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  1. illegal actions, especially those of a government official or large business company

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"It's analytical malfeasance at best and political malfeasance at worst," Navarro said.
Some claim that publishing facts about military and national security malfeasance is a greater problem than the malfeasance itself.
Appearance of impropriety, malfeasance, or incompetence is often as important to the people who cover politics as is the substantive question of whether impropriety, malfeasance, or incompetence is actually at hand.
And on that count, there was no evidence of malfeasance.
And it's actually not that often about an individual's malfeasance.
There is no indication he's been involved in any malfeasance.
Punishing children for a parent's malfeasance does not seem fair.
Prosecutors who specialize in financial malfeasance are reviewing the case.
Such malfeasance cannot be ignored or swept under the rug.
Guatemala stopped overseas adoptions in 21 after allegations of malfeasance.
As rivalries flare, tales of malfeasance tend to come out.
The six settlements for malfeasance in House offices totaled $53,25.
Even algorithms take some time to notice patterns of malfeasance.
There is no evidence that the Bidens engaged in any malfeasance.
Five important officials have resigned, some tainted by investigations for malfeasance.
But baseball's malfeasance — sign-stealing or otherwise — has nothing on chess.
"His tweets have strictly been used to point out Palestinian malfeasance."
The Russians have said the evidence of Iran's malfeasance is inconclusive.
Equifax is asking you to pay the price for its malfeasance.
The evidence of presidential malfeasance, attempted bribery and corruption is overwhelming.
He mostly refused to take stands against political or social malfeasance.
He spoke much about Chinese economic malfeasance on the campaign trail.
There's no malfeasance or misfeasance if you don't know about something.
The technology doesn't create officer malfeasance any more than it disables it.
That means getting two separate middle-manager bros arrested for corporate malfeasance.
But there is something about large retail banks that engenders monetary malfeasance.
Public policy should prize diligence and exact costs for negligence or malfeasance.
And recent events have lent credence to Salgado's charges of government malfeasance.
Is the White House's cyber security weakness due to malfeasance or incompetence?
This shield protects public employees who are cited for malfeasance or incompetence.
He had also thought about doubling the reward for local media malfeasance.
Such intimate knowledge of athletic malfeasance has bolstered his passion for arbitration.
Even the agency's seventh-floor executive suite reeked of malfeasance and chaos.
And, in the face of suffering and struggle and governmental malfeasance, hope.
Third, we Democrats have to pick fights that highlight Mr. Trump's malfeasance.
But this time the issue is not individual malfeasance; it is systemic.
Impeachment, not criminal prosecution, is our Constitution's response to egregious executive malfeasance.
In a company, leadership would promptly be fired for such fiduciary malfeasance.
He could be removed only for "cause" — some gross malfeasance in office.
Dark Waters Rated PG-13 for corporate malfeasance and poisoned living creatures.
President Donald Trump authorized its release, insisting the claimed malfeasance targets him.
Flake was eliminated after misspelling "malfeasance," and Kaine went on to win.
"The swamp," Trump's dominant metaphor, is another, one that suggests pervasive malfeasance.
And that's just the malfeasance that's publicly known and documented to Wikipedia's standards.
Even North's malfeasance was perpetrated toward the goal, however flawed, of arming Contras.
On the other hand, its malfeasance was blatant, which is rare in finance.
But lawmakers warned Pruitt that the fund created even more opportunities for malfeasance.
They help prevent bubbles from forming and are adept at rooting out malfeasance.
The Mueller investigation unearthed a lot of evidence of malfeasance by the president.
The overall intent of the event was the shed light on journalistic malfeasance.
The program's early years were marred by shady foreign actors and widespread malfeasance.
During the election campaign, Mr. Khan vowed to end corruption and official malfeasance.
Indonesia's aviation industry has long been dogged by accidents and accusations of malfeasance.
She has also asked the state comptroller to investigate allegations of financial malfeasance.
What&aposs worse is Twitter&aposs malfeasance coupled with scant benefit to stakeholders.
FireEye published a report of the alleged malfeasance from Iran on its website.
It will reject other services to the community that would address the malfeasance.
Dressed up in terms of obstructing justice, it really revolved around sexual malfeasance.
Doesn't the President have within his right to go after any election malfeasance?
