corruption
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He has previously said allegations of corruption in the deal are false.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
The primary difference is that the corruption Sorkin points to is unique to the digital age, where everything is ephemeral — trumped by the next headline.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
“We’re not New Jersey. We’re not Mississippi,” noted Seth Warren, a local-politics expert at the University of Connecticut, referring to other states with at times unsavory reputations for corruption.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The European Commission told AFP that "the fight against corruption is a key element for a country to be able to join the EU" after praising Albania's "tangible progress" in a report last year.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
He also decoded telegrams that exposed corruption in President Warren G. Harding's cabinet in 1924.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
The subtext plays out in how the town confronts the other corruptions in its midst.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2025
He said: "People are determined to live... normally without crime and corruptions, without prices going wild."
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2023
Benjamin Voisin plays Lucien, a young poet from the provinces who is all too happy to savor the corruptions of the capital.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
Vader’s leitmotif is, as music theorist Mark Richards has shown, a deviously sophisticated tune, full of rhythmic quirks and harmonic corruptions.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2019
The exciting synergy of institutional life in an all-purpose national metropolis was deemed less important than the dangerous corruptions likely to afflict a nexus of politicians and financiers.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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