Sentences with phrase «other public corruption scandals»

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NEW YORK — An undercover FBI agent who snared Malcolm Smith and other politicians in a public corruption scandal posed as a wealthy investor of Indian descent named Raj who promised to grease wheels into City Hall and beyond, sources said.

Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, which supports many of the measures opposed by Senate Republicans, said there are other reforms that can be achieved with a GOP Senate, and he said a corruption scandal involving Republicans in the state Senate stronghold of Long Island could spur them to action in the new session.

Prominent Democrats were on the defensive in both public episodes — one a legislative controversy, the other a trial in Hartford Superior Court — relating to the clean - election program established a decade ago by the Democrat - controlled General Assembly after a corruption scandal sent Republican Gov. John G. Rowland to federal prison.

Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, which supports many of the measures opposed by Senate Republicans, says there are other reforms that can be achieved with a GOP Senate, and he says a corruption scandal involving Republicans in the State Senate stronghold of Long Island could spur them to action in the new session.

The judge seemed to acknowledge the spate of graft scandals, saying she wanted «other politicians to learn from this sentence that public corruption will be punished.»

Dr Lawrence McNamara, deputy director of the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, writing in this week's NLJ, said the levels of public perception of corruption were «not out of kilter» with other common law countries, and could be explained by recent scandals in Parliament, the BBC and other institutions.