But what about covert Russian influence peddling in places like Bulgaria; or overt influence peddling through the Russia Today "news" channel; or cyberoperations, via Twitter and Facebook, to disrupt and undermine Western elections?
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Headlines rotate daily charges of graft, nepotism and influence peddling.
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Some focused on bribery and influence peddling by energy companies.
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But influence-peddling scandals have taken off some of the sheen.
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He is also facing the more serious charge of influence peddling.
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The trials exposed Albany's culture of secrecy, nepotism and influence peddling.
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She is now under arrest on suspicion of influence-peddling and embezzlement.
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This month an anti-graft watchdog alleged influence-peddling in Zuma's government.
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"This doesn't look like Russian money laundering, but influence peddling," Gunitsky said.
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This article read like 'influence peddling' and I am disturbed by that.
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At the very least this is a prime example of influence peddling.
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Other defendants are accused of illegal conflicts of interest and influence peddling.
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An inquiry on the influence-peddling allegations is due to start soon.
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DONALD TRUMP came to Washington vowing to "drain the swamp" of influence-peddling.
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Park, 64, was impeached last month by parliament over the influence-peddling scandal.
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Park, 133, was impeached by parliament last month over an influence peddling scandal.
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He is not doing this with "dark money" or Koch-like influence peddling.
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Leaked emails have led to accusations of influence peddling and calls for investigations.
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It is looking into possible offences including private corruption, conspiracy and influence peddling.
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Ms Park is hopelessly mired in an ever-deepening influence-peddling scandal (see article).
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Presidents of all stripes have pledged to tackle influence-peddling, usually with little success.
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They include embezzlement of public funds, money laundering, falsifying private contracts and influence peddling.
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At the end of March, Renzi's industry minister resigned in an influence peddling scandal.
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There have been no extramarital affairs, no divorces, no influence-peddling or gambling outrages.
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Police recently arrested a former finance minister under the previous government for influence peddling.
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Last but by no means least, AIPAC spends on less formal means of influence-peddling.
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As Obama and others have found, these particular problems -- of influence peddling -- are deeply entrenched.
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In order to avoid whispering and influence-peddling, the appointment was kept secret until 2015.
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Lula faces nine separate charges of corruption or influence peddling, all of which he denies.
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Charges for other defendants include more serious counts, such as money laundering and influence peddling.
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This case of possible influence-peddling is under review by Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau.
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Ms. Perry was bewildered that Mr. Cuomo brought it up as evidence of influence peddling.
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On Tuesday, she insisted that she did not profit from Ms. Choi's alleged influence-peddling.
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But direct expenditures on lobbying represent only one part of the larger influence-peddling game.
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Separately, prosecutors named Park Geun-hye, the president, as a suspect in an influence- peddling scandal.
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The decision is a milestone in a broader influence-peddling scandal that brought down Ms Park.
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Influence-peddling could be curtailed by a legal framework for lobbying and transparency over party finances.
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In fact, one could argue he has done much since taking office to encourage influence peddling.
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Based on the amount of influence-peddling that's followed, it's clear Donald Trump must be impeached.
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Park was impeached amid the influence-peddling scandal that has engulfed her administration over recent months.
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At other times, a conspiracy involving weapons-dealing and influence-peddling seems to be gathering force.
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It quickly won praise from advocacy groups focused on limiting money and influence-peddling in politics.
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SEOUL, South Korea — She is facing impeachment and prosecution over allegations of corruption and influence-peddling.
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Hawks spokesman Hangwani Mulaudzi said the raid was part of a probe into influence-peddling allegations.
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Nicolae's amendment would include pardoning sentences for bribery, influence peddling, abuse of power and conflict of interest.
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The debate is set in Mr. Kaine's home state, Virginia, known for weak laws on influence peddling.
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Prosecutors said they would charge her close friend with influence peddling, abuse of power and attempted fraud.
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Barely a day has passed without someone accusing Ms. Choi of influence peddling, greed or simply arrogance.
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Tariff policy will once again be driven by influence-peddling and bribery, never mind the national interest.
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This uniquely Chinese brand of influence peddling is now being lavished on President Trump's Princelings and Princesslings.
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But after allegations of influence peddling, bribetaking and misuse of government funds, she was forced from office.
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To the Editor: Thank you for your coverage of Betsy DeVos's extreme ideology and brazen influence-peddling.
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Accusations of influence-peddling and gaffes by members of Mr. Abe's cabinet have added to his problems.
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The choice between an influence-peddling operation and a helping-people operation is ultimately a false one.
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Late last year, South Korea's conservative President Park Geun-hye was impeached amid a scandal over influence peddling.
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South Korea President Park Geun-hye awaits a decision on her impeachment following an influence-peddling scandal there.
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Influence-peddling is "systemic and endemic" in South Korea, says David Kang of the University of Southern California.
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He was speaking following a parliament vote to impeach President Park Geun-hye over an influence-peddling scandal.
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Is this proof of illegal influence peddling, or just how the intermingling worlds of politics and philanthropy work?
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Ms. Park's new lawyer requested time to review the case, delaying official questioning in the influence-peddling scandal.
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The current Angolan government accuses her of "money laundering, influence peddling… forgery of documents, among other economic crimes".
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I mean, they make Hillary Clinton look like small change when it comes to influence peddling-- THRUSH: Right.
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Ewha students were the first to take to the streets to protest the Choi family's reported influence peddling.
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Also Wednesday, a Romanian court sentenced former Transportation Minister Dan Sova to three years in prison for influence peddling.
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Ms Park's approval rating has fallen to 5% after a close friend was implicated in an influence-peddling scandal.
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Last April, the Brazilian Attorney General's Office opened an investigation into allegations of influence-peddling by the former president.
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But claims of influence peddling caused waves in Chile, casting legal scrutiny upon Compagnon and bringing scorn upon Bachelet.
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The no-confidence motions follow the resignation last month of Industry Minister Federica Guidi in an influence-peddling scandal.
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Zuma survived a parliamentary no-confidence vote on Thursday called by the DA over the allegations of influence-peddling.
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Mr. Bouvier's lawyer in Monaco, Frank Michel, said that some people would like the influence-peddling investigation to end.
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If they double down on their current, violent "resistance," they may find their influence peddling coming up empty again.
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It stems from a 2016 report into alleged influence-peddling by the Public Protector, South Africa's main anti-graft authority.
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And here's what I'm not, as opposed to your choice: I've never engaged in influence peddling or pay-to-play.
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For weeks Ms Park's conservative administration has been besieged by accusations of influence-peddling involving Choi Soon-sil, a confidante.
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Nene was the highest profile figure to give evidence at the probe into alleged influence-peddling by the Gupta family.
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But it is a tricky stance to maintain, given the convictions of former officials for influence-peddling in the case.
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It's true that the Trumpworld version of this old, old Washington tradition reflects influence peddling at its most flagrantly corrupt.
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The footage raised questions about money and influence peddling in Austria while shaking public trust in the country's political parties.
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It involves a secret relationship, a child that may or may not be alive, and alleged embezzlement and influence peddling.
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Wang is among several people charged by U.S. prosecutors since 2015 over alleged influence-peddling linked to the United Nations.
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They painted a picture of nepotism and influence-peddling, much of it involving lucrative construction contracts handed to party favourites.
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The Guptas were at the centre of an influence-peddling scandal during Zuma's time in office, but they deny wrongdoing.
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Cohen has not been accused of wrongdoing, but some say what he did looks a lot like influence peddling. 4.
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The Guptas, at the heart of influence-peddling allegations around Zuma, and the former president have consistently denied wrong-doing.
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Mr. Abe himself has hung on to power through several influence-peddling scandals that threatened his political standing last year.
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Having initially rejected any insinuation of influence peddling, Mr. Morales's government arrested Ms. Zapata and charged her with exactly that.
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The Guptas were at the center of an influence-peddling scandal during Zuma's time in office, but they deny wrongdoing.
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Russian interest waned after the 1917 Revolution, but recent influence peddling has Athens worried about a renewed effort at domination.
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It was part of a huge influence-peddling scandal that has brought down the country's former president Park Geun-hye.
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As early as 2014, the Segye Ilbo newspaper reported on an intelligence document alleging influence-peddling by Ms. Choi's family.
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" Mr. Holman of Public Citizen said Mr. Collins's recruiting efforts among Washington power players created the opportunity for "influence peddling.
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Choi received a three-year prison term in a separate court case related to her influence-peddling in university admissions.
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Park looks set to lose her job after lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to impeach her last week over an influence-peddling scandal.
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Prosecutors had demanded a 25-year jail term for Choi on charges including coercion, bribery, influence-peddling and abuse of authority.
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Ban returns to a country gripped by political crisis stemming from the influence-peddling scandal that has engulfed the political elite.
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As Andrew Bacevich points out, foreign countries have long been adept at the (perfectly legal) art of Washington, D.C. influence peddling.
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" The petition makes several demands, including an expansion of diversity recruitment, and prevention of "perceived influence peddling through Trump affiliated businesses.
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In addition, a public inquiry on widespread influence-peddling in his administration is expected to be held in the months ahead.
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Retaining access to the political-industrial complex of lobbying and influence-peddling may be another motive for this lethargy and timidity.
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It also establishes a pattern of conduct that makes various federal agencies and departments susceptible to influence-peddling by special interests.
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Zuma has denied wrongdoing and the Gupta family and its companies have also denied all allegations of influence-peddling or improper dealings.
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The three executives face accusations of influence peddling, corruption, racketeering and money laundering, the report said, without specifying which applied to Trabuco.
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Zuma says the three Gupta brothers - Atul, Ajay and Rajesh - are his friends but he denies any influence-peddling in their relationship.
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Clinton next week where he says he will focus on how she and Bill Clinton have engaged in high priced influence peddling.
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Earlier this week, South Africa's parliament said it would launch an investigation into allegations of influence-peddling against mines minister Mosebenzi Zwane.
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The case is important because it's part of the influence-peddling scandal that took down ex-South Korean President Park Geun-hye.
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Instead, Butina got her student visa from the U.S. government, despite influence-peddling that was brashly recorded on websites and social media.
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Their trials, which exposed influence peddling and other forms of corruption in Albany, seemed to put the capital's culture itself on trial.
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"Corporations that receive our taxpayer dollars to stay afloat need clear checks on their ability to engage in influence peddling," Gilbert said.
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" John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany, said the trial had revealed a state government "riddled with pay-to-play influence-peddling.
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Reports in the Indian press last week, followed by a Washington Post article on Thursday, have brought new accusations of influence peddling.
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From Russian influence-peddling to injustice at Justice, the episode's politics are so clear that the fiction is barely a fig leaf.
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Since the scandal broke, Ms. Park has disowned Ms. Choi, insisting that she was not aware of Ms. Choi's alleged influence-peddling.
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His campaign pledges to "drain the swamp" haven't resulted in any proposed legislation to rein in lobbying and influence-peddling in Washington.
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Molefe stepped down five months ago after being implicated in a report by the country's anti-graft watchdog into alleged influence-peddling.
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Her three most trusted aides have been fired over the corruption and influence-peddling scandal that now threatens to undo her presidency.
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Mr. Lichtenstein was arrested last year amid a major F.B.I. investigation into influence-peddling and bribery within the New York Police Department.
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Besides the conviction for money-laundering and influence peddling, da Silva has been charged in seven other corruption cases that are pending trial.
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Ms Choi has already been charged with bribery and influence-peddling, and has been held at the Seoul Detention Centre for four weeks.
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Ms Choi said she had "committed a crime" that she "deserved to die for", but has denied allegations of corruption and influence-peddling.
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Read the meat of the article, and the most shocking revelation is what's not in it — a genuinely interesting example of influence peddling.
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An investigation into allegations of Ms Park's influence-peddling, which first surfaced in October, has already led to more than two dozen indictments.
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The truth about the level of foreign donation, influence peddling, and outright corruption involved in the Clinton world could change American politics forever.
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When Ms Bachelet's daughter-in-law became the centre of an influence-peddling scandal, the president became the focus of anger about corruption.
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But South Korea's government has been seriously weakened by the impeachment last month of President Park Geun-hye over an influence-peddling scandal.
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"It's a dangerous system that creates widespread opportunities for influence peddling," says Fred Wertheimer, who leads Democracy 21, a campaign finance watchdog group.
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The DA said it had noted the ruling "with interest", saying it approached the court to avoid delays in probing influence-peddling allegations.
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France: Former President Nicolas Sarkozy lost his final attempt to avoid standing trial on charges of corruption and influence peddling, his lawyer said.
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But in 2015, he was convicted in a trial that came to symbolize a culture of corruption, secrecy and influence-peddling in Albany.
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The point is that Joe Biden knew of a glaring conflict in what anyone would recognize as an obvious effort at influence peddling.
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The nation's full Constitutional Court will begin formal hearings on Tuesday into the case, the biggest influence-peddling scandal in South Korea's history.
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They said they were expanding their investigation to include allegations that Ms. Choi's influence-peddling went far beyond collecting funds for her foundations.
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The latest allegations of influence-peddling are deepening divides in the ANC as factions battle for control ahead of the December party conference.
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He pitched the proposals in July after an influence-peddling scandal in the judiciary triggered street protests and anger at the political class.
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" Mattis did suggest that the US is "looking at both this influence peddling and the corrupting -- the violating the integrity of the elections.
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Editorial Every election year, politicians of both parties portray Washington as a Gomorrah of influence peddling, goldbricking and waste, funded by hardworking taxpayers.
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On Wednesday, the senate's legal committee approved amendments to the bill to include influence peddling and bribe-taking on a list of pardonable offences.
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Virtually everyone (except the subsidized industries) recognizes their folly by now, but inertia and political influence peddling have kept them stumbling on like zombies.
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He also now has to manage allegations the company may have been involved in a broad influence-peddling scandal that has gripped South Korea.
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Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's court filing tells a sordid tale of influence-peddling on behalf of Yanukovych, Vladimir Putin's man in Kiev.
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Oakbay did not go into further detail on the allegations of influence peddling that have rocked the government and drawn in several international firms.
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South Korea's Constitutional Court forced Park from office over an influence-peddling involving one of her close friends and the country's powerful "chaebol" conglomerates.
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Adding to the gloom, the NCD leader and interior minister, Angelino Alfano, is embroiled in a scandal over alleged influence peddling by family members.
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The Public Protector, a constitutionally-mandated watchdog, released the report in November last year, after a probe over allegations of influence-peddling against Zuma.
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Finally, during Trump's pre-election transition, it seems likely that he will not be averse to a prominent role for lobbyists and influence-peddling.
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In the U.S., law firms representing him are being careful amid scrutiny by the special counsel, Robert Mueller, of foreign influence-peddling in Washington.
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On Wednesday morning, the Peruvian authorities ordered an initial 20163-day detention of Mr. García on accusations of money laundering, influence peddling and collusion.
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These politicians, in addition to their policy positions, eagerly accept large political contributions from influence-peddling plutocrats on Wall Street and in corporate America.
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Mr. Urdangarin — who was found guilty on several counts, including fraud, document falsification, tax evasion and influence peddling — was among 18 defendants on trial.
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Those concerns, surrounding an influence-peddling scandal that engulfed the country, ultimately resulted in the impeachment of Park Geun-hye, then South Korea's president.
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Mr. Silver's and Mr. Skelos's retrials will be watched closely by watchdog groups, which have long criticized Albany's culture of secrecy and influence peddling.
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Zuma has survived several political and personal scandals, fending off accusations of corruption, influence peddling and even rape before he took office in 2009.
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But a rule of thumb in US politics is it's never good to be anywhere in the vicinity of an FBI influence-peddling probe.
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The nation's anti-graft watchdog, in a report released in November, called for a judge to investigate allegations of influence peddling in Zuma's government.
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But that's no excuse for dumping the fundamentals of American leadership in favor of a more transactional, debased form of nation-state influence peddling.
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The decision to let the alcohol industry pay the bulk of the cost has raised concern among researchers who track influence-peddling in science.
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Former PP party treasurer, Luis Barcenas, is among the 37 people on trial on charges of organized crime, falsifying accounts, influence-peddling and tax crimes.
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The 64-year old was named as an accomplice in an influence-peddling scandal involving her friend Choi Soon Sil, but has denied any wrongdoing.
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For weeks Ms Park has been at the centre of an extraordinary influence-peddling scandal involving a corrupt former confidante and friend, Choi Soon-sil.
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The first: At least two of President Trump's closest allies have made use of a new way of influence peddling that's arguably swampier than lobbying.
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The economic gloom is compounded by allegations of corruption in state-owned companies and claims of influence-peddling in government that have hurt investor confidence.
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He came to power on the crest of popular protests that had led to the impeachment for influence-peddling of his predecessor, Park Geun-hye.
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The PP has faced a slew of investigations over allegations of misappropriating public funds and influence peddling, which have seen several of its politicians resign.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) welcomed the release of a report by the Public Protector over alleged influence peddling in government.
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La Follette's Senate office had also been ransacked and Wheeler was indicted in Montana on a bogus influence-peddling charge that was soon thrown out.
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The central bank said earlier that private spending would be weaker in 2017 as uncertainties arising from the influence-peddling corruption scandal affect consumer sentiment.
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On Tuesday, Park announced she was relinquishing her powers amid her alleged involvement in an influence-peddling offense that sparked large-scale anti-government protests.
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Denel has been plagued by years of mismanagement and exposure to a far-reaching influence-peddling scandal that led some lenders to cut off financing.
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Talk about decades of corruption and influence peddling and a political establishment that has insulated the Clintons and their allies from any and all consequences.
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What it failed to mention is that Reid stuck to his longstanding position on both issues—meaning that any implications of influence peddling were bogus.
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A self-reinforcing spiral of regulatory capture, self-dealing and influence-peddling has led to intensely concentrated power that is at once economic and political.
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An American was detained in Moscow on espionage charges, adding to tensions between Moscow and Washington over the issues of election hacking and influence peddling.
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The arrest comes during an extended period of tension in relations between Moscow and Washington, particularly over the issues of election hacking and influence peddling.
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The inquiry follows a complaint filed by the anticorruption group Anticor, which accused Mr. Kohler of influence peddling and of breaking conflict-of-interest rules.
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The business of graft, extortion and influence peddling occupies all these men, but "The Irishman" finds its emotional center in the vicissitudes of their friendship.
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His opponents portray him as an influence-peddling president whose friends and relatives have benefited since he took charge of the Spanish federation in 1988.
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The charges were related to a massive influence-peddling case that moved angry South Koreans to flood the streets in protests calling for her removal.
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Caruana Galizia published accusations of corruption, money laundering and influence peddling by people at the highest levels of Maltese society, all of which they denied.
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Mr. Abe has also recently been dogged by influence-peddling scandals, and his party suffered a resounding defeat in a recent local election in Tokyo.
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Here's what you need to know: • In South Korea, the trial begins for Choi Soon-sil, above, the jailed presidential adviser accused of influence peddling.
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Limiting trade with China to the essentials would curtail funds available for its Belt and Road influence peddling and increasingly threatening projection of military power.
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Ms. Zapata, 31, an executive at a Chinese-owned construction company that received large government contracts, was tried and sentenced in 2017 for influence peddling.
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And it's at least possible that many of the donations here are garden-variety influence peddling, rather than indicative of some larger and more sinister scheme.
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As Ms Park sank ever deeper into an influence-peddling scandal involving a former confidante, millions joined protests and called on their MPs to oust her.
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Their indictments shed light on the culture of influence peddling and less-than-savory financial transactions that Mr. Trump promised to root out if elected president.
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South Korea has been gripped by a political crisis since lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in December to impeach President Park Geun-hye over an influence-peddling scandal.
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Rybolovlev, who was charged with corruption and influence peddling in Monaco last year, does have ties to Donald Trump, or at least did in the past.
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On Tuesday morning, news broke that South Korean prosecutors raided the electronics giant's offices, as part of the influence-peddling investigation involving President Park Geun-hye.
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From 1987 to 1988, he took a leave to work in the federal independent counsel's office, prosecuting former Reagan official Lyn Nofziger on influence-peddling charges.
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The influence-peddling inquiry was recommended in a report released a year ago by the Public Protector, whose job is to uphold standards in public life.
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Sensitive to the influence-peddling scandal that brought down Park, Moon has also made a conscious decision to sideline some of his closest friends and advisers.
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Some had predicted that the party would "recall" Mr Zuma after a series of damaging allegations of influence peddling, which the party said it would investigate.
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India's version of crony capitalism, in which wealthy business interests are inseparable from the government, and influence peddling is routine, must have felt like familiar terrain.
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But opposition lawmakers said they would still insist on a vote to impeach Ms. Park, who was named a criminal suspect in an influence-peddling scandal.
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Ms. Park later also apologized for letting her guard down on Ms. Choi and failing to prevent what has been alleged to be her influence peddling.
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None have led to convictions, but the developments in the Libya and influence-peddling cases signal that Mr. Sarkozy's legal woes are rising to a climax.
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Local news outlets reported that three people, including a member of the family, had been arrested as part of a new police inquiry into influence-peddling.
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"We must break with the practices of the past," he said, adding that 56 people in his department had been jailed for bribery and influence peddling.
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In addition to the public inquiry on influence-peddling, he could also face charges related to an arms deal from the 1990s before he became president.
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In a 2016 report on corruption, Thulisile Madonsela, the former public protector, described widespread influence-peddling in the Zuma administration and called for a public inquiry.
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Both men forfeited their seats in the State Legislature upon being found guilty, and the trials shed light on Albany's culture of secrecy and influence peddling.
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Before panic sets in, it is well to be reminded of the difference in degree, and kind, of today's foreign influence-peddling compared with past episodes.
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What the article doesn't mention is that many of the senators who will vote on her confirmation have been part of this influence-peddling campaign, too.
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Only eight retiring congressmen became lobbyists through the entire 1930s, while 41 retiring lawmakers from the class of 2010 alone joined the ranks of influence-peddling.
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In a separate case this month, the nation's High Court rejected Mr. Zuma's attempts to block an inquiry into accusations of influence-peddling in his administration.
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Once dubbed the "ideal" son-in-law by Spain's gossip press, Urdangarin has also been charged with influence peddling, document falsification, money laundering and tax fraud.
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This represents several distinct channels of influence-peddling: Here I'll confess that a few years back I had breakfast with a Google lobbyist at Google's office.
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The International Olympic Committee was embroiled in a corruption scandal in the 1990s involving, among other things, influence-peddling and gifts by cities bidding for the Games.
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Anger towards embattled President Park Geun-hye, who is facing impeachment amid alleged involvement in an influence-peddling scandal, has inspired a pronounced wave of political disillusionment.
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"It could be catastrophic for the AKP to be implicated as a conduit for Iranian influence peddling," said Erdemir, the former opposition-party member of Turkey's parliament.
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She says the notion that she took part in influence-peddling is a politically motivated fabrication—even though the prosecutors behind the claim work for her administration.
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A spokesman for the Urban Renaissance Agency told Reuters it was investigating the matter but did not consider the settlements to be a case of influence peddling.
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Our politicians, pundits and so many Americans are busy fighting over impeachment, influence-peddling allegations and issues that don't affect the person driving down Main Street directly.
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South Africa's president, Jacob Zuma, survived an attempt to remove him as leader of the ruling African National Congress by party dissidents amid an influence-peddling scandal.
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Her campaign has also been forced to deny claims of influence peddling between her family's philanthropic Clinton Foundation and the State Department while she ran US diplomacy.
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President Jacob Zuma's reign has been beset by allegations of influence-peddling in government and mismanagement of state-owned enterprises which have dented consumer and business confidence.
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The influence-peddling inquiry was recommended in a report released a year ago by South Africa's Public Protector, whose job is to uphold standards in public life.
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Zuma's discussion with the former Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela, during her investigation into allegations of influence-peddling was broadcast on private a television channel at the weekend.
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Molefe has denied wrongdoing and the Gupta family, who are friends of Zuma, and its companies have also denied all allegations of influence-peddling or improper dealings.
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Last week President Jabob Zuma survived a parliamentary no-confidence vote over allegations of influence-peddling, one of several scandals involving him since taking office in 2009.
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The court is at present trying PP members including the former party treasurer, Luis Barcenas, on charges of organised crime, falsifying accounts, influence-peddling and tax crimes.
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There are, it turns out, ways to do the wrong thing that go beyond the usual influence-peddling, bribing, extorting and other common varieties of Albany venality.
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Google's money, not always disclosed, has backed donations to think tanks across the ideological spectrum as well as more prosaic forms of influence peddling like campaign contributions.
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Zuma's discussion with the former Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela, during her investigation into allegations of influence-peddling was broadcast on a private television channel at the weekend.
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The long-standing allegations of influence peddling involving the Clinton have never been fully investigated, and the call for such an investigation is not prejudging the results.
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Such regulation can result from blatant quid pro quo influence peddling or simply be the outcome of underfunded bureaucrats overwhelmed by the resources and expertise of industry.
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It reflects America's enduring ability to generate huge fortunes, complacency about concentrations of power, and the many opportunities its diffuse and multilayered democracy provides for influence-peddling.
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Park, 66, was found guilty of 16 of the 18 charges she faced, related to a massive influence-peddling case that removed her from office last year.
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On Wednesday, the Romanian Senate's legislative affairs committee approved amendments to a draft bill on prison pardons to include the crimes of influence peddling and bribe taking.
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More than half a million people took to the streets demanding an end to government corruption and influence-peddling that culminated in the resignation of the governor.
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The questioning is part of the prosecution's continued investigation into the influence-peddling scandal that brought down Park and has engulfed South Korea's business and political elites.
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Andrew Cuomo called questions of influence peddling "the cheapest shot you can take at me" because he said he was not doing anything related to state government.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday lost his final bid to avoid standing trial on charges of corruption and influence peddling, his lawyer said.
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The lower court, in Palma de Mallorca, convicted Urdangarin in a celebrated 2016 trial of misuse of public funds, abuse of power, fraud, tax evasion and influence peddling.
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Investors will continue to eye the state-of-play over President Park Guen-hye, who was impeached by parliament last week in connection with an influence-peddling scandal.
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The scandal is arguably the biggest yet to hit Zuma, who has fended off accusations of corruption, influence peddling and rape since before he took office in 2009.
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Lee is a suspect in an ongoing investigation into an influence-peddling scandal, which led to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye in parliament late last year.
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Special prosecutors in South Korea questioned in custody the de facto head of Samsung Electronics, following his arrest in an influence-peddling scandal that has rocked the government.
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Zuma has been dogged by scandals for much of his presidency, and the country's anti graft watchdog has called for a judicial inquiry into allegations of influence-peddling.
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The Democratic Alliance (DA) filed a criminal complaint against Zuma last week after an anti-corruption agency published a report listing allegations of influence-peddling in Zuma's government.
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"After 20 years in Washington, Roy Blunt has turned into the poster child for conflicts of interest and influence peddling in Congress," Majority Forward spokesman Shripal Shah said.
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Even though the influence-peddling revealed in the documents dates back nearly 50 years, more recent reports show that the food industry has continued to influence nutrition science.
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These members are not as susceptible to the usual pressures, and they don't see what's wrong with criticizing influence-peddling when the party's signature legislation this session—H.
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Hunter did admit that his deal with Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian energy company, may have shown "poor judgment" but not because it was an effort at influence peddling.
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Those with long memories will remember the controversy stirred up by Republicans in 2015 over whether donations by foreigners to the Clintons' charitable foundation amounted to influence-peddling.
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Background: The new coalition comes seven months after the Austrian People's Party's controversial alliance with a far-right party collapsed under the weight of an influence-peddling scandal.
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The prosecutors said they would charge the friend, Choi Soon-sil, who has been detained for questioning since Monday, with influence peddling, abuse of power and attempted fraud.
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Since ascending to the governorship after her predecessor quit over an influence-peddling scandal, Brown has pursued arguably the most aggressively liberal agenda of any governor in America.
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Although Trump Jr. has acknowledged meeting Veselnitskaya, he did not disclose the attendance of Akhmetshin, a well-known figure in the capital's murky world of foreign influence peddling.
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It was dogged by accusations of influence peddling, self dealing and conflicts of interests, due in large part to hefty contributions from foreign governments and other influential donors.
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If one agrees that the windfall contracts secured by Hunter Biden were obvious influence peddling, then Trump pushing for an investigation into that possible crime becomes more defensible.
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Classroom grant programs from foundations, public entities and even some corporations can provide teachers funding that is free of the kind of influence peddling described in the article.
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Mr. Sarkozy's name has surfaced in several other cases, but he has been placed under formal investigation in only one of them, on charges of corruption and influence peddling.
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Still, it's a very strange message to send after a campaign in which the party's presidential candidate pledged to "drain the swamp" and clean up influence peddling in Washington.
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ROME, March 31 (Reuters) - Italian Industry Minister Federica Guidi resigned on Thursday over allegations of a conflict of interest after her partner was put under investigation for influence peddling.
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Zondo said at the start of hearings that a call for members of the public to come forward with evidence of influence-peddling had so far borne little fruit.
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Twenty-nine people related to the PP, including a former treasurer and other senior members, were convicted on Thursday of offences including falsifying accounts, influence-peddling and tax crimes.
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Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, considered a likely candidate for ANC president in December, last month said he wanted the influence-peddling allegations investigated, lending support to the watchdog's recommendations.
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Yet when Ms Park's approval rating sank to a record low of 33% in November amid a sensational influence-peddling scandal, it fell further still, to 23%, in Daegu.
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A special prosecutor's investigation started on Wednesday into the influence-peddling scandal that threatens to make Park, 64, the first democratically-elected leader to leave office early in disgrace.
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The three Gupta brothers are at the center of graft and influence-peddling allegations surrounding Zuma, who was forced from office last month by the ruling African National Congress.
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Both Mr Kim and his successor, Kim Dae-jung, entered office pledging to eradicate corruption, but both saw their sons convicted of influence-peddling during their time in office.
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Economic growth has been slow, her reforms of education, tax and labour laws have not worked as planned and her son has been implicated in an influence-peddling scandal.
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Ramaphosa welcomed Zuma's recent announcement that there would be an inquiry into influence-peddling in government and said it was a top priority for those responsible to be prosecuted.
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The Constitutional Court dismissed Park from office on Friday when it upheld a parliamentary impeachment vote over an influence-peddling scandal that has shaken the political and business elite.
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Ms. Choi has been charged with influence-peddling and fraud; as a sitting president, Ms. Park cannot be indicted, but she has been formally identified as a criminal suspect.
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Last year, six people were detained and three others placed under house arrested in an initial investigation of alleged bribery and influence peddling over the long-delayed stadium project.
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Mr. Sarkozy, who was president from 2007 to 2012, is under preliminary charges of corruption and influence peddling based on information from judicial phone taps in 2013 and 2014.
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The scandal is arguably the biggest yet to hit Zuma, who has fended off accusations of corruption, influence peddling and even rape since before he took office in 2009.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's parliament will launch an investigation into allegations of influence-peddling against mines minister Mosebenzi Zwane, its oversight committee on mineral resources department said on Wednesday.
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Valcov, a former finance minister who authored many of the Social Democrats' populist measures, was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2018 for influence peddling and money laundering.
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Mr. Sarkozy, one of his lawyers and a former magistrate have all been ordered to stand trial on charges of active corruption and influence-peddling, the judicial official said.
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In February, Bosasa's former chief operating officer Angelo Agrizzi told a South African judicial inquiry into alleged influence-peddling that he had bribed politicians and bureaucrats to secure contracts.
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Mr. Percoco's trial symbolized what prosecutors, good government groups and Mr. Cuomo's political opponents have said was Albany's culture of influence peddling and secret deals, under the governor's watch.
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The prosecutor's office said the investigation focused on "suspicions of receiving undue advantages, or possibly corruption, money laundering, influence peddling and tax fraud," but would not provide specific details.
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In a sentencing memorandum, Mr. Patten's lawyer said his client thought he was merely giving the Ukrainian access to a postelection party, not creating an avenue for influence-peddling.
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Daschle forgetting (or "forgetting") to treat a loaner car from a business partner in the influence-peddling game as taxable income was not the biggest deal in the world.
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Geddel Vieira Lima, an ally of the president, and minister until he resigned last November in an influence-peddling imbroglio, is reportedly in the sights of the Lava Jato investigation.
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The scandal is arguably the biggest yet to hit the president, who has fended off accusations of corruption, influence peddling, and even rape since before he took office in 2009.
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The answer they find is that it's not always or only through corrupt deals and influence peddling — it's also that they're able to change the conversation we have about change.
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South Koreans have protested against Park for five straight weeks over her alleged involvement in an influence-peddling case, adding to spiking frustration with the nation's history of political corruption.
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JOHANNESBURG, June 19 (Reuters) - South Africa's anti-corruption watchdog will oppose President Jacob Zuma's court bid to set aside an influence-peddling report, Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane said on Monday.
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A judge on Thursday ruled that Toledo, who denies any wrongdoing, must be jailed for up to 20163 months while influence peddling and money laundering charges are prepared against him.
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Park was impeached in a Friday parliamentary vote over an influence-peddling scandal that has drawn hundreds of thousands to festive candle-lit protests every Saturday, calling for her ouster.
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The prosecutor, who pleaded not guilty to 23 federal counts related to influence peddling, was allegedly so brazen and comfortable in his scheming that he conducted business over text message.
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The rulings come more than eight months after the three men were resoundingly convicted in two trials that unveiled a seamy culture of illicit payments and influence peddling in Albany.
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The allegations, which came after an anti-corruption watchdog report into claims of influence peddling, opened Zuma up to renewed scrutiny and deepened divisions within the ruling African National Congress.
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Mr. Di Maio and the party's army of online supporters seized on investigations into his father's alleged influence-peddling as an example of the corrupt politics they promised to replace.
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Critics have been disappointed by Mr. Abe's entanglement in influence-peddling scandals and his failure to deliver stronger economic growth or the gender equality measures that he has long promised.
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Mr. Lewandowski's brand of slashing politics includes the claim that Ms. Shaheen has become rich in office thanks to what he characterized as influence-peddling by her lawyer husband, William.
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The Gupta brothers are at the center of graft and influence-peddling allegations around former president Jacob Zuma, who was forced from office last month by the ruling ANC party.
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For several months, Mr. Abe, who has been in office since 2012, has been dogged by influence-peddling scandals, as well as repeated bumbling by some members of his cabinet.
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The Clinton Foundation operates a range of philanthropic projects around the world and has raised billions since its founding, but that prodigious fundraising has come with accusations of influence peddling.
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Centro de Periodismo Investigativo uncovered the influence peddling and other multibillion-dollar corruption that pillaged public funds in Puerto Rico amid the worst fiscal crisis in the island's modern history.
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Among the scandals that have rocked Zuma's presidency are allegations of influence-peddling by wealthy friends of the president and the misuse of public funds to renovate his private home.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African power utility Eskom denied on Wednesday any wrongdoing in its dealings with Tegeta, a company controlled by a family in the middle of influence-peddling allegations.
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Solis, a former diplomat and history professor, won in a landslide four years ago but has seen his popularity fall as an investigation into an influence peddling scandal has unfolded.
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Prosecutors are investigating whether Park exerted improper pressure on "chaebol" conglomerate bosses to raise funds for two foundations at the center of an influence-peddling scandal involving a friend of hers.
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EDUARDO ENGELFormer president of the Presidential Advisory Council on Conflicts of Interest, Influence Peddling and CorruptionSantiago, Chile "Grumble and be damned" (March 11th) alleged a lack of free speech in Singapore.
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On Friday, the Constitutional Court is due to uphold or dismiss parliament's impeachment of President Park Geun-hye over an influence-peddling scandal involving a long-time friend Choi Soon-sil.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma will challenge a report released this month by the anti-corruption watchdog that alleged influence-peddling in his government, his office said on Friday.
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South Africa's economic troubles are also compounded by allegations of corruption in awarding of contracts in state-owned companies and claims of influence-peddling in government that have hurt investor confidence.
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But after being mismanaged for years and tainted by a far-reaching influence-peddling scandal, state-owned Denel now needs the kind of help that the deep-pocketed Saudis can provide.
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Lee Kyu-chul, a spokesman for the special prosecutors' office investigating the influence-peddling scandal that has engulfed President Park Geun-hye, said Lee would not be summoned for questioning again.
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At the same event, Mkhwebane said she will oppose a bid by President Jacob Zuma to have set aside a report on claims of influence-peddling by him and his government.
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Zuma, who has denied numerous corruption allegations since taking office in 2009, said last week he would set up a commission of inquiry into allegations of influence-peddling in the government.
