Sentences with phrase «on corruption»

He resigned in 2016 after he was arrested on corruption charges.

Silver held the post for 21 years before his arrest on corruption charges.

The conference plans to back measures that would strip public employees convicted on corruption charges of their pensions, as well as new regulations for the use of campaign funds.

Meanwhile, it is worthy of note that there has been more noise on corruption of the past than setting concrete agenda to avoid the pitfalls of the past.

The mayor, who returned to office in 2015 after a seven - year stint in prison on corruption charges, has raised more than $ 600,000 for his gubernatorial effort.

Both former leaders of the legislature are awaiting prison sentences on corruption convictions involving their outside income.

However, no matter how you cut it, a great opportunity in state history to take on corruption was lost here due to self inflicted wounds.

Many of them received jail terms running into hundreds of years, on corruption allegations that boiled down to schemes for funding their political parties.

On the other hand, there's still much work to be done on corruption at home.

The governor has also promised to propose major ethics reforms in his budget, following the convictions of the two leaders of the legislature on corruption charges late last year.

In the wake of that release, and accompanying media coverage on the corruption risks posed by company secrecy, further companies have come forward.

During his earlier remarks, he referred to last month's conviction of the governor's former top aide on corruption charges.

Both men were arrested this week on corruption charges.

Silver was convicted of breaking federal laws, not state laws on corruption.

The survey suggests that the arrest and indictment of eight of his top aides and donors on corruption charges this fall has had little impact on his popularity.

He notes many of the principals in a no bid, no money down deal at the site, have since been caught up on corruption charges in connection with other state projects.

He has criticized the mayor on corruption and public safety.

Emerging norms on corruption, human rights, health and safety, and environmental and climate change commitments, will also likely have an impact on international arbitration practice.

If finalized by a constitutional amendment, any public official convicted on corruption charges would be prohibited from collecting a pension earned during public service.

How can you not believe one based on corruption, but believe the other?

He voted in favor of a constitutional amendment that would allow legislators and other officials convicted on corruption charges to be stripped of their pensions.

That was also the day JCOPE released financial disclosure forms filed by Percoco, the former top aide to Cuomo who was among eight people indicted on corruption charges in the federal grand jury investigation.

To add to the image of Albany dysfunction, Senator John Sampson currently is on trial on corruption charges in Brooklyn.

Speaking to Reuters just ahead of his release Saturday, Alwaleed said that there were no charges against him following his arrest as part of a nationwide crackdown on corruption last November.

That night, the Times» website dropped another bombshell: Bharara would be arresting Silver on corruption charges.

ALBANY — Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, once among the state's most powerful elected officials, had his federal conviction on corruption charges vacated by an appellate court on Thursday.

Last year, Cuomo agreed to disband a Moreland Act Commission on corruption in exchange for a budget deal that included new anti-bribery laws, but critics said that the package he accepted was too weak, and did not go far enough.

News reports in recent days portray Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Moreland Act Commission on corruption as possibly going off the rails.

In Queens, state Sen. Malcolm Smith, about to face retrial on corruption charges for allegedly trying to rig the New York City mayor's race, was soundly defeated by former City Councilman Leroy Comrie.

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.

The current war on corruption by President Muhammadu Buhari is on the right track.

Departing County Executive Edward Mangano is under federal indictment on corruption charges in dealings with a vendor.

Carrie Cohen, a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District, also worked with Bharara for seven years on corruption cases.

It is common knowledge that joy fm and daily graphic only recently had eggs on their faces when they mistook an Afrobarometer report on Corruption perception for that of Transparency International.

He was initially ordered to start his jail time in July, but Judge Valerie Caproni agreed to push the date to Aug. 31, to wait for a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on the corruption case of former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell, allowing that it could affect Silver's appeal efforts.

Defendants Alain Kaleyeros, the former president of SUNY Polytechnic Institute, who was a key architect of Cuomo's upstate economic development programs and executives from contractor from LP Ciminelli, major donors to Cuomo's campaign committee, will soon go to trial in Manhattan federal court on corruption changes.

Flanagan assumed the majority leader's post last year following the arrest of former Sen. Dean Skelos on corruption charges.

Several Rockland County and New York City - based lawmakers were arrested by federal authorities on corruption charges today.

LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto were indicted Thursday on corruption charges, according to federal authorities.

The deputy speaker, who read the letter, said Rurum resigned to protect his image due to allegations bordering on corruption leveled against him by some of the members.

The former governor said the fact that he didn't present a defense in the first trial and was not found guilty on the corruption charges showed that the government lacked the evidence that he did anything wrong.

In responding, Senate Democratic spokesman Michael Murphy focused on corruption issues in Nassau County, calling McGrath a «Skelos clone.»

Except this is a Woody Allen film, so amidst daft slapstick, cutting one - liners and guerrilla warfare you'll find commentary on the corruption of power and the role of the media.

ALBANY - Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said Tuesday that there's no appetite in the Legislature to prohibit lawmakers from having outside jobs even as the body's former leaders are being tried on corruption charges related to private - sector income and their public - sector work.

The husband of Monroe County executive Maggie Brooks was arrested today on corruption charges.

«The 5 - Star Movement is the real winner of the election,» said SEL leader Nichi Vendola, who said that his coalition would have to deal with Grillo, who mixes fierce attacks on corruption with policies ranging from clean energy to free Internet.

When federal investigators arrested the state Assembly Speaker Thursday morning on corruption and fraud charges, they revealed that Silver allegedly accepted millions of dollars in undisclosed bribes and kickbacks from two law firms within the last 14 years.

Rep. Robert W. Ney's guilty plea last month on corruption charges still hangs over the Ohio campaign of his would - be Republican successor, Joy Padgett, especially because Ney still has not resigned from Congress.