But he moved quickly on Sunday afternoon to fire Defense Minister Art Eggleton after Mr. Eggleton appeared on a news broadcast to defend his granting of a $36,500 contract to a former girlfriend to prepare a 14-page report on post-traumatic stress disorder in the Canadian military.
A3 Another Shake-Up in Canada Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, in an effort to deflect growing criticism of his government's ethical standards and challenges to his leadership, fired Defense Minister Art Eggleton, who had publicly defended his granting of a $36,500 contract to a former girlfriend.
In a letter to the president's legal adviser, Mr. Cocco said that the deal was "against the interests of the Dominican government, due to its one-sided nature, exorbitant clauses, that it violates Dominican laws," and that there had been a "lack of transparency, commercial ethics in the granting of the contract".
George Ryan, who as governor of Illinois emptied the state's death row, was indicted on charges of racketeering conspiracy, mail and tax fraud and lying to investigators, in connection with his granting of contracts while a public official.
State Supreme Court Justice William Davis concluded that the administration's granting of two contracts worth $104 million to Maximus, a job placement company, was corrupted by favoritism and other improprieties.
He pressed Parliament to legalize the granting of sugar contracts in 1860, thus marking the beginning of Liberal power in the Netherlands.
Mr. Hevesi, whose office oversees the granting of city contracts, has until Monday to decide whether to accept or reject the Maximus contracts and others awarded in the same process.
Over and above the accusations related to "the Line" scandal, in June 2016 Baldetti and Pérez Molina were formally charged with having engineered the granting of government contracts in exchange for illegal financing of the 2011 election campaign.
But Mr. Hevesi, whose office oversees the granting of city contracts, said the city had not followed the rules to get such exemptions, and even if it had, the circumstances would not have justified the exception.
Nothing in the documents Mr. Waxman's staff assembled indicated that there was any attempt by Mr. McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, or his staff to influence the granting of the contracts.
