Sentences with phrase «years on corruption»

A Chinese court has acted with «leniency» and jailed former FAW chairman and party secretary Xu Jianyi for 11 and a half years on corruption charges, Reuters reports.

Carrie Cohen, a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District, also worked with Bharara for seven years on corruption cases.

Former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver leaves federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday, May 3, 2016, after being sentenced to 12 years on corruption charges.

Mehdi was sentenced to 10 years on corruption and security charges.

Silver in may was sentenced to 12 years in and prison and owes nearly $ 7 million in civil penalties stemming from his conviction late last year on corruption, fraud and self - dealing charges.

It helps that the sentencings of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, both convicted last year on corruption charges, are set for April 13.

Assemblymember Pamela Harris (D - Coney Island - Dyker Heights - Bay Ridge), who was indicted earlier this year on corruption charges, has been keeping a low profile since her legal troubles became public.

The former president of SUNY Poly Alain Kaloyeros was indicted earlier this year on corruption charges along with several other people associated with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's upstate development projects over an alleged bid - rigging scheme.

That didn't happen, and Klein has struck understandings with two different Senate GOP leaders: Dean Skelos, convicted last year on corruption charges, and John Flanagan, the current GOP leader.

After all, it's the seat that former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos held for more than 30 years before he was convicted last year on corruption charges.

Three top LPCiminelli executives were indicted last year on corruption charges over an alleged bid - rigging scheme on the $ 750 million state contract to build a solar panel factory in South Buffalo.

Not exact matches

Sales dived by 9 % in first quarter of its financial year, largely due to one big problem: A crackdown on corruption in China, which has led to plummeting sales in China for luxury brands and premium spirit makers.

Transparency International, an NGO, each year produces the Corruption Perceptions Index based on surveys of business people, including locals.

Over the last six years, more than nine of 10 journalists were killed in countries that scored lower than 45 on the index, and one in five journalists who died was covering a story about corruption.

London police said a 43 - year - old man was arrested Friday morning on suspicion of corruption and «conspiring to intercept communications.»

Perceptive Conservatives know this move toward openness will have to be legitimately addressed and this wave of political trouble can't be turned back with endless and groundless claims that their tormenter - in - chief Tom Mulcair could have ended Quebec corruption by blowing the whistle on the mayor of Laval 17 years ago.

Last year, it ranked 135 out of 180 countries on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), released in February.

Ottawa has been trying to get tougher on companies involved in corruption after being rebuked for years on the international stage for its perceived failure to take the matter seriously.

For the 85 - year - old pontiff, the three - day trip outside the Vatican walls was a break from the Vatileaks scandal, which has seen his butler, Paolo Gabriele, arrested on suspicion of disclosing dozens of embarrassing letters alleging corruption and nepotism at the Holy See.

Local religious independence and political independence on a national basis, were again being actively intertwined and this progress, laced with the duplicity and corruption common to such affairs, was at the heart of local and international politics during the coming twelve years.

However, on the whole the Avignon years were marked by mounting corruption in the Papal court.

Run by radicals for approximately twenty years, Berkeley has experienced the virtual ruin of its public school system, a vastly increased municipal bureaucracy, a greatly diminished housing stock (thanks to stringent rent controls and other restrictions on property rights), increased crime and drug abuse, widespread corruption, and wholesale waste of public funds.

A spaldeen — a corruption of Spalding, the signature that is on the ball — is pink and about the size of a tennis ball, and is as prevalent today as it was 20 years ago.

Since the unveiling a year ago, Roma have made some slow progress on the new facility The mafia corruption scandal at city hall played in their favor, neutralizing their opponents on the council and empowering Mayor Ignazio Marino, a surgeon who studied in the United States and whose outsider status in Roman politics kept him clear of the dirty business.