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Hundreds of thousands people rallied in Seoul at the weekend for the fifth straight week of protests against President Park Geun-hye, who is embroiled in a scandal over influence-peddling.
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The BOK is also waiting for the Constitutional Court to decide in coming weeks whether it will uphold parliament's vote to impeach President Park Geun-hye over an influence-peddling scandal.
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Last year, Lee's successor ex-president Park Geun-hye was ousted from office after an influence-peddling scandal and is standing trial on charges of bribery, abuse of power and coercion.
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The quarter was marked by an influence-peddling corruption scandal involving President Park Geun-hye, who was impeached by South Korea's parliament, with a final determination by a court to follow.
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Park, who was forced from office in March, is on trial for bribery in connection with an influence-peddling scandal that has also ensnared top members of South Korea's business elite.
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John Kitzhaber resigned amid a corruption and influence-peddling scandal involving his fiancée, Brown succeeded to the job and won a 2016 special election to serve the rest of his term.
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The Clinton Foundation has accepted at least $10 million from the Saudi government for its global anti-poverty work, which raised questions of possible influence peddling during Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
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The leaks, which began last year, have purported to show influence peddling schemes that targeted top soccer officials and, perhaps most worryingly for the club, efforts to influence the refereeing system.
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Of the three leaders convening in Tokyo next week, Mr. Abe, who has lately been dogged by influence-peddling scandals at home, is perhaps most in need of a domestic boost.
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Unable to pay meaningful salaries to millions of state employees, the government has looked the other way as they resorted to graft, influence peddling and side businesses to make ends meet.
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The Silver trial, along with the corruption trial of the former State Senate majority leader, Dean G. Skelos, and his son, Adam, exposed Albany's seamy culture of secrecy and influence peddling.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa has opened an inquiry into allegations of influence peddling revolving around former president Jacob Zuma and businessman friends of his, the deputy chief justice said on Wednesday.
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The weight of historical evidence shows that the framers meant the emoluments clauses to act as a broader check on influence-peddling that could influence a president's decisions, the judge said.
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Zuma, who has held power in Africa's most industrialized economy since 23, has now survived nine no-confidence votes despite a record in office marred by allegations of sleaze and influence-peddling.
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And this week, a new case emerged that threatens to be the most damaging of all, after one of his closest confidants agreed to testify against him in an influence-peddling scandal.
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President Park Geun-hye has been stripped of her powers and is currently facing impeachment after being named as an accomplice in an influence-peddling scandal involving her friend Choi Soon Sil.
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A South Korean special prosecutor's office on Wednesday said it had summoned Samsung Group leader Jay Y. Lee as a suspect in a widening influence-peddling scandal involving President Park Geun-hye.
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The latest development comes after Shin was sentenced last week to two years and six months in prison over an influence-peddling scandal that has rocked the country's business and political elite.
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The Associated Press ran a major investigative story into Clinton Foundation influence peddling that treated a meeting with a Nobel Peace Prize winner as evidence of an insidious pay-to-play scheme.
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Either way, Netanyahu got the public framing he wanted: a prime minister dealing with critical issues of Israeli national security while being harassed over petty allegations of bribery, corruption, and influence peddling.
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Of the National Assembly's 300 members, 234 voted in favour of a motion to oust the president, which listed influence-peddling, abuse of power and dereliction of duty, among other constitutional violations.
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The raids signalled that prosecutors are expanding their investigation into allegations of influence-peddling in the corruption scandal that has rocked Park's presidency over the relationship between the government and big businesses.
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The Public Protector, a constitutionally-mandated watchdog, released the report in November last year, after an extensive probe over allegations of influence-peddling against Zuma, whose administration has been marred by scandals.
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Last week, South Africa's High Court ruled that Zuma must set up a judicial inquiry into state influence-peddling, the latest in a series of judicial blows to his scandal-tinged administration.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, who is a formal suspect in an investigation into corruption and influence-peddling in Monaco, is now back in Moscow, his representative told Reuters on Saturday.
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The raids signaled that prosecutors are expanding their investigation into allegations of influence-peddling in the corruption scandal that has rocked Park's presidency over the relationship between the government and big businesses.
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Park has been impeached by parliament for an influence-peddling scandal and stripped of her powers as she awaits for the Constitutional Court to decide on whether they will uphold the vote.
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Gigaba's medium-term budget policy statement (MTBPS) will be made amid sluggish economic growth and a politically charged environment following allegations of corruption and influence-peddling in government, which have unnerved investors.
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"It's very different from the U.S., where government officials are able to dig in and get through what appear to be much more serious accusations of influence peddling and corruption," he added.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African High Court ruled on Friday that it could not compel President Jacob Zuma to set up a commission of inquiry into alleged influence-peddling in his government.
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The flagship of South Korea's top conglomerate Samsung Group has been at the center of an influence-peddling scandal that led South Korea's parliament to impeach President Park Geun-hye in December.
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There is an arguable public purpose to such an investigation, since the contract was a classic example of influence peddling by a corrupt Ukrainian company seeking leverage with Vice President Joe Biden.
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She accepted responsibility for the events that culminated in the Constitutional Court on Friday upholding a parliamentary impeachment vote over an influence-peddling scandal that has shaken the political and business elite.
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PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma has asked the High Court to reject a call by an anti-corruption watchdog for an official inquiry into alleged influence-peddling in his government.
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The report said Australian authorities were looking into the activities of one of Chinese President Xi Jinping's cousins as part of probes into organized crime, money laundering and alleged Chinese influence-peddling.
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As part of the influence peddling investigation, searches were conducted last year of the home of Mr. Narmino, the justice minister, and the Monaco Red Cross, where he remains a vice president.
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Congress plans to name six new justices out of seven up for reappointment on Monday, despite local news reports that their announced candidates have links to judges under investigation for influence-peddling.
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The police said he told them he set the fire, using paint thinner, because he was angry at Ms. Park for not stepping down in the face of an influence-peddling scandal.
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John Kitzhaber resigned amid a corruption and influence-peddling scandal involving his fiancée, Kate Brown succeeded to the job and won a 2016 special election to serve the rest of his term.
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Park was removed from office on Friday after the Constitutional Court upheld an impeachment vote by parliament over an influence-peddling and graft scandal that has shaken the country's political and business elite.
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An SABC source said journalists were struggling to put a positive spin on some items that include reporting on scandal-hit Zuma, who has fended off accusations of corruption, influence peddling and rape.
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A parliamentary panel looking into the influence-peddling scandal last December also probed "the missing seven hours" between the first news reports of the ferry disaster and Park's first TV appearance that day.
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Viktor Vekselberg, the Russian oligarch at the center of a widening scandal over influence peddling by President Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen, has been banned from doing business in America under U.S. sanctions.
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That led to the exposure of "corruption, influence-peddling and the existence of organised networks inside the judicial system", as a committee set up by Martín Vizcarra, the country's president, reported last month.
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A Peruvian judge issued an international arrest warrant for Toledo on Thursday and said he must spend 18 months in jail while charges of influence peddling and money laundering are prepared against him.
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Their stunning downfalls, after years in power, were prime evidence that the government Mr. Cuomo hailed as competent and effective is also a capital of graft, self-dealing, influence-peddling and ethical torpor.
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One such allegation was that the Gupta brothers offered to secure Jonas the finance minister's job; others were that Zuma had directed state firms to award tenders to the Guptas through influence peddling.
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Zuma's presidency has been plagued by scandal and the nation's anti-graft watchdog this month asked for a judge to investigate alleged influence-peddling by a wealthy family Zuma has called his friends.
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South Africa's economy has slowed to a near-standstill over Zuma's two presidential terms, as allegations of influence-peddling in government and mismanagement of state-owned enterprises have dented consumer and business confidence.
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South Korea will hold a presidential election on May 9 after leader Park Geun-hye was thrown out of her seat on March 10 by the Constitutional Court for an influence-peddling scandal.
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The 75-year-old former president had challenged the right of the Public Protector, a constitutionally-mandated anti-graft watchdog, to call for a judicial inquiry into the influence-peddling allegations in government.
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Dmitri Rybolovlev, president of AS Monaco, was detained voluntarily by authorities in Monaco on Tuesday and is under investigation for charges of corruption and influence peddling according to French news service Le Monde.
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However, being a Saenuri candidate looks far less attractive now because of the influence-peddling scandal and he has been seen as likely to join a new breakaway group from the conservative bloc.
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LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian lawmaker Vicente Zeballos took over as justice minister on Saturday, a week after his predecessor Salvador Heresi was fired in an influence-peddling scandal that has shaken the country's judiciary.
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Italian Industry Minister Federica Guidi resigned on Thursday over allegations of a conflict of interest after her partner was put under investigation for influence peddling, in an embarrassment for Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
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South African police launched a search for Ajay Gupta on Thursday after he failed to report to law enforcement officials investigating alleged high-level influence-peddling in Zuma's government involving the Gupta brothers.
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The operation, which involved raids on businesses and public offices including the PP regional headquarters, is investigating cases of embezzlement of public funds, influence peddling, bribery and money laundering, according to the spokeswoman.
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Russia investigation: The presence of a dozen Ukrainian political and business figures in Washington for the celebrations surrounding President Trump's inauguration has been under investigation by federal prosecutors interested in potential influence-peddling.
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When the New York Times unveiled its two-part series accusing think tanks and corporations of "influence peddling" with demands for further disclosure, I could not ignore the timing of its release. Sen.
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Choi has been indicted and is at the center of the influence-peddling scandal that led to Park's impeachment last week in parliament, which must be confirmed or overturned by the Constitutional Court.
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The inquiry was set up on the recommendation of a 2016 report, entitled "State of Capture", into alleged influence-peddling in Zuma's administration by the Public Protector, South Africa's main anti-corruption authority.
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Asian markets finished mixed on Friday as gaming shares tumbled in Hong Kong and South Korea's main index ended down before parliament voted to impeach President Park Geun-hye over an influence-peddling scandal.
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In South Korea a court rejected prosecutors' request to arrest Lee Jae-yong, the vice-chairman of Samsung Electronics, on allegations of bribery related to an influence-peddling scandal that has rocked the country.
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But three days later a court rejected a request to arrest him, as a suspect in an investigation into a vast influence-peddling case that led last month to the South Korean president's impeachment.
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Temer's spokesman also said the president was appointing lawmaker Antonio Imbassahy as his minister in charge of relations with Congress, replacing Geddel Vieira Lima, who stepped down in November amid allegations of influence peddling.
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South Korea's parliament passed a motion to impeach Park earlier on Friday over an influence-peddling scandal that could lead to her becoming South Korea's first democratically elected leader to be removed from office.
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish authorities are waiting for an extradition request from South Korea for Chung Yoo-ra, the daughter of a woman at the center of an influence-peddling scandal, they said on Monday.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The main company owned by South Africa's Gupta brothers, business friends of President Jacob Zuma, said on Monday it would sell its media assets - investments caught up in an influence-peddling scandal.
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The latest allegations of influence-peddling are deepening a divide in the ANC as factions jostle for control before a conference in December where President Jacob Zuma's successor as party leader will be chosen.
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PRETORIA (Reuters) - A South African judge ruled on Wednesday that a report by the Public Protector, a constitutionally mandated anti-graft watchdog, over alleged influence peddling in government must be released by 11.00 a.m.
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Zuma has faced several corruption scandals, more recently when the nation's anti-graft watchdog this month asked for a judge to investigate alleged influence-peddling by a wealthy family Zuma has called his friends.
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Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra fired his justice minister, Salvador Heresi, on Friday after a TV station released an audio of a phone conversation between the minister and a judge under investigation for influence peddling.
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PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African anti-corruption watchdog is seeking legal advice on whether to oppose President Jacob Zuma's court action to set aside an influence-peddling report, Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane said on Thursday.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's main opposition party leader said on Friday President Park Geun-hye's apology for an influence peddling scandal lacked sincerity and that her sole aim was to hold on to power.
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A transcript of the four-hour interview was made public by the Protector's office last week when it released a report calling for a judge to investigate allegations of influence peddling in Zuma's government.
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The inquiry followed complaints filed by the anticorruption group Anticor, which accused Mr. Kohler of influence-peddling and breaching civil service rules while he worked at a government agency and at the Economy Ministry.
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The country's High Court ruled on Wednesday that Zuma must set up a judicial inquiry into state influence-peddling within 30 days, upholding the findings of a graft watchdog report entitled "State of Capture".
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Through forged documents, influence peddling, taking bribes, abuse of power, money laundering and other alleged crimes, they caused damage worth a total 27.25 million lei ($6.84 million) from EU funding and the state budget.
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ROME (Reuters) - An Italian junior health minister has been put under investigation in a widening influence-peddling scandal that has prompted the resignation of the industry minister and is embarrassing Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
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But the same experts who tell me they found the arrangement troubling see the Clinton Foundation as an example of a much larger universe of Washington influence peddling, not a case of unique corruption.
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The Guptas have denied that there was anything untoward in their relationship with former president Zuma, but their ties will be investigated as part of an influence-peddling inquiry due to start later this year.
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South Korea's special prosecutor said on Sunday it will take into account the economic impact of whether to arrest Samsung Group leader Jay Y. Lee in connection with an influence-peddling investigation involving the president.
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On November 23rd state prosecutors combed more offices of the South Korean consumer-electronics firm, part of a probe into an influence-peddling case that could be the undoing of President Park Geun-hye's administration.
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In a report released last week as thousands of protesters called for the president to step down, South Africa's anti-graft watchdog called for a judge to investigate allegations of influence-peddling in Zuma's government.
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Investigators in South Korea raided offices of Lotte Group, SK Group and government agencies on Thursday as part of a widening probe into alleged influence-peddling that has engulfed President Park Guen-hye, reported Reuters.
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Just as Indians habitually vote at local, state and national elections, they also habitually moan at the skulduggery of Indian politics, which can seem a constant parade of horse-trading and bald-faced influence-peddling.
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LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra fired his justice minister on Friday after local media released an audio of a secretly-recorded phone conversation between the minister and a judge under investigation for influence peddling.
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She also said that by misleading parliament over whether he had met the Guptas, friends of former president Jacob Zuma at the centre of an influence-peddling scandal, Gordhan had violated an executive ethics code.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African lender FirstRand said on Monday suspicions of money-laundering lay behind its decision to cut ties with a business family linked to allegations of influence-peddling in President Jacob Zuma's government.
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Hwang was speaking in place of President Park Geun-hye, who has been impeached by parliament amid an influence-peddling scandal and stripped of her powers as she awaits a court decision on her fate.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy's main opposition parties said on Friday they would present a no-confidence motion in Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's government after his industry minister quit in a scandal over allegations of influence peddling.
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South Africa's anti-graft watchdog called in November for a judge to investigate alleged influence peddling in Zuma's government and focused on allegations that the brothers, Ajay, Atul and Rajesh Gupta, influenced appointments of ministers.
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The former foreign minister consistently polls as a top candidate as South Korea braces for the possibility of an early election following parliament's December impeachment of President Park Geun-hye in an influence-peddling scandal.
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Zuma's government has been dogged by allegations of corruption and influence peddling and media reports about a trove of leaked emails has heaped pressure on him to allow a judicial commission to investigate graft claims.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italian Industry Minister Federica Guidi resigned on Thursday over allegations of a conflict of interest after her partner was placed under investigation for influence peddling, in an embarrassment for Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
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The Pomerantz lawsuit alleges Gerdau failed to disclose it and its executives bribed tax authorities, defrauded Brazil's tax revenue service of $429 million, laundered illegal funds and carried out influence peddling, according to the filing.
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The previous head of Eskom, Brian Molefe resigned after being implicated in a report by the anti-graft watchdog on allegations of influence peddling that has tarnished state-owned companies as well as Zuma himself.
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Obviously, one needs to be on the lookout for influence peddling, bribery and the sorts of nefarious behavior that can look like bribery and that can happen — and has happened — between bankers and government officials.
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On Friday, former President Park Geun-hye joined their number as a court sentenced her to 24 years, more than a year after she was impeached and removed from office over an influence-peddling scandal.
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Junko and Yasunori Kagoike, operators of a kindergarten in Osaka that was embroiled in an influence-peddling scandal linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, spent 10 months in an Osaka jail on charges of fraud.
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Ewha students were the first to take to the streets to protest the reported influence-peddling, helping kick off months of huge demonstrations that eventually compelled the National Assembly to impeach Ms. Park in December.
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An ongoing influence-peddling scandal involving President Park Geun-hye and her close acquaintance, Choi Soon-sil, has seen lawmakers overwhelmingly vote for Park's impeachment, which the Constitutional Court must soon decide whether to uphold.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - The office of South Korea's special prosecutor investigating an influence-peddling scandal that could topple President Park Geun-hye said on Monday the prime minister's decision not to extend its investigation was disappointing.
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HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's ruling Communist Party has brought in new rules designed to stamp out influence-peddling in appointments to government jobs and stop corrupt officials rising through the ranks, state media said on Thursday.
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The opposition parties also assert that Ms. Park forced a newspaper that reported accusations of influence-peddling by Ms. Choi's family in 2014 to fire its president, which they say undermined freedom of the press.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's special prosecutor's office said on Friday it summoned a Samsung Electronics Co Ltd executive for questioning as it investigates a widening influence-peddling scandal that has embroiled President Park Geun-hye.
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Then, last Friday, Zapata was arrested on charges of illegal enrichment, influence-peddling and money laundering, related to her lobbying the government on behalf of CAMC, including letters allegedly demanding preferential treatment for the company.
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Malta, the smallest nation in the European Union, has been engulfed by a wave of graft scandals in recent months, including accusations of money laundering and influence peddling in government - all of which have been denied.
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Samsung Group leader Jay Y. Lee appeared at the South Korean special prosecutor's office on Monday for questioning as part of a wider investigation into an influence-peddling scandal that could topple President Park Geun-hye.
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Ban, 72 is among front-runners in polls to succeed Park, whose fate will be decided when the Constitutional Court decides whether or not to uphold parliament's December impeachment of her over an influence-peddling scandal.
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The inquiry, led by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, was set up on the recommendation of a 2016 report into alleged influence-peddling in Zuma's administration by the Public Protector, South Africa's main anti-corruption authority.
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Samsung Group leader Jay Y. Lee appeared at the South Korean special prosecutor's office on Thursday for questioning on suspicion of bribery in an influence-peddling scandal that may force President Park Geun-hye from office.
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The uranium investigation drew increased public attention last year after an informant involved in the probe claimed to have evidence tying the former Obama Administration to Russian influence peddling, a charge former administration officials have denied.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's prime minister on Sunday claimed full ownership of a measure to free up long delayed oil deliveries from a southern field that has prompted a minister to resign over allegations of influence peddling.
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Park, 64, was impeached last month by parliament over the influence-peddling scandal, a decision that if upheld by the Constitutional Court will see her become the country's first democratically elected leader forced from office early.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has sought leave to appeal a court ruling ordering him to set up a judicial inquiry into influence-peddling in his government, local television channel eNCA reported on Friday.
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday an anti-corruption watchdog had no right to call for a judicial inquiry into alleged influence-peddling in his government, describing its report as unfair.
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Park, 64, was impeached last month by parliament over the influence-peddling scandal, a decision that if upheld by the Constitutional Court will see her become the country's first democratically-elected leader forced from office early.
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The inquiry, led by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Condo, was set up on the recommendation of a 2016 report into alleged influence-peddling in Yuma's administration by the Public Protector, South Africa's main anti-corruption authority.
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SEOUL, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Samsung Group leader and founding family heir Jay Y. Lee said on Tuesday he will accept all personal responsibility stemming from the current influence-peddling scandal that threatens President Park Geun-hye.
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The former president's own Clinton Foundation operates a range of philanthropic projects around the world and has raised billions since its founding but has also been dogged by accusations of influence peddling and conflicts of interests.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday asked parliament to decide how and when she can give up power over an influence-peddling scandal, taking the country's political crisis deeper into uncharted terrain.
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President Park Geun-hye of South Korea stayed holed up in her official residence over the weekend and, through a spokesman, denied her involvement in an influence-peddling scandal that could lead to an impeachment vote.
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Ms. Park, whose approval ratings have fallen into the low single digits, stayed holed up in her official residence and through a spokesman denied charges against her in the influence-peddling scandal that inspired the protests.
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Opposition parties are taking advantage of Rajoy's weakness after 29 people linked to the PP were convicted last Thursday of crimes including influence-peddling and falsifying accounts, in the culmination of a long-running corruption trial.
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Ms. Park's plummeting political fortunes were dramatized on Saturday when prosecutors raided the homes of a few presidential aides who are believed to be under Ms. Choi's sway and are accused of collaborating in influence-peddling.
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Ms. Rousseff is the second Brazilian leader to be impeached since 1992, when Fernando Collor de Mello, facing huge protests over an influence-peddling scandal, resigned moments before the Senate was to vote on his ouster.
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Just days ahead of the conference, a High Court judge ruled that Zuma couldn't block a commission of inquiry into allegations of large-scale corruption and influence-peddling between Zuma, his family and powerful Indian businessmen.
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Their presence at the breakfast illuminates the way the annual event has become an international influence-peddling bazaar, where foreign dignitaries, religious leaders, diplomats and lobbyists jockey for access to the highest reaches of American power.
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Four members of Congress have been stripped of immunity from prosecution and dozens of politicians, their associates and relatives are being investigated for illegal campaign financing in earlier elections, influence-peddling and other white-collar crimes.
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The influence-peddling scheme involved an unnamed foreigner with "Russian roots" who transferred $1 million "to cover all the donations" to federal candidates, as well as state candidates and politicians in Nevada, New York and elsewhere.
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The latest allegations of influence-peddling may deepen divisions in the ANC as factions battle for control ahead of a party conference in December where a successor to the beleaguered, scandal-plagued Zuma will be chosen.
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The uranium investigation drew increased public attention last year after an informant involved in the probe claimed to have evidence tying the former Obama administration to Russian influence peddling, a charge former administration officials have denied.
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Zuma says the three brothers - Atul, Ajay and Rajesh who headed a large conglomerate with assets ranging from mining to media in South Africa - are his friends but he denies any influence-peddling in their relationship.
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From 1997 to 1999, during his first spell as prime minister, he was investigated several times for a variety of reasons, from a kickback scheme to influence peddling, and he has been investigated occasionally ever since.
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Malema made the allegations against Gordhan last week at an EFF rally held outside a building where Gordhan was giving testimony at a judicial inquiry into allegations of state corruption and influence-peddling in Zuma's administration.
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The widely watched trial is expected to highlight what prosecutors have long said is Albany's corrupt culture of influence peddling and secret dealing, much as previous federal corruption cases in Manhattan have done in recent years.
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Seoul Central District Court jailed Shin Dong-bin, the chairman of country's fifth-largest conglomerate, for two years and six months for bribery tied to an influence-peddling scandal that rocked the country's business and political elite.
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South Korean lawmakers on Friday voted overwhelmingly to impeach President Park Geun-hye over an influence-peddling scandal, setting the stage for her to become the country's first elected leader to be pushed from office in disgrace.
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Analysts have said South Africa's business and consumer confidence has been dented in recent years by allegations of corruption in Zuma's government and influence-peddling by the Gupta family - businessmen who are close friends of the president.
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Nene faced calls to resign after he admitted to visiting the Gupta brothers, friends of scandal-plagued former president Jacob Zuma who have been accused of high-level influence-peddling, and failing to disclose the meetings earlier.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - An Eskom board member implicated in a probe over influence-peddling in the South African government has left his post, the public enterprises department said, days after the state-owned power utility's chief executive resigned.
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The South Korean special prosecutor's office said on Monday it will not be able to question President Park Geun-hye in person as part of its investigation into an influence-peddling scandal that threatens to topple Park.
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Park Geun-hye, the embattled president of South Korea, said she was willing to be questioned by prosecutors investigating an influence-peddling scandal and offered to cede her power to nominate a new prime minister to parliament.
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A South Korean court said on Sunday it had issued arrest warrants for two former presidential aides under investigation in an influence peddling scandal that has sent President Park Geun-hye's approval rating to a record low.
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"I will leave to parliament everything about my future, including shortening of my term," she said in a televised speech that followed five straight weekends of large-scale protests over her involvement in an influence-peddling scandal.
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Her death shocked Malta, the smallest nation in the European Union, which has been engulfed by a wave of graft scandals, including accusations of money laundering and influence peddling in government — all of which have been denied.
