Sentences with phrase «web of corruption»

He is the giant spider sitting in the centre of this whole web of corruption.

Some intriguing ideas are stranded by an overarching concept that severely strains credibility in this low - budget drama that takes place in a small town in northern California, where an exiled Afghan journalist (Dominic Rains) gets a job as a freelance crime reporter and settles with a local police officer (Melissa Leo)-- the mother of a friend — allowing him to experience firsthand the town's surprisingly extensive web of corruption and violence.

Joy is one of three Jordan siblings around whom «Happiness» spins its intricate web of corruption and comedy.

The screenplay fails to flesh out its secondary characters, and the direction doesn't give enough dramatic weight to this tangled web of corruption and its resonance in our city.

A private detective in 1940's Los Angeles is hired to expose an adulterer, but soon finds himself caught up in a dangerous web of corruption that goes all the way to the top.

Robert's initial kill is only the beginning as he uncovers a whole web of corruption, money laundering, and police involvement.

«New Yorkers were first exposed to the Governor's web of corruption, woven in his penchant for dark secrecy, when he abruptly shut down the anti-corruption Moreland Commission upon learning it was investigating his own Administration and close associates.

The web of corruption former state Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio wove ensnared the Long Island Rail Road and an official at Plaza College in Jackson Heights, among others, prosecutors said at a pre-sentencing hearing for the Richmond Hill politician last week.

Singas has also made the arrest of the former Senate majority leader part of her campaign's endgame; she held a news conference last week in which she highlighted the «web of corruption» connecting Murray to other Nassau Republicans.

He said while the current debate over the Special Prosecutor's Bill was healthy, that office was necessary to take political interference out of the investigation, determination and prosecution of persons caught in the web of corruption.

In 50 Cent's video game, 50 gets caught in a web of corruption, double - crosses and shady deals that lead him on a bloody path through New York's drug underworld.

There's a Tarkovskian layer of social despair in the web of corruption joining the child and the adult, the bedroom and the nation.

Composite - character slight - of - hand and reworked details aside, War Dogs gives the general idea of the web of corruption, including the key role a slick, mobbed - up middle man (Bradley Cooper) plays in AEY moving an Albanian Cold War stockpile to Kabul.

He uncovers a web of corruption while trying to save a kidnapped teen from prostitution.

It seemed like a dream come true as he worked alongside box office names Morgan Freeman and Kevin Spacey in EDISON FORCE (2005), a tale of a young journalist who uncovers a web of corruption inside a unit of the Edison police department.

That web of corruption just gets thicker and thicker.

Living in a rundown hotel and desperate to get his home back, Nash soon finds himself working for Carver and being sucked further into his lucrative world and «web of corruption,» as Bahrani describes it.

From FBI offices in Washington, D.C., to a rundown shrimp boat in coastal Louisiana, Coburn and Honor run for their lives from the very people sworn to protect them, and unravel a web of corruption and depravity that threatens not only them, but the fabric of our society

As he delves deeper for the elusive truth, he uncovers a web of corruption so vast that it threatens the life of the last great Pharaoh, Ramses III, and the stability of the kingdom.