Sentences with phrase «on corrupt practices»

Mr. Cuomo, who made his reputation as a tough enforcer by taking on corrupt practices on Wall Street and in the insurance industry as attorney general, came out with guns blazing.

Cuomo in the past has credited The Post for a series of exposes on corrupt practices in state government — reports that helped build support for his calls for reform.

There is no longer any check on corrupt practices.

Not exact matches

BEIJING / SHANGHAI (Reuters)- China's ruling Communist Party has listed golf and gluttony as violations for the first time as it tightens its rules to prevent officials from engaging in corrupt practices, while also turning an even sterner eye on sexual impropriety.

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.

On the other hand, if the concrete way this school does «have to do with God» is ordered to education for ministerial functions, is it not then in practice using «having to do with God» for a further, ulterior purpose («educating for ministerial functions»), thus corrupting its proper theological character («having to do with God for God's own sake»)?

been reported by the High Court in its report on the trial of an election petition to have been proved guilty of a corrupt practice, --

The EFCC said the proposed anti-corruption course should focus on preventing corrupt practices.

The Minority members on the committee, Dr. Dominic Ayine and James Klutse Avedzi, contend that the «Ministry of Trade and Industry failed or neglected to take account of possible violations of foreign corrupt practice laws and regulations in the conception, design and organization of the Expatriate Business Awards.»

«If (Paladino) is truly serious about reform, I challenge him to take on incumbent Republican state Senators who did nothing to push reform measures when they had the majority under Leader Joe Bruno, are indicative of the corrupt practices of Albany and campaign to purge them from the party.»

With the above unprecedented corrupt practices of the NPP, it is however not surprising that former President Kufuor made that infamous declaration that corruption «was as old as Adam» and that on a daily basis he and his officials are tempted with all manner of things including the proverbial apple of the Garden of Eden

In his concluding remarks at the vetting of the Special Prosecutor nominee, Martin Amidu, the Tamale South legislator said although his side of the House wishes the nominee well, he must not only focus on prosecuting past government officials, but current officials who engage in corrupt practices.

Magu said he has doubts on the authenticity of the report from the DSS indicting him of corrupt practices and lack of integrity to head the EFCC.

The Presidency on Sunday said President Muhammadu Buhari would not hesitate to sack any government official found culpable in any corrupt practices.

Justice Galadanchi said the petitioners failed to discharge the burden of proof placed on them by law, adding that the petitioners further failed to establish that the elections in the 13 local government areas were invalid or void by reason of corrupt practices.

In fact Cuomo had cracked down on the member item program when he was attorney general, and in 2010 campaigned against a practice that good - government groups said invited corrupt conflicts.

The invitation letter read in part, «The commission has commenced investigation into the petition of corruption and corrupt practices and abuse of office reported on August 1, 2016 by Hammart & Co (Tafida chambers) on your behalf against Yakubu Dogara, Yusuf Lasun, Alhassan Ado - Doguwa, Leonard Okuweh Ogor and others.

Current practices lead to «cherry - picking which analyses or experiments to report on the basis of their P values» and «corrupts science and fills the literature with claims likely to be overstated or false,» he wrote.

They also shed some light on why companies go to great lengths to avoid the perception that they are accepting money from corrupt investors or are themselves profiting from illegal or unethical practices, researchers said.

I know they are a business but this is an extremely greedy money mongering business that has corrupt practices, meaning I wouldnt support it based on that alone.

In April 2017, In the Public Interest released a report revealing that a substantial portion of the more than $ 2.5 billion in tax dollars or taxpayer subsidized financing spent on California charter school facilities in the past 15 years has been misspent on: schools that underperformed nearby traditional public schools; schools built in districts that already had enough classroom space; schools that were found to have discriminatory enrollment policies; and in the worst cases, schools that engaged in unethical or corrupt practices.

And he continues on with his corrupt practices still.

He counsels clients on an array of sophisticated business litigation matters, including fraud, securities, civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO), lender liability, accountant liability and trade practices.

Ms. Schuller's practice focuses on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and criminal antitrust matters.

27 percent of law firm lawyers who participated tested it on internal investigations, 18 percent on Foreign Corrupt Practice Act, nine percent on multi-district litigation.

Bittman, whose practice focuses on issues surrounding multinational corporations, particularly the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and False Claims Act cases, also has substantial federal prosecutorial experience.

It continues 9 a.m. Friday October 26 at the Lincoln Center campus of Fordham Law School, 140 West 62nd Street — with a Conversation with famed former SDNY U.S. Attorney and Debevoise litigation chief Mary Jo White, who indicted Bin Laden and pursued Siemens for foreign corrupt practices; a Lecture by the chief Yugoslav tribunal war crimes judge Ted Meron; a two - part series on ICSID investment arbitration with ICSID secretary general Meg Kinnear; and a talk by blind Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng.

These corrupted practices involve doctors pushing cardiac stents on patients who do not need them while hospitals look the other way as they make their money.

Her practice includes advising and defending corporations in a variety of criminal and civil investigation and enforcement matters, conducting complex, worldwide internal investigations in relation to bribery, corruption and fraud, advising on and developing and benchmarking compliance programmes, conducting pre-merger and third - party due diligence, and providing day - to - day counselling and training on compliance with US, UK and other anti-corruption laws, including the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the UK Bribery Act 2010.

He assists clients in navigating international legal issues, and a substantial portion of his practice is focused on compliance with anti-corruption laws and export controls, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), International Trade in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and other relevant laws and regulations.

Mr. Shen's practice focuses on US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigations, compliance, commercial litigation and international arbitration matters.

He has also advised clients on Cuba claims, import regulation and foreign and domestic business operations, sales representation agreements and foreign corrupt practices.

Penalties include potential fines of between 0.1 and 20 per cent of the accountable organization's annual revenues, or, if the entity's revenue is unknown, a fine between R$ 6,000 and R$ 60 million, depending on — among other things — the seriousness of the infraction and whether the organization has internal integrity mechanisms designed to prevent corrupt practices.

Washington, DC, Government Investigations & White Collar Defense associate Emily Harlan and Boston partner and deputy leader of the Government Investigations & White Collar Defense practice Danielle Pelot coauthored this article focusing on what companies doing business in foreign countries need to know about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act's facilitating payments exception.

Ashley's practice focuses on government and internal investigations, including matters involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the False Claims Act (FCA), and the U.K. Bribery Act.

Rich's practice entails conducting internal investigations with a focus on potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

While the 38 - year - old middle manager had been given no reasons for his firing, Wilson strongly believed it was because he had blown the whistle on allegedly corrupt practices at the federal agency.

Recently, we have seen a growing number of cases brought against in - house counsel sitting on boards involving insider trading, financial restatements, disputes over proxy disclosures, lawsuits regarding executive compensation, allegations of corrupt foreign business practices, and insolvencies and bankruptcies.

On the other hand, it is not necessary for a corrupt practice to take place in order for the appearance of integrity to be harmed.

The analogy would be to a computer virus infecting the «source code» of files in the internal working models of the attachment system, that is then passed on inter-generationally as the regulatory networks of the attachment system are «downloaded» from the parent to the child through the distorted parenting practices created by the corrupt «files» in the internal working models of the parent's attachment system (see my blog, Attachment Foundations: Regulation Systems).