Sentences with phrase «scandals of late»

Set against a backdrop of the Rampart police scandals of the late Nineties, it takes as its target one (fictional) Los Angeles law enforcer and his towering demons.

The former CFO of Wyckoff Heights Medical Center is suing the hospital for severance pay after he was fired in the wake of the bribery scandal of late Richmond Hill state Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio.

This area has seen perhaps the two worst corruption scandals of Labour history - the Poulson scandal of the late 60s and early 70s, and the Donnygate affair of the 1990s, which saw at least 21 Doncaster councillors convicted of fraud and other crimes.

With Hollywood so distracted by both Trump and the film industry sex scandal of late, I fear there might not be time to thank a single mum / mom during acceptance speeches this year.

He is currently filming Russell's followup, American Hustle, which is due out at the end of the year; it's based on the ABSCAM scandal of the late 70s / early 80s.

Loosely based on the ABSCAM scandal of the late «70s, «American Hustle» is immensely entertaining, impeccably structured and features top - notch acting from the entire cast.

Loosely based on the ABSCAM scandal of the late»70s and early»80s, Russell has adapted what was an already outlandish story into a»70s - styled farce filled with a flying circus of conmen, feds, politicians and casino mobsters.

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Mitchell, later disgraced during the Watergate scandal, included marijuana on the list of drugs with no medical benefit and a high probability of abuse and addiction.

The Facebook - Cambridge Analytica scandal is the latest of many incidents in recent years that have left consumers jittery about the security of their online personal information.

Jackson's failed nomination is the latest instance of staff turmoil in President Donald Trump's administration, which has seen record turnover and a series of personnel scandals.

Leslie Dan's latest company, Viventia Bio, looked all set for a robust 2015 and 2016 before a series of scandals at Valeant Pharmaceuticals brought Canada's whole biotech and pharma sector crashing down.

The world learned of the scandal about two weeks later, when the EPA issued a formal notice of violation relating to nearly 500,000 2.0 - liter diesel cars — stretching across seven model years and three generations of exhaust - treatment configuration.

The latest political scandal to hit Brazil is likely to put an end to President Michel Temer's term before the end of 2018, an analyst told CNBC on Monday.

The FTC's reported investigation into Facebook is the latest development in a scandal involving Cambridge Analytica, which The New York Times and The Guardian in explosive reports over the weekend revealed had access to the information of 50 million Facebook users.

After an accounting scandal in the late 1990s, Hammergren, a then 40 - year - old of modest upbringing from small - town Minnesota, was named co-CEO.

Yet Republicans have found themselves largely unable to capitalize on the moment, consumed instead by the latest scandal of their nominee, a video showing Trump admitting to making predatory and lewd advances on women.

Before Congress in late September, he denied that the scandal was as grave as they saw it — fanning their ire, leading the bank to clawback a portion of his pay.

The firm closed its latest fund, a massive $ 3.3 billion, last May, just as the Valley's harassment scandals were starting to mount — but before they gained real attention from the bulk of the tech world.

A ballooning sexual harassment scandal in Westminster claimed its first victim late Monday as Secretary of State for Defense Michael Fallon, saying his conduct had fallen below the high standards demanded of his position.

The merger later became the center of a corruption scandal involving Samsung's chief and led to jail time for South Korea's former president.

Graham's integrity was credited with salvaging the reputation of broadcast evangelism in the dark days of the late 1980s, after scandals befell TV preachers Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker.

Zuckerberg's second day of testimony kicked off with statements from Rep. Greg Walden (R — OR) and Rep. Frank Pallone (D — NJ) addressing their concerns in light of Facebook's latest data scandal.

«I do think he will get a significant reduction but I think he will still be incarcerated for the foreseeable near future,» said Hilder, whose clients included Sherron Watkins, who famously warned Lay in late August 2001 that Enron could «implode in a wave of accounting scandals.»

The latest news in the unfolding scandal embroiling actor - director - writer Nate Parker is that the Toronto International Film Festival said it still plans to host the international premiere of Parker's already highly - lauded film, The Birth of a Nation, next month.

It is a uniquely modern question prompted by the dovetailing of Apple's new technology, which uses a fingerprint - based Touch ID to unlock the latest iPhone, and the heightened focus on government intrusion and surveillance of emails and communications, as demonstrated by the National Security Agency scandal.

