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The Supreme Court, in a case last year involving former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell, ruled that corruption convictions could only be based on performance of an «official act» that represented a formal exercise of government power — not just a phone call or a meeting with a lobbyist.

Gawker began a court - ordered auction of its business on Monday after losing a $ 140 - million court case earlier this year involving former wrestler Hulk Hogan, who sued Gawker for invasion of privacy after it published a clip from a sex tape he made with a friend's wife.

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David Dodge, the former Bank of Canada governor, told me earlier this year in an interview about housing policy that he would nationalize the mortgage insurance industry; not because he is a Communist, but because it always will be taxpayers who clean up the messes of bankers, especially when it involves houses.

After a year of Game of Thrones - style intrigue involving 93 - year - old billionaire Sumner Redstone, his daughter Shari, and former CEO Philippe Dauman, it looks as though the ultimate fate of Viacom could be settled relatively soon — and with it the fate of sister company CBS.

In criticizing the Verizon settlement, Clyburn pointed to a case last year under former chairman Wheeler involving fraud by a small company called Total Call Mobile that collected $ 39 million from the universal service fund.

Jacobs: Former police commissioner Charles Ramsey implemented a lot of reforms towards police - involved shootings in the department after the Department of Justice released that study a few years ago.

Randall Winn, 22C Capital Managing Member and former CEO of Capital IQ, noted, «We are exceptionally pleased to have been involved in DiscoverOrg's success over the last few years as the team has built a truly unique data platform and developed into a world - class company.

Among the other controversies the tycoon has been involved in includes a slapstick legal battle that took place last year between the billionaire and a former confidant, the investment banker Jeffrey Blue.

He has been very involved in many aspects of domestic and international agricultural policy and practice development, organizing, food labeling, standards, certification and accreditation work over the years, including: Founding Chair of the USDA / National Organic Standards Board, A founder of Domestic Fair Trade Association, National Organic Coalition, and Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, Founding member of National Family Farm Coalition and National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, Board member of the International Organic Accreditation Service, Former NGO delegate to UN Codex / FAO / WHO Food Labeling Commission and WTO, Founding partner of Agricultural Justice Project, which has developed domestic fair trade standards for North America.

This costume involving Bobby Petrino and his former mistress, Jessica Dorrell is going to be one of the more creative costumes you will see this year.

Then came the final blow: allegations of point - shaving a few years earlier that involved former N.C. State forward Charles Shackleford.

Allardyce kept Rooney involved during his ill - fated reign as England boss and you suspect the 63 - year - old will make the former Manchester United man central to his plans at Goodison Park, too, when he begins work.

Marino, 52, who was the highest - profile former player involved in legal action against the league over head injuries, said in a statement issued to Sports Illustrated magazine that in the past year he authorized a legal claim to be made on his behalf if he ever needed medical coverage due to the long - term effects of football - related head trauma.

Talk about ethics reform in the new legislative session has been largely muted this year, even as a year filled with corruption trials involving prominent New York figures is underway, including the ongoing trial this week of Joe Percoco, a former close aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Skelos's sentencing comes just over a week after his former counterpart, ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, was sentenced to 12 years in prison in a separate case involving the Manhattan Democrat masking bribes as legal referrals.

Next year, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Joe Percoco, will go on trial along with the former president of SUNY Nanotech and upstate developers, who are accused of being involved in a bribery and bid - rigging scheme for economic development projects.

Chaired by the Chancellor of the University of Oxford and former European Commissioner Lord Patten, the line - up included two distinguished politicians who have been deeply involved with Ukraine's integration over many years: former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski and former head of NATO, Javier Solana.

Several former close associates go on trial later this year on bribery and bid - rigging charges in connection with a corruption scandal involving the governor's signature economic development projects.

He replaced 16 - year incumbent Thomas Spota, who stepped down last month after he and his top corruption prosecutor, Christopher McPartland, were indicted on federal charges that they were involved in a cover - up of former Suffolk Police Chief James Burke's assault of a suspect in 2012.

Former state Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. has asked a federal appeals panel to set him free because last year's Supreme Court decision narrowed the reach of federal anti-corruption laws in a case involving former Virginia Gov. Bob McDoFormer state Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. has asked a federal appeals panel to set him free because last year's Supreme Court decision narrowed the reach of federal anti-corruption laws in a case involving former Virginia Gov. Bob McDoformer Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

An 18 - year veteran of the State Police and the son of a former top State Police official, was fired Friday as an internal investigation continues into allegations he was involved with off - duty parties involving prostitutes.

In recent years, the sheriff's office was involved in a federal investigation into political corruption in Suffolk that led to the conviction of Edward Walsh, the former corrections lieutenant under the outgoing sheriff, Vincent DeMarco.

He was among those who called for last year's ouster of Carl Paladino from the Buffalo Board of Education after Paladino engaged in some tasteless humor involving former President Barack Obama.

