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BJP suspends Lehar Singh after he confronts Advani on corruption
The Hindu
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday suspended its MLC Lehar Singh besides removing him from the post of the State treasurer after he shot off a letter to veteran leader L.K. Advani directly confronting him over his alleged “changing postures” on ...

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Exclaim! (blog)
Peter Hook to perform New Order's Movement and Power, Corruption and Lies ...
Consequence of Sound
This time around, he's graduating from Joy Division and, instead, performing full albums by New Order: their 1981 debut, Movement, and its followup, 1983′s Power, Corruption & Lies. The tour kicks off on September 10th at Boston's Paradise Rock Club ...
Peter Hook to Bring 'Movement' and 'Power, Corruption & Lies' to North America ...Exclaim! (blog)

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IRS Scandal: Bureaucratic Failure or Political Corruption?
The American Conservative (blog)
I just finished chatting about the IRS and AP scandals on the Marc Steiner show with Ari Berman of The Nation, the ACLU's Gabe Rottman, and for the second half, FDL's Kevin Gosztola. Podcast forthcoming here. We disagreed, obviously, about how the IRS ...

US Attorney Rejects Idea of Corruption Conspiracy Against Minority Pols
Politicker
But U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch, one of two federal prosecutors responsible for bringing many of the recent corruption charges, outright rejected any conspiracy theories last night. “There certainly is no conspiracy to look at any particular group,” Ms ...

A Troubling Survey on Global Corruption
New York Times
Off the Charts. A Troubling Survey on Global Corruption. By FLOYD NORRIS. Published: May 17, 2013. CORRUPTION is a growth business. Multimedia. GRAPHIC: Cooking the Books. Bribery scandals have dominated headlines in several countries in recent ...

Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Corruption and women being 'arranged' for players in the IPL? The surprise is ...
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
The IPL, offering cricketers riches unparallelled in the history of the sport, was meant to be corruption-proof. Its integrity would be indisputable, so the argument went, because players would be so well-rewarded that corruption, even to those with ...
A format that lends itself to corruptionThe Hindu
I hope BCCI doesn't bury corruption issue: Lalit Modi - Mid-DayMid-Day
Rooted in corruption cricket needs an upheavalSports Keeda (blog)
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RT
Iraq in ruins: Post-war life overshadowed by crumbling infrastructure ...
RT
As RT's Lucy Kafanov also discovered, the crumbling infrastructure is closely entangled with rampant corruption. Transparency International group has ranked Iraq as the eighth most-corrupt state in the world. In the latest scandal, the country's ...

New Vision
Pader LC5 councillors arrested over corruptionPublish Date: May 17, 2013
New Vision
The Police in Pader are holding three LC 5 councillors who were arrested over alleged corruption cases worth sh6m. The councillors detained by the police include Geoffrey Largo Oringa, 38 of Pajule sub-county, Francis Toolit, 44 (Acholibur sub-county ...

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New Vision
The Police in Pader are holding three LC 5 councillors who were arrested over ...
New Vision
The Police in Pader are holding three LC 5 councillors who were arrested over alleged corruption cases worth sh6m. The councillors detained by the police include Geoffrey Largo Oringa, 38 of Pajule sub-county, Francis Toolit, 44 (Acholibur sub-county ...

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Zim's actual GDP distorted by corruption
Zimbabwe Independent
And yet it is sadly uncontestable that corruption is exceptionally pronounced in Zimbabwe. While almost all Zimbabweans were inherently honest, and corruption was anathema to them, that has markedly changed over the many years of hardships, poverty ...

The fight against corruption and the role of lawyers
Jakarta Post
Corruption is one of the greatest challenges facing our nation today. Despite many efforts to combat corruption and the fact that hundreds of high-ranking government officials and politicians have been convicted and imprisoned for graft, white collar ...

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Globe and Mail
Coderre launches Montreal mayoralty bid with promise to change a corrupt system
Globe and Mail
In an interview after his official campaign launch, Mr. Coderre tried to dispel doubts about his credentials as a reformer. He cast himself as a political outsider despite his 16 years as a federal MP, capable of leading Montreal out of the morass of a ...

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Nigeria Drowning In Sea Of Corruption - Gov Akpabio
Leadership Newspapers
Akwa Ibom State governor Obong Godswill Akpabio yesterday said that Nigeria “has been drowning in a sea of corruption” and urgently needed men of goodwill like the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to ...

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Defendant to plead guilty in Crow corruption case - The Billings Gazette
Billings Gazette
The youngest defendant in a corruption case on Montana's Crow Indian Reservation has reached a deal with prosecutors and intends to plead guilty on an alternate set of charges, according to court papers and attorneys in the case. Martin Lloyd Old Horn ...
Defendant to plead guilty in Crow corruption case - Independent RecordHelena Independent Record

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Globe and Mail
Corruption was well implanted in Laval mayor's government, inquiry hears
Globe and Mail
Then-mayor Gilles Vaillancourt was known as “The Boss” and the system of collusion was so well implanted few instructions were ever explicitly passed around in the corrupt system that built the city of Laval, an insider has testified at Quebec's ...
Quebec corruption inquiry shifts focus to Lavalglobalnews.ca
Tom Mulcair spoke to police 'to help' with Quebec corruption probeMacleans.ca
NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair aided Quebec corruption probeToronto Sun
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Conyers finishes sentence in Detroit corruption case
Detroit Free Press
Sayonara, prison life. That's what Monica Conyers can say now that her federal prison sentence for bribery is officially over. The embattled wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers and former Detroit City Councilwoman ended her 37-month prison term for bribery ...

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FBI seeks source of prostitution, corruption allegations against Sen. Robert ...
Washington Post
As part of a wider public corruption investigation into the senator, the FBI has been examining whether Menendez patronized prostitutes in the Dominican Republic, according to people familiar with the inquiry. They said agents have been trying to ...

Cayman Net News
Taking the corruption test
Cayman Net News
It is generally easy to agree and to give arguments to demonstrate that corruption is harmful to a democracy and also to an economy. For example, this column has argued that in a society where there is rampant corruption, citizens lose their right to ...

Times of India
With anti-corruption unit in slumber, money wasted
Hindustan Times
The harsh reality check for cricket administrators is that they've never been able to control activities of corruption in the sport. They can't stage sting operations, they can't legitimately infiltrate betting networks. All they can do is hope their ...
Flaws in the fencingESPNcricinfo.com
IPL spot-fixing: ICC urged to safeguard cricket's sanctityThe Express Tribune
Will provide full support to BCCI, Delhi police: ICC - Deccan HeraldDeccan Herald

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Globe and Mail
Mulcair says he refused envelope from former Laval mayor charged with corruption
Globe and Mail
Last week, Quebec's anti-corruption squad arrested 37 people in Laval, including Mr. Vaillancourt who was charged with corruption and gangsterism. There are various stories of cash and kickbacks at Laval City Hall during Mr. Vaillancourt's 23-year ...
Quebec corruption inquiry shifts focus to Lavalglobalnews.ca
Federal NDP leader speaks to police 'to help' with Quebec corruption probeMontreal Gazette
NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair aided Quebec corruption probeToronto Sun
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