"Our job is not to uncover evidence of past administrations' malfeasance," one said.
Accidentally benefiting from ham-handed malfeasance does not mean there was no malfeasance, but the president's repetitive and stentorian insistence that there was "no collusion" now seems to have been pretty well calculated: Maybe I stole, but I sure didn't cheat!
They need a push to realize they are uniquely positioned to act against malfeasance.
It is more likely to use them to bolster its case for Iranian malfeasance.
Florida law allows DeSantis to suspend a sheriff for malfeasance or neglect of duty.
He added that he was not worried about the discovery of any possible malfeasance.
Yet it misses the point of the N.C.A.A.'s malfeasance in the first place.
But Schaap's documentary helped thrust malfeasance at FIFA further into the mainstream public eye.
But critics saw the amendments as being designed to cover up high-level malfeasance.
The teachers are charged with malfeasance in office, intimidation and interference in school operations.
The country's political structure, which includes 234 parties in Congress, is ripe for malfeasance.
There is great interest in possible malfeasance by President Trump, including obstruction of justice.
In the summer of 2016, he referred to narratives of Russian malfeasance as smears.
And penalties for malfeasance are low in the interbank markets, where most bonds trade.
But such prudence could quickly turn into political malfeasance if perpetuated beyond Tuesday's vote.
Nazarbayev continued to sweat as further details of his financial malfeasance came to light.
"What bothered them was that we were exposing their malfeasance," Schiff said of Republicans.
In the latest salvo, prosecutors again slapped down Ms. Powell's accusations of government malfeasance.
The whistleblower mitigated that by reporting the malfeasance just prior to a formal announcement.
Trump can only remove members under extreme circumstances, like malfeasance or neglect of duty.
Currently, the president can fire the director only for inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance.
So many in Iceland saw the final revelations as part of a trend of malfeasance.
When clearer signs of Facebook's malfeasance began to surface, Sandberg was initially shielded from blame.
Many Salvadoreans, accustomed to accounts of malfeasance by their leaders, are more despairing than outraged.
The bearings of this work are sadness and malfeasance, even if we don't know why.
Opposition leaders say PDVSA has been crippled by malfeasance under 18 years of socialist rule.
Alien with an unhinged, mad scientist running amok, instead of just the *usual* corporate malfeasance.
If it is not the IOC's own crooked malfeasance, it is its sanctioning of it.
For many foreigners, it confirms Romania's reputation as a kleptocracy riddled with malfeasance and graft.
These punishments are a slap on the wrist for the Trumps' malfeasance, not real justice.
We also knew that the laws meant to restrict those farmers' malfeasance had many loopholes.
It would be one thing if the malfeasance in Chicago was isolated, but it's not.
Heretofore, the malfeasance and misdemeanor have had no confessed ideological purposes, no constitutionally subversive ends.
But I fault them for something worse — for a failure of leadership and government malfeasance.
Saye's death in a London apartment building fire was due to corporate and political malfeasance.
The bank was trying to position itself as having moved past its era of malfeasance.
Mr. Daugherty's visage serves as a reminder for Mr. Horowitz: Malfeasance is never far away.
The discrepancies between the White House transcripts and the tapes became evidence of further malfeasance.
The Department of Homeland Security inspector general found "no misconduct or malfeasance" by immigration officials.
Democrats will also try to broaden their inquiry to other accusations of corruption and malfeasance.
But in late 2018, he was arrested in the country on allegations of financial malfeasance.
"He has great concern about what he sees as potential misuse or malfeasance in office."
But few commented after the subsequent release of a whistleblower report documenting more alleged malfeasance.
And now they accuse President Trump of malfeasance in Ukraine when they themselves are culpable.
The previous election was declared invalid by the Supreme Court due to widespread electoral malfeasance.
And as Facebook focuses on its core product, digital malfeasance is spreading on its satellite apps.
Mr Partlow describes how American officials, tapping telephones, uncovered the brazen malfeasance of the Afghan elite.
Trump believes that's the corruption Ukraine needs to deal with, despite no actual evidence of malfeasance.
And anyway, trade data capture only one type of malfeasance (smugglers fly completely under the radar).
WikiLeaks did some good in its early years, exposing political corruption, financial malfeasance and military wrongdoing.
It&aposs eventually going to come out because we know there was malfeasance within those departments.
