Sentences with phrase «public campaign against corruption»

Mr. Bharara has been waging a public campaign against corruption in Albany, and his efforts appear to have gained momentum since his office took over the files of the Moreland Commission, an anticorruption panel that Mr. Cuomo created in 2013 and then shut down last year.

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Former Attorney General and avowed critique of the John Mahama administration Martin Alamisi Amidu has confessed that his anti- corruption campaign against John Dramani Mahama and his appointees were based on mere public perception.

In response to the recent corruption cases against public officials which continue to rock state and local offices, and perhaps in an effort to distance himself from the corruption which ensnared a member of his own small network of close colleagues, Senator David Carlucci (D - Rockland / Ossining) joined Executive Assistant District Attorney Itamar Yegeri to announce a comprehensive plan which aims to prevent campaign finance improprieties through new regulations on campaign spending and donations.

The conviction of Mr. Silver, 72, served as a capstone to a campaign against public corruption by Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, which has led to more than a dozen state lawmakers» being convicted or pleading guilty.

And like Silver, he was brought down by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's campaign against public corruption.

G. Steven Pigeon is questioning the independence of a veteran judge, the latest chapter in a campaign to discredit the public corruption case against him.

More substantively, Bawumia has been the NPP campaign's leading voice on the economy, economic policy, and public finance and has also led the charge against the project - related corruption and cronyism in the Mahama administration.