Corruption scandal rocks Argentina rights group
A corruption scandal rocking one of Argentina’s leading human rights organisation is now tainting the country’s president, Christina Kirchner. Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman reports.
Categories: Corruption Tags: Corruption, English, Judgement, Subs
What the papers say on Friday, May 27, 2011: FIFA corruption scandal escalates, Tevez snubs Juventus and Murray …
What the papers say on Friday, May 27, 2011: FIFA corruption scandal escalates, Tevez snubs Juventus and Murray …
DAILY MAIL: FIFA’s corruption scandal escalated last night into a full-blown civil war between the candidates for the presidency, with Asian football chief Mohamed Bin Hammam claiming rival Sepp Blatter should be investigation.
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FIFA in turmoil as Blatter faces corruption probe
The battle for the FIFA presidency was thrown further into turmoil on Friday as football’s governing body announced they have opened a probe for alleged corruption against president Sepp Blatter.
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Bell Corruption Scandal: Officials Claim They Were ‘Wrongly Ensnared”
Bell Corruption Scandal: Officials Claim They Were ‘Wrongly Ensnared”
LOS ANGELES — Six current and former officials charged with ripping off millions of dollars from a modest Los Angeles suburb were innocent victims who were wrongly ensnared in what has become an infamous municipal corruption scandal, a defense lawyer told a judge Wednesday.
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Trio held in Egypt corruption probe
Two former Cabinet ministers and a tycoon once prominent in Egypt’s ruling party have been arrested on suspicion of corruption, security officials have said. Related Stories Stars to play shooting benefit show Minister’s deadline in thesis row Argument set in online suicide case More migrants land on Italy island Stars to play Tucson benefit show
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Indian PM vows corruption crackdown after scandals
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday he was “dead serious” about fighting high-level corruption as he staged a televised fightback after a run of debilitating scandals.
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CWG corruption: Sheila says Games on track
The Delhi government found itself cornered a day after an NDTV expose showed how the state health department had approved the purchase of medical supplies for the Commonwealth Games at hugely inflated prices.
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Gov. Rod Blagojevich
You’d think that the past history of so many Illinois Governors going to jail would have sent a message to Rod Blagojevich that he needed to mind his manners. One would also think that on the heals of the Rezko scandal to which Blagojevich was associated with and still under investigation that he would be more than careful. Ah, but we’re talking Cook (Crook) County, Illinois now aren’t we!
Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, were arrested by FBI agents on federal corruption charges Tuesday morning. Blagojevich and Harris were arrested simultaneously at their homes at about 6:15 a.m., according to Frank Bochte of the FBI. Both were transported to FBI headquarters in Chicago.
In one charge related to the appointment of a senator to replace Barack Obama, prosecutors allege that Blagojevich sought appointment for himself as secretary of Health and Human Services in the new Obama administration, or a lucrative job with a union, in exchange for appointing a union-preferred candidate.
Blagojevich and Harris, along with others, obtained and sought to gain financial benefits for the governor, members of his family and his campaign fund in exchange for appointments to state boards and commissions, state jobs and state contracts, according to the charges. “The breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering,” U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said in a statement.
And Barack Obama has to be excited that the primary season is over since a grand jury has now gotten involved in the Rezko-Obama land sale. A former Illinois bank official, now claiming whistleblower status, says bank officials replaced a loan reappraisal that he prepared for a Chicago property that was purchased by the wife of now-convicted felon Tony Rezko, part of which was later sold to next-door neighbor Barack Obama.
Raw red meat for Hannity and El Rushbo!
In a complaint filed Thursday in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Kenneth J. Connor said that his reappraisal of Rita Rezko’s property was replaced with a higher one and that he was fired when he questioned the document. The complaint also said that the grand jury wanted information on Mrs. Rezko’s checking account and loan file and that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) had audited the Rezko file – although Mr. Connor’s lower reappraisal had been replaced with a higher amount. “Connor’s internal whistle-blowing activity at Mutual Bank implicates Mutual Bank and the potentially guilty officers thereof to prosecution under federal and Illinois statutes,” said the complaint, filed by attorney Glenn R. Gaffney.
It’s just politics as usual!
Cook county politics especially.
Ernie Fitzpatrick
http://www.articlesbase.com/politics-articles/gov-rod-blagojevich-677051.html
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Tax scandal hits Indonesian anti-corruption drive
Indonesia is trying to clean up its legal system, in which 80 per cent of police, judges and other officials are believed to be taking bribes worth millions of dollars.
But an unfolding scandal is threatening to increase pressure on Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the president, to step up reforms to stamp out corruption.
The latest case in which corrupt tax and law officials allegedly accepted bribes in return for lower tax bills has triggered a public outcry.
A three-star police general has been given the job of fighting corruption, but as Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen reports, even he is accused of taking dirty money. (Apr 25, 2010)
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Categories: Corruption Tags: aljazeera, Anti-Corruption, asia-pacificnews, indonesia, scandal, Step, tax, vaessen
Politics and anti-corruption
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As the storm over the cemetery land scandal blew over the top, The Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission is coming under the spotlight yet again. The anti-corruption bodys handling of the cemetery scam and before that, the maize and free education funds scandal is increasingly raising eyebrows with the KACC appearing to play an active role in the coalition political games around corruption. NTVs Joe Ageyo reports.
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Democrats’ ‘Culture of Corruption’
Michelle Malkin reacts to latest party scandal involving Charlie Rangel
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Democrats’ ‘Culture of Corruption’
Michelle Malkin reacts to latest party scandal involving Charlie Rangel
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English Subs | Palestinian Corruption, Sex Tape Scandal ????? ????? ?? ???? ???
The biggest shocking discovery about how Europeans and Arabs turned out suckers, donating to no Palestinian other than the Chairman’s closest men.
Sexual greed is the generator behind the Palestinian Authority’s cancer of corruption, as whistle-blower Fahmi Shabane caught everything on tape.
Fahmi Shabane – Whistle blower.
Rafiq Al Husseini – main embaressed figure.
Tsvi Yehezkeli – Ch 10′s Arab Affair Correspondent following Fahmi.
PA – Palestinian Authority.
Chairman – Palestinian Authority Chairman.
Abu Mazen – Mahmoud Abbas, current Chairman.
Abu Ammar – Yasser Arafat, former Chairman.
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