Sentences with phrase «on lucrative government contracts»

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It's those rules that raised the stakes for SNC because it faces being blocked automatically from bidding on lucrative Canadian government contracts for at least five years if it is found guilty.

The list includes 23 big - bucks donors who got appointed to municipal boards and committees, eight developers who benefited from government actions or policy changes, six political allies put on the city payroll and five business owners who scored lucrative contracts.

Government reform groups in Albany want state lawmakers Cuomo to strengthen the state's contracting and procurement system after nine people were arrested on charges of bid - rigging related to a lucrative economic development project.

In fact, Rattner was also being advised by his lawyers to make himself a lower - profile target for federal and state investigators who were probing whether he had paid off a middleman to win a lucrative contract from New York's pension system while he worked on Wall Street, a government source said Wednesday.

«Even if there is no quid pro quo arrangement, just the mere appearance of someone handing over cash and then receiving a lucrative contract is damaging to the integrity of the public's confidence in government,» said Craig Holman, government affairs lobbyist for Public Citizen, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit that focuses on ethics and campaign finance issues.

When a lucrative government contract is set to be awarded by honest government worker Jim Hawley (Tom Selleck), a low - life businessman (Barry Sullivan) attempts to get his hands on the contract by setting Hawley up for an elaborate blackmail scheme.

In episode 101, the series premiere, state representative Tommy Caffee is blackmailed for lucrative government contracts by a local Irish mob boss when his long lost brother Michael returns to Providence after seven years on the run from the law.

Rescinding this memo opens the door to servicers like Navient earning lucrative new government servicing contracts in spite of past abuses — including illegal acts like overcharging 78,000 members of the military, and charges by both the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and multiple state attorneys general of steering struggling borrowers toward paying more than they had to on their loans.

«Britain's biggest power station is suing the Government for losing a lucrative contract after a Mail on Sunday investigation revealed that it burns wood from precious US forests as a «green» alternative to coal.

Canada's Auditor - General is undertaking an audit of the federal government's lucrative relocation contracts, acting on a request from the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons.