Sentences with phrase «questions at the corruption»

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The question now, according to Wolfango Piccoli, an analyst at Teneo Intelligence who follows Italian politics, is whether Salvini will emerge as the new leader of Italy's centre - right bloc, therefore replacing Berlusconi, the former premier who was forced to step down from high office following a slew of sex and corruption scandals.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — More than 200 people have been summoned for questioning, and most are still detained, in a wide - ranging crackdown that Saudi Arabia says is aimed at rooting out corruption and reclaiming embezzled funds, the government said Thursday.

Today's testimony at the corruption trial of a former top aide to Cuomo, Joe Percoco, has been canceled due to the illness of a defense lawyer whose questioning last week led to the arrest of the prosecution's star witness, Todd Howe.

Saladino faced four opponents: Democrat and former Syosset school board president Marc Herman, who questioned Saladino's commitment to reform, as did John Mangelli, who narrowly lost to Venditto in 2015 as a Democrat and ran on the Reform line; Jonathan Clarke, an attorney running on the Progressive line; and Robert Ripp, a frequent critic of Saladino at town board meetings who ran on the End Corruption line.

The trial also raised questions about the structure of Albany and what some good - government advocates see as a culture of corruption at the Capitol.

He added: «The Silver case is right at the fault line for some of the difficult questions that have been raised by the courts about what exactly constitutes public corruption.»

Bratton refused to take questions about the corruption probe at an unrelated event Sunday in Brooklyn.

New York's Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption pointedly critiqued the agency at a Manhattan hearing, questioning its enforcement efforts and the dual - party nature of its very structure.

ALBANY — Speaking at New York University earlier this month, Governor Andrew Cuomo claimed corruption in Albany «will reoccur unless we have total disclosure that leaves no question unanswered and brings sunlight to the ethical shadows.»

Former Bloomberg aide Bradley Tusk, who has made it his mission to unseat de Blasio in next years elections, is challenging him to answer questions about his relationship with the two campaign donors at the center of the cop corruption scandal.

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.»

Michael Goodwin: «With subpoenas issued, investigations spreading and at least one federal grand jury at work, the question isn't whether Bill de Blasio's administration has a corruption problem.

At the corruption trial of Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, an ex-supervisor of the senator's son, Adam, testified that he had been threatened by the younger Skelos after questioning his work attendance.

One group, New Yorkers Against Corruption, has begun questioning the cost of a convention — estimated in the tens of millions of dollars — whether delegates would be the same political insiders who pull levers at the Capitol and just what amendments could come out of a convention process.

State Sen. James Sanders (D - Jamaica) decided last week that the question of conspiracy or corruption was far better - suited for an open, frank and free - wheeling debate before nearly 200 people at the Black Spectrum Theatre in Roy Wilkins Park in Jamaica.

One answer to Quinn's question: Progressives believe (with some cause) that Cuomo has abetted GOP control of the State Senate by coddling the turncoat Democrats of the IDC and approving gerrymandered district maps that aid upstate Republicans — and (with indisputable cause) that Albany is a bastion of corruption where well - heeled interests (most conspicuously, New York City developers) can purchase favors at bargain prices.

During his ninth day on the stand at Mangano's corruption trial, Singh, during questioning by the defense, said, «I raised a lot of money for [former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor] John Venditto, Ed Mangano and Bill de Blasio.»

Orange County Democrats fired a third salvo at state Sen. Bill Larkin on Monday over the question of banning the outside income some state lawmakers earn in the private sector — an issue likely to be taken up in the coming legislative session after the recent corruption convictions of former legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos.

The non-endorsement comes after Mayor Bill de Blasio's ethics are once again being called into question after a donor testified at a corruption trial of union boss Norman Seabrook how he was able to secure influence and face time with the mayor after contributing to his campaign.

First the mayor was questioned for nearly two hours by Manhattan prosecutors over his fund - raising for state Senate elections — and now Hizzoner has agreed to talk to the feds because he wants to convince them to stop investigating him for possible corruption at City Hall, it was reported Friday.

Real questions alluded to in the News» editorial: 1) How much did Cuomo know about the targets of the Commission's investigations; 2) When did he know it; and 3) Did he bargain away, ie, shutter the Commission — at the insistence of Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos — in his own political self - interest; and 4) What legislation (including budget bills, ie, «the big ugly»), if any, were tainted by Silver's alleged corruption?

A federal investigation into corruption in Suffolk County, N.Y., law enforcement has expanded, as the Justice Department examines at least a half - dozen cases to determine whether political considerations influenced decisions made by the Suffolk district attorney's office, according to two people in law enforcement and three who have been questioned by the Justice Department.

At the time there was question on whom Gov. Cuomo was protecting from the corruption commission.

Andrew Goldstein, chief of the public corruption unit, and his deputy Tatiana Martins were among at least four assistant US attorneys to question de Blasio at the Midtown office of his lawyer, Barry Berke.

During a question - and - answer portion of the event, NY1 host Errol Louis asked Mr. Bharara — well known for going after Wall Street banks, political corruption and most recently Rikers Island in his Southern District office — if he was interested in any recent job openings at DOJ.

Around the same time Bill de Blasio was calling for a ban on member items to cut down on the sort of corruption outlined in yesterday's federal complaint againt two Queens politicians, Christine Quinn was taking questions from the press at a library near City Hall.

If you look at, for example, corruption in the military, from military procurement, obviously the only individuals responsible for that could be persons who had held office within the period in question and that has been done and clearly the opposition was not in the office at that time.

Kenneth E. Riddett, who was legislative counsel to the Senate majority for many years, took the stand Tuesday at Bruno's federal trial on corruption charges and spent hours answering questions about the lawmaker's financial disclosure forms that are at the heart of the government's case.

My question is: did we see flawed ratings of CDOs, CMBS etc. because of moral corruption and complacency at the ratings agencies, or because risk is by its very nature hard to model?

This first volume in the series looks at Mann, the hockey stick's dramatic rise, its trashing of history, mishandling of data and risible statistical processes, and the bigger issues that arose in its wake: the politicization and then corruption of science, and the thuggish retaliation meted out to scientists brave enough to question it.

So now the question is no longer about what would have prompted questions about skeptic scientists» funding to come up at «an obscure utility hearing in Minnesota», it's about why an assistant A.G. would insert material into a public hearing against some of its expert science witnesses concerning an industry corruption insinuation based on a suggestion coming from a private citizen who had nothing to do with the topic at all just eight or so weeks earlier.

Increasing allegations of corruption and profiteering are raising serious questions about the UN-run carbon trading mechanism aimed at cutting pollution and rewarding clean technologies By Patrick McCully The world's biggest carbon offset market, the Kyoto Protocol's clean development mechanism (CDM), is run by the UN, administered by the World Bank, and is intended to reduce -LSB-...]

Since I am no philosopher, I'm not going to explore at just which point enlightened self - interest crosses the line into corruption, but a careful reading of the ClimateGate releases makes it clear that this is not an academic question.»

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