Sentences with phrase «on widespread corruption»

Kane acted after Superior Court Judge Eugene Kelly, who has been sitting and will continue to sit in Hartford as a special one - man grand jury, heard testimony on widespread corruption in the sport.

Write reports on bombings, but don't write reports on the widespread corruption in our government.

Not exact matches

A Long Island penny stockbroker who served 36 months in prison for defrauding investors in a massive 1990s securities scam that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including shoe designer Steve Madden.

The African nation of Zambia, for instance, has only enough food available to provide its population with 1,870 calories on average, per day, according to a striking global map in the October issue of National Geographic — and in truth, in much of the world, such calorie counts offer an inflated view of what's actually accessible to most citizens, due to widespread poverty, civil unrest, natural disasters, corruption, government mismanagement, food - distribution failures, and other issues.

Widespread support on the part of Americans must be based on morally sound as well as politically realistic principles, freed from the myths and corruption of the past.

Run by radicals for approximately twenty years, Berkeley has experienced the virtual ruin of its public school system, a vastly increased municipal bureaucracy, a greatly diminished housing stock (thanks to stringent rent controls and other restrictions on property rights), increased crime and drug abuse, widespread corruption, and wholesale waste of public funds.

But I'll go ahead and backup here: if college sports, writ large, were suspended on account of widespread rape culture (not the mention the insane corruption of the NCAA and the disenfranchisement of the athletes themselves), I'd be 100 % fine with that.

Africa's bid to stem widespread corruption took a decisive turn on Sunday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia when the African Union, AU placed on President Muhammadu Buhari, the task of championing the war throughout continent.

He admitted «it is sad to note that thirty - eight years on, the vices of corruption, nepotism, cronyism, etc., which led to the eruption of June 4th in 1979 have slowly crept back into our everyday life and arguably surpassed the obnoxious period preceding the June 4 event,» adding «our nation is once again grappling with the canker of widespread, extreme corruption that has permeated the whole of our society, including officialdom.»

He says the president's leadership style has been characterized by widespread corruption; inefficiency and mismanagement which is why many are not keen on seeing him as the torch bearer of the party in 2016.

On his part, Mr Babatunde Ogala, a former member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, noted that undue pressure placed on politicians by their constituents had also contributed to widespread corruption in the countrOn his part, Mr Babatunde Ogala, a former member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, noted that undue pressure placed on politicians by their constituents had also contributed to widespread corruption in the countron politicians by their constituents had also contributed to widespread corruption in the country.

Cuomo's declaration for governor is expected to be short on clichés and long on newsmaking specifics, addressing the state's widespread financial, economic, and corruption problems without resorting to what one Democratic activist called «the normal political pabulum.»

And despite the law, the NYPD — reeling from an era of widespread corruption in the 1970s — continued providing disciplinary records on officers to assure the public they were not returning to a time of covering up protection rackets and other types of untoward conduct.

On Monday morning, former Brooklyn Councilman Sal Albanese, the Reform Party mayoral candidate, called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate «widespread corruption in New York City's municipal government.&raquOn Monday morning, former Brooklyn Councilman Sal Albanese, the Reform Party mayoral candidate, called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate «widespread corruption in New York City's municipal government.&raquon Gov. Andrew Cuomo to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate «widespread corruption in New York City's municipal government.»

The top investigator at the New York Correction Department resigned on Friday under pressure from city leaders who are facing a federal mandate to regain control of the Rikers Island jail complex, where widespread brutality and corruption by guards routinely go unpunished.

Ovidiu Andronesi, an assistant professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, says he and many other members of one body, the National Research Council (NRC), learned they had been dismissed in an email received just before midnight on 31 January — almost at the same time as the government passed an emergency decree that decriminalized some corruption offences, sparking the widespread protests.

This go - round, the stakes are even higher, for he uncovers a widespread pattern of corruption indicating that the entire precinct might be in cahoots with the mobsters wreaking havoc on the local neighborhood.

The story is based on the Abscam sting operation that uncovered widespread political corruption in the late 1970s.

From lack of leadership, widespread corruption, incompetent management of state - owned entities, political shenanigans, the downgrade to junk status has placed more pressure on the an already fragile Rand and the consumer.