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The investigation comes after anti-graft group Anticor filed a complaint accusing the aide, Alexis Kohler, of influence-peddling and breaking conflict of interest rules over his ties to the Mediterranean Shipping Company while in public office.
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The demonstrations took place at a difficult time for Renzi, whose industry minister resigned last week in a scandal over alleged influence-peddling related to the development of an oil field in southern Italian region of Basilicata.
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Tens of thousands of troops and special police units have been sent to the province for polling day but there were many complaints of vote-rigging and influence peddling by some of the candidates and their supporters.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Public Protector has launched a new investigation into allegations of influence-peddling and unlawful enrichment by certain officials within three state-owned firms after thousands of emails relating to alleged fraud were leaked.
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With the disgraced Victor Ponta under indictment, and party leader Liviu Dragnea facing jail time for his second set of corruption and influence-peddling charges, a pliable young functionary named Sorin Grindeanu was installed as prime minister.
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But influence-peddling and mischief-making has become more sophisticated and now consists not only of funding far-right parties as well as far-left ones or honey-trapping, and subsequently blackmailing, a transgressing politician or two.
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The Gupta family, wealthy Indian-born businessmen whose companies have contracts with state-owned firms, have denied all allegations of influence-peddling or improper dealings and through a spokesman last week labeled the e-mails "fake news".
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Toledo has not been convicted of any crimes but a judge ruled Thursday that evidence uncovered so far merited jailing him for up to 18 months while influence peddling and money laundering charges are prepared against him.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's main opposition party filed a criminal complaint on Tuesday accusing President Jacob Zuma of corruption after a report this month by an anti-graft agency listed allegations of influence-peddling in his government.
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SEOUL, Feb 27 (Reuters) - South Korea's acting president will not extend the investigation period for a special prosecutor's investigation of an influence-peddling scandal that could topple President Park Geun-hye, Yonhap news agency reported on Monday.
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Although the cases are separate, the accusations of influence-peddling emerged from the Libya investigation, which began in 2013 and had led investigators to place wiretaps on phones belonging to Mr. Sarkozy and his lawyer Thierry Herzog.
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The businessmen effectively had "cops on call," Preet Bharara, then the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, said when he unsealed the court papers detailing the alleged influence-peddling and police bribery scheme.
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What started out as an inquiry into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election has mushroomed into questions of perjury, obstruction of justice, conspiracy, abuse of power, illicit spying, hush money, tax fraud, money laundering and influence peddling.
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Gupta and his family have denied there was anything untoward in their relationship with former president Zuma, but their ties are being investigated in an influence-peddling inquiry that could take months or years to be concluded.
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All of the charges arose from what prosecutors described as a bold influence peddling scheme in which Mr. Venditto and Mr. Mangano, both Republicans, helped a restaurateur obtain millions of dollars in loans backed by Oyster Bay.
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Jonas made headlines last year when he said he had been offered the finance minister's job by members of the Gupta family, Indian businessmen who have close ties with Zuma and have been accused of influence-peddling.
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He has spent his entire adult life working in Washington, and there's little question that his son is involved in the kinds of buck-raking and influence peddling that alienates voters and makes them cynical about politics.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The ruling African National Congress said on Friday it was gravely concerned by leaked documents alleging influence-peddling by friends of President Jacob Zuma, deepening a split in South Africa's ruling party over its leader.
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PARIS (Reuters) - A judge in Monaco has declared Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev a formal suspect in a probe into corruption and influence-peddling, the principality's chief prosecutor said on Wednesday, after police questioned him for 24 hours.
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Prosecutors are investigating whether Park exerted improper pressure on "chaebol" conglomerate bosses to raise funds for two foundations at the center of an influence-peddling scandal involving a friend of hers, Yonhap reported on Sunday, citing prosecution sources.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb 17 (Reuters) - The former chief executive of South Africa's state power firm Eskom, Brian Molefe, has been nominated to parliament as a member of the ruling ANC after resigning in November over allegations of influence peddling.
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Samsung Electronics — the flagship brand of Samsung Group — closed down 0.42 percent, as South Korea's largest conglomerate seeks to overcome its involvement in an influence peddling scandal, while also recovering from last year's exploding Galaxy Note 7 fiasco.
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Since an influence-peddling scandal surrounding Ms Park erupted in October, the chance to jeer at her misfortune—North Korea routinely insults her as a "miserable political prostitute"—has been too good for its propagandists to pass up.
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South Korea has been gripped by political crisis for months, with parliament voting overwhelmingly in December to impeach President Park over an influence-peddling scandal, a decision that must be upheld or overturned by the country's Constitutional Court.
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The Seoul Central Court on Tuesday sentenced Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin to two years and six months in prison in a case tied to an influence-peddling scandal that rocked the country's business and political elite.
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Nene, who was giving testimony at a judicial inquiry into influence-peddling, said earlier the main reason he was fired by former President Jacob Zuma was for rejecting a plan to build a fleet of nuclear power plants.
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South Korean prosecutors raided the offices of Samsung Group on Wednesday, a prosecution official said, after media reports of alleged links with a confidante of President Park Geun-hye who has been indicted in an influence-peddling scandal.
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There are still questions about whether Cohen's LLC was aboveboard with banking and tax laws, but as far as influence peddling goes, all of Cohen's actions might have been completely legal, law professors and good government experts say.
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South Korean leader Park Geun-hye became the country's first president to be ousted by impeachment after a panel of justices on Friday upheld a motion to dismiss her over one of the nation's biggest influence-peddling scandals.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma has asked the High Court to set aside an anti-corruption watchdog report that called for a judicial inquiry into alleged influence-peddling in his government, his office said on Saturday.
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But it expanded to snare several former high-ranking PP members such as ex-party treasurer, Luis Barcenas, who is among the 37 people on trial on charges of organized crime, falsifying accounts, influence-peddling and tax crimes.
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The charges stemmed from an influence-peddling scandal that embroiled the country's political elite and some of its most powerful business conglomerates and led to Park last year becoming South Korea's first democratically elected leader to be impeached.
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The move to seek the impeachment of Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn was an apparent protest against his decision not to extend a special investigator's investigation into an influence- peddling scandal that has engulfed President Park Gyuen-hye.
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Pressure on President Jacob Zuma, including from within the ANC, has risen since a controversial cabinet reshuffle in March that led to downgrades to "junk" status by S&P Global Ratings and Fitch and allegations of influence peddling.
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This month Zuma agreed to set up a commission of enquiry into allegations of influence peddling by the Gupta brothers, who controlled the firm McKinsey partnered with on the 1.6 billion rand contract to advise Eskom in 2016.
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Mr. Trump's interest in reforming campaign finance doesn't seem to extend past his opponent, and while he has criticized unlimited spending in elections, his campaign hasn't put forth any concrete policy proposals that would restrict political influence peddling.
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The Trump administration did not invent graft, influence peddling, or self-dealing, but this era's excesses have revealed the extent to which this particular type of corruption has come to define the Republican Party and hold it together.
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South Korea will elect a new president on May 9 after former leader Park Geun-hye was impeached and arrested over an influence-peddling scandal that prompted hundreds of thousands of protesters into the streets for her ouster.
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Shin Dong-bin, the boss of Lotte, a Korean-Japanese conglomerate best known for its duty-free shops, is awaiting a ruling on the suspension of his sentence in a related influence-peddling case (he maintains his innocence).
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Influence peddling in his administration was so widespread, according to the nation's former public protector, that it became a form of state capture in which Mr. Zuma's business partners or friends influenced government decisions in their personal interest.
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While a process-heavy discussion of impeachment will likely be unhelpful to her, Warren could do herself a world of good by packaging the known facts surrounding Ukraine as an easy-to-understand tale of Washington influence-peddling.
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Some of the other companies that hired Mr. Cohen as a consultant, including AT&T and Novartis, have expressed regret over doing so since the arrangements came to light this month and spurred criticism for perceived influence peddling.
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Among those arrested were a woman who works for city hall and is suspected of corruption in relation to a public contract, and a man who previously worked for the provincial government and is suspected of influence peddling.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The judge leading an inquiry into claims of influence-peddling against former South African president Jacob Zuma rejected an application by Gupta brothers to cross-examine witnesses, saying they could only do so if they testified.
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SEOUL, South Korea — One of the most-wanted figures in the influence-peddling scandal that led to President Park Geun-hye's parliamentary impeachment last month has been detained by the Danish police, South Korean officials said on Monday.
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Lee is a suspect in an influence-peddling scandal that led parliament to impeach Park in December, a decision that if upheld by the Constitutional Court would make her the country's first democratically elected leader forced from office.
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Since coming to power in 2009, Zuma has survived a string of corruption scandals almost unscathed, but this month the country's anti-graft watchdog called for a judicial inquiry into allegations of influence-peddling in the ANC government.
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The charges Manafort pleaded guilty to concern his influence-peddling on behalf of Yanukovych and his pro-Russian political party, the Party of Regions, in Washington and elsewhere — all of which occurred years before Manafort joined the Trump campaign.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The judge leading an inquiry into claims of influence-peddling against former South African president Jacob Zuma on Monday urged more witnesses to come forward, as public hearings began in a case that could last two years.
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PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa's High Court ruled on Wednesday that an inquiry into alleged state influence-peddling in President Jacob Zuma's government should be established as recommended by the anti-graft watchdog in a report released a year ago.
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America should also work more closely with European governments to set up common standards of transparency, graft-busting and the prevention of influence-peddling— which would make it harder for China to impose its own rules on small countries.
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Pressure on Zuma, including from within the ruling African National Congress, has risen since a controversial cabinet reshuffle in March that led to downgrades to "junk" status by S&P Global Ratings and Fitch and allegations of influence peddling.
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In South Korea, Lee Jae-yong, the vice-chairman of Samsung Electronics and heir apparent for the top job, was questioned as a suspect in an influence-peddling scandal that has led to the impeachment of the country's president.
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Business lobby groups worry that arresting Lee could undermine confidence in the economy, Asia's fourth-largest, but public anger persists over the influence-peddling scandal, with protests every weekend drawing hundreds of thousands of demonstrators demanding Park's immediate resignation.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's elite Hawks police unit has arrested eight people so far in its investigations into high-level influence-peddling centering around the Indian-born Gupta family, wealthy friends of ousted president Jacob Zuma, a statement said.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - The South Korean special prosecutor's office said on Monday it will not be able to question President Park Geun-hye in person as part of its investigation into an influence-peddling scandal that threatens to topple Park.
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They could take on Trump's businesses (such as questions over influence peddling at the Trump Hotel and Mar-a-Lago), the sexual assault allegations against Trump, and all sorts of controversial policy choices or potential scandals in the administration.
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Nene is the highest profile figure to give evidence at a probe into alleged influence-peddling by the Gupta family, friends of Zuma, who are accused of using their relationship with the former leader to unduly win state contracts.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Friday to impeach President Park Geun-hye over an influence-peddling scandal, setting the stage for her to become the country's first elected leader to be expelled from office in disgrace.
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Park, who is embroiled in an influence-peddling scandal, apologized and said she would step down from her position in accordance with the law, asking legislators to aid her in handing over power with minimal political unrest, said Reuters.
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The probe is part of a wider investigation by the bureau into allegations of corruption and influence peddling against ex-president Viktor Yanukovich's administration, for whom Manafort worked as a political consultant, before the leader's violent ouster in 2014.
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Samsung shares dropped on Monday after news that a South Korean special prosecutor will seek an arrest warrant for Samsung Group chief Jay Y. Lee for charges related to an influence-peddling scandal that involves President Park Geun-hye.
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Samsung Group leader Jay Y. Lee left the South Korean special prosecutor's office early on Friday, more than 22 hours after arriving for questioning on bribery suspicions in an influence-peddling scandal that could topple President Park Geun-hye.
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PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa's High Court ruled on Wednesday that President Jacob Zuma must set up a judicial inquiry into state influence-peddling within 30 days, the latest in a series of judicial blows to his scandal-tinged administration.
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And that's just the latest report of corruption and influence-peddling in Puerto Rico: Last week, the FBI arrested two former agency chiefs for allegedly funneling about $15.5 million in big-ticket government contracts to businesses that they favored.
