Sentences with phrase «public scandals over»

There will certainly be public scandals over some of the teaching in these schools.

Senator Mike Duffy was charged with crimes following a public scandal over his expense claims.

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The royal family have faced many scandals and other public scrutiny over the years, and they most certainly don't want another riff in the family due to a silly little board game.

In an era when Mark Zuckerberg can be called on the carpet by Senate investigators because of possible wrongdoing by Facebook over the Russian hacking scandal — and at a time when researchers are actively examining whether social media is psychologically, maybe even physically addictive — revenge porn as a public policy issue is on the ascent.

Wells Fargo & Co.'s attempt to force aggrieved customers into closed - door arbitration over its fake - accounts scandal is drawing a legislative backlash in its home state of California and risks subjecting the bank to another round as a public punching bag.

Winterkorn resigned soon after the scandal over polluting vehicles in the United States became public in September 2015.

Facebook has named a new head of U.S. public policy as the company deals with ongoing fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal and increasing pressure over privacy around the world.

He joins a growing list of male investors and tech executives who recently lost their jobs or faced public shaming over sexual harassment scandals as more women come forward to report incidents — a trend experts say is reshaping how Silicon Valley deals with allegations of inappropriate behavior.

Facebook board member Reed Hastings offered his first public comments on the scandal that has gripped Facebook over the last month — and cast the concerns about Facebook's algorithms and data as part of how any young company matures over time.

In the middle of its worst recession in 25 years, BBC also notes that Brazil is also suffering from a record public sector deficit, inflation of over 10 %, and a fragile investor mindset amidst the scandal surrounding Petrobras, the country's state - owned oil giant.

As the world watched Facebook hauled before the court of public opinion over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the sense of...

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg today (April 4) outlined the company's latest moves to address public fears over the extent of data scraping in a rare live Q&A with the media; updates that come as its privacy scandal rumbles on.

Despite a public culture committed to diversity and tolerance, anti-Catholicism has grown measurably worse among academics and intellectuals over the past decade — driven in equal parts by sexual abuse scandals, gay rights, resurgent atheism, and lingering historical prejudice.

The disproportion of public funds paid to the elderly as over against payments and services to children is a scandal, but almost nobody is scandalized.

CNN: Vatican shows rare public anger over leak The Vatican expressed rare public anger Wednesday in blasting the leaking of private papers from the pope's apartment, a scandal that observers say lifts the lid on a secret power struggle going on behind the closed doors of the Catholic Church.

But the public didn't pay much attention until an international scandal in the»70s over «killer baby bottles.»

Political parties in Belfast are in dispute over whether to hold a public inquiry into the scandal - which would have the power to compel witnesses to give evidence - or an investigation which would allow Stormont to set the terms and procedures.

Considering the fact that the Troopergate scandal, ignited by a scathing report from then - AG Cuomo, sparked the last public debate over the AG's public corruption powers, it's likely a plea to Spitzer's office to further strengthen Cuomo would have falled on deaf ears — to say the least.

RB: Think about the irony of the Murdoch press hacking scandal in the context of the bulk surveillance that we are discussing now, and the way that a public reckoning about that completely unacceptable intrusion into peoples» lives was neatly deflected into a fracas over whether or not regulation would curb the freedom of the press.

But the domestic scandal over tax avoidance — the outraged bluster of Margaret Hodge's mock trial of the Great Avoiders before the UK Public Accounts Committee; David Cameron's barely - veiled threat at Davos to corporations who needed to «wake up and smell the coffee»; UK Uncut's shop - floor protests — has done little damage to its targets.

Besides the fact that AV doesn't do much to stop this (in the safest seats, MPs tend to get big percentages of the vote anyway), it's another continuation of the idea that we can get reforms passed on the back of public anger towards MPs over the expenses scandal.

The «Truth in Spending» legislation (bill # pending) is a response to the numerous public corruption scandals that have rocked the state Capitol to its core over recent months through lack of transparency in budget allocations, due to shadow spending where some leaders and members gamed the system.

Addressing Labour's annual conference in Brighton, John McDonnell said it was a «scandal» that PFI deals will see nearly # 200 billion paid to private companies from the public sector over the next few decades.

The legislation, which is being drafted, is a response to the numerous public corruption scandals that have rocked the state Capitol to its core over recent months.

This more than anything reveals that the Labour Party have not learnt anything about what the public vocalised during the expenses scandal and remain tethered to the authoritarian instincts they displayed over the last 13 years.

