For months, officials in the Obama Administration pressed Karzai to indict, or at least get rid of, some of the corrupt people around him.

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Whether you think him corrupt, naive, goofy, aloof, or all of the above, there is no evidence to date that he knowingly lied to his superiors or NCAA investigators regarding Reggie Bush.

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Owen Bennett-Jones, BBC Islamabad correspondent at the time, recalls that when Mr Sharif was removed from power, many Pakistanis expressed great relief, describing him as corrupt, incompetent and power-hungry.

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On the first count, Mr Volcker has found no evidence at all that the secretary-general himself did anything corrupt, even though several people close to him plainly did.

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His lawyer, Tim Herman, has described the Usada report as a "one-sided hatchet job" and the cyclist himself has accused the agency of offering "corrupt inducements" to other riders to speak out against him.

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Orduna, who replaced half of the 1, 600-person police force with new recruits in a bid to rid it of corrupt members, tendered his resignation to protect the men who serve him, Reyes told reporters.

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