Sentences with phrase «of corrupt»

This comes a day after Deputy Attorney General, Joseph Kpemeka indicated that officials suspected of corrupt acts in previous administration will soon be put before court.

Mike Murphy, spokesman for Senate Democrats, called McGrath the «ultimate agent of the corrupt status quo» for saying he would continue to work as a lawyer if elected.

A federal Court of Appeals ruling Wednesday could pave the way for federal authorities to seize the state - protected pensions of corrupt politicians like Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos.

Don't worry though, Illinois seems good at getting rid of the corrupt when they screw up, we'll simply vote another pack of criminals in.

The acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu has vowed to make more arrest and prosecution of corrupt Nigerianst as his non confirmation by the Nigerian Senate will not stop him from fighting corruption.

Outside party politics, he had also been accused of breaking core ethics rules, becoming part of a corrupt system he had promised to fix.

The forum while insisting the action was meant to not only deride Metuh but to project the PDP as a party of corrupt individuals also advised security agencies to be mindful of instructions they receive from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)- led government.

The EFCC boss said the recession prevalent in Nigeria today is as a fall out of the corrupt tendencies of our leaders.

Magu said he has doubts on the authenticity of the report from the DSS indicting him of corrupt practices and lack of integrity to head the EFCC.

Anybody guilty of corrupt practices will face the law,» he said.

He could, as well, have declared that after the swearing - in of the new administration, anyone caught for corrupt practices would not only be arrested and prosecuted but listed in the National Database of Corrupt People (NDCP).

The Speaker, Kogi State House of Assembly, Honourable Umar Ahmed Imam has criticized those calling for secession, stating emphatically that they are corrupt officials who emanated from a product of a corrupt society.

«I think what's happened in the last couple of years in exposing the underbelly of this corrupt government that we have has led people to suddenly think that it's about time we get some different blood in our government.

The GII noted that Ghana's score of 40 points was likely a reflection of the insufficient investigations, prosecutions and sanctioning of corrupt acts, per data sources from 2016.

This year, after much kicking and screaming, the Legislature OK'd a constitutional amendment to allow the pensions of corrupt veteran pols to be seized retroactively.

Voters in New York state will decide next month whether to authorize judges to strip the pensions of corrupt officials.

This is right out of the corrupt Skelos playbook that Kemp Hannon helped write and we need it to stop.»

We're developing a new Corruption Prevention Strategy to deal with the small number of corrupt staff who allow contraband in our prisons.

The amendment is aimed at public officials — elected and high appointees — who are convicted of corrupt acts.

He is in an awkward spot right now because his leader in the Senate has to choose between implementing the genuine campaign finance reforms NY residents desire — or remaining a stalwart champion for continuing the Skelos, Libous, Bruno record of corrupt Senate leadership.

It's true that some aid is wasted and some goes into the pockets of corrupt officials and politicians.

This lack of equity and transparency, is principally the reason the Buhari government's effort to address the challenge of corrupt campaign financing is considered hypocritical, one - sided, fake and dishonest.

In Australia, corrupt behaviour in the Health Services Union and allegations of corrupt dealings in the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union fuel this antipathy.

More likely, commotions about singing the national anthem, or what he will wear at the Cenotaph, or even things like message discipline within the Shadow Cabinet, are for him part of a corrupt, myopic style of politics he has always rejected.

After outlining some of his corrupt actions, she concluded «Mr. Silver, those are not the actions of an honest person.»

«I think once and for all, we need to address this issue and put an end to this disregard for laws and areas of corrupt practices,» the Senate President said.

Their actions were contrary to and punishable under sections 17 and 25 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000.

Answer: The Major Years were a disaster y for true Conservatism and national independence under the oily grasp of the corrupt EU, which included the ERM fiasco.

As New York state Attorney General, he launched investigations into a number of corrupt politicians — including then - state Sen. Pedro Espada Jr., who was convicted and sent to prison.

