Sentences with phrase «of alleged scandals»

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The report finds that alleged assaults spiked across all four military branches — with the highest increase in the Marine Corps, which remains embroiled in a scandal in which nude photographs of female Marines were posted online without their knowledge.

Those include a shareholder lawsuit before a court in the German town of Braunschweig that alleges company officials were too slow in disclosing the scandal, depriving investors of information they needed to make decisions about their holdings.

China is Yum Brand's biggest market, and the company only recently started to recover from another food scandal in 2012, when a media report alleged two KFC suppliers were pumping chickens full of growth hormones and an excessive amount of antibiotics.

Netflix description: «A scandal erupts in Brazil during an investigation of alleged government corruption via oil and construction companies.

The leak led to a series of high - profile scandals, including the resignation of the Prime Minister of Iceland after it was alleged he had hidden millions of dollars - worth of investments in an offshore shell company.

Ride - hailing giant Uber's full - year net loss widened to $ 4.5 billion in 2017 as the company endured a tumultuous year that included multiple scandals, a lawsuit alleging the theft of trade secrets and the replacement of its CEO.

Add to these bureaucratic inefficiencies the curious case of Judy Sgro, the former immigration minister who resigned from cabinet in January following a pair of scandals involving the alleged preferential treatment of immigrants who were associated with her campaign office.

The currency's movement was in response to a massive 34 - hour protest staged by tens of thousands against the incumbent Prime Minister Najib Razak on an alleged scandal involving a $ 700 million cash transfer into his personal bank account.

The agency asked Medium to take down a post that alleges the country's Prime Minister Najib Razak was trying to exit the country in the midst of a corruption scandal involving him.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is in charge of repairing the reputation of a company besieged by a variety of alleged shady practices and scandals.

... when there are lots of other Trump scandals that involve far greater magnitudes of (alleged) corruption but which don't attract nearly as much attention.

Former Volkswagen Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn has been indicted on charges of conspiracy and wire fraud for his alleged role in the emissions scandal.

Over the past two months, she has guided the story of her alleged relationship with President Trump — and the $ 130,000 she was paid to keep silent — into a full - fledged scandal.

Trading losses have cost JPMorgan nearly $ 6 billion so far, and scandals such as the alleged rigging of an international interest rate benchmark have only highlighted the risks lurking inside big banks.

The company has been buffeted by one scandal after another in 2017, from alleged sexual harassment to software designed to evade law enforcement, now the subject of a federal probe.

A full six pages of Benchmark's lawsuit were dedicated to describing Kalanick's role in the Otto acquisition and Benchmark's obliviousness to alleged wrongdoing; I noted when the lawsuit was filed that it, more than any of Uber's scandals, had the potential to be Kalanick's doom, and apparently Benchmark agrees (although, of course, one should question why Gurley, then an Uber board member, apparently declined to do more digging on a $ 680 million acquisition).

Officials in the government of left - wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras have described the alleged bribery scandal as the worst in modern Greek history.

The Liberals have also attempted to counter the image of Prime Minister Stephen Harper put forth by the Conservative Party, instead portraying him as a controlling and secretive leader with a hidden agenda, and attacking his judgment by tying him to past Conservative scandals, such as the Cadman affair, alleged spending misconduct in the last election, and the conduct of Maxime Bernier, the former Conservative minister of foreign affairs.

Humphrey and Yu had been hired by GSK before the scandal broke out to investigate a former employee the company suspected could be the source of emails alleging wrongdoing at the company sent to upper management as well as a tape filmed secretly of ex-China chief Mark Reilly being intimate with a girlfriend in his home.

Take away: Some of Japan's largest companies have been embroiled in scandals for alleged wrongdoings such as data cheating in recent months, and the scandal appears to continue.

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.

TOKYO (AP)-- Japanese transport ministry officials raided the Tokyo headquarters of scandal - ridden Mitsubishi Motors Corp. on Friday after the government alleged the automaker cheated on mileage ratings on more models than earlier reported.

For the 85 - year - old pontiff, the three - day trip outside the Vatican walls was a break from the Vatileaks scandal, which has seen his butler, Paolo Gabriele, arrested on suspicion of disclosing dozens of embarrassing letters alleging corruption and nepotism at the Holy See.

But this, clearly, is going to be a most profitable line of attack, just as Pope Benedict's alleged failure to confront paedophile scandals continued to be the main line of attack during his pontificate.

We then have a major section on Ayesha, who is later impersonated by one of the prostitutes, the whores of «The Curtain,» and from that impersonation the reader is given full details of Ayesha's strong - willed character, and the scandal involving her and an apparently innocent young man, Safwan, who rescues her on a desert trail only for idle tongues to wag about their alleged secret conduct.

Trump has been scandal - ridden for his entire career — from alleged affairs with porn stars, to hush money payoffs, to alleged corruption in his corporate dealings — and still enjoys an approval rating of over 79 percent amongst white Evangelical Christians.

(CNN)- A cardinal at the center of an international scandal over alleged sexual abuse reversed course Sunday, acknowledging wrongdoing.

