Sentences with phrase «police scandals of»

Set against a backdrop of the Rampart police scandals of the late Nineties, it takes as its target one (fictional) Los Angeles law enforcer and his towering demons.

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In between all the stories about drug use, police surveillance, and city councillors getting tackled by the mayor, there have been a few reports of otherwise innocent businesses getting swept up in the Ford scandal.

That would normally be an end of the matter, but not everyone is inclined to take Deutsche's compliance department at its word after a string of governance scandals in recent years that culminated in a $ 630 million settlement for failing to police money - laundering by its Moscow office last month.

A protester carries a caricature of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel during a march on Michigan Ave., calling for Emanuel and Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez to resign in the wake of a police scandal, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, in Chicago.

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne went into a 40 - day election campaign facing a Red Sea of troubles: a massive $ 12.5 - billion deficit, several spending scandals and a police investigation that reached all the way to the premier's office.

In February 2012, Wang Lijun, the police chief in the western city of Chongqing, fled to a U.S. consulate in southwest China with information about the murder of a British businessman, setting off China's biggest political scandal in years.

While Jay Y. Lee's prison term was suspended earlier this month, the company remained plagued by scandal — police said the elder Lee was suspected of a separate instance of evading taxes, Reuters reported.

The younger son of the media tycoon stepped down as the chairman of the - then BSkyB in 2012, forced out by his links to a scandal at the family's now - defunct News of the World newspaper which, among many other ethical outrages, hacked a murdered schoolgirl's phone in a search for its next story on the case, temporarily misleading the police and the girl's family into thinking she was still alive.

The scandal exploded collapsed this week after it was reported that the News of the World had hacked the mobile phone of 13 - year - old murder victim Milly Dowler in 2002 while her family and police were desperately searching for her.

Republican Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker announced reforms to the state's scandal - plagued state police earlier this month including the implementation of body cams, GPS vehicle...

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has been known to police itself since its inception, but in the wake of ongoing data breach scandal, the social media giant has decided to cut user some slack.

The stony - faced daughter of a Korean billionaire, whose older sister was brought low by the «nut rage» scandal, apologised Tuesday as she reported to police for questioning over allegations she sprayed a business associate in the face with fruit juice.

As the former MP for Keighley, the admirable Ann Cryer (who has been courageously campaigning on the issue for many years) said of the failure by police to act before now: «This is an absolute scandal.

January 31 — All five of London's Premier League clubs have been caught up in English football's historical child sex abuse scandal according to police.

The police in London and New York said they're looking into complaints involving the disgraced film producer — the latest turn in a scandal that has consumed Hollywood over allegations of sexual abuse and harassment.

Richard Davenport - Hines is a prolific author and Enemies Within must be seen alongside his last book An English Affair which covered the Profumo scandal and in which the author was rightly critical over the exaggerated behaviour of the press and the police.

When police started investigating the links between peerages and donations to political parties, it looked like a scandal that might topple a prime minister and hasten wholesale reform of Parliament's upper chamber.

Amid the rush of resignations at the peak of the phone - hacking scandal this summer was that of the Metropolitan police's commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson.

The scandal is not now about what a posh Tory Cabinet minister said, but the extent to which police officers conspired to push him out of power.

The Liberal Democrat most under threat from the shadow of scandal this year was energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne, who faces a police investigation over newspaper allegations that he tried to dodge speeding points on his licence.

The government is refusing to put pressure on the Metropolitan police's slow - paced investigation of the plebgate scandal, despite intense frustration from all sides of the Commons.

With the French police now investigating what appears to be a matter of lawbreaking, this is a scandal which might get worse and worse for the Cannock Chase MP come 2012.

The Suffolk Police Department hasn't been immune to scandal in recent years: Former Chief of Department James Burke, a Bellone appointee, is serving a 46 - month federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to assaulting a handcuffed suspect and conspiring to cover it up.

The Division of State Police has been racked by scandal in recent years, including Troopergate, when then - Gov.

Soares, as you'll recall, issued two separate Troopergate reports, neither of which recommended any criminal charges for key players in the scandal — although the second suggested former Gov. Eliot Spitzer had perhaps been «not truthful» about his role in the failed plot by his administration to use the State Police to discredit his then - political nemesis, ex-Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno.

Troopergate was one of the biggest political scandals in modern New York history, involving then - Democratic Gov. Spitzer, secretly (mis) using the State Police in a plot to destroy his leading political rival, then - Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, a Republican.

