Sentences with phrase «of crooked politicians»

Now Milo is free - falling into another country, a land of big money and small armies of corruption, of crooked politicians and two women willing to share their lust with a private eye with a bad back.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a backroom master whose name was synonymous with political power in New York for a generation, was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in prison, destined to take his place atop the state's crowded lineup of crooked politicians behind bars.

New York has mostly known economic decline during my lifetime because of crooked politicians like Andrew Cuomo.

Nice to know that he has now fully embraced th ethicse of a crooked politician.

Not exact matches

Their leaders will be upset even for something like a Muslim - like character tossing some garbage out of an expensive car or maybe a crooked Muslim - like politician taking bribes.

And I bet none of those healed had any kind of health insurance with huge rip - off insurance companies who charged them ridiculous premiums and then said they wouldn't cover whatever their illness was, or had limits on what they would pay, or gave payoffs to crooked politicians to keep people from getting decent health care at reasonable prices, or forbade them from buying the medications they needed from anywhere they were available, or even had forms to fill out.

One difficulty with jai alai is that too many politicians who are at best overly idealistic and at worst crooked have been overseeing the game, and proper regulation of the game is almost unknown.

But there's definitely a case to say Wenger is guilty of a level of hypocrisy usually only usually reserved for corrupt and crooked politicians, or say, bankers.

Sooner than later someone is going to have the tape recorder rolling when he makes one of his famous phone calls, and he will be just the latest crooked politician to have been hung with his own rope.

«On August 11th we can have a bi-partisan spirited discussion at a community center of Senator Schumer's choosing to discuss these important matters facing New Yorkers rather than Chuck prioritizing fundraising and dancing to the sounds of Aretha Franklin at the Plaza in order to raise money for yet another crooked politician.

This crisis is a chance to challenge the growing cynicism of voters who feel that politicians are crooked and politics doesn't matter.

The US Supreme Court unanimously overturned the corruption conviction of ex-Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell on Monday in a ruling that raised the hopes of crooked New York politicians Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos.

Mark Poloncarz is the most honest, credible and sincere county executive we have had here in Erie County is DECADES, and for this crooked politician (in the sleaziest sense of the word) Tim Kennedy to suggest otherwise is just laughable.

Authorities have turned to using digital billboards along the interstate to urge citizens to report crooked politicians, dirty bureaucrats and other bad actors, the latest indication of just how big a problem political corruption has become in Albany.

While the lawman only drew 8,000 followers after successfully prosecuting disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and countless other crooked New York politicians, it was his bust of Zarrab that sent his totals soaring to 220,000 late Wednesday.

«What does a Washington politician do when he can't defend a record of failure and has been named one of the most crooked candidates in America?

Barrett, 71, uncovered the misdeeds of politicians, developers, crooked judges and «poverty pimps» during a four - decade career at the Village Voice.

His list of targets includes spending and crooked politicians, reports CBS 2's Marcia Kramer.

Malcolm Smith still doesn't think he deserves jail time By Lia Eustachewich October 6, 2016 Ex-state Sen. Malcolm Smith is the latest crooked politician to appeal his conviction in light of a recen...

My legs are still as crooked as a corrupt politician when doing Forward Folds, but unlike last week, there is a greater level of acceptance of my flaws that I didn't have before.

Sized up as a patsy by crooked politician Kirkwood (Edwin Maxwell), poor Wilbur is plied with champagne as part of Kirkwood's scheme to land a sweetheart playground - equipment contract.

There's also a Russian mob muscling in, crooked politicians taking pay - offs, music impresarios, a wild - card drug addict on a mission of vengeance, lots of freelance muscle and a gorgeous bookkeeper (Thandie Newton) playing her own scams with the help of part - time lover and partner - in - crime One Two.

In Israeli - American director Joseph Cedar's masterful film, Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer, a ridiculously expensive pair of shoes given as a gift leads to a friendship between rising Israeli politician Micha Eshel (Lior Ashkenazi, «Encirclements») and Norman Oppenheimer (Richard Gere, «Time Out of Mind»), an American businessman, consultant and, in the Yiddish expression, «gonif,» defined as a disreputable but not entirely crooked individual.

Brasilia is not only the capital city of Brazil (and some say the workplace of some of the most blatantly crooked politicians in the world!)

The action takes place in New Bordeaux, an equally glamorous clone of New Orleans, which is on the surface a wholesome place to raise a family but underneath is rotting away under a deluge of drug deals, prostitution rings and crooked politicians.

That old chesnut Truman serves many purposes: seedy politician, gifted politician on ascension to power or simply an earlier version of the «may the power be with you» (old wise crooked weirdo, now wise) or some such tripe.

Lawyers are very necessary servants in the architecture of corruption for without lawyers willing to assist their valued clients, money laundering would be much more difficult for organized crime, crooked politicians, cheating corporations and others so inclinded to wash and conceal money here in Canada or offshore.

F *** those thiefs in Silicon Valley's corporate boardrooms who gave 100s of millions $ to crooked DC politicians