Sentence examples for indictments for corruption from inspiring English sources

"Cuomo's time in office has been defined by a string of indictments for corruption, his failure to fix the New York City subway, and his support for a backroom deal which handed Republicans control of the state Senate, resulting in the failure of numerous pieces of progressive legislation," the press release stated.

This year, the Assembly again in 2015 voted overwhelmingly for the ban at 139-0, but again the bill never reached the floor in the Senate, supposedly because of the disarray caused by Skelo's multiple indictments for corruption, along with those former Speaker Sheldon Silver now faces.

The papers link one $3m cash purchase of a Miami apartment to Paulo Octávio Alves Pereira, a Brazilian developer and politician now under indictment for corruption in his home country.

With Mr. Lieberman under the shadow of a possible indictment for corruption, Mr. Ayalon, a former ambassador to Washington who speaks flawless English and has a smooth, confident style, was viewed as a likely successor.

Of the four Assembly districts with the highest percentage of residents in poverty, two are represented by legislators under indictment for corruption (William F. Boyland Jr., a Brooklyn Democrat, and Mr. Stevenson) and one is vacant (after making his own recordings for prosecutors, Nelson L. Castro, a Bronx Democrat, resigned in April as part of a deal to avoid prosecution for perjury).

Bruno is now under indictment for corruption (he maintains his innocence), and when an elected official warned Bloomberg that his term-limits maneuvering could jeopardize his credibility with Albany lawmakers at a time when he would need their support on a vital issue like renewing schools control, Bloomberg replied, "We'll make a deal with Shelly".

Mr. Berlusconi first came onto the Italian political scene in the early 1990s, in the political vacuum created by the fall of the Berlin Wall and "Tangentopoli," a huge bribery scandal that brought down the entire postwar political system after one-third of Parliament came under indictment for corruption and illegal party financing.

was indicted for corruption.

There have already been dozens of indictments and convictions for corruption since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Mr. Danaher supervised the prosecution of Joseph P. Ganim, the Bridgeport mayor under indictment for municipal corruption, and Philip A. Giordano, the former Waterbury mayor who is facing charges of municipal corruption and also for the rape of two girls.

At their meeting in Brussels on Monday, the EU ministers praised Bulgaria for having stepped up penal reforms and indictments for high-level corruption and organised crime.