As a United States Senator, I unseated a corrupt Republican incumbent in a red state -- because the voters knew that I would fight for them, and not the special interests.
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As prime minister from 1959 to 1990, he led its rise from a poor, small, corrupt port to a first-world city-state in just one generation.
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Pakistani Premier Nawaz Sharif's government already disliked the group: after one of its earlier songs took a swipe at corrupt politicians, it banned state television from letting anyone with long hair and jeans perform.
Bihar has shaken off its past and is now the least corrupt state in India and from a low base its economy is growing at more than 14%.
The new justice minister comes from the notoriously corrupt state of Alagoas, but that too eases a gubernatorial election.
There was suddenly new attention to his ties to a businessman who is on trial for corrupt deals with the Illinois state government.
In the U.S., courts are governed by state law over whether to honor foreign judgments, and evidence of fraud or a hopelessly corrupt court system is one key factor they consider.
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While arrests of gang leaders and massive hauls of seized arms, money and drugs make headlines, the important task of social and economic development promised by local, state and federal government programs remains a difficult undertaking, in part due to fractured and corrupt community leadership.
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Mr Paterson, a state legislator for two decades before he became lieutenant-governor, is as much a product of corrupt Albany as of the Harlem Clubhouse.
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