Sentence examples for rigged contract from inspiring English sources

Critics of Rawls's requirement that the contract situation be adjusted, if necessary, to yield principles that are in reflective equilibrium with our judgments about justice complained that this was a "rigged" contract and that it did no justificatory work beyond reflective equilibrium.

DETROIT — The city's imprisoned former mayor, Kwame M. Kilpatrick, and two top aides rigged contracts, collected millions of dollars in bribes and defrauded taxpayers, the federal government said on Wednesday in a 38-count indictment that characterizes Mr. Kilpatrick's inner circle as a long-running criminal organization.

On the political front, the idea that the US could bring genuine democracy to Iraq is now irredeemably discredited: too many relatives of Iraqi governing council members have landed plum jobs and rigged contracts, too many groups demanding direct elections have been suppressed, too many newspapers have been closed down and too many Arab journalists have been killed.

Other witnesses, including construction entrepreneur Lino Zambito — who pled guilty to fraud earlier this year in connection with the inquiry — testified that Union Montreal, the municipal party in charge of Montreal between 2001 and 2009, also collected a 3percenttaxax on the rigged contracts.

Mr. Bannon said he had stolen nearly $80,000 from Bridgeport by inflating his fees and had paid kickbacks to Mr. Pinto in exchange for rigged city contracts.

In October 2004, Mr. Spitzer sued Marsh & McLennan, an insurance brokerage company then run by Jeffrey Greenberg, one of Maurice Greenberg's two sons, for its use of contingent commissions and for soliciting rigged bids for insurance contracts.

Spitzer also accuses the company of soliciting rigged bids for insurance contracts.

He rigged bids for school janitorial contracts, earning an 18-month prison sentence of his own.

The indictment said the Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese and Colombo families rigged bids for $142 million in contracts over the last 12 years.

His suicide seemed linked to accusations that he had been fiddling his expenses, and was involved in a scandal about rigged bidding for road-building contracts.

After conversations with Mr. Shain about their losing bid, officials from Web Wide World suspected that the contracts were being rigged and contacted Mr. Stancik's investigators, officials said.