Sentences with phrase «of fraud and corruption»

The disputes Ravi has been instructed have involved allegations of fraud and corruption as well as breach of contract and tort.

The construction industry faces daily risk of fraud and corruption — particularly within its extended supply chain.

Recent reports, including last year's from the Chartered Institute of Building, have highlighted the risk to the construction industry of fraud and corruption.

It doesn't help that the newspapers are awash with reports of fraud and corruption in the wider carbon - trading world.

Indeed, a 2013 report from the U.S Department of Education's Office of the Inspector General summarizes «numerous investigations of fraud and corruption» involving the Title 1 - funded tutoring programs.

In January, then - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat who has been in office for several decades, was charged with five counts of fraud and corruption.

SERAP in a statement today by its deputy director Timothy Adewale said, «While we welcome the reported disclosure of fraud and corruption in the SIP and the request to the EFCC to probe the allegations, we are concerned that sufficient details about the allegations have not been disclosed.

«We also urge the government to appoint «integrity advisors» as «early warning mechanism» for the SIP to monitor the implementation of the scheme across the states of the federation, identify and alert on any risks of fraud and corruption, and engage in analysing such risks, as well as in corruption prevention and reporting activities in general.

Republican gubernatorial candidate John DeFrancisco on Thursday called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to answer questions that have arisen out of the fraud and corruption trial of his former close aide, Joe Percoco.

Gonzalez is facing nine counts of fraud and corruption for allegedly funneling more than $ 400,000 of state money for personal use.

Jan. 22: Silver is arrested and charged on five counts of fraud and corruption in a 35 - page complaint alleging the lawmaker made millions of dollars on the side through illegal kickbacks.

MPs said DfID's ability to make informed spending decisions was being undermined by its lack of knowledge about levels of fraud and corruption, the report claimed.

«However, the department could not even give us information as to the expected levels of fraud and corruption and the action they were taking to mitigate it.»

And underlying the U.S. stock market is an unprecedented degree of fraud and corruption.

But, in a process tainted by allegations of fraud and corruption, the government threw out more than half of the signatures, leaving Yasunídos short of the referendum threshold.

On Tuesday, Louisville was one of several schools named in an FBI investigation of fraud and corruption in college basketball recruiting.

Not exact matches

SNC - Lavalin has pleaded not guilty to the one fraud and one corruption charge filed by the RCMP against SNC - Lavalin and two of its subsidiaries.

Peter Dent, a partner at Deloitte in Toronto, recalls investigating a European company doing business in Indonesia during his four - year stint as head of the World Bank's fraud and corruption team.

Recent developments, including ongoing investigations into bribery and corruption at the Company's subsidiaries in Mexico, China, Brazil, and India; new revelations of accounting fraud at the Company's China operations; a recent ruling by a National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge against the Company for its illegal discipline of employees; and, the NLRB decision to authorize a nationwide complaint against the Company for violations of the National Labor Relations Act, highlight the need for enhanced oversight of Wal - Mart's corporate culture and behavior.

The fraud and corruption at all levels of Government and Corporate America has become glaringly blatant.

However, most are likely unaware that the original sources of corruption and fraud were never addressed.

Two lead prosecutors handling the case — Thomas McKay and Nicolas Roos — are part of the public corruption unit of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan and prosecute public officials and people engaged in conspiracy or fraud against the government.

To believe in the fiat currencies of today, especially the dollar, is equivalent to believing that fraud and corruption can save your soul.

Thanks to the Deep State financial elitists, for whom fraud and plunder are a way of life, the gold market has been a cesspool of corruption for nearly forty years.

All these attempts to escape the rigors of competition invariably produce corruption and fraud and bring out the worst aspects both of big government and of capitalism itself.

The Tigers are one of four programs with an assistant coach indicted by a federal grand jury on fraud, conspiracy and bribery charges stemming from the FBI's investigation into corruption across college basketball.

