His former chief of staff, Paul Mifsud, received a six-month jail sentence for evidence tampering and forgery, and Voinovich's brother has been criticized for his role in a local corruption scandal.
And the Chicago Tribune, which praises his prosecution of local political corruption, has told him to back off in the Plame case.
When she visited Moscow last spring, she diced with arrest by local prosecutors on corruption charges.
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Looking ahead, Braeken said he was very positive about the continent's future but warned that there were still many issues that needed to be addressed, citing infrastructure, good governance, corruption and fostering local talent.
Citizens' initiatives are sprouting, with local councils and firms accused of corruption and overcharging for municipal services.
This week Mr Ruto was cleared of corruption in a separate local case that had got him suspended from the cabinet.
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The three SMEs that went bankrupt in Wenzhou are facing allegations of corruption and mismanagement in local courts, suggesting that their situation may not be indicative of broader economic problems affecting enterprises of their size.
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When asked about the specific allegations of corruption, CNN was referred by local authorities to the Tamaulipas Attorney General's Office.
It also says profits from timber help to fuel corruption as loggers help to finance local ruling parties, which in turn allocate areas to be felled.
It went to Luis Bates, who previously ran the local branch of Transparency International, an anti-corruption watchdog.
Hungary remains hobbled by corruption (a cosy cartel, especially in local government, slices up European Union funds), a heavy burden of debt and a black economy that may account for one-fifth of GDP.
Not the easiest guy to get along with, he towed his house to Riviera Beach after wearing out his welcome in a marina further south, by uncovering corruption that led to the indictment of four local officials.
But corruption in Kentucky consists of mining firms leaning on local officials to go easy on environmental regulations, or school boards appointing their members' relatives to sinecures.
But ironically, these regulations are undermined by corruption as the trade is organised by members of local elites who ensure that "their" bush meat sellers are not targeted by the eco guards - and instead, the eco guards have been accused of victimising the Ba'aka.
Corruption among the police force has been a major concern to local and international authorities.
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Faizaan Peerzada, COO of Rafi Peer Theater Workshop in Lehore, the local puppet group that developed the show with Sesame Workshop, denied the corruption allegations.
Local, regional and federal forces are also combatting traffickers as well as suspected corruption within their own ranks.
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Granting local governments more powers will make some people nervous, given the rash of corruption scandals in cities across Britain.
Brown has passed the emails in question to several local journalists in Asheville, at least one of whom has investigated allegations of corruption by Moore in the past.
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In response, Mr Calderon has now announced a string of reforms which he says will reduce corruption among security forces and improve co-ordination among federal and local governments.
The classical Olympics were always run by a board of nine from the local town (Elis), so there were no international spats, no corruption scandals, no hijacking of the games to whitewash dictators.
The range of material is impressive: the chapters deal with the growth of European cities before the industrial revolution, corruption in post-Soviet Russia, privatisation in Eastern Europe, local government in the United States, and more.
Finally, the report makes a powerful case for the creation of a nonprofit watchdog or regulator, highlighting the conflicting bodies to which NGOS are accountable (donor states, recipient states, the local and international public), and alluding to the long history of nonprofit corruption.
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Those backing her included anthropologists and scientists, actors and TV stars, environmentally aware business people, and many young voters disillusioned with the main political parties and the stream of corruption scandals over the last few years in Congress as well as federal and local administrations.
The Progressives who designed the city's quirky charter, back in 1925, thought the best way to prevent corruption was to hand as much power as possible to councillors, civil servants and local bigwigs: anybody but the mayor.
High-profile prosecutions of former local-government officials are a sign that there will no longer be official tolerance of the kind of corruption that was so blatant in Casablanca, where funds allocated for slum clearance and other projects in the 1990s were diverted into private pockets.
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