Three months later, there was this scandal of guards at Guantánamo flushing the Koran down the toilet.

Kalanick resigned as CEO in late July, after a number of scandals blew up around the company, but still sits on Uber's board.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears to be striking the right tone at the f8 developer conference — a mix of humor, seriousness and grit that is giving industry analysts some confidence he can navigate the company out of its latest privacy scandal.

On the evening of April 21, 2005, Paul Martin addressed the nation on the matter of the sponsorship scandal — the great shame that would rightly bring an end to that Liberal government nine months later.

Analysts are angry over the latest Wells Fargo scandal where hundreds of thousands of customers were required to buy auto insurance they did not need.

In the latest turn of the developing scandal around how Facebook's user data wound up in the hands of Cambridge Analytica — for use in the in development in psychographic profiles that may or may not have played a part in the election victory of Donald Trump — the company has taken the unusual step of suspending the account of the whistleblower who helped expose the issues.

In the latest instalment, Kinsella and his Progressive Group colleague Mark Jiles are at the centre of B.C.'s scandal of the moment, thanks to a report by the 24 Hours newspaper that uncovered documents from Washington State where the pair bragged about their company's close connections with members of the provincial and federal governments, as well as the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee.

Mozilla has announced it's suspending its advertising on Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica privacy controversy — saying it has concerns the current default privacy settings remain risky, and having decided to take a fresh look at Facebook's app permissions following the latest user data handling scandal.

This scandal is only the latest in a string of worrisome disclosures about the use of social media by third parties, from foreign governments and electoral candidates to law enforcement agencies, to spy on the activities of users — especially immigrant, Black and other vulnerable communities.

Just like a thorough vetting of cabinet nominees could have foreseen the scandals that later emerged, a thorough vetting and review process for the monster tax cut legislation would have cautioned against such radical moves in the face of massive maturing supply, a trimming Fed, and a debt - strapped consumer that is seeing higher interest rates on mortgages and credit cards as a result of the spike in rates.

But this latest scandal is simply business as usual for Woodfibre LNG, which is owned by the notorious Indonesian billionaire, Sukanto Tanoto, whose companies have a history of tax evasion, animal rights violations and human rights offences.

And more importantly, it's a little too early to see the impact of Cambridge Analytica files on Facebook's business as the scandal surfaced late in the first quarter.

SAN FRANCISCO — In the latest sexual harassment scandal to shake Silicon Valley, the co-founder of a venture capital firm resigned this week after six women accused him of making unwelcome advances ranging from late - night texts to groping.

It is the latest scandal to reflect the severity of the mainland's shadow banking problem and banks» lax management of their branches.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, called Facebook's latest privacy scandal a «danger signal.»

Still, the famous long - termist did take a measured look at the scandal, and has only sold the bank's stock of late so that Berkshire could get below 10 % ownership, the threshold that would turn Berkshire into a bank holding company.

Wells Fargo has run into problems of late following a scandal, revealed last September, in which thousands of its employees opened millions of fake accounts for unwitting customers over a decade and a half, if not longer.

Warren accused Sloan of breaking his promise to customers since he took over as CEO in late 2016 after a fake accounts scandal burst into the headlines.

Mutual Fund The history of Mutual Funds has been recorded and established in the late 1700's with many, setbacks, market corrections and not without it's scandals and complications is prepared to reinvent itself at the pace of the savvy investor and the quick and demanding growth of the Internet.

Five years later, in the summer of 2005, Boeing, which had been rocked by scandals, was on the hunt for a squeaky - clean chief executive.

Musk also deleted the Facebook pages of both SpaceX and Tesla following the site's latest user data scandal:

But last month, the latest Facebook scandal turned up the heat on Mr. Zuckerberg, when it was disclosed that Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm connected to President Trump's 2016 campaign, improperly obtained the personal data of what Facebook now estimates to be up to 87 million of its users.

The latest on Facebook Having trouble keeping track of all the Facebook news spiraling out of its user privacy scandal?

In part, this outcome reflects the continuing headwinds arising from the unwinding of the excesses of the late 1990s and the reduced appetite for risk by executives following the corporate governance scandals.

Suppliers need to be more diligent in their data protection and much prompter about reporting breaches; the scandal in which Uber took 13 months to reveal a hack of 57 million customer records was only the latest reminder.