Sentence examples for extortion and corruption from inspiring English sources

Extortion and corruption are ubiquitous along the American supply chain.

Tentatively, Baranov began to reveal fragments of an extraordinary story involving doping, extortion and corruption.

Kennedy died in 2009, and DiMasi is currently on trial for extortion and corruption and may go to jail.

Basra was essentially divided up among Shiite party mafias, each of which had its own form of extortion and corruption.

Mr. Behre pointed to a June 2010 report by a Congressional subcommittee alleging that the Defense Department's security contracts in Afghanistan are rife with extortion and corruption.

He is among Pakistan's most discredited politicians, having been accused of extortion and corruption on a huge scale during Ms Bhutto's two terms in power during the 1990s.

The news of his problems was the latest black eye for this troubled city, whose last mayor, Joseph P. Ganim, a Democrat, was convicted on bribery, extortion and other corruption charges and is now serving a nine-year federal prison term.

Extortion, corruption and illicit trafficking have long been known to distort economic activity.

The ANSA news agency said he was being investigated for alleged corruption, extortion and money laundering.

He possesses little of evil's dark grandeur and all the pathos of a man too frightened to do anything but play by the rules of a world in which corruption, extortion and even murder are the norm.

In this contribution we analyze some criminal offences prototypical from the legal domain, such as "corruption", "extortion" and "forgery", derived from their corresponding verbs.