Sentences with phrase «tainted by corruption»

Decidedly more cerebral are «Pride and Glory,» which features Colin Farrell, Edward Norton, and Jon Voight as members of an NYPD family tainted by corruption, and «Stop - Loss,» in which Ryan Phillippe and Channing Tatum deal with the military's refusal to let them return to civilian life.

NYPAN calls upon Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to investigate the permitting of the Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) gas - fired power plant in Orange County that has been tainted by corruption from the outset.

The new Premier has also been tainted by the corruption scandals which felled Beijing's former favourite candidate, consisting of claims of illegal extensions to houses among other allegations of sleaze.

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But, in a process tainted by allegations of fraud and corruption, the government threw out more than half of the signatures, leaving Yasunídos short of the referendum threshold.

Nervous Republicans, tainted by the Skelos corruption scandal and what many believe are two widening corruption probes involving other Nassau County officials, had hoped to field Assemblyman Brian Curran, but GOP sources say he's reluctant to enter the race.

Gov. Cuomo will set aside hefty campaign contributions tainted by the latest Albany corruption scandal so they can be seized by the feds, the head of the state Democratic Party said Tuesday evening.

The state also paid out $ 7.9 million to pay a company whose leaders were charged by the feds with bid - rigging and corruption in the tainted Buffalo Billion, one of the projects.

Many have, wrongly in my view, supported the draconian desecration of the temples of justice that the DSS invasion of judges homes in the dead of night represented, but the lesson for our Lords must be that they must urgently clean up the bench and ensure the bar is cleaned up otherwise they may allow the taint of corruption be used by those with an authoritarian agenda to destroy the concept of an independent judiciary in this country.

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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?

Mr. Bharara cited the strong response made by one of his prosecutors, Andrew D. Goldstein, who told the jury that such an argument tainted the democratic process by calling corruption «politics as usual.»

Oil giants Shell and Eni face historic charges over a tainted $ 1.1 billion deal — in a move that shows Nigeria's intention to fight corruption by holding the powerful to account.

The Singapore High Court highlighted that section 24 (a) of the IAA contemplates a situation where the award itself, rather than the contract between the parties, is tainted or induced by fraud or corruption.