Sentences with phrase «office at the corruption»

Audio recordings released by the US Attorney's office at the corruption trial of Senator Dean Skelos aim to show that the Senate Leader and his son colluded to use Skelo's official position to help his son get employment.

Audio recordings released by the U.S. Attorney's office at the corruption trial of State Senator Dean Skelos of Long Island aim to show that the Senate Leader and his son colluded to use Skelos» official position to help his son get employment, in what turned out to be a succession of no show jobs.

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The calls come amid probes by the DOJ and the Swiss Attorney General's Office into corruption at FIFA after the indictment of 14 execs in May.

The question now, according to Wolfango Piccoli, an analyst at Teneo Intelligence who follows Italian politics, is whether Salvini will emerge as the new leader of Italy's centre - right bloc, therefore replacing Berlusconi, the former premier who was forced to step down from high office following a slew of sex and corruption scandals.

Robert E. Kelly, professor or political science at Pusan National University in South Korea, was interviewed live on the BBC World News this morning to talk about the president of South Korea having been forced out of office last night after a months - long corruption scandal.

The split verdict is nevertheless a blow to Cuomo, who had took office in 2011 on a pledge to rid Albany of corruption and change the culture of pay to play at the Capitol.

Let's continue to take a closer look at candidates running for office, and those already elected to office, because to fix the problem of corruption in high places we need people of good character serving the people of these United States.

Joshua Lafazan, who in 2012 became the youngest public office holder in state history when he was elected at 18 to the Syosset school board, kicked off his campaign for the Nassau Legislature, vowing to bring young energy to fight political corruption and restore the county's fiscal integrity.

In this regard, a number of major interventions have been undertaken, including but not limited to the following: • Enhanced oversight responsibility for public procurement with the appointment of a Minister of State for Public Procurement • The introduction of e-procurement by the Public Procurement Authority • Implementation of a paperless system at Port • Implementation of smart vehicle registration and drivers license by the DVLA • Enhanced investigation of corruption in the public service by the Office of the Auditor General, EOCO, National Security, and other State Investigative Institutions.

Speaking at a press conference outside the office of the CFB Malliotakis referenced the recent testimony of Jona Rechnitz in the federal corruption trial of Norman Seabrook on his political contributions to de Blasio and, according to Rechnitz, the mayor's responsiveness to his requests in exchange for those contributions.

A new poll finds Governor Andrew Cuomo with the lowest approval ratings since he took office, in a year where corruption scandals have dominated news at the Capitol.

The Romanian Government's emergency ordinance to change the Penal Code decriminalizes or and reduces the criminal punishments for corruption offences such as abuse of office, conflict of interest, and negligence at work.

A little while later, Assistant US Attorneys Andrew Goldstein and Tatiana Martins, two of the prosecutors who secured corruption convictions of former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, also showed up at Berke's office.

«All the appropriate concern about public office, public integrity or the lack thereof in too many situations where you have corruption, you have waste, you have abuse of power and of the taxpayers» money — that's what we look at in our respective roles,» he said.

Maguire testified at the federal corruption trial of Mangano, who left office last year, and former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto.

The coalition's Executive Chairman, Comrade Debo Adeniran, said «if we can remember properly, on assuming office last year, President Buhari made it clear that his most important priority was to fight corruption at every level by plugging all those identified holes through which Nigeria's resources were being drained with reckless abandon.

«In all the serious researches on the best known administration of justice systems, it is evident that at various points in their histories, the institutions were challenged by falling standards, corruption, and abuse of office.

One of his victims, Jona Rechnitz, is at the center of the NYPD / City Hall corruption probe, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

In a dizzying year that saw the public corruption convictions of former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver and Skelos at the hands of Bharara's office, what better candidate to run in Skelos» old district than a former prosecutor with a record of fighting corruption like Kaminsky?

On Thursday Bharara's office fired back, noting that since 2007 at least 18 current or former Albany pols have been convicted of corruption charges and stating that Bharara has an obligation to speak out.

Unmentioned in the trial was that Bonomo's namesake son was working as an executive assistant in Cuomo's Office of Storm Recovery when the agency allocated the money to the sewer projects at the core of the corruption scheme.

The Percoco conviction should serve as a wakeup call to the governor and the legislature that they must act to curb corruption at all levels of government, even in the offices of the governor himself.

This suit seeks to remedy the violations that occurred at Pan American and ensure that the New York City Department of Education protects its employees» civil rights in the future,» Bharara said in announcing the lawsuit, which came a day after his office charged the city's Correction Union President Norman Seabrook with fraud and corruption.

Ed Cox cited evidence presented at Percoco's ongoing corruption trial showing the former aide using the executive chamber's Manhattan offices more than 60 times from May 2014 to December 2014 when he was running the governor's re-election campaign and was not on the state payroll.

«On July 31, 2009, I was indicted by a Bronx County Grand Jury for committing perjury in a 2008 civil matter, held prior to my election to the Assembly... Thereafter, I agreed to cooperate with the Bronx District Attorney's Office and, later, the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, in conjunction with various investigations aimed at rooting out public corruption,» Castro said.

At the same time, Bharara took a veiled swipe at Cuomo's own efforts to combat corruption in state government through the now - defunct Moreland Commission, whose shutdown his office investigated, but concluded there was no wrongdoinAt the same time, Bharara took a veiled swipe at Cuomo's own efforts to combat corruption in state government through the now - defunct Moreland Commission, whose shutdown his office investigated, but concluded there was no wrongdoinat Cuomo's own efforts to combat corruption in state government through the now - defunct Moreland Commission, whose shutdown his office investigated, but concluded there was no wrongdoing.

At the same time, the IDC would enhance the power of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office to conduct criminal prosecutions of corruption.

Observers will be watching to see how well he raises campaign cash, and also how he manages candidate recruitment — especially at a time when he has a number of aging members and two — including his predecessor, Dean Skelos; and his deputy majority leader, Tom Libous; facing federal corruption trials that could result in their abrupt ouster from office.

It was business as usual at Assemblyman William Boyland Jr.'s district office in Brooklyn despite his arrest on (a second round of) corruption charges yesterday.

Both agencies acted with official city and state misconduct, and in both cases, honest, credible evidence was repeatedly dismissed and ignored, and so was the corruption that remains to date — where knowingly false statements were made to discredit me (then later completely reversed during oral argument by my accusers), and both the DOI investigators (who appeared at my doorstep many times to collect evidence) and MTA Office of the Inspector General investigators invited me back to their headquarters (more than six times), from 1989 to 2008), and continued to take no action to restore and reinstate my city job, pension and social security contributions.

The second one is known as corruption at the Middle level being perpetrated by those in the public offices, government or non-governmental organizations.

A federal investigation into corruption in Suffolk County law enforcement has expanded, as the Justice Department examines at least a half - dozen cases to determine whether political considerations influenced decisions made by the local district attorney's office.

And he says the wave of corruption at the Capitol could also be addressed, by perhaps creating a panel similar to the Commission on Judicial Conduct for the legislature and the governor's office.

«It turns out that the state Legislature does not have any kind of monopoly on crass corruption in New York,» said Bharara, whose office won convictions of former top lawmakers Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos last year, at a noontime press conference.»

Skelos in a gaggle with reporters said a public financing system for state offices modeled after New York City's program could cost up to $ 200 million (advocates peg the cost much lower, at $ 30 million) and that corruption is still bred with campaign contributions.

On Tuesday, as his office began its closing arguments in the corruption trial of former Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos, Bharara broke new ground — at least for him — and joined Twitter.

Speaking at a forum on the Office of Special Prosecutor Bill in Parliament on Tuesday, he said the current Bill was drafted based on President Akufo - Addo's idea of rooting out corruption in government.

We got a good peek at this crafty, high - level cynicism at the 2009 corruption trial where Espada's former Republican ally, Joe Bruno, was convicted of using his office to win high - paying private clients.

Joe Percoco's appearances at the governor's office in Manhattan during the 2014 was among the revelations that came out in his corruption trial last month.

Rice, who has argued that she's better situated that at least two of her opponents — Sen. Eric Schneiderman and Assemblyman Richard Brodsky — to go after corruption in Albany because she's an «outsider», has called for amending the Executive Law so the AG doesn't need gubernatorial approval to investigate state officials and also a change in the Election Law to empower the office to crack down on violations.

Ex-Oyster Bay supervisor, others surrender at DA's office Former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto and several other people surrendered Thursday, June 29, 2017, to face what sources said were corruption charges.

At least 33 legislators and a state Comptroller have left office since 2000 due to corruption - related issues.

Bharara, whose office also successfully prosecuted former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on corruption charges, spoke at an evening forum at the College of St. Rose.

It would be recalled that both the Economic and Financial crimes Commission (EFCC) and ICPC have been investigating some former public officers under the administration of Alhaji Ibrahim Shema at the instance of the new government under Alhaji Aminu Bello Masari for abuse of office and corruption.

Cox also accused the governor of trying to send a message to Vance at at time when the Republicans have formally called on the prosecutor to investigate the Cuomo administration for corruption after it was revealed in a federal trial that Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to the governor, continued to use his government office after leaving the state payroll to run Cuomo's 2014 re-eelction campaign, which would violate state law.

An attorney with the firm, Edward Robertson, formerly tried «high - profile, high publicity corruption cases» at the Suffolk district attorney's office, according to the website.

The Office of the Special Prosecutor marks the fulfillment of a major campaign promise of Nana Akufo - Addo in the run - up to the 2016 elections aimed at fighting corruption.

Public corruption is a scourge on our county and my office will continue to use every tool at our disposal to hold accountable anyone who violates the public's trust.»

Thereafter, I agreed to cooperate with the Bronx District Attorney's Office and, later, the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, in conjunction with various investigations aimed at rooting out public corruption.

Speaking Friday to an audience at New York Law School, Bharara talked about his office's views on public corruption.