Sentence examples for corrupt contracting from inspiring English sources

Michael Willrich's Washington Monthly article, "Department of Self-Services," describes corrupt contracting practices in Mayor Marion Barry's Washington D.C. administration that led to several investigations, trials, and convictions.

Anemone, who has been released from jail but is still under investigation, was first arrested in February as part of a probe into corrupt contracting by the civil protection agency.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has tried to make the mortgage crisis a centerpiece of her campaign platform as she seeks the Democratic nomination for president, said in a statement: Secretary Jackson's resignation ends a tenure at HUD marked by an indifference to Congressional oversight powers, cronyism, and corrupt contracting practices that have no place in our government.

It led to corrupt contracting.

Bogus secret service agents broke into a safe and attempted to frame Columbus Alexander, who had exposed the corrupt contracting ring.

Since there were no financial paper trails or enough evidence for impeachment and conviction, the House Investigation committee admonished Robeson and claimed he had set up a corrupt contracting system known as "Cattellism".

In one transcript, Mr Cilins, having flown to Florida to meet her, urges her to destroy apparently corrupt contracts: "You have to destroy everything, urgently, urgently, urgently".

Auditors last year said Pertamina had lost about $4 billion between 1996 and 1998 because of inefficiency and corrupt contracts, most involving friends and children of former President Suharto.

Hundreds of others are under investigation, as police seek to establish how far the system of corrupt contracts – including those for migrant reception centres – bribes, kickbacks and extortion has entered the city's politics, business and administration.

Journalists responsible for the Sunday Times Fifa Files investigation and Private Eye's reporting on a corrupt contract between the UK and Saudi governments have shared the 2014 Paul Foot award for investigative and campaigning journalism.

Volcker properly required a Security Council resolution, which would presumably empower his panel to take sworn testimony and gain access to the U.N.'s corrupt contracts that enabled Saddam to build palaces instead of providing food to his people.