With a now former county department head, ex-Social Services Commissioner Dirschberger, facing rape and criminal sex act counts in an Albany case involving a subordinate, members of the Legislature's minority caucus want to know how many harassment or discrimination cases have involved county employees in recent years, how many were settled and whether public dollars were used to fund those settlements.

The former Speaker faces up to 12 years in prison for two criminal schemes, one of which involved real estate developers.

«I've been involved in New York state politics as an observer and a participant for 50 years,» said Tony Casale, a former assemblyman and current adviser to the state GOP.

Next year will also feature two federal corruption trials involving some of Cuomo's top allies: Alain Kaloyeros, the former president of State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, and Joe Percoco, who managed Cuomo's past two campaigns and has been likened to a brother.

A 47 - year - old former model involved in a custody dispute plunged to her death from a Manhattan hotel Friday, according to three law enforcement sources.

Last year, a former close advisor to Cuomo, Joe Percoco, the former SUNY Polytechnic President Alain Kaloyeros, and several upstate developers were arrested and charged in a kickback and bid - rigging case involving economic development projects.

It involved former Monroe County Water Authority Security Director Robert Wiesner, the husband of former County Executive Maggie Brooks, who was sentenced earlier this year to a conditional discharge.

Former CIA Director John Brennan said he had raised concerns last year that Russians had sought to recruit Trump campaign officials in an effort to influence the election, providing the most expansive public remarks to date from an official involved at the time.

«All the issues we've seen this year have been around the LLC loophole,» said Squadron, referring to federal corruption cases involving Skelos, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and the real estate interests that supported both men.

Kevin M. Tuffey, a former State Police senior investigator who was chief of the Albany Police Department in the late 1990s, and Stanley C. Sardinia, a former NYPD detective, worked at the authority for years and were involved in the investigation of whether a former top authority official's government cellphone had been used to contact a suspected prostitute, according to the people familiar with the case.

The investigation — which has involved other groups and the offices of other Council members — has been ongoing for two years and has already pulled in indictments of two former aides to Councilman Kendall Stewart for embezzlement.

After year - long investigations into a potential pay - to - play scheme involving his definition political nonprofit Campaign for One New York and his failed 2014 fundraising effort for State Senate Democrats by now - former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara — eventually taken over by acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim — and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, the pair decided not to bring federal charges against de Blasio or his aides.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has spent the past few weeks laying out his agenda for the year, but a federal bribery trial starting Monday involving a former aide could distract from his plans.

The former town supervisor of Ramapo in New York's Rockland County has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison after a jury had found him guilty in a corruption case involving the financing of a local ballpark.

The feds, meanwhile, say their nearly three - year investigation, which began with a corruption tip involving former Chief of Department Philip Banks and has broadened to include the mayor's campaign fundraising apparatus, is continuing.

Atlantic City's Trump Taj Mahal casino will close at the end of the Labor Day weekend amid labor strife stirred by the last in a series of bankruptcies for the former gambling empire of the presidential candidate, who hasn't been involved in the management of the casino for years, though his name remains on the façade.

Paul, a former Lib Dem councillor and 20 - year member of the party, said he thought it was important young people got involved in politics.

Federal prosecutors made several indictments and arrests involving current and former state legislators in recent months, adding to a record of dozens of arrests over the last seven years.

Since last year, Glenwood has been in the spotlight after it emerged the firm was at the center of corruption scandals involving two of the state's most prominent politicians, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Corcoran is a former Albany County Court special prosecutor and private attorney of 19 years standing who also served as past chairman of the Albany County Ethics Commission and a hearing officer who adjudicated cases involving violations of the public health law.

«I've been involved [in county politics] 44 years,» former state Sen. Gloria Lawlah (D) told reporters and supporters at Alsobrooks headquarters Wednesday.

Silver was convicted late last year on multiple felony charges for engineering schemes involving a real estate company, tax firm, and even a Columbia University doctor who recommended cancer cases to Silver's law firm, and that netted the former speaker $ 4 million.

Several former close associates go on trial later this year on bribery and bid rigging charges, in connection with a corruption scandal involving the governor's signature economic development projects.

Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan, who unsuccessfully sought an indictment last year against a white police officer in the death of Eric Garner, a black Staten Island man, expressed pity for the grand jury involved in the case in his first radio interview since becoming the official GOP nominee to replace former Congressman Michael Grimm.

If the former then how much does that involve crapping on the working class and poor from a great height as countless Labour councils have been doing for years now by implementing cit after cut, job loss after job loss and without even bothering anymore with some ritual hand - wringing — I assume a great deal given Corbyn and McDonnell have made it very clear that local councilors must not fight back.

Anders Hamsten and Harriet Wallberg - Henriksson, two former vice-chancellors at KI who were involved in the Macchiarini affair as well, announced earlier this year that they would skip the deliberations for the 2016 prize; Hamsten and Wallberg - Henriksson were both asked to resign from the assembly on 6 September, but both still appear on the list of assembly members.

«What they've done is identify the chain of events from seeding to precipitation on the ground, which has been sorely needed for the last 80 years,» says William Cotton, a former professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins who was not involved with the research.