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Cuba gov't minister reports on corruption in international deals and gas
MiamiHerald.com
The Web report did not detail the cases, but the Cuban government has been rocked in recent years by a long string of corruption scandals involving top figures, from a former armed forces general to a couple of deputy ministers and even the boyfriend ...
Cuban official calls for 'grand battle' against corruptionBellingham Herald

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Corruption trial opens in Cameron County
San Antonio Express
BROWNSVILLE — A former South Texas prosecutor facing corruption charges was essentially a “district attorney on retainer” who used his discretion in exchange for cash, federal prosecutors told jurors Monday while laying out their case against the one ...
Corruption trial starts for former Texas DAFOX 4 News
Public corruption trial begins today in federal courtBrownsville Herald

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Globe and Mail
Afghan Finance Minister accuses MPs of corruption
Globe and Mail
Afghanistan's Finance Minister, speaking in parliament on Monday, named several lawmakers he said were guilty of corruption, triggering wild cheering and applause during a televised session of the lower house. Corruption is one of the key challenges ...
Afghan Finance Minister Accuses 'Corrupt' LawmakersRadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Afghan minister names 'corrupt' MPsHerald Sun
'Corrupt' Afghan MPs are named in parliamentBBC News

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FBI Raids Point to Possible Corruption in Moreno Valley
Inland Empire Weekly
The Los Angeles Times' Phil Willon reports a corruption task force brought together in 2010 is behind the probe in Moreno Valley. And that same team handled investigations that nailed some pretty big fish to the wall, including former San Bernardino ...

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New York Post
State Assemblyman William Boyland Jr pleads not guilty to corruption charge
New York Post
Assemblyman William Boyland, Jr. pleaded not guilty today to yet another corruption charge leveled against him. Brooklyn federal prosecutors indicted the Brooklyn Democrat on a new mail fraud count for allegedly funneling tax money to a non-profit ...

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Vic cop warns Oz sport ripe for corruption - Ninemsn
Ninemsn
His comments come as representatives of sporting codes across the country gathered in Melbourne on Tuesday for a conference aimed at preventing corruption in sport. Although Australian sport has "fared well" despite the influence of organised crime, ...

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New Zealand Herald
Get tough on corruption - SFO
New Zealand Herald
During a presentation at the 2013 Forensic Conference yesterday, SFO general manager of fraud and corruption Nick Paterson said under the Secret Commissions Act 1910 "you might as well be fining people a peppercorn and sending them off on their ...

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Political corruption at the IRS
Washington Post
The practices already admitted by the IRS were not political insensitivity; they were political corruption. They amounted to an intrusive, ideologically targeted federal investigation of a political movement. And complacency, in this circumstance, is ...

The Independent
Inside the 'bunga bunga' party villa: Silvio Berlusconi throws open doors to ...
The Independent
Silvio Berlusconi should be jailed for six years and banned from holding office again, a prosecutor told a Milan court on Monday during a summing-up hearing for the “bunga bunga” sex and corruption trial. The public minister Ilda Boccassini argued that ...

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CTV News
Quebec corruption inquiry witness admits to lying under oath
CTV News
MONTREAL -- A witness who has delivered bombshell testimony at Quebec's corruption inquiry detailing decades political graft admitted Monday a part of his testimony was a lie. Gilles Cloutier returned to Quebec's corruption inquiry with a message: that ...
Corruption commission witness admits he lied in testimonyCBC.ca
Quebec corruption inquiry witness admits to lie on the standglobalnews.ca
Gilles Cloutier tells Charbonneau commission he lied on the stand about ...Globe and Mail

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International Business Times
China's Illegal 'Black Jails': How A Government Incentive Created More Corruption
International Business Times
While the lists were created to build accountability at the local level and provide an incentive to stay off the list by resolving issues independently, the reality is that it allowed for another area of corruption to be born. As a result those who ...

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In the world of Indian politics corruption gets your goat
Financial Times
Politicians hit by scandal can go to extraordinary lengths to save their jobs, but it still takes a special kind of desperation for goat worship to seem like your best survival option. Yet this was just the strategy employed by Pawan Bansal, India's ...

Montreal Gazette
Aubin: Probe corruption failures, not police failures - Montreal Gazette
Montreal Gazette
I'm referring to civilian bodies charged with upholding laws intended to prevent corruption. This week's arrests in Laval of 37 prominent and seemingly respectable people, starting with former mayor Gilles Vaillancourt, is a jolting reminder of how ...

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Kilpatrick cites media, lawyer in appeal of conviction in corruption case
Detroit Free Press
Acting as his own lawyer, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is asking a federal judge to toss his conviction, arguing many things went wrong during his public corruption trial and that several of his rights were violated. Kilpatrick took issue with ...

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Montreal Gazette
Quebec corruption inquiry witness admits to lie on the stand - Montreal Gazette
Montreal Gazette
MONTREAL - A witness who has delivered bombshell testimony at Quebec's corruption inquiry is admitting he told a lie on the stand. Gilles Cloutier returned to Quebec's corruption inquiry this morning with a message: that although he had testified that ...
Fundraiser facing questions at corruption inquiryCTV News

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CBC.ca
Quebec corruption inquiry witness admits to lie on the stand
globalnews.ca
Gilles Cloutier returned to Quebec's corruption inquiry Monday with a message: that although he had testified that he was the owner of a home in Quebec's Charlevoix region he was, in fact, renting it. Charbonneau Commission. MONTREAL – A witness who ...
Corruption commission witness admits he lied in testimonyCBC.ca
Fundraiser facing questions at corruption inquiryCTV News
Gilles Cloutier tells Charbonneau commission he lied on the stand about ...Globe and Mail

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Video briefing: In southeast Queens, 'corruption' edges 'conspiracy'
Capital New York
For more than two hours last Friday night, a predominantly African-American audience in southeast Queens heard a debate about why the recent tide of corruption allegations in New York has so disproportionately affected officials and operatives who are ...

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Voters punish corruption icons of all parties
The News International
Former PPP Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, who was facing corruption allegations in Rental Power Projects (RPPs) and development schemes, faced humiliating defeat at the hands of PML-N's Raja Javed Ikhlas in his home constituency in Gujjar Khan.

First step against corruption
The News International
ISLAMABAD: Heads of many state-run institutions and other high officials including the NAB chairman are likely to be shown the door by the upcoming PML-N government as many PML-N leaders openly pointed out nepotism and favouritism in their ...

Former Marion County public official to be charged with public corruption
Fox 59
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.– Sources tell Fox59 News that former Marion County Chief Deputy Prosecutor David Wyser will be charged with public corruption by the U.S. Attorney's Office Monday. Wyser will be charged for his role in the sentence modification of a ...

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