Without that immediate, and highly plausible, rebuttal, plebgate snowballed into a full scale scandal spawning a resignation, the revelation of a fake eyewitness account, arrests, inquiries, a Channel 4 documentary, a Scotland Yard investigation and demonstrations at the Tory Party conference, and involved the DPP, the CPS, the IPCC, the Diplomatic Protection Group, ACPO and the Police Federation, as well as drawing in all the party leaders, the home secretary and countless MPs.

The police officer investigating the cash for honours scandal has insisted the arrest of Lord Levy yesterday was not just a symbolic act to show he was serious.

The NPP MP claims Mr Anyidoho attempted to coerce a police officer to change the charge sheet of arrested drug baron Asem Darkey aka «Limping man», all in an attempt to implicate him (Ken) in a drug - related scandal a couple of years ago during the tenure of the late President John Evans Atta Mills.

Britain in 1963 — an Etonian prime minister of a Conservative government attempting to cope with social change and scandals involving ministers, journalists, the police, prostitutes, criminals and foreign powers.

The former chief whip is continuing his bid to drive back the scandal which forced him from office this autumn, after questions emerged about the validity of police claims about his brush with officers manning the Downing Street gate.

A Working Families Party official told State Police she attended a meeting at LoPorto's restaurant after news of the scandal broke and said McDonough started the meeting by stating: «I don't want to be a (expletive) but I want to make sure that this conversation isn't being recorded.

«I am being realistic about politics,» Paterson said, alluding to the scandal involving contacts he and members of his state police security detail had with a woman who was seeking a court restraining order against one of the governor's closest aides.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton revealed for the first time Thursday that arrests of NYPD cops would be the likely outcome of a corruption scandal that includes allegations of sex with prostitutes on a private jet.

Bratton's impending departure comes after he repeatedly helped push crime to its lowest levels in recent history — but amid an unfolding police corruption scandal that he's called the worst since the Knapp Commission revelations of the early 1970s.

Unrelated to previous hacking scandals, police said this latest investigation «will be making contact with people they believe have been victims of the suspected voicemail interceptions» in due course.

The main problem highlighted by the News of the World scandal was not that the press weren't regulated enough, but that police officers were not enforcing the existent laws.

This is not the first time the Conservatives have been accused of being too close to wealthy businessman while the last Labour government faced a police investigation over the cash for peerages scandal, and the Liberal Democrats have yet to pay back the money they received from convicted fraudster Michael Brown.

In a sign of how serious the scandal has become, the MP proceeded to accuse the Metropolitan Police of lying to parliament.

An NYPD sergeant is accusing the police department of covering up the worst sins in the 2015 Queens karaoke club corruption scandal, including a plot to frame a precinct commander for rape.

Police are considering re-interviewing several key Downing Street members of staff over the cash for honours scandal, it has emerged.

Meanwhile, the interdicted Director General in charge of Human Resource Development at the Ghana Police Service, COP Patrick Timbillah, has been fired in connection with the 2015 police recruitment scandal, ClassFMonline.com has lPolice Service, COP Patrick Timbillah, has been fired in connection with the 2015 police recruitment scandal, ClassFMonline.com has lpolice recruitment scandal, ClassFMonline.com has learnt.

Even more ridiculous is the spectacle of Conservative MPs and Conservative - leaning think - tankers trying to use the riots to back up the case for elected police commissioners — just like they did with the scandal over the Met's links to News International — without realising that the Met is precisely the one police force which is already very close to the elected commissioner model.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton revealed for the first time Thursday that arrests of NYPD cops would be the likely outcome of a corruption scandal that includes allegations of sex with...

In a scandal later called Troopergate, Spitzer's office had the state police investigate Bruno's use of official aircraft for political purposes — and then leaked the information to the press.

Corbitt retired from the State Police last year in the wake of a scandal involving Gov. David Paterson's handling of a staffer's domestic violence case.

Many things have not been touched upon, like: a cash for access scandal with David Cameron's chief fundraiser offering dinner for donors at Downing Street; the sacking of soldiers by email; aircraft carriers without aircraft; Andrew Mitchell effing and blinding at police officers; and the shambolic handling of the west coast railway contract that will cost taxpayers # 40 million.

Johnson did not rule out the possibility of MPs going to jail as a result of the expenses scandal, saying only: «The police are investigating at least three of our colleagues and we will have to see how it goes.»

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Mr. Tagoe was recently embroiled in the attempts by the government and the Ghana Police to cover up the corruption scandal involving two deputy Chiefs of Staff at Korlebu, Francis Asenso Boakye and Samuel Abu Jinapor.