corruption
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During his presidency, prosecutors sought to bring corruption charges against him, but the case didn’t move forward after a vote to lift his immunity failed to win a supermajority in the legislature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Police Ombudsman Jacqui Durkin described the behaviour as a "catalogue of corruption"
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
He has since faced multiple legal cases on corruption and other charges.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
Voluntary resolution—such as the settlements reached with Brown, Columbia and Cornell—isn’t a corruption of the law; it is the statute’s stated preference.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
No, not a man, but a corruption of one.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
The subtext plays out in how the town confronts the other corruptions in its midst.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2025
Tasila and the former president's widow, Esther, continue to face corruptions charges, which they deny.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2025
Ms. de Bonafini stood by the family, including Kirchner’s widow Cristina and political successor, amid allegations of corruptions.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2022
Jazz got a crucial nudge into the academy from Wynton Marsalis and his fellow young neo-traditionalists, who were guarding against what they saw as the corruptions of fusion and free jazz.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2020
It depicts the American Revolutionas a liberation movement, a clean break not just from English domination but also from the historic corruptions of European monarchy and aristocracy.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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