We've explored many horrific examples of media malfeasance in this space over the past two months.
These advertisements describe medical malfeasance, coverups, and corruption, often linked to purported evidence of vaccine harms.
He'd been arrested on charges of fiscal malfeasance and was partway through a multiple-year sentence.
Taxpayers are harmed by their officials' malfeasance, and taking away resources can hurt them even more.
The belief that our political institutions are capable of holding anyone accountable for malfeasance has died.
It helped watchdogs keep an eye out for malfeasance like Cheney's alleged preferential treatment of Halliburton.
Anyway, her days were full of meetings and car pools; there was no time for malfeasance.
They are aided by trolls, bots and all manner of digital malfeasance, especially by the Russians.
What's highlighted here is not Michigander malfeasance: Michigan, after all, has simply played by the rules.
The move was a critical early phase of the government's investigation into potential Trump campaign malfeasance.
The government would be accused of negligence, incompetence, even malfeasance in its handling of the case.
Together, these four senators represent powerful voices around the issues of labor, immigration and corporate malfeasance.
Fiat Chrysler and the U.A.W. were "victims of malfeasance by their respective employees," the company said.
But critics say the administration, despite making graft-related arrests, is still crippled by financial malfeasance.
Though he was innocent of any malfeasance, he was snatched up, held in jail, and beaten.
Price said there is no evidence of malfeasance or that the data was compromised in any way.
The bottom line: The Mueller report has refocused America's attention on malfeasance during the 2016 election campaign.
So, to recap, we have: no verified documents and no actual evidence of malfeasance or rule violations.
They are not supposed to cover up malfeasance or wrongdoing inside the bureau or inside the DOJ.
David Cameron, Britain's prime minister, rightly sees murky ownership of offshore shell companies as facilitating financial malfeasance.
Opposition leaders have said that PDVSA has been crippled by malfeasance under 18 years of socialist rule.
Next up, Deval Patrick who brings quite a record of white-washing corporate malfeasance to the table.
There are other examples of media malfeasance from the past two weeks, but you get the point.
"We urge you to use your full authorities to hold AveXis accountable for its malfeasance," they said.
If Kavanaugh's hostility toward presidential malfeasance also remains constant, he could yet surprise his critics if confirmed.
Reformers need to direct their attention more intensively on the contracting framework, not only on prosecuting malfeasance.
When the board, CEO, and bankers transfer the vicious hangover to retail investors, the distraction becomes malfeasance.
From corporate malfeasance to freak accidents, the 2010s were full of scandals that rocked the tech industry.
National Punishment of banks and big companies accused of malfeasance has declined precipitously since the Obama era.
"To find out about even a fraction of the malfeasance, you had to go searching," Snowden explains.
Instead, they got a packet of assorted news clippings and conspiratorial memos about Democratic malfeasance in Ukraine.
Michigan Republicans have blasted the recount talk, given that there is no evidence of fraud or malfeasance.
Nor did he express concern for their security when pursuing a self-aggrandizing program of diplomatic malfeasance.
Mr. Sowore founded a website in 2006, Sahara Reporters, that specializes in exposing corruption and government malfeasance.
Powell unsuccessfully accused the prosecutors and investigators of malfeasance by trying to coerce Flynn into pleading guilty.
This was grotesque, delegitimizing malfeasance, especially in contrast with the agency's refusal to discuss the Russia connection.
" Defending the release of the memo the speaker said "there may have been malfeasance at the FBI.
Prosecutors routinely pursue criminal cases against institutions, often for white-collar crimes involving allegations of corporate malfeasance.
They serve as a reminder of some more serious malfeasance that helped undo his 1988 presidential campaign.
Many of those examples have been misleading and not examples of bias or malfeasance by the tech companies.
For some on the far-right, the clip is an example of media malfeasance and knee-jerk reactions.
That investigation of all things Trump had involved no small amount of government malfeasance and stunning media malpractice.
But the path forward isn't through faux-neutrality or forgiveness, but clear admission of malfeasance and demonstrable change.
Republicans have argued that Petraeus' malfeasance was petty, especially relative to Clinton's use of a private email servers.
"What we're left with is a Faustian choice between malfeasance and very callous disregard for details," Sanford said.
Not only did that statement accuse Krause of "malfeasance and dereliction of duty," it was also intentionally deceptive.