Based on the fans affluence, ticket prices, stadium size, finances, and support, it is unacceptable and wrong (as a matter of fact it is intellectual corruption) that a manager earning such a huge wage (# 8millions / year... F*cking joke) is not capable of delivering trophies, and I mean major trophies (not those small ridiculous domestic cups) on a regular basis.

corruption, stuffs a manager paid # 8,000,000 a year on tactics.

The UK Government's so called «investigation» into Football corruption has been going on for years, but we can probably tie the starting date of the current enquiry to 2011.

In recent years the italian fans have witnessed everything: players going on strike, allegations surrounding corruption, champions stripped of a title then relegated and a national team that can only be described as spectacularly inconsistent.

Silver's convictions were overturned last year based on a Supreme Court decision which narrowed the definition of an official act and how it can be used in a corruption trial.

She attended a fundraiser with Cuomo last year and serves on his Moreland Commission on Public Corruption.

After toppling both Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Leader Dean Skelos with public corruption last year, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said he has his eye on the executive branch, too.

Earlier this year shocking revelations from the Hillsborough independent panel confirmed supporters» suspicions that incompetence, corruption and evasiveness on the part of police officers and safety arrangements at the ground were actually responsible.

Nevertheless, Democrats plan to continue their criticism of Larkin for backing the leadership of ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was ousted late last year following his conviction on felony corruption charges.

Flanagan assumed the majority leader's post last year following the arrest of former Sen. Dean Skelos on corruption charges.

The state Democratic Committee pushed back in a statement, knocking Cox's stake in a gas drilling company while also pointing to the Republican elected officials who have been arrested on corruption charges in recent years.

John Sampson, the 51 - year - old former leader of the Democratic conference in the state Senate, was sentenced on Wednesday afternoon to five years in prison for his corruption conviction in 2015.

Former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco will be able to collect a $ 36,000 a year pension despite his recent conviction on corruption charges.

For this reason, he would establish an Office of Special Prosecutor to deal with «the toxic issue of corruption» within the first six months of his administration if he wins this year's election, adding a successful Ghana, can only be built on the basis of good governance, underpinned by efficient and honest public services.

But Democrats have been able to win two seats on Long Island in the last year, with corruption cases to thank.

A spokesman for the Senate Democrats declined to comment, but questioned how much money Republicans have received over the years from ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who is being retried later this spring on corruption charges.

In the interview, Heastie did not reference how he came to power earlier this year after Sheldon Silver resigned following his arrest on corruption charges.

Silver was proclaiming his innocence, and the SCOTUS decision in the McDonnell case this week may ultimately prevent Silver, convicted on all seven corruption counts last year, from ever spending a day in prison.

In this Year of the Corruption Trials in New York — where at least five such trials have, are or will take place — Cuomo and the Legislature could not even come together on watered - down versions of measures to address ethics problems in state government.

Sheldon Silver, the former powerful Democratic speaker of the state Assembly, was found guilty of federal corruption charges less than a year after his first conviction on the same charges was thrown out.

Heastie, like Flanagan, rose to power in the Assembly this year after the arrest of the chamber's leader on corruption charges.

You simply can't see it,» Judge Gary Sharpe told ex-Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno before sentencing him to two years in prison on federal corruption charges.

Embattled Brooklyn state Assemblywoman Pamela Harris keeps getting paid as a lawmaker, but has been a no - show at the state Capitol ever since her indictment on federal corruption charges this year.

After a year in which Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver, respective legislative leaders of both the State Senate and State Assembly, were convicted for defrauding the public for personal gain, politicians in Albany have once again refused to act on preventing corruption and enacting needed ethics reform and running a more open government.

Silver's retrial is one of several Albany corruption cases on the Manhattan federal court calendar this year.

And Cuomo, who still hasn't told the public about what he knew of Silver's and Skelos» illegal activities as he shuttered the doors on the corruption - fighting Moreland Commission, is clearly the runner - up as Loser of the Year — with talk increasing that he'll face a challenge in the Democratic primary should he seek re-election in 2018.