Sentences with phrase «rampant corruption»

A year ago, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced with much fanfare that he was forming an investigatory panel, known as the Moreland Commission, to address reports of rampant corruption in Albany.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo saved his ethics proposals for the last stop of his State of the State tour in Albany, where he released a 10 - point plan to address rampant corruption that has reached his own administration.

It's the story of an ambitious immigrant and his wife (Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain) who risk everything to expand their business despite dealing with rampant corruption and street violence.

Nonetheless, Red Riding: 1974 (d. Julian Jarrold) and Red Riding: 1980 (d. James Marsh) are both terrific policiers (I am yet to see the third film) dramatising the investigation of the famous Yorkshire Ripper case, and its compromising by rampant corruption in the police force and within the community.

Recently former president Fernando de la Rúa was charged with bribing senators in the 2000 election and current president Cristina Kirchner has faced harsh public criticism over rampant corruption as well.

Cuomo created the ethics commission under the state's Moreland Act a little over a year ago amidst rampant corruption rampant in the legislature, that included a string of indictments, resignations and jailings of lawmakers.

Cuomo created the ethics commission under the state's Moreland Act a little over a year ago amidst rampant corruption rampant in the legislature, that included a string of indictments, resignations and jailing of lawmakers.

Warner was one of the central figures nabbed in an investigation by the United States Department of Justice that found rampant corruption throughout the highest levels of FIFA leadership.

New York was recently reminded how rampant corruption is in the state after the arrest of two state lawmakers in separate bribery scandals.

Greenberg says New Yorkers don't seem to be that interested in the process, they just want to see an end result, a crack down on rampant corruption that's led to multiple arrests, indictments, and imprisonments of state lawmakers in recent years.

I suggest the Governor raise the bar a little an admit rampant corruption is neither normal or tolerable at any level of government.

«In the»70s, then - Governor Rockefeller appointed a special prosecutor, Maurice Nadjari, to look into rampant corruption in New York City,» he continued.

Blair Horner, director of the good - government group, said a cap on outside income would follow the model set by Congress and is the easiest way to solve Albany's rampant corruption scandals.

Widely criticized for their depictions of police violence against residents of Rio de Janeiro's favelas, Brazilian director Jose Padilha's wildly successful Elite Squad and Elite Squad: The Enemy Within represented a fascinating diptych, an attempt to tick the boxes of the police procedural while probing rampant corruption and abuse of power.

Amid rampant corruption and tightening city purse strings, whatever conclusion Brownlaw comes to, the city of San Diego — and Brownlaw's life — hangs in the balance.

I was heartened to see an editorial in The Wall Street Journal push Cambodia (and its supporters, including the United States and international donors) to fight rampant corruption under which «hundreds of thousands of Cambodians have endured land grabs and evictions.»

It's nice to fret about how the administration of the climate megabucks will need to be monitored and policed in order to avoid rampant corruption.

Governor Andrew Cuomo saved his ethics proposals for the last stop of his State of the State tour in Albany, where he released a 10 - point plan to address rampant corruption that has reached his own administration.

In an effort to deal with rampant corruption and rising deforestation, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has reviewed and canceled some 60 % of logging contracts in the country.

Muhammadu Buhari was elected as Nigeria's president on a promise to root out rampant corruption in government that has seen billions of dollars of public money stolen over decades.

The opposition says Maduro's failed economic policies and rampant corruption are to blame for the meltdown in the once booming country home to the world's largest crude reserves.

The detentions highlight the growing difficulties for foreign oil firms amid a deepening economic crisis in Venezuela, allegations of rampant corruption, a power struggle within PDVSA and an increasingly authoritarian government.

While it has some of the lowest labor costs in the developing world, Bangladesh, with rampant corruption, congested roads and frequent unrest, is a tough place to do business.

Honestly, I'm not sure why most of them stick around with the rampant corruption and lack of morals that's gone on in that church forever (and continues to be allowed and covered up).

Yet look at all of our politicians and the state of this country... rampant corruption, greed, and immorality.

We have rampant corruption and abuse in our Gurdewara, we have the largest number of female fotiece abortion in India and probably in the rest of the world, we have Gurdewara's based on caste, we have the highest rate alcoholism in England (highest of liver damage), being born and raised in the UK, the girls are now drinking more then the guys.

So Attiwapiskat declared emergency, and yet, due to the complexity of the Indian Act, treaties, government red tape, and the general consensus that there is «plenty of money being thrown at» the First Nations so there must be rampant corruption and mismanagement, very little was actually accomplished.

As Kelly sought to eliminate basketball at Tulane, a 44 - member NCAA presidents» commission was preparing its own, presumably less dire proposals to deal with the rampant corruption in college athletics.

Despite its impressive performance in terms of some key socioeconomic indicators such as school enrolment and gender parity in enrolment — the exact causes of which are unclear given Bangladesh's debilitating politics and rampant corruption — the combined force of the structural problems is likely to prove insurmountable.

Discontent with rampant corruption and flagrant political preferment has become increasingly vociferous, both from some of those within the ruling regime and in the wider Yemeni public.

Grandeau says despite the rampant corruption, all of the cases against lawmakers in recent years have stemmed from federal prosecutions, not state ethics authorities.

«I'm running for the state senate to take on the rampant corruption in Albany and the fiscal mismanagement that has produced a multi-billion dollar budget deficit and the highest taxes in the nation,» Schorr said.

«We need a pledge from the next attorney general that they will no longer look the other way and investigate the rampant corruption of the Cuomo administration starting in the Executive Chamber and Division of Criminal Justice Services.»

Observer conveniently overlooks the rampant corruption in the legislature and the fact that they have been bought lock, stock, and barrel by the special interests in the healthcare and education lobbies.

«Virtually nothing has been done to address rampant corruption,» said Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb.

«Meanwhile, New Yorkers continue to suffer under his rampant corruption, highest taxes and worst economic outlook in the nation.

In particular, the rampant corruption in state government would be stomped out by a Gov. Trump, Paladino said.

Public financing by itself does nothing to rein in the rampant corruption in Albany, and instead provides yet another pot of taxpayer money for the Albany elite to game and loot.

That sort of attack would just deflect away from the real issues, like the rampant corruption in Albany.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo saved his ethics proposals for his last stop of his State of the State tour, in Albany, where he released a ten point plan to address rampant corruption that has reached his own administration.

These are the same GOPers who seem to forget they voted for hundreds of spending and tax increases throughout the 90s and 2000s; this is the party of Joe Bruno and Guy Valella and rampant corruption.

Governor Cuomo saved his ethics proposals for his last stop of his State of the State tour, in Albany, where he released a 10 - point plan to address rampant corruption that has reached his own administration.

«While he's worried about sleeping on 500 thread count sheets on his campaign account's dime, rampant corruption has gone on right under his nose.

Grandeau says that, despite the rampant corruption, all of the cases against lawmakers in recent years have stemmed from federal prosecutions, not state ethics authorities.

In September, it was revealed that Yassky was seeking to fill the state Senate seat vacated by Daniel Squadron, who abruptly resigned over the rampant corruption and «cynical political deals» infesting state government.