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Set up to assist Guatemala's justice system stem decades of impunity, CICIG helped topple his predecessor over another graft case, and it won a 15-year jail sentence for a former vice president convicted of fraud and influence peddling.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's new President Cyril Ramaphosa has changed a rule that said evidence produced at a judicial inquiry into allegations of influence-peddling signed by his predecessor Jacob Zuma could not be used in a criminal case.
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The prosecutor is set to decide later in the day on whether to seek the arrest of Jay Y. Lee, the third-generation leader of South Korea's largest conglomerate, in connection with an influence-peddling investigation involving the president.
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Many of the Democratic proposals involve barring candidates and people associated with campaigns and political committees from receiving contributions, monetary and otherwise, from foreign nationals, and Republicans principally oppose most attempts to interfere in any form of influence-peddling.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Pyeongchang's 2018 Winter Olympics contracts are clean and not "contaminated" by outside factors, the Games' organizing chief told Reuters on Tuesday, as South Korea's sporting community is dragged deeper into a political influence-peddling scandal.
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This ignores the fact that Raytheon and other weapons contractors spend tens of millions of dollars a year on lobbyists, political contributions, and other forms of influence peddling trying to shape US policies on arms exports and weapons procurement.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Park Geun-hye will visit parliament on Tuesday and meet the speaker, an opposition assemblyman said, amid an influence peddling scandal that has gripped the country and thrown her government into a political limbo.
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Together with online news site the Daily Maverick, amaBhungane in June released leaked emails and documents that they said showed allegedly improper dealings in government contracts and influence peddling by the Guptas, a family with close ties to Zuma.
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But the push into Silicon Valley — into companies whose technology is used by millions — represents a potentially dangerous new front of Saudi influence-peddling: Riyadh underwriting ever more of our daily conveniences, making us complicit in the regime's deeds.
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Angola's attorney general, Hélder Pitta Grós, said on late Wednesday that Ms. dos Santos would be charged with "money laundering, influence peddling, harmful management" and "forgery of documents, among other economic crimes" committed when she ran the oil company.
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The sublime Judy Holliday brings her signature brand of intelligence and sensitivity to his girlfriend Billie Dawn, who may be daffy but is anything but dumb, especially when she catches on to the cynical influence-peddling in her midst.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's High Court on Monday ordered that a fugitive Peruvian Supreme Court judge should be extradited home to face charges of influence peddling among other crimes, rejecting his allegation that he was a victim of political persecution.
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Vincenzo De Luca, the outspoken PD president of Campania, Italy's third-largest region which surrounds the city of Naples, was recorded at a private meeting in mid-November apparently recommending influence peddling as a way to bring 'Yes' votes.
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South Korea's president could be forced out of office amidst economic troubles - South Korea's president Park Geun-Hye could soon be out of office amid a corruption and influence-peddling scandal that has been front-and-center for weeks.
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The central bank said earlier that private spending would be weaker in 2017 as uncertainties arising from an influence-peddling corruption scandal involving President Park Geun-hye, and interest rate hikes expected from the U.S. Federal Reserve, are affecting consumer sentiment.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Danish police have arrested the daughter of South Korean President Park Geun-hye's friend, Choi Soon-sil, who is at the center of an influence-peddling scandal that has engulfed Park's government, South Korean broadcaster JTBC reported on Monday.
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The country's 64-year old head of state, Park Geun-Hye, surrendered her powers to parliament on Tuesday after prosecutors labelled her a co-conspirator in an influence-peddling case, dubbed Choi-gate, involving her close friend Choi Sun-sil.
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SEOUL, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Samsung Group leader Jay Y. Lee appeared at the South Korean special prosecutor's office on Monday for questioning as part of a wider investigation into an influence-peddling scandal that could topple President Park Geun-hye.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa told an inquiry into state corruption that he had met and exchanged pleasantries in the past with members of the Gupta family, friends of former president Jacob Zuma who are accused of influence-peddling.
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By the end of the decade, he turned up to a Congressional hearing about corruption in politics to announce that "influence peddling" was pretty much his job description — in an admission seen as so brazen, it made the evening news.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean prosecutors raided the offices of Samsung Group on Wednesday, a prosecution official said, after media reports of alleged links with a confidante of President Park Geun-hye who has been indicted in an influence-peddling scandal.
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JOHANNESBURG/ZURICH (Reuters) - The Gupta family agreed to sell their South African mining unit for $225 million on Wednesday, the second disposal this week from the company's portfolio of investments which have been caught up in an influence-peddling scandal.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean court rejected a request by the special prosecutor's office to raid the presidential Blue House, Yonhap News Agency said on Thursday, as part of a widening influence-peddling scandal that could topple President Park Guen-hye.
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JOHANNESBURG, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Standard Bank has asked a court to block the South African government from intervening in its decision to cut ties with the Gupta family which is at the centre of allegations of influence-peddling with the government.
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While Cohen has not been accused of any wrongdoing, these new revelations raise serious questions about whether a man in Trump's inner circle had engaged in influence peddling and could spell legal trouble for Cohen, who is already in hot water.
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Once their illicit funds have been safely integrated into the United States economy, they can be deployed for darker purposes, such as election meddling, influence peddling, assassinations, bribery, and hiring thugs back in Russia to harass opposition groups and independent media.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Civil rights group AfriForum wants South Africa's highest court to quash a rule signed by former president Jacob Zuma that says evidence produced at a judicial inquiry into allegations of influence-peddling cannot be used in a criminal case.
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Zuma announced in January that he would set up the commission into influence-peddling, which has become known as "state capture" in South Africa, after he was ordered to do so within 30 days of a High Court ruling in December.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of South Koreans protested in central Seoul on Saturday in one the largest demonstrations in the country's capital for years, calling on embattled President Park Geun-hye to resign over a growing influence-peddling scandal.
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Separately, Sputnik carried a news report last Friday about Macron supporters being awarded state decorations when he had been a high-level functionary at the Elysee and economy minister in the Socialist government, suggesting this could amount to influence peddling.
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A chapter on a Minnesota town's law against public smoking is a tiny seminar on the mechanics of influence-peddling — complete with libertarian alarms that outdoor-smoking bans would diminish our cherished "personal freedoms" to kill ourselves and others with cancer.
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JOHANNESBURG, May 3 (Reuters) - Barclays Africa Group , South Africa's No.2 lender by market value, dropped KPMG as its auditor on Thursday, joining a host of other local companies breaking ties with the firm caught up in an influence-peddling scandal.
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Prosecutors last month sought a 30-year jail term for former President Park Geun-hye, Lee's successor, who was ousted last year amid an influence-peddling scandal and is standing trial on charges of bribery, abuse of power and coercion.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African President Jacob Zuma told a corruption inquiry on Monday that enemies had plotted to bring him down, and he had never broken the law with the business family at the center of an influence-peddling scandal.
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Singling out Mr. Trump and his administration, Democrats said that they were making good on promises to voters across the country who vaulted them into the majority with demands to clean up corruption and influence-peddling in Republican-controlled Washington.
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Editorials in several mainstream newspapers accused Mr. Abe of cynical timing and of trying to avoid answering tough questions about a pair of influence-peddling scandals in which he is accused of giving favors to friends in the education sector.
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While the scandal — set off by a video revealing the far-right Freedom Party's openness to Russian influence peddling — did not appear to have dimmed the appeal of Mr. Kurz, it did seriously dent voter support for his former coalition partner.
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The Nazis played a similar game in Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1938, only to abandon the pretense of influence-peddling for brute force when, along with the Soviet Red Army from the east, they invaded Poland from the west in 1939.
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The inquiry, led by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, was set up on the recommendation of a 2016 report, entitled "State of Capture", into alleged influence-peddling in Zuma's administration by the Public Protector, South Africa's main anti-corruption authority.
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CARACAS/MARACAIBO, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido's faltering efforts to oust President Nicolas Maduro are facing a new challenge in the form of an influence-peddling scandal that has left disillusioned Venezuelans wondering if Guaido's moment has passed.
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He added it was also inappropriate at this time to think about pardoning ex-South Korean leader Park Geun-hye who is currently in a holding facility and awaiting her corruption trial after being impeached over an influence-peddling scandal.
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Federal prosecutors said in court that the Manganos engaged in an influence-peddling scheme in which they used their political muscle on behalf of a restaurant owner and political donor to help him obtain loans and contracts with the county.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea President Park Geun-hye's approval rating has fallen to 5 percent, according to a Gallup poll released on Friday, setting an all-time low for any South Korean president and underscoring the impact of the influence-peddling scandal.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African court denied on Friday an application by former finance minister Pravin Gordhan for an order that would block the ministry from any involvement in a dispute between banks and the Gupta family, businessmen accused of influence peddling.
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Park has been rocked by an influence peddling scandal involving an old friend, sending her approval rating to an all-time low of just 5 percent, a 12 percentage point drop from last week, according to a Gallup poll released on Friday.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - The daughter of one of the central figures in a South Korean influence-peddling scandal that led to President Park Geun-hye's impeachment will face extradition proceedings in Denmark after Danish police arrested her on an Interpol request from Seoul.
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South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday asked parliament to find a way for her to give up power and decide when she should step down amid an influence-peddling scandal, but the opposition said she was just trying to avoid impeachment.
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South Korean investigators have accused Lee of paying bribes amounting to as much as 43 billion won ($36.42 million) to Choi Soon-sil, a friend of president Park Geun-hye, who has been at the center of a corruption and influence-peddling scandal.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb 14 (Reuters) - An elite South African police unit raided the home of the Gupta family, wealthy friends of President Jacob Zuma, on Wednesday as part of an investigation into allegations of influence peddling in the government, spokesman Hangwani Mulaudzi said.
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Park's use of injection treatments, which enthusiasts say fight aging and whiten the skin, has been made public as her political problems have mounted, with her behavior being scrutinized in parliamentary hearings into the influence-peddling scandal that led to her impeachment.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday asked the High Court to set aside a report by the anti-corruption watchdog on alleged influence-peddling in his government, saying he would instead set up a commission of inquiry into the allegations.
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Zuma, 75, announced in January that he would set up the commission into influence-peddling, which has become known as "state capture" in South Africa, after he was ordered to do so within 30 days of a High Court ruling in December.
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In November, Zuma defeated a no-confidence vote at a meeting of the executive committee, which was called after an anti-graft agency asked for an investigation of alleged influence-peddling by the wealthy Gupta family, whom Zuma has called his friends.
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If one concludes that the Hunter Biden contract was indeed corrupt influence peddling, then the demand for an investigation takes on a slightly different cast, even if many of us view that demand as inappropriate, given its focus on a political rival.
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The friend of former South Korean leader Park Geun-hye who was at the center of an influence-peddling scandal that rocked the country's business and political elite has been sentenced to three years in jail, the Yonhap news agency reported on Friday.
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SEOUL, South Korea — President Park Geun-hye of South Korea on Tuesday asked rival political parties to recommend a new prime minister, making a major political concession in her efforts to defuse an influence-peddling scandal that has crippled her government for weeks.
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The government's case against Ms. Butina, which was not brought under FARA, could be a template for future prosecutions, said a former Justice Department official, who predicted they could spread to influence peddling from Eastern Europe and China as well as Russia.
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Mr. Ramaphosa began speaking out against corruption last year as he campaigned for the leadership of the A.N.C. After his victory in December, Mr. Ramaphosa and his allies pressed Mr. Zuma to form a commission of inquiry into influence-peddling in his administration.
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SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean woman at the center of the influence-peddling scandal that brought down President Park Geun-hye last year was convicted of bribery, extortion and other criminal charges on Tuesday and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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Yet her deep unpopularity — the result of a scandal over influence-peddling that led members of her own party to want to oust her — increases the odds that the next election will be won by an advocate of friendlier relations with China.
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JOHANNESBURG, Dec 16 (Reuters) - A South African delegation will meet officials in the United Arab Emirates to discuss why the country has not ratified an extradition treaty, South Africa said on Monday, as it tries to investigate a case of alleged influence-peddling.
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A lower court had sentenced Shin Dong-bin in February to two years and six months in prison for his role in an influence-peddling scandal that roiled the country and led to the ouster of former South Korean President Park Geun-hye.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean prosecutors on Tuesday sought a 30-year jail term for former President Park Geun-hye who was ousted last year amid an influence-peddling scandal as supporters braved the winter cold outside the Seoul court demanding her immediate release.
