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.
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.
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.