After years of alleged cover - ups and silence from the church over its paedophilia scandal, abuse survivors and their advocates have hailed the prosecution of Pell as a monumental shift in the way society is responding to the crisis.

The South American sexpot professed to be some kind of delicious transfer expect, and during the summer, expressed her overwhelming confidence that Benzema — currently under scrutiny by the French authorities for his alleged role in the Mathieu Valbuena sextape scandal — would move to the Emirates Stadium before the end of the transfer window.

I don't think Giroud would start ahead of Benzema regularly wasn't Benzema kicked out of the French team for alleged blackmail scandal?

The scandal had included months of media reporting on alleged acts of violence against women by roughly a dozen football players, with accusations that the school and athletic department had responded ineffectively.

In the ongoing corruption scandal embroiling college basketball for months, federal prosecutors in New York added charges on Tuesday against a former Adidas rep, Jim Gatto, which allege payments to families of players at four universities.

Yesterday afternoon Charles Robinson of Yahoo! Sports reported that suspended Auburn guard Varez Ward is under investigation by federal authorities for an alleged point - shaving scandal.

The group therefore insisted that «the work and mandate of the committee» set up by the Energy Minister to investigate the scandal continue, adding that «the alleged report at best be considered as one of the materials that the Committee may consider, and with liberty, based on evidence that it might recover, to agree or disagree with what is contained in the BNI Report.»

Whatever the reason, the news will come as a further blow to Mr Murdoch, who has watched his global media empire come under attack on several fronts since the scandal over alleged phone - hacking at the News of the World hit the front pages.

From his roles in the Patricia Etteh saga culminating in the now notorious and ignoble image of Dino in his torn attire on the floor of the House; to his alleged threat to beat up a woman, a fellow senator and wife of former Lagos State Governor, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, to the controversial paternity issue with a known Nollywood actress; to his ostentatious display of personal wealth such as his expensive automobiles, to his certificate scandal and many more, what is it that Dino represents that should be the envy of the right - thinking?

Amid the aftershock of the deepening scandal over producer Harvey Weinstein's alleged decades of sexual assault, New York's film and television business community is worried that a proposed amendment to the state's production tax credit would dissuade productions from shooting here.

Edwina Akufo - Addo's alleged involvement in the scandal that hit the Bulk Oil Storage and Transport (BOST) is the outcome of years of lies said against former President John Mahama by her father president Akufo - Addo, according to the MP for Ningo Prampram.

Appearing before the first public hearing of the ad - hoc committee investigating the alleged scandal, Mr Osei Owusu narrated what happened at a closed - door meeting on the matter.

A one - time high - end hooker at the center of an NYPD corruption scandal is expected to testify that a major de Blasio donor «watched and directed» her alleged sexcapades with cops, new court documents reveal.

One week after Rob Porter, his staff secretary, resigned amid spousal abuse allegations, Trump said that he was «totally opposed to domestic violence,» his first condemnation of the alleged conduct behind a scandal that has engulfed the White House.

Governor Andrew Cuomo said much of the responsibility for the alleged corruption scandal touching his administration is on the state university system, specifically SUNY Polytechnic Institute, which oversaw many of the contracts.

The genesis of the bribery scandal stemmed from a Minority member of the Committee, Mahama Ayariga, who alleged that Mr. Agyarko, attempted to bribe the ten minority members on parliament's Appointments Committee with GHc3000 each to ensure the approval of his nomination as the Energy Minister.

Douglas Hogg, the former Conservative cabinet minister who played a notable part in the MPs» expenses scandal after it was alleged that he had claimed money for the clearing of the moat at his country house in Lincolnshire, has emerged as a frontrunner to win a hereditary place in the House of Lords.

The Lawyers in an official letter addressed to members of the 5 - member ad - hoc committee tasked to investigate the alleged scandal, said: «we have been instructed...

Lawyers for Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, have requested that their client be allowed to testify as a witness in the alleged bribery scandal that has hit Parliament's Appointments Committee.

The SolarCity construction project, the biggest part of the Buffalo Billion, is embroiled in a corruption scandal as federal prosecutors alleged the $ 750 million state investment was awarded to LPCiminelli through a bid - rigging scheme.

The government reform groups say the latest scandal involving Senator Smith's alleged bribes to GOP officials to try to obtain permission to run on the Republican Mayoral ballot once again emphasizes the need to get money out of politics.

The Lawyers in an official letter addressed to members of the 5 - member ad - hoc committee tasked to investigate the alleged scandal, said: «we have been instructed by our client to convey to you, which we hereby do, his desire to appear before your committee to be heard on the above allegation and to provide evidence that would assist your Committee to reach a fair and true conclusion on this substantially important matter of public interest.»

That was the day that Alain Kaloyeros, the founding president of SUNY Polytechnic Institute, was swept up in an alleged bid - rigging scandal that has rocked the administration of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and cast a long shadow on the future of SUNY Poly, considered a keystone of the region's high - tech sector and a beacon for similar development across upstate.