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JOHANNESBURG, April 23 (Reuters) - South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday said he wants allegations of influence-peddling in government investigated, lending his support to a probe called for by the anti-graft watchdog but which President Jacob Zuma has so far ignored.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - The friend of former South Korean leader Park Geun-hye who was at the center of an influence-peddling scandal that rocked the country's business and political elite has been sentenced to 20 years in jail, a Seoul court said on Tuesday.
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark will extradite to South Korea the daughter of the central figure in an influence-peddling scandal that led to the ouster of its president, the Danish public prosecutor said on Friday, but her lawyer said she will fight the order in court.
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South Korea has been thrown into political turmoil by the widening corruption and influence-peddling scandal involving former President Park Geun-hye and her friend Choi Soon-sil, and will now gear up for an early May election to choose a successor for Park.
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Zuma has come under mounting political pressure since South Africa's anti-graft watchdog called last year for a judge to investigate allegations of influence-peddling in his government, in particular allegations that brothers Ajay, Atul and Rajesh Gupta wielded undue influence over the president.
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Lee, who was questioned on Wednesday by a judge, has been accused by South Korean investors of paying bribes to Choi Soon-sil, a friend of President Park Geun-hye, and who has been at the center of a corruption and influence-peddling scandal.
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Bank of Baroda, which is winding down its operations in South Africa, was thrust into the spotlight two years ago when it started working with the Guptas, a family of Indian-born businessmen who are at the center of an influence-peddling scandal surrounding Zuma.
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"Every day the American people and Congress learn more about President Trump's improprieties, from conflicts of interest to influence peddling, potential tax evasion and violations of the Constitution — all roads leading back to President Trump's finances," Pelosi spokeswoman Ashley Etienne said in a statement.
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The investigation looked into an influence-peddling scandal involving Park, who was impeached by parliament in December after accusations she had colluded with her long-time friend Choi to pressure big businesses to donate to two foundations set up to back the president's policy initiatives.
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"Every day the American people and Congress learn more about President Trump's improprieties, from conflicts of interest to influence peddling, potential tax evasion and violations of the Constitution – all roads leading back to President Trump's finances," Pelosi spokeswoman Ashley Etienne said in a statement.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - The friend of former South Korean leader Park Geun-hye, who was at the center of an influence-peddling scandal that rocked the country's business and political elite, has been sentenced to three years in jail, Yonhap News Agency reported on Friday.
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PARIS — Former President Nicolas Sarkozy of France has been ordered to stand trial on charges of corruption and influence-peddling in connection with accusations that he tried to illegally obtain confidential information from a magistrate several years ago, a French judicial official said Thursday.
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish police said they would give more details on Monday on the arrest of Chung Yoo-ra, a South Korean thought to be the daughter of a woman at the center of an influence-peddling scandal that has engulfed President Park Geun-hye.
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Lula was charged on Monday with corruption, influence peddling and money laundering - the latter of which prosecutors say they found on 44 occasions, often by Odebrecht paying inflated prices to subcontractor Exergia Brasil, which was run by a Lula confidant who was also charged in the case.
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"This kind of revolving door influence-peddling smacks of corruption, and makes the American people rightly cynical and distrustful about whether high-level Trump administration officials are working for them, or for their future corporate employers," Warren said in a letter on July 1, to Gottlieb.
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COPENHAGEN, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Danish police said they would give more details on Monday on the arrest of Chung Yoo-ra, a South Korean thought to be the daughter of a woman at the centre of an influence-peddling scandal that has engulfed President Park Geun-hye.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Park Geun-hye, engulfed in an influence peddling scandal, said if she was impeached she would wait for a court to uphold the decision, an official of her party said on Tuesday, signaling a political crisis could drag on for months.
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Park has been impeached by parliament over her role in a wide-ranging influence-peddling scandal linked to Choi, and now awaits a Constitutional Court review of that decision, which if upheld would make her the first democratically-elected South Korean leader to leave office in disgrace.
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SEOUL, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Samsung Group leader Jay Y. Lee will leave the South Korean special prosecutor's office shortly on Friday morning after being questioned for more than 20 hours on bribery suspicions in an influence-peddling scandal involving President Park Geun-hye, Yonhap News Agency reported.
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At a party work meeting on state-owned enterprises in October 2016, Xi called for party committees at all levels to step up anti-corruption work and crack down on problems such as state-owned asset embezzlement and influence peddling, state radio reported at the time.
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What else he has done, and what can be proved, and what Republicans are willing to do about it remain to be seen; meanwhile, Trump's entire Presidency, from his Cabinet appointments to his foreign policy, lies in a muddle of money-grubbing, kowtowing, and influence-peddling.
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Dr. Kaloyeros is the last major defendant to be sentenced in a series of state corruption prosecutions first announced nearly four years ago by Preet Bharara, then the United States attorney in Manhattan, in what he made a campaign against Albany's culture of secrecy and influence peddling.
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All that Ms Madonsela had to do in this report was show that there was enough apparent evidence of wrongdoing to justify her binding order that the government establish a judicial commission of inquiry that, in turn, must now investigate alleged influence-peddling by the president more fully.
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At least two of President Donald Trump's close allies made use of a relatively new way of influence peddling that's arguably swampier than traditional lobbying, with little to no disclosures and regulations — and watchdog groups believe others in his orbit could be operating under the radar using similar tactics.
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Earlier this month, an appeals court found the chairman of retail-to-chemicals conglomerate Lotte Group, Shin Dong-bin, guilty of charges including bribery and breach of trust for his role in an influence-peddling scandal that led to the ouster of the country's former president, Park Geun-hye.
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FARA dates to 1938 and was enacted in response to concerns about Nazi and communist propaganda in the US. For the first several decades the law was in effect, the focus was on propagandizing, but influence peddling came under new scrutiny when the law was amended in 1966.
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While Trump the loser spent more than 20 years praising Clinton — as recently as 2012, when she was finishing her tenure as secretary of State, which he then praised with admiration — he now claims he did so because he was an influence-peddling businessman currying favor with her.
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Though the government has established fair election laws in the past—to combat influence peddling and fraud, for instance—the dizzying pace at which campaign technology is evolving makes it especially difficult for lawmakers to grapple with intellectually and legislatively, and for the public to understand the stakes.
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The daughter of a central figure in an influence-peddling scandal that triggered the ouster of South Korean President Park Geun-hye is ready to claim political asylum in Denmark as she fears for her safety if she's forced to return home, her lawyer told Reuters.
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The trial seems poised to expose Albany's culture of secrecy and influence peddling, much like the 2015 trials of two former prominent state legislators: Sheldon Silver, a Democrat who was the longtime New York Assembly speaker, and Dean G. Skelos, a Republican who was the Senate majority leader.
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Party shifts: The scandal that set off the government collapse — a video revealing the far-right Freedom Party's openness to Russian influence peddling — did not appear to have dimmed the appeal of Mr. Kurz, but it did seriously dent voter support for his former coalition partner, the Freedom Party.
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In the long run, however, this week's scandal over Cohen's influence peddling is not likely to have much of an impact on Washington's shadow lobbying industry, or on the web of influence buying and selling that extends from K Street to political campaign funding to members of the president's inner circle.
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"It kind of reminds me of the Jack Abramoff situation," said Alex Camarda, an adviser for the watchdog group Reinvent Albany, likening Mr. Howe to the disgraced Washington lobbyist whose admissions of influence-peddling schemes a decade ago captivated the country, sent members of Congress to prison and spurred reforms.
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The…Read more ReadToday, in a meeting with the Washington Post editorial board, Dr. Stein once again attempted to clarify her position, saying:Vaccinations are a critical part of our health infrastructure and we badly need them, so I think what I have raised questions about is just influence peddling in the FDA.
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RELATED: Businesses could pose conflicts of interest for a President Trump Trump has said he plans to entrust his business to his children if he is elected president, a move that would only partially distance Trump from his massive corporation and do little to quell questions about influence-peddling and conflicts of interest.
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The brutal fact of healthcare in America is that the reason we don't have the single-payer system found in most democratic nations is that in our government, politicians are limited by the power of the big money that infects our system and the influence peddling against reform that big money buys.
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In a Washington trial that captivated the nation for months in 21973, Mr. Seymour prosecuted Michael K. Deaver, the former deputy chief of staff in the Reagan White House and a close friend of the president and his wife, Nancy Reagan, on charges of lying under oath to hide lucrative influence-peddling.
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" Tarini Parti, BuzzFeed: "At least two of President Donald Trump's close allies made use of a relatively new way of influence peddling that's arguably swampier than traditional lobbying, with little to no disclosures and regulations — and watchdog groups believe others in his orbit could be operating under the radar using similar tactics.
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An Everest of evidence exists of the corrosive impact of influence-peddling and special-interest money, of back-room deals in which insiders manipulate bills voted on by Congress and state legislatures, of blatant self-dealing and conflicts of interest spinning out from the revolving door between industry and the regulatory community.
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IN ONE of the many interrogations Lee Jae-yong has undergone in connection with a presidential influence-peddling scandal, he said that he would surrender management control of Samsung, the South Korean electronics giant that he is running on behalf of his incapacitated father, Lee Kun-hee, "if there is anyone better than me".
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News of the existence of the list—which a former culture minister, Yoo Jin-ryong, said this week was orchestrated by Kim Ki-choon, Ms Park's former chief of staff and right-hand man—is yet another twist in a sensational influence-peddling scandal that led to Ms Park's impeachment by parliament in December.
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Although the charges being leveled against the police commanders involve some of the same figures who appear in the mayoral fund-raising investigations — most notably Mr. Rechnitz — there has been no suggestion that the mayor himself was involved in the police influence-peddling and bribery scheme described in the court papers unsealed on Monday.
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Mel Weinberg, the con artist whose greatest hustle was the F.B.I.'s 1978-79 Abscam sting, using phony Arab sheikhs, a yacht in Florida and suitcases of money to snare a senator, six congressmen and other public officials for influence peddling, died on May 30 in a hospital near his home in Titusville, Fla.
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In the first judicial opinion to define how the meaning of the Constitution's anticorruption clauses should apply to a president, Judge Peter J. Messitte of the United States District Court in Greenbelt, Md., said the framers' language should be broadly construed as an effort to protect against influence-peddling by state and foreign governments.
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It was the latest in a string of recent controversies — including influence-peddling accusations against a close aide, a dust-up over an expensive new dinner service, and his scolding of a student — that have fed into accusations that Mr. Macron is a monarchical "president of the rich" who is out of touch with the French people.
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Sanders is terrific at pointing to a problem in our society, whether it be campaign finance, our "rigged economy," income inequality, influence peddling, our inflated prison population, and then turning it into a reason to bring about radical change, how he's the best suited for carrying out this change and how nothing else has worked, so this radical change is necessary.
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South Korea is in the midst of a political upheaval and the impeached president was arrested for of bribery and influence peddling; the U.S. is deploying the THAAD anti-ballistic missile system that Xi thinks will really be used to spy on the People's Republic of China; and a U.S. Navy strike group is moving into the neighborhood - his neighborhood.
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Setting aside all the hysterical right-wing conspiracy theorizing about them, the Clinton Foundation, which controversially accepted money from foreign governments while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, is quite clearly a vehicle for influence-peddling—at the very least, it seems likely that some of the foreign governments who donated to it were under the impression they were buying influence.
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The final court case also made no mention of any connection to the influence peddling conversations the FBI undercover informant witnessed about the Russian nuclear officials trying to ingratiate themselves with the Clintons even though agents had gathered documents showing the transmission of millions of dollars from Russia's nuclear industry to an American entity that had provided assistance to Bill Clinton's foundation, sources confirmed to The Hill.
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In less than two years, they had seen the speaker of their state House convicted of influence peddling, their chief justice evicted on ethics charges, their governor forced to resign, their newly appointed senator suspected of making a dirty deal to secure his perch and their beloved former senator Jeff Sessions repeatedly trashed by the president who appointed him as attorney general of the United States.
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There is an evolving story showing Russia's involvement in influence peddling in American politics that has been largely ignored by the mainstream media, including staggering allegations that Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE was a target of an influence campaign.
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE resigned yesterday after months of scandals surrounding agency spending, conflicts of interest and influence peddling.
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Finally, the walls are closing in around Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE, who is the subject of more than a dozen investigations into his spending and influence peddling at the agency.
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