Sentence examples for corruption saga from inspiring English sources

Papua New Guinea police officers have reportedly barricaded the office of the head of an anti-fraud squad after a court threw out his suspension, in a dramatic escalation of a long-running corruption saga engulfing the country's leadership.

In a recent interview with Veja, a weekly news magazine, Gilmar Mendes, one of the 11 members of the Supreme Court, claimed that Lula had threatened to entangle him in that investigation unless the judge found a way to delay until after October's elections the trial of the defendants in an older corruption saga: the so-called "mensalão".

Ah, that brings us to the other reason they will always be remembered as a double act, their roles in a corruption saga that started with a BBC Panorama investigation in 2006, and ended with them being acquitted of tax evasion in 2012.

Friday's court hearing could bring the city's corruption saga to an end if the council members plead guilty.

He denies the claims and called the man who made them a "bandit".The corruption sagas also demonstrate the dangers of too much continuity.

(Mr. Bergman had the ultimate Hollywood experience of being played by Al Pacino in another corporate greed-and-corruption saga, "The Insider").

And when employing scientists, hire those who will remind you that as much as economics would like to be a science, it has a way to go yet.Richard Poeton Bennington, VermontSIR – It is astonishing that you did not discuss the massive losses and risk-management failures that were caused by fraud and corruption, the Madoff saga being just one of many cases.

Leviathan's epic saga of corruption, brutality and desolation beside the Barents Sea savages both Russia and human nature.

Now they are trying to deflect attention by pointing out that it is quite likely that Mr Dubey was killed by one of several contractors whom he had upset by, for example, forcing them to replace faulty work.Either way, the saga exposes corruption in India's construction industry and the indifference of officials unused to justifying their actions publicly.

This trilogy, formed by the novels American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand and Blood's a Rover, tells a saga of corruption in the late 50s and early 60s and includes real history – John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King's assassinations and the Vietnam War among other defining events – and spans across the country.

The unexpected end to Villalobos' criminal prosecution should close a more than seven-year saga involving corruption and deal-making at CalPERS, beginning in 2009.