In a tribute to the politicized Chicago hardcore scene, Wentz describes the story of a rigged court case of African-American civil rights activist Fred Hampton, Jr. in "You're Crashing, But You're No Wave".
Not one for wallpaper background, Maron delves into local lore for insights into carnival life and details on how games like Polly's Plate Pitch and the Lucky Ducky duck pond actually work, or, in some cases, are rigged ("gaffed," in carny lingo).
Based on our review of 16 cases of rigged elections in authoritarian or transition countries in the last 40 years, we find that autocratic rulers who attempted to steal presidential, parliamentary, or general elections had roughly an equal chance of keeping their grip on power, succumbing to a quick and decisive defeat, or getting mired in a costly political stalemate.
His was a $260 million corruption case connected to rigged bids in the construction of nuclear power plants.
Gulen-linked prosecutors and police are widely believed to have rigged evidence in the Ergenekon case that helped convict hundreds of generals and other senior officers for allegedly plotting a coup.
Accusations are made of unfair arrests and rigged trials, as in the case of a banker killed by interior-ministry employees: a test of the government's commitment to the rule of law, says Salome Zourabichvili, a former foreign minister now in opposition and one that it looks like failing.
When Bill O'Brien, the President of BATS, browbeats a polite Canadian with the assurance that the market isn't rigged, he's not helping his case.
"I am afraid that the vote will be rigged, just as it happened in your case".
In a 2006 German study judges were asked to roll (rigged) dice between reading the documents in a (hypothetical) case and making their judgment.
The prosecution alleges the case surrounds an attempt to profit from rigged bets targeted at the lower leagues.