Court ruling could allow feds to seize Silver and Skelos» pensions By Kaja Whitehouse August 17, 2016 2:46 pm A federal Court of Appeals ruling Wednesday could pave the way for federal authorities to seize the state - protected pensions of corrupt... Continue reading →

First, to deal briefly with the introduction of extraneous matters not forming part of the Commissioner's report and attempts to amend, vary, modify and rewrite the Commissioner's report in some parts, to show that it does no credit to the legal advisors to the Government as it converts them into conduits of a corrupt political elite in Government contrary to their constitutional mandate specifically provided for under Artilce 88 of the Constitution.

On his part, the state chairman of the party, Chief Kanayochukwu Obidigbo said Anambra people had suffered greatly in the hands of corrupt government officials, and that the state needed a leader and not a ruler.

«If (Paladino) is truly serious about reform, I challenge him to take on incumbent Republican state Senators who did nothing to push reform measures when they had the majority under Leader Joe Bruno, are indicative of the corrupt practices of Albany and campaign to purge them from the party.»

Justice Aikawa further agreed with the submission of ICPC's counsel, E. A. Shogunle, that the 1st Respondent, ICPC, had established that there were reasonable grounds to suspect that certain high - ranking public officials and lawyers acted in abuse of their offices to facilitate a breach of contract with Chief Afe Babalola in order to confer corrupt advantage upon themselves in violation of sections 19 and 25 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act 2000.

This type of corrupt practice is not supposed to rear its head at a time like this when we are faced with insecurity in so many forms.

In a judgment dismissing the claim, Justice Rilwan Aikawa held that following the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Attorney General of Ondo State vs Attorney General of the Federation and 36 Others (2002), that ICPC had a statutory duty to investigate allegations of corrupt practices made against any person or authority in Nigeria and that neither the claimants nor the court has the discretion to stop a statutory agency of government from performing its duties.

Because you heard no evidence of a corrupt bargain that Joe Percoco agreed to make,» Percoco's lawyer, Barry Bohrer, told the jury last week.

Tom Lundquist, a Halfmoon resident recently named chairman of the town's Republican Committee, sent an email to his fellow committee members Friday warning that town Democrats, and a grassroots citizens group known as «Future Halfmoon,» as well as «certain journalist (s) are going to try and label all of us corrupt.»

SERAP is urging the court to declare that Malami's refusal to file a criminal charge against Patience was in conflict with his constitutional mandate as well as the provisions of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act 2000.

«In truth and fact, Silver has obtained millions of dollars in outside income as a direct result of his corrupt use of his official position to obtain attorney referral fees for himself, including from clients with substantial business before the state,» not the result of legitimate outside income, it is charged.

The offence is in contravention of Section 26 (1)(b) and punishable under Section 22 (4) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offence Act 2000.

He says Afghanistan is blacklisting on average one company a week, with the list published online and updated every week, and he invites the UK to publish a blacklist of corrupt companies as well.

Buhari had told journalists on the sideline of the Anti-Corruption Summit he attended in London on May 13 that the names of corrupt Nigerians will be made public in a speech he intends to deliver on May 29.

Who's had enough of his corrupt government?

We ask; how can any reasonable investor still have the confidence to invest in a country where the President himself continues to alert that his country reeks of corrupt people and that the government is broke to the extent it can not pay cabinet ministers?

«Having failed to take advantage of relevant statutory disciplinary bodies to purge the bar and the bench of corrupt elements the members of the legal profession have themselves to blame for the harassment of judges by security forces.

You like those STAR bribe checks that hit mail boxes just before election date helping insure election of corrupt incumbents?

I do believe that the current state, of CORRUPT Lawyers and Court personnel, is in fact True.

'' Thanks to whistle - blowers, it is now clear that a rapacious few have pillaged the nation's wealth through a vicious orgy of corrupt practices,» he said.

Review blogger Rich Lowery writes that Detroit is not an example of creative destruction of capitalism; but rather the destructive destruction of corrupt statism.