Former Oklahoma State assistant Lamont Evans, Auburn assistant Chuck Person, Emanuel «Book» Richardson of Arizona and USC assistant Tony Bland and six others, including Dawkins, have each been charged in the corruption and fraud scheme.

This was pretty much how it had gone four years ago for the late Otto Kerner, ex-Governor of Illinois, convicted in 1973 of mail fraud and corruption — corruption meaning that he had pushed legislation favoring racetrack interests.

Unfortunately for de Blasio, Silver is embroiled in a bribery and kickback scandal as he now faces five counts of corruption and fraud.

Percoco was found guilty of three counts of public corruption, namely conspiracy to commit honest - services fraud, conspiracy to commit honest - services wire fraud and solicitation of bribes and gratuities.

DeFrancisco, meanwhile, kept the focus on the corruption trial of Joe Percoco, the former close aide to the governor who is accused of fraud and bribery.

There was widespread concern that fraud would worsen dramatically after EU enlargement in 2004, particularly with the accession of eight former Soviet bloc states and their experiences of closed government and corruption under Communism and rising gangsterism since the collapse of the USSR.

Thursday following Silver's arrest on fraud and corruption charges, the South Buffalo Democrat seemed to offer a bit of an «I told you so» to the Assembly Democratic Conference.

OLAF is at the frontline in the fight against fraud and corruption, and our high level of ambition reflects the commitment of the EU institutions to address these issues.»

The VC was arraigned on nine counts, including fraud, obtaining money under false pretences, abuse of office and felony, while the Bursar was on arraigned on two counts of corruption.

Embattled NYC Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte, already under attack for his personal use of a city vehicle, told the NYC Council that senior correction officials had «inadvertently» conducted surveillance of the city agency that investigates fraud and corruption.

Dec. 5, 2017: A federal judge delays for two months the corruption trial of the Manganos and Venditto because Venditto's attorneys said they needed more time to prepare to fight the additional securities fraud charges.

I'm a Democrat and I tell my fellow Democrats it is the party that tells voters the public sector can be a force for good, we have to be the harshest critics of corruption and waste and fraud in government.»

The grand jury alleged two overlapping schemes with common threads of «bribery, corruption and fraud.»

Court papers say the charges announced Thursday come from «two overlapping criminal schemes involving bribery, corruption, and fraud in the award of hundreds of millions of dollars in State contracts and other official State benefits.»

To the growing annals of New York corruption trial history, enter Tuesday, March 13: the day a long - deliberating jury found Joseph Percoco guilty of conspiracy to commit honest services fraud and solicitation of bribes (he was also found not guilty of other charges).

The European Commission's reputation for fraud and corruption is unfair, a committee of peers has concluded.

The Attorney General is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, a sound legal luminary who is never known for defending fraud and corruption; a man who is highly respected in legal circles.

Secrecy hinders criminal investigation and fosters criminality and corruption such as insider trading, market rigging, tax evasion, fraud, embezzlement, bribery, the illicit funding of political parties — and much more.

Elections caught with fraud, corruption and violence can destabilise a country, allowing citizens to loose fate in the process of democratic practice.

Silver was ousted from office in 2015 after he was found guilty of fraud and other corruption charges.

Government watch dog groups say the arrest of one of the two most powerful men in the New York legislature on fraud and corruption charges highlights the need for better state laws against wrong doing.

At the time, two former Senate leaders and a former state comptroller had been convicted of fraud and bribery, and a number of rank - and - file lawmakers had been convicted of corruption, and, in one case, assaulting a girlfriend.

Bertha Lewis, the last CEO and «Chief Organizer» of ACORN before that group's descent into ignominy, wrote last week that while New York State political corruption is unfortunate, the real problem in New York is MWBE fraud.

New York Senate Leader Dean Skelos has been charged with extortion, conspiring to commit fraud, and soliciting bribes in a corruption scheme also involving his son Adam Skelos — making Mr. Skelos the second of Albany's famous «three men in a room» leadership to face criminal charges from U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.