A scandal here, a scandal there: the corruption stories just keep rolling in. And nothing changes. Are we fed up yet?
Political corruption
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Film Review: “Leviathan”
A nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, "Leviathan," tracks the unfortunate circumstances that befall Kolya (Aleksey Serebryakov), a man living a modest life in a small seaside town in northern Russia, after he chooses to defend his home from being taken by the corrupt mayor who wants ownership of the land for a development deal. […]
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Shelly Silver’s sweet gig
The charges in the federal criminal complaint against Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver are just shocking. There is “probable cause,” the complaint says, to believe that through bribes, kickbacks, fraud, extortion, and conspiracy, Silver “used the power and influence of his official position to obtain for himself millions of dollars masked as legitimate income earned by […]
