Sentence examples for corrupt firms from inspiring English sources

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Bubbles corrupt firms' intellectual capital; in telecoms, everything from sales incentives to budgeting had become based on measures that had little to do with a sober view of profits.

"It will save motorists £55m each year in clamping charges and finally penalise the real criminals - the corrupt firms themselves".

The damage stands at $16 billion so far — $2 billion which went directly into the hands of corrupt firms and executives — and this week heads of two of the top construction firms in Latin America, including one that built the Sao Paulo stadium for World Cup, were arrested.

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The protagonist is thirty-two-year-old Jonah Daniel Jacobstein, an ambitious corporate lawyer at a corrupt firm, with one committed girlfriend and another on the side.

Alastair Morgan, whose brother, a private investigator, was found with an axe embedded in his skull in 1987, told The Independent that it appeared there was evidence of a corrupt "firm within a firm" operating inside the Metropolitan Police.

Not only is Inger conspiring into her mobile to keep Peter from unraveling the conspiracy, the investigation by her and her team into the corrupt firm's books suggest she's a bad pregnant lady.

But the truth is that it's those corrupt financiers' firms that ended up being destroyed by the bubble, precisely because they did not just foist off these assets, but instead invested heavily in them.

It sounds improbable, like a John Grisham legal thriller about a corrupt law firm or a fast-and-loose brokerage house, but it actually happened at a newspaper company, of all things.

The name of the corrupt brokerage firm at the heart of "Boiler Room"?

Jack Grubman, a Salomon Smith Barney star analyst, even sat in on board meetings at WorldCom, a deeply corrupt telecoms firm, offering advice.

"What we see today is life imitating art, a combination of 'The Sopranos' and 'Boiler Room,' " New York Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer said, referring to the HBO series and a Hollywood movie about a corrupt brokerage firm.

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