A superior thriller that exposed the corruption and sleaze behind the myth of booming post-war Los Angeles.
X, American band whose tales of urban decay, corruption, and sleaze, delivered with skilled musicianship and unique vocal harmonies, marked them as important contributors to the punk movement.
ReprintsThe gang, however, sees this as nothing less than a plot, nefarious or naive, to subvert the fight against corruption and sleaze; it is demanding that Mr Friedmann be left out of any post-Olmert coalition.
Robert Mugabe, who first came to power in Zimbabwe in 1980, is a man of many faces: idealistic young Marxist-Leninist, political prisoner, freedom fighter, lauded icon of pan-African nationalism, would-be reformer, and ruthless, ageing dictator steeped in corruption and sleaze.
As Renato Usatii, a pro-Moscow opposition politician summed up: "He doesn't just control the country, he owns it". Accusations of corruption and sleaze against Plahotniuc and his associates are commonplace.
Trump is so dangerous and self-destructive that he'd turn America into a domestic and international joke, similar to Italy under controversial power-hungry billionaire Silvio Berlusconi's indictment-ending reign of greed, corruption and sleaze.
In an effort to spur his flagging campaign, Mr. Noonan this week announced a package of antigraft measures and said a vote for Fianna Fail was a vote for "corruption, cronyism and sleaze".
Senator Skelos is a powerful GOP leader in Albany, and he can not only change the lives of all New Yorkers for the better, but can help clean up the corruption, scandals and sleaze in a state government that is an embarrassment to all New Yorkers.
Stories of sleaze, greed, corruption and entitlement seem to emerge from Westminster so frequently that we've almost grown used to it.
When Mr. Ellroy writes of sleaze, conspiracy, corruption and murder (as he frequently has, most famously in "L.A. Confidential," "My Dark Places" and "The Cold Six Thousand"), he revels in this stuff.
Ever since Jack Abramoff, a conservative überlobbyist, pleaded guilty to corruption charges in January, they have hammered away at the "culture of corruption" and tried to show how Washington sleaze hurts ordinary people, forcing them to pay more for energy or spend hours trying to get needlessly complicated drug prescriptions.
