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Public corruption trial begins today in federal court
Brownsville Herald
Ex-Cameron County District Attorney Armando R. Villalobos begins his trial today with a “clean slate,” as U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen has stressed in pretrial matters in the federal public corruption case against the former state prosecutor and ...

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Newsday
Despite promises to fix Albany, corruption still dogs lawmakers
Press & Sun-Bulletin
Cuomo, Assembly Democrats and the Senate's Independent Democratic Conference have put out proposals aimed at deterring corruption in Albany. But no agreement has been reached, and Senate Republicans are balking at plans for public financing of ...
NY corruption: Fed probe raises race question - Newsday WestchesterNewsday
Cuomo said he will not let recent corruption scandals derail his agendaYNN Hudson Valley
Corruption cloud looms over AlbanyYNN
NY1 (blog) -Crain's New York Business
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Newsday
Despite promises to fix Albany, corruption still dogs lawmakers
Press & Sun-Bulletin
Cuomo, Assembly Democrats and the Senate's Independent Democratic Conference have put out proposals aimed at deterring corruption in Albany. But no agreement has been reached, and Senate Republicans are balking at plans for public financing of ...
NY corruption: Fed probe raises race question - Newsday WestchesterNewsday
Cuomo said he will not let recent corruption scandals derail his agendaYNN Hudson Valley
The Call Blog: Albany Corruption In The Spotlight As Former State Senator ...NY1 (blog)
YNN -Crain's New York Business
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China Daily
High-ranking Chinese official caught in anti-corruption net
Los Angeles Times
Liu, 58, is the latest in a string of government officials ensnared by President Xi Jinping's campaign to clean up Beijing's corruption-tainted image. Warning that corruption was threatening the survival of the Communist Party, Xi has waged a highly ...
Senior China planner investigated in new corruption crackdown: state mediaYahoo! News
Top NDRC official in corruption investigationGlobal Times
China Investigates High-Ranking OfficialWall Street Journal
The New Age Online -China Daily
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Corruption and Control Define Russia's Border Zones
The Moscow Times
Frequent changes to the exact boundaries of border zones and arbitrary enforcement of access suggest that they are a source of large scale corruption and designed to control population movements rather than being a necessity for national security, ...

Newsday
NY corruption case: Feds cast a wide net - Newsday Westchester
Newsday
Moses "Mark" Stern has been seen as the linchpin of the public corruption investigation that led to the arrests of Spring Valley Mayor Noramie Jasmin, deputy Mayor Joseph Desmaret, and four New York City political figures on charges they conspired in ...

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Daily Mail
Sarah Palin bashes IRS 'corruption' after agency's 'harassment' of Tea Party ...
Daily Mail
'Americans should remember that this same corrupt IRS,' Palin wrote, 'will be in charge of enforcing Obamacare.' Palin also compared the IRS drama with what she wrote off as 'White House's latest Benghazi spin,' referring to the September 11, 2012 ...

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Theresa May is right to take on police corruption
Conservative Home (blog)
Police In Britain we have a proud policing tradition which has seen our forces of law and order stay more free of corruption than most others in the world. That makes it all the more shocking when an instance of corruption does come to light - and all ...

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China Investigates High-Ranking Official
Wall Street Journal
Since formally taking power in March, Mr. Xi has been unusually blunt about the dangers corruption poses to China, saying the corruption could lead to protests that have the potential to topple the Chinese Communist Party's hold on power. During the ...
Senior Chinese official investigated in graft crackdownFinancial Times
China probes top state planner amid graft claimsThe New Age Online

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India Today
Pawan Bansal's web of corruption: CBI sniffs deep-rooted larger conspiracy
India Today
Pawan Bansal's web of corruption: CBI sniffs deep-rooted larger conspiracy. Tags: Pawan Kumar Bansal | Railway Minister | Centre | Bribery charges. RELATEDS. I have done nothing wrong, reiterates Pawan Bansal · Ashwani, Bansal's resignations won't ...
Two India Ministers ResignWall Street Journal
Rail minister Bansal run over by corruption scandal, resigns: TVHindustan Times
Ministers who resigned on corruption charges in UPA IINitiCentral
Zee News -Deccan Chronicle
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China Daily
Senior China planner investigated in new corruption crackdown - state media
Reuters India
Last month, China formally charged a former railways minister, Liu Zhijun, with corruption and abuse of power, setting up the first test of newly installed President Xi Jinping's resolve to crack down on pervasive graft. In January, Xi, who officially ...
NDRC Vice Chairman Liu Under Investigation, Xinhua SaysBloomberg
Senior Chinese official investigated in graft crackdownFinancial Times
China probes top state planner amid graft claimsThe New Age Online

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India Today
The diverse hues of Indian corruption
India Today
Corruption is often seen as a botanical exercise. Classification and naming become important rituals but often different species are classified under the same label. The word 'Watergate' has become a creation of myth, an example of the ultimate ...

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Senior China planner investigated in new corruption crackdown: state media
Yahoo! News
BEIJING (Reuters) - A deputy chairman of China's top planning agency, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), is under investigation for suspected "serious discipline violations", state media said on Sunday, as China's new leaders ...

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Phil Reisman: New York has a long, proud history of corruption; let's not ...
The Journal News | LoHud.com
He was referring to William M. Tweed, the overstuffed kingpin of Tammany Hall whose criminal lust for money and power made him the personification of public corruption. Tweed's larcenous ways established a standard of crookedness against which all ...

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Ethiopia arrests minister, 11 others over corruption - Nazret.com
Nazret.com (blog)
Businesses in the region regularly complain of corruption as an obstacle to their work. Transparency International ranked Ethiopia 113 out of 176 nations worldwide in its 2012 perception of corruption index, where No. 1 is considered least corrupt.
Ethiopia minister, others arrested on corruption charges as activists praise moveBikyanews.com

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Montreal Gazette
UPAC to cast its anti-corruption net wider - Montreal Gazette
Montreal Gazette
Just days after his squad arrested the former mayor of Laval and 36 other prominent construction bosses, politicians and lawyers, the head of Quebec's anti-corruption task force said his work is far from over. UPAC chief Robert Lafrenière couldn't help ...

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Falana decries level of corruption, injustice in Nigeria Calls for economic ...
Nigerian Tribune
Human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), has said Nigerians are yet to come to terms with the level of corruption and injustice in the country, just as he noted that there can't be any justice in the face of colossal diversion of public funds by ...

The Independent
Corruption, power shortages, terrorism... Can anyone solve Pakistan's problems?
The Independent
President Zardari has repeatedly been accused of corruption, to the extent that despite his repeated insistence that he is innocent he has earned the nickname of Mr Ten Per Cent. His PPP government sacrificed a prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, to ...

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Newsday
NY corruption: IDC drums up support for campaign finance reform
Newsday
The reform package was spurred by a sweeping federal corruption arrests of six politicians -- including former IDC leader Sen. Malcolm Smith (D-Queens), along with Spring Valley Mayor Noramie Jasmin and Deputy Mayor Joseph A. Desmaret -- on April 2.

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Times of India
Vahanvati flip-flops on corruption case
Times of India
NEW DELHI: It's a corruption case in which attorney general G E Vahanvati has changed his own opinion. This came to light in a chargesheet filed six months ago by the CBI against the former director general of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), ...