steps to identify individuals and companies involved in corrupt activity and bring them before the UK courts.

While the Larimar trade has recently been corrupted by malicious actors due to the popularity of the gemstone, the Atlantis Blue Project seeks to use Stellar's blockchain to thwart this activity and restore its balance.