Sentence examples for corrupt acts from inspiring English sources

The commission report, based on the work of a 30-person staff, including about a dozen investigators, asserted that the Lindsay administration had failed to promptly investigate reports on specific corrupt acts, despite evidence that the corruption was widespread.

Unlike America's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), it requires no proof of bosses' intent or knowledge: so long as the charged firm benefits from corrupt acts committed by an employee (even one acting through a subsidiary or a subcontractor) it is on the hook.

The Supreme Court dropped all corruption charges against a former president, Alan García, saying that any corrupt acts committed during his rule, from 1985 to 1990, had already passed the statute of limitations.

First, in the corruption experiment, individuals in the high-monitoring group commit fewer corrupt acts than those in the low-monitoring groups.

In Taw Cheng Kong, the respondent challenged his conviction for corruption on the ground that section 37 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, which extends the effect of the Act to corrupt acts by Singapore citizens (but not non-citizens) occurring outside Singapore, discriminated against citizens and thus violated Article 12(12.

Mr. Friedman has journeyed through Russia and created a series called "Photo51 — Is Corruption in Russia's DNA?" But his images are not documentary evidence of corrupt acts.

First, a higher probability of getting caught in a corrupt act decreases corruption.

Initially SMEs had feared that their liabilities under the 2010 Act would stretch to any corrupt act by someone acting on their behalf.

So, the grant of organizing rights in itself is not a corrupt act.

"To see the odd scandal and the odd corrupt act," he says, "maybe helps us realise what our values are".

In his testimony Mr. Freeh said, "The pardon of Marc Rich was a corrupt act," but he said "it was not an act by Mr. Holder".