In addition to the visible increase in people sleeping on sidewalks and relieving themselves in public, Taylor's two - year tenure was marred by a record - high shelter population and a scandal over $ 600,000 in renovations to the DHS offices.

Following the rightful public concern over the recent slate of scandals, the governor took action.»

The governors of New York and New Jersey exert influence over the authority's operations, however, as indicated in emails published recently by the public radio station WNYC, which show intense interaction between the Cuomo administration and Foye in the wake of the George Washington Bridge scandal.

The stringent new rules, which come in the wake of the expenses scandal, are likely to provoke further objections from MPs, but all three party leaders have indicated their willingness to uphold them, in a bid to allay public anger over the allowances debacle.

The New York Times and The New Yorker won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for breaking the Harvey Weinstein scandal with reporting that galvanized the #MeToo movement and set off a worldwide reckoning over sexual misconduct in the workplace.

The Trump administration is curbing New York City's ability to spend money on major repairs to its public housing stock in its first major response to deteriorating conditions in the city's public housing and a scandal over false paperwork the city submitted about lead paint inspections.

The state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics, or JCOPE, is believed to be discussing whether to investigate Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez and possibly the Assembly Speaker, over a sexual harassment scandal.

Yes, the public does want blood over the expenses scandal.

The procedures were used for what My Lyon described as «less serious» breaches of the rules regarding such matters as office stationery, but the public anger over expenses has moved Sir George to prevent any further damage to the standing of MPs, which is already at an all - time low following the scandal last year.

The expenses scandal of 2009 demonstrated that public opinion can be raised to boiling point over parliamentary misbehaviour, but little distinction was made in the media between serious fraud and accidental claims for single portions of dog food.

By that time, the anger over the expenses scandal had turned partly to boredom, the public becoming desensitised to the crookedness and low level criminality of their legislators.

The district has been scarred by scandal: Just over a year ago, former city councilman Miguel Martinez, seemingly one of the bright lights at City Hall, pleaded guilty to swiping more than $ 100,000 in public money.

In a joint Christmas Eve statement, the former New York governor and the woman who very generously stood next to him as he resigned over a prostitution scandal confirmed what everyone already knew: «We regret that our marital relationship has come to an end and we have agreed not to make any other public statement on this subject.»

Meanwhile, the system of public financing for presidential candidates that came into being after the Watergate scandal and that once was universally accepted and respected by those seeking the presidency has been systematically shredded over the course of the last four presidential campaigns.

While the public inquiries and police investigations means the story is far from over, the phone hacking scandal has at least stopped dominating the... (Comments: 0)

«It's very disappointing that the reform bill was not signed into law,» agreed Assemblyman James Brennan, a Brooklyn Democrat and sponsor of an identical reform bill in Albany, in a separate statement, adding that «each measure was aimed at providing greater transparency and accountability to an authority that has come under growing public scrutiny over the years, as abuses and scandals accumulated.»

ALBANY — Three weeks after Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration was engulfed in scandal over his office's handling of the Moreland Commission on Public Corruption, only a third of New Yorkers have heard of the now - defunct ethics panel.

The report accuses Herbert Teitelbaum, the executive director of the State Commission on Public Integrity, of repeated leaks over several months during the commission's investigation into the Spitzer administration's handling of the travel records of the longtime State Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, a scandal known in Albany as Troopergate.

In a series of interviews remarkable for their hostility toward Cuomo, several top Democrats well known to the public told The Post that should Clinton be forced to abandon her quest for the presidency by the scandal over her private State Department email accounts, there is no clear alternative for New Yorkers.

But the same people who are lecturing us on schadenfreude over the sackings were often the ones who reserved absolutely no sympathy for MPs» staff who lost their employment as a consequence of their bosses having their fingers in the public purse during the expenses scandal.

«These reasonable reforms address a scandal that affected over $ 1 billion in public funds and revealed profound systemic problems with how the state awards certain large contracts,» said the letter, sent Friday.

Amid the scandal over MPs» expenses, David Cameron said he was considering fixed - term parliaments and more public involvement in choosing parliamentary candidates.

They look at the governor, saying Cuomo has failed to capitalize on major public outcry over scandal and not used his bully pulpit to push reform.

They pay over $ 50.000 on AIDS money to produce this voguing ball and than use the door money as they please, its a huge scandal that the public yet needs to be educated about.

«I fear we may have not learned any lessons from this case and will face other and bigger public health scandals in the absence of adequate scientific and medical caution over the effects of new treatments on young people and future generations,» he says.