Sentences with phrase «problem of corruption»

«There's a deep problem of corruption in Albany,» U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Monday.

Dick Dadey, Executive Director of Citizens Union, said: «Public leaders» meetings on ethics reform are so necessary to ensure that big effective solutions are considered, negotiated, and agreed to, as New Yorkers wait to see how our state's political leaders propose preventing the growing problem of corruption.»

«There's no doubt now... there's a deep problem of corruption in Albany,» Bharara said on WNYC's «Brian Lehrer Show.»

The Tory MP argued that recent episodes of electoral fraud in local contests illustrate a wider problem of corruption whereby votes are cast in other people's names.

With more than 30 state lawmakers who have been embroiled in legal or ethical dilemmas since 2000, the state needs an independent watchdog with subpoena powers to not only examine individual instances of wrongdoing, but also to propose solutions to systemic problems of corruption that plague New York.

A similar problem of corruption arises in any institution that depends on financial support from people who have interests that may conflict with the primary purpose of the institution.

Returning to China was also hard, but, she says, despite all the social problems of corruption, pollution, food safety and the increasing gap between rich and poor, she thinks China now has the creative energy that New York had back then.

It seems unlikely that these countries could run a cap - and - trade system without pervasive problems of corruption and evasion.

The problem of corruption is a tough nut to crack.

Let's continue to take a closer look at candidates running for office, and those already elected to office, because to fix the problem of corruption in high places we need people of good character serving the people of these United States.

«Public corruption has a massive opportunity cost, and it is a cost that no one can afford anymore... the problem of corruption in New York is systemic, not merely episodic.»

Two anti-corruption bodies on the continent, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and the National Anti-Corruption Commission of the Republic of Cameroon (NACC) have called for the creation of an African «convention against corruption'to tackle the problems of corruption in Africa.

I think the last election showed Sienna doesn't know too much and I'm not defending anyone just saying banning outside income does nothing to solve the problem of corruption in Albany.

«With New York's two previous legislative leaders convicted of corruption, and at least 33 legislators in the past 16 years having left office due to scandal, we know how bad the problem of corruption is and how poor our actions have been to combat it,» the letter states.

Oversight is a no - brainer when it comes to solving the problem of corruption.

31 %, however, say they are adding to the problem of corruption.

But, he also adds, it would not solve the problem of corruption in Albany.

The Roman rulers used to distract the populace from the problems of corruption and decadence with «bread and circuses.»

There is also the problem of corruption.

(SOURCE: World Econom - ic Forum) Once dismissed as en - demic, chronic and in - tractable, the problem of corruption is starting to be addressed through - out Latin America.