Sentence examples for outrageous corruption from inspiring English sources

Tougher yet for a man of personal integrity is that he is presiding over such widespread and outrageous corruption.

The attorney general, Roberto Gurgel, has said it was "the most daring and outrageous corruption scheme and embezzlement of public funds ever seen in Brazil".

As it happens, Florida rules were written in response to a number of outrageous corruption scandals in the 1970s which forced four justices of the state's highest court to resign.

And every week, there is a new story about tax avoidance or outrageous corruption, both the main parties involved, both culpable, both apparently supine, even floppy, like rabbits in the jaws of corporate interests.

Both Joaquim Barbosa, the justice overseeing the trial, and Prosecutor General Roberto Gurgel, who is in charge of the case and called the scandal "the most daring and outrageous corruption scheme and embezzlement of public funds ever seen in Brazil," were appointed by Mr. da Silva, the former president.

Here is a documentary about an extraordinary episode of outrageous corruption among New York police in the 1980s; a sort of real life counterpart to A Most Violent Year, but without any of the machinations of drama, and a hundred times more appalling.

By the early 1920s, he could already sense that "the whole golden boom was in the air – its splendid generosities, its outrageous corruptions and the tortuous death struggle of the old America in prohibition".

"The Greer accounts and the government documents tell an outrageous story of corruption which the public should know but which we are prevented, for legal reasons, from publishing".

Speaking to reporters this week, Sergei Naryshkin, the head of the presidential administration, said the former mayor's tenure was defined by "an outrageous level of corruption allowed by Luzhkov and his circle".

'The Greer accounts and the government documents tell an outrageous story of corruption which the public should know but which we are prevented, for legal reasons, from publishing.' Mr Hamilton said he was 'devastated' at having to withdraw.

Of the many outrageous stories of Russian corruption, the most heartbreaking happened on Medvedev's watch.