"I intend to be fair but relentless in exposing government malfeasance," Buchanan said in a news release Monday.
Will Congressional overseers hold FDA officials and their Obama administration political bosses accountable for their callousness and malfeasance?
Critics say it's merely house cleaning of opponents, while others have championed the campaign to wipe out malfeasance.
Rather than a salute to local history, the fiesta feels like a cover-up of fat-cat malfeasance.
Without these watchdogs ferreting out fraud, waste and abuse, the department is ever more exposed to potential malfeasance.
CSRC's probe comes at a time growing numbers of investors have called for tougher action against corporate malfeasance.
Rather, the loudest voices on both the right and left want the malfeasance of the shutdown to continue.
Opposition parties have long maintained that PDVSA has been crippled by financial malfeasance under the current socialist government.
Hagan is not accusing the state of any malfeasance, but said the figure is worrisome to her campaign.
"I intend to be fair but relentless in exposing government malfeasance," Buchanan said in a news release Monday.
Morris's documentary works the same way—it exposes malfeasance, allowing Olson one last chance to air his trauma.
He displayed a large poster-board exhibit with quotations from a Washington Post editorial criticizing Icann for malfeasance.
For banks and other financial intermediaries, this greatly reduces their costs of transparency and their risk of malfeasance.
The recent spate of malfeasance started in January 2015 with the guilty plea of State Representative J.P. Miranda.
I had to ask—did she enjoy facing off against the same financiers whose malfeasance she once studied?
Mr. Robot (2015-current, USA) SAMPLE MALFEASANCE Poisoning a New Jersey town, killing Christian Slater in the process.
The idea of outside and foreign directors and companies has been floated as one way to reduce malfeasance.
The dioxin found in Tropodo is the end product in a chain of malfeasance, carelessness and governmental neglect.
Yet the government's efforts to rally around liberal causes has also been a smokescreen for manipulation and malfeasance.
But today, local reporters are uncertain whether their investigations, particularly into military malfeasance, might land them in jail.
Not necessarily because of intentional malfeasance or unprofessionalism or lack of patriotism; they just simply got it wrong.
Experts say the case against Mr. Oei fits a pattern of malfeasance that has tarnished Canada's immigration programs.
Historically presidents of both parties have cooperated with congressional investigations into malfeasance and wrongdoing within the executive branch.
Corrupt public officials can rig bids, sell work and practice other malfeasance that isn't in the public interest.
As with other bombshells made public since the December 18 impeachment, this one offers overwhelming evidence of malfeasance.
It's unclear how FBI malfeasance could have solely resulted in a judge signing off on a FISA warrant.
Thailand is also braced for a major verdict in a malfeasance case against former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
In Florida, a recount is underway, with lawsuits and counter-lawsuits piling up and allegations of malfeasance flying.
Furthermore, major auctioneers like Christie's and Sotheby's have sizable legal departments and compliance guidelines that could route out malfeasance.
The independent committee reviewing the trial found no signs of malfeasance or improper actions taken by the trial researchers.
But, like Malaysia's politics, beset by lurid tales of financial malfeasance, the currency has been unusually skittish (see chart).
After election day, the real question becomes how exactly will the US respond to to Russia's election related malfeasance.
It matters because the founding fathers drew up the impeachment clause with precisely this sort of malfeasance in mind.
But inserted into ongoing conversations about government neglect or Communist Party malfeasance, they take on an entirely different tenor.
He wants possible FBI "malfeasance" investigated, while claiming that the Nunes memo is "completely separate" from the Mueller inquiry.
Gambling firms have started to certify hardware and software before competitions, in the hope of rooting out technological malfeasance.
That being said, there's a real chance settlements like these might not help deter similar malfeasance in the future.
A former employee of Elon Musk's SpaceX is alleging malfeasance at the company in a California court, Bloomberg reports.
He urged increased penalties for financial fraud or malfeasance by institutions, calling fraud the business model of Wall Street.
Facebook's apparent indifference to Cambridge Analytica's malfeasance for the past two years is an acknowledgment of this basic reality.
Donald Trump painted a picture of a wrecked, emasculated America in a dystopian world created by Obama-Clinton malfeasance.
The common sense of urgency prevented the talks from dragging on, like so many other cases of corporate malfeasance.
During the Iraq War, Iran was most aggressive when the U.S. failed to respond with strength to Iranian malfeasance.
The number of cases of potential malfeasance that could involve Trump, his businesses and his presidency is without precedent.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz's probe has already exposed two incidents that Republican lawmakers say show malfeasance at the DOJ.
Those works warned of corporate malfeasance and irresponsibility, of environmental disaster, of technology offering as many burdens as releases.
Their very weight in the cluster and the tremendous influence they wield makes them ripe for corruption and malfeasance.
The malfeasance of the Brazilian elite, then, is coming out just as ordinary Brazilians are experiencing truly difficult times.
Southwest Key's chief financial officer left last month after a Times article outlined allegations of mismanagement and possible malfeasance.
But the bank has been pummeled by accusations that it took part in a wide array of financial malfeasance.
Average citizens were frustrated with the endemic corruption of party officials, and some welcomed his vision of tackling malfeasance.
Volkswagen has portrayed the malfeasance as the work of midlevel engineers and managers acting without knowledge of top management.
And we can thank Leshchenko's dedication to exposing government malfeasance for bringing Manafort's corrupt activities in Ukraine to light.
"Whistleblowers shine a bright light on malfeasance in our government and the private sector," Pelosi said in a statement.
When economic and political dealing is embedded in dense networks of social interaction, incentives for opportunism and malfeasance are reduced.
Sure enough, the art market has seen its fair share of financial malfeasance and contraband in the last few years.
On the other hand, Iran's malfeasance is growing — not only in the nuclear arena but the regional one as well.
The Houston Astros' 2017 cheating scandal rocked the entire MLB, but some individuals were disproportionately affected by the team's malfeasance.
The themes of corruption and white-collar malfeasance link the cases of those caught up in the special counsel's inquiry.
The impact of fake reviews, whether due to malfeasance or misinformation, is stronger when there are small numbers of reviews.
The report faulted the administration broadly but did not produce any new bombshells about what critics call malfeasance by Clinton.
A lot of Sorry to Bother You is angry and confrontational, about corporate malfeasance, racism, poverty, unions, and moral compromise.
The Dodd-Frank law gave the SEC newfound powers to reward whistleblowers who come forward with tips of corporate malfeasance.
I see the memorandum not as a nefarious bit of corporate malfeasance so much as a well-intentioned, misguided artifact.
The corporate malfeasance, the banality of human evil is just too much a part of the fabric of every scene.
The malfeasance committed by those at the helm of companies like Countrywide has greatly harmed the global economy and population.
Nor does the Senate bill include other key OPIC policies that protect against human rights abuses, corruption and other malfeasance.
That gives us tremendous insights into foreign malfeasance, things that are going on on the Internet, and it's about sunset.
The first is that Pruitt's living arrangement raises questions about potential corruption—a far more impactful malfeasance than frivolous spending.
That affair also involved admissions of long-running malfeasance: Officials had been hiding reports of dangerous vehicle defects for decades.
Similarly, House investigations and hearings can identify and expose malfeasance, but the House cannot, on its own, file criminal charges.
It follows the exploits of Angus MacGyver, a clandestine operative who battles malfeasance by jury-rigging solutions to dire problems.
Although the headline allegations of malfeasance can look straightforward, wading through the proof has been, for the government, much harder.
Putin's actions, too, can seem to prove Browder's case about the need to combat the Russian state's corruption and malfeasance.
It's beginning to smell like malfeasance at We. The lines between vision, bullsh*t, and fraud have been crossed here.
On the other, investigations into possible malfeasance within an agency are usually carried out by the agency's inspector general (IG).
The races and subsequent recounts have been marred by highly visible legal battles and accusations of malfeasance on both sides.
Even so, Netanyahu drilled down on Iran's malfeasance in his remarks to the UN and on his flattery of Trump.
The CCDI's powerful inspection teams are sent by central authorities to identify malfeasance within party organizations and provincial government bodies.
Minnesota in 1931, wherein the court struck down a state law intended to squelch exposés about malfeasance by local officials.
"Enlightened" took on corporate malfeasance and the question of what the average person can do to effect meaningful political change.
The Club's political malfeasance when I first ran for Congress in 2004 and in succeeding election cycles cannot be overstated.
The election commission has confirmed that there were attempts to hack its servers, but officials deny that any malfeasance occurred.
One might argue that "inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office" arguably goes beyond a constitutional good-faith requirement.
As an attorney and advocate for sexual assault survivors, I witness the effects of this malfeasance on a daily basis.
It's time to stop forcing citizens in fiscally responsible regions to subsidize the malfeasance of politicians thousands of miles away.
Imagine if you were weighing using the established whistleblower law to shine a light on some corporate (or political) malfeasance.
The longest, loudest malfeasance claims sought to discredit Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over the 2012 Benghazi attack.
The crime of misconduct in office covers both what officials did, misfeasance or malfeasance, or what they failed to do, nonfeasance.
On the day of her reinstatement, she's assigned a new partner, Sakari Nurmi (Lauri Tilkanen), who specializes in untangling fiscal malfeasance.
This tragedy was not a freak malfunction of some cutting-edge technology—it is the entirely predictable byproduct of corporate malfeasance.
However, even if she had been clearly linked to financial malfeasance, this crime would have been secondary to the Korean public.
Fiat Chrysler (FCA) declined to comment but said previously it and the union were victims of malfeasance by their respective employees.
Nearly forty years after the 1977 grand jury report, the faces at city hall have changed, but accusations of malfeasance remain.
Rather, White House and Republican National Committee officials were reportedly pressuring McSally to allege some kind of fraud or electoral malfeasance.
But to the rest it's just a way to thicken the miasma of malfeasance they've wafted around the Clintons for decades.
"The general absence of electoral malfeasance, including of vote-buying and pressure on voters, allowed for genuine competition," the statement said.
WE'VE DONE ALL THE WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE ON THE INSIDE TO MAKE SURE THERE'S NO MALFEASANCE INSIDE CHRYSLER.
Not me though, I had to see where this bizarre, ambling tale of corporate malfeasance, guilt, and climate change was going.
The Centre for Public Integrity, an NGO which grades state governments, gives Pennsylvania an F for its entrenched culture of malfeasance.
The regulations require that the special counsel only be fired for "good cause," such as malfeasance or a conflict of interest.
His hope is that the control afforded him by repetition will stymie the alternate persona responsible for much of his malfeasance.
Venezuela's opposition parties say PDVSA has been crippled by financial malfeasance and blames corruption for some of Venezuela's deep economic recession.
Whether because of blind trust in the FBI or out of ignorance or even malfeasance, they failed at this important job.
A related set of issues will concern how best to rectify Trump's malfeasance when it comes to the rule of law.
Thinly supported allegations of electoral malfeasance have been deployed throughout American history, often by those who want to restrict the vote.
The arrest is the latest setback for the Sharif family, which has been dogged by allegations of widespread graft and malfeasance.
Romania has a problem with corruption, from petty tourist shakedowns to high officials' malfeasance, and Bucharest, its capital, seems somewhat bereft.
Opinion On July 25, 2013, a high-ranking federal law enforcement officer took a public stand against malfeasance on Wall Street.
Go: David Mamet's new play "Bitter Wheat" stars John Malkovich as a film mogul laid low by his own sexual malfeasance.
But the summer eruption of apparent Republican malfeasance has some in the party arguing that Democrats should make corruption more central.
Money's easy to divide (assuming there's no fraud or malfeasance), but the "stuff" is what triggers the sibling dysfunction, for sure.
"Oklahoma's history of mistakes and malfeasance reveals a culture of carelessness around executions that should give everyone pause," Mr. Baich said.
We assess that Russia will continue denying its malfeasance while Putin prepares for a so-called "election" for president in Russia.
When the nation last embarked on one of these incomprehensible exercises in congressional malfeasance, it was during the reign of Sen.
He was soon picked up again on MSNBC in a much more diminished capacity, but only after publicly acknowledging his malfeasance.
Above all and unequivocally so, this comportment is obscene, dishonest, and represents a level of malfeasance we have not seen before.
" Meanwhile, the SEC commissioners themselves could only be removed by the president for "inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.
Rubio went as far as to tweet out a video suggesting that malfeasance occurred in Florida originally posted by Tim Canova.
As a governor, if I find malfeasance, then I, you know, I have the opportunity to hold people accountable, and I will.
However, there is more to Pavlensky's work than the thrill of blunt violence