Sentences with phrase «played at the corruption»

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«It shows that the Chinese government acknowledges the extremely high levels of corruption at play within the Chinese government - owned mining company MCC,» Huffman said.

Since the unveiling a year ago, Roma have made some slow progress on the new facility The mafia corruption scandal at city hall played in their favor, neutralizing their opponents on the council and empowering Mayor Ignazio Marino, a surgeon who studied in the United States and whose outsider status in Roman politics kept him clear of the dirty business.

The split verdict is nevertheless a blow to Cuomo, who had took office in 2011 on a pledge to rid Albany of corruption and change the culture of pay to play at the Capitol.

NYC real estate developer and mega-donor Leonard Litwin, who made an art of exploiting the so - called LLC loophole and whose company, Glenwood Management, played a big role in the corruption scandal involving former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, has died at the age of 102.

The recording was played at the federal corruption trial of Skelos and his son on Wednesday, Nov, 18, 2015.

But if he can't, the governor didn't sound like he's in a forgiving mood, even if some of the legislative skepticism stems from the corruption charges that have been filed over an alleged pay - to - play scheme at key Buffalo Billion projects.

I will continue to point out that at this time the most stalwart champion for continued pay to play corruption in NY State remains Senator John Flanagan.

Corruption rewards those who do not play by the rules and also creates a system of distortion and diversion thereby destroying all efforts at constructive, just and fair governance.»

Regardless of how the WFP pyschodrama plays out, the Green Party will remain the choice this November for progressives who support a $ 15 an hour minimum wage, living wage jobs, climate action, strong public schools, and an end to corruption at the State Capitol.»

Jurors at the corruption trial of a former top aide to Gov. Cuomo saw photos on Tuesday of the governor palling around with a co-defendant charged in a «pay - to - play» bribery...

During his legislative campaign, Hart gave plastic handcuffs to commuters at train stations to draw attention to public corruption, and showed up at a GOP golf fundraiser to protest pay - to - play practices.

Jurors at the corruption trial of a former top aide to Gov. Cuomo saw photos on Tuesday of the governor palling around with a co-defendant charged in a «pay - to - play» bribery scheme involving a state - funded revitalization project upstate.

Senate IDC Leader Jeff Klein is throwing the kitchen sink at the problem of pay - to - play corruption after one of his own conference members, Sen. Malcolm Smith, was arrested last week and accused of attempting to bribe his way onto the New York City mayoral ballot so he could run as a Republican.

The IDC, (minus Sen. Tony Avella, who's testifying), issued a statement in response to questions about a wiretapped conversation played yesterday at the federal corruption trial of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, saying (in part): «We can not speculate on the motives of Sen. Skelos.»

Skelos was so furious at Cuomo's adoption of anti-fracking rules last Dec. 17 that kept Adam from cashing in that the two discussed a possible run for governor by the senator to «kick» Cuomo's behind, according to a wiretap played at their federal corruption trial.

A former Queens city councilman took the stand at his own corruption trial Thursday, and tried to play the sympathy card.

«Our investigation thus far reveals a pay - to - play political culture driven by large checks, anemic enforcement of the weak laws we have on the books, and loopholes and workarounds that make those laws weaker still,» says the report, which was released today at 6:05 p.m. by the Cuomo - appointed Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption.

Skelos also said he would direct the county on how to spend $ 17 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency funds for post-superstorm Sandy flood mitigation, according to the wiretapped conversation played Tuesday at the federal corruption trial of Skelos and his father, Sen. Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre).

FBI agents caught former GOP State Senate Leader Dean Skelos on tape discussing plans to challenge Gov. Andrew Cuomo and to keep the Senate Democrats «at each other's throats» by maintaining an alliance with the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference — and those tapes were played today at the ongoing corruption trial of Mr. Skelos and his son, Adam.

Regardless of how the WFP pyschodrama plays out, the Green Party will remain the choice this November for progressives who support a $ 15 an hour minimum wage, living wage jobs, climate action, strong public schools, and an end to corruption at the State Capitol,» said Howie Hawkins, the Green nominee for Governor.

Jim Heaney tells Susan Arbetter of The Capitol Pressroom there's a «corruption coalition» at play in Albany that explains the failure of the state Legislature to reform New York's troubled economic development programs.

Sadly, whereas there are agreements by everyone of the need to put anti-corruption war at the top of the agenda, the 8th National Assembly has been playing the role of a Janus and in the typical character of the famed double - faced Roman myth — the 8th Assembly has one face where it speaks of the importance of anti-corruption and another face, a face and symbol of corruption.

Obasanjo while playing host to members of the Correspondents Chapel, the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Ogun State Chapter, at his hilltop residence in Abeokuta on Sunday, said; ``... Our judges must be committed in fighting corruption.

After years of enabling his corruption, playing along with a system that put everything up for sale and excusing gross misconduct, the Democrats are standing with the strongman at whose knee they have worshipped.

Almost monolithic in its implacable grimness, Denis Villeneuve's Sicario has every element at play serving the same consistent vision of hellish corruption.

Eventually, a job goes wrong and he runs afoul of the cops, including Bradley Cooper's hero cop, who must struggle against the corruption of his unit at the hands of Ray Liotta in the second act, only to jump ahead a generation to follow Cooper's son and a friend at high school, played by Emory Cohen and Dane DeHaan, respectively.

Both films are about media corruption, with Buscemi playing journalists at opposite ends of the food chain.

Paul Sorvino essentially tones down his Goodfellas performance, playing with less gravitas a mob hood who draws a line at anti-American corruption.

The film details the last three months of the life of the director (played here by Massimo Ranieri), when he was completing Salò, writing Petrolio (an exposé about political corruption at the highest level), and becoming involved with Pino Pelosi.

The Criminal Investigations Division of the French Police — their Scotland Yard — is located at the eponymous address, and played host to a story of inhouse politics and corruption of significant scale in the late 80s.

Moral dilemmas, tragedy, and corruption constantly pull and tear at every character and play out in surprising ways.

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The 1.4 billion Chinese are also just wanting what we have and with the current corruption power play amingst the big boys probably couldn't give a damn about climate change so long as the big wheels at the top don't start using the lower status masses as tools to fight their own political games.

Anti-malware programs do not usually play well together, and running two at the same time can often lead to one identifying the other as a virus, or in some cases, file corruption.

Governor Blagojevich has been arrested in the middle of what we can only describe as a political corruption crime spree... Blagojevich and others were working feverishly to get as much money from contractors, shaking them down, pay to play, before the end of the year... At the end of the day, the conduct we have before us is appalling... His press - conference sidekick, the FBI's Rob Grant, was almost as good: If it isn't the most corrupt state in the United States, it's certainly one hell of a competitor... the FBI agents that participated in this wiretap investigation, were thoroughly disgusted and revolted by what they heard, and I think even the most cynical agents in our office were shocked...