Sentences with phrase «systemic corruption in»

Personally, I do not see any timely solution to the problem of systemic corruption in these countries.

Here an unconventional would - be pugilist goes up again systemic corruption in India's national boxing circuit, and on an even large scale, the entire countries caste system.

Rarely one to dabble in state politics, Gibson in a strongly worded post on his Facebook page on Wednesday, also dropped a proximity fuse on Gov. Andrew Cuomo for failing to deal with systemic corruption in Albany.

In 2013, Governor Cuomo established the Moreland Commission on Public Corruption to combat the systemic corruption in Albany.

He is doing it to cover against having his father, his mother and him being exposed for the rampant, systematic and systemic corruption in the agencies and authorites related to jobs hiring and promotions (with approval from two major unions, but for different reasons).

Since then, however, federal and state prosecutors have found systemic corruption in state government, especially the Legislature.

«Friends of Democracy is deeply disappointed with the failure of Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders to address the systemic corruption in Albany through a comprehensive publicly funded Fair Elections program.

Not exact matches

In particular, cyber threats pose a potentially systemic risk to financial stability through the disruption or corruption of critical payment, clearing and settlement systems and related data.

Corruption in Bulgaria remains systemic, present not only on the political stage but in the daily life of citizens who, when dealing with state administration, frequently have to resort to some form of bribery to receive needed services.

To this, we have to add the outbreak of a harsh economic recession, which resulted in the implementation of unpopular austerity measures, and the systemic political corruption both in Spain and Catalonia.

Today's sweeping indictments by federal and state prosecutors resoundingly confirm that the state's use of non-profits and SUNY to award billions in state economic development contracts has created huge and systemic opportunities for corruption.

For more than two years, Reinvent Albany has been spotlighting the systemic corruption risk in the subsidy empire operated by SUNY Poly's Alain Kaloyeros and effectively controlled by the government's office.

Close to $ 2 Billion in public funds in play Today's sweeping indictments by federal and state prosecutors resoundingly confirm that the state's use of non-profits and SUNY to award billions in state economic development contracts has created huge and systemic opportunities for corruption.

The letter reads in part: «SERAP is concerned that years of systemic corruption within the NNPC and looting of Nigeria's natural resources have had uneven consequences against the vulnerable groups of the society, including the poor, women and children, perpetrating and institutionalizing discrimination, and jeopardizing the needs and well - being of future generations.

In 2000, then - New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani appointed Schwartz to lead a task force to suggest ways to overhaul the city's Buildings Department, after allegations of systemic corruption.

«Public corruption has a massive opportunity cost, and it is a cost that no one can afford anymore... the problem of corruption in New York is systemic, not merely episodic.»

Federal prosecutors have launched «an assault on the criminal opacity of Albany,» in the words of one Justice Department official, and could take the unusual step of producing a grand - jury report on systemic public corruption in the state Capitol.

«But the judiciary is not being carried along in this fight against corruption from the outset and I believe that all shades of opinions should be involved in the fight against corruption because corruption is systemic.

Corruption in our state's economic development programs is the symptom of a more systemic problem, a government that has become increasingly insulated from the will of the people.

There was always corruption in government, but before the advent of the IMF conditions, corruption in the public system was at its very minimal; what was known then as corruption would today pale in the face of the systemic subversion that has since buckled public governance in Nigeria.

As part of that approach, prosecutors could take the unusual step of producing a grand - jury report on systemic public corruption in the state capital.

Bharara, the Manhattan U.S. attorney, has often spoken of systemic ethical problems in Albany, calling it a «cauldron of corruption» and once saying that the very core of the state Capitol is an «overabundance of greed, cronyism and self - dealing.»

With more than 30 state lawmakers who have been embroiled in legal or ethical dilemmas since 2000, the state needs an independent watchdog with subpoena powers to not only examine individual instances of wrongdoing, but also to propose solutions to systemic problems of corruption that plague New York.

Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, says the corruption in the State Legislature has been «systemic.»

Mimi Rocah, who worked from 2001 to 2017 as an assistant United States attorney in New York, including on some Albany corruption cases, said there is a «systemic problem where minimal transparency is required and back - room deals are allowed to thrive.

Do they wish to go down an old and trodden path with Supervisor Gromack that has taken the town to the second highest property taxes in the United States where senior citizens were to be sold out to protect the Town's reserve fund and its bond street rating, where the properety values of citizens living in the Town of Clarkstown would not be protected by implementation of a Ward System, where consolidation of purchasing functions with the County would not occur, and where systemic corruption would continue to grow as revealed by several arrests of individuals receiving compensation from the Town?

Preet Bharara, the United States attorney whose office recently won the corruption convictions of two of New York's most powerful legislators, says that Albany's problems are deep and systemic but that potential solutions are not hard to find: They lie in the nitty - gritty evidence presented at the unprecedented trials.

The first film knocked down one figure of systemic corruption, only to go back in time to find another.

The main problem in Brazil is that all aspects of life are overshadowed by the systemic corruption that permeates even the most minute interaction with the government (federal, state, or municipal).

Another question anyone should be having is in relation to inflation and systemic corruption.

-- and wrote, «I have long objected to the direction this commission has taken and, more particularly, to Moe Sihota's «smoke and mirrors» in an apparent attempt to misdirect the leaky condo victims... My submissions have focused on «systemic corruption» as a primary cause of this fiasco.