Sentences with phrase «on corrupt deals»

Shining a light on corrupt deals like OPL 245 prevents multinational companies from scheming with greedy government officials to get rich at the expense of ordinary people.»

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Over the next decade, Cohn used his mob connections to smooth the younger Trump's relations with construction unions; inked a stingy prenuptial agreement with Trump's first wife, Ivana; leaned on city politicians to favor Trump deals; traded favors in Atlantic City's notoriously corrupt casino industry; and tried to strong - arm the National Football League into a merger that would give Trump a first - tier team at a fraction of the going rate.

Four out of five respondents agree that Canada's laws for dealing with companies involved in unethical or corrupt corporate practices should be similar to those in other developed countries, so that Canadian companies are operating on a level playing field with their foreign competitors.

RICO is the Racketeer - Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act, which was designed years ago to deal with Mafia types but has more recently been used to impose draconian penalties on abortion protestors.

Claim: The use of single - sourcing and non-transparent procurement processes for even, large, capital - intensive, complex, projects has led to billions of dollars being wasted, sometimes in shady deals that suggest corrupt motives on the part of some parties.

Hawkins will also speak on the need to end wasteful, corrupt «corporate welfare» and instead devote investment toward an aggressive «Green New Deal» of public works, such as improving mass transit and achieving 100 % clean and renewable energy in 15 years.

Some officials of SADA were reportedly involved in corrupt deals during its initial years, notably the use of over GHc 250,000 on unapproved and «wasteful» trips to Birmingham, Berlin and Istanbul.

Zhou also tried to turn Howe's bad behavior back on the defendants, arguing that Howe was inserted into the case by their decision to use him as a middleman for corrupt deals.

He said the fall of Fernando Collect de Mello of Brazil in 1992, Albert Fijimor in 2000, Atdala Bucarain of Ecuador in 1997 and others were caused by investigative reporting on their complicity in corrupt deals.

On the fight against corruption, Ms Lamptey said she would apply her professional experience in criminal prosecution law in effectively dealing with corrupt officials.

Tenney has publicly criticized Oneida Indian Nation representative Ray Halbritter, the CEO of Turning Stone, on several issues over the year, including a 2013 revenue - sharing deal with New York state that Tenney called «a corrupt bargain.»

However, Sam doesn't know as much as he imagines about life on the wrong side of the law, and as he deals with career criminals, corrupt police officers, and the drug trade, he is thrust into greater danger than he ever imagined.

Also sharing a good deal of screen time is underrated character actor David Morse (Double Vision, The Green Mile), as the lead corrupt cop on their trail, treading the fine line between well - meaning servitude to his fellow officers and out - and - out malevolence.

During his time there he drinks, takes drugs, falls in love, gets arrested and becomes embroiled in corrupt land deals that threaten to wreak havoc on the natural beauty of the island transforming it into a capitalist paradise.

Jasmine was always something of a phony, averting her eyes as corrupt deals were hatched on shady verandas in the Hamptons.

Nic Pizzolatto has returned to pen the next series, which looks set to pick up on the bloody murder of a corrupt city businessman found dead the night before a major transportation deal.

Burke's latest finds the sheriff of a tiny town on the Texas - Mexico border dealing with murdered Thai women, renegade bikers, New Orleans vice dealers, corrupt officials, and a psychotic killer.

Far Cry 2 — Caught between two rival factions in war - torn Africa, you are stricken with malaria and forced to make deals with corrupt warlords on both sides of the conflict in order to hunt down your mark — The Jackal.

The clarity provided by this corrupt deal allows us to focus on what matters: using the March as a strategic retreat to develop our political, legal and organizing strategy to achieve victory — not just for Diablo Canyon, but all nuclear plants threatened by anti-nuclear organizations, corrupt unions, craven policymakers and short - term corporate executives.

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Some 30 % of companies say they have lost out on an international business deal to a corrupt rival because they are too honest.

We are leaders in helping clients with: reviews by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States («CFIUS») of deals affecting U.S. national security or the protection of critical infrastructure; and compliance of U.S. economic sanctions and anti-money laundering laws and regulations, including the Bank Secrecy Act and USA PATRIOT Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act («FCPA») and the Exon - Florio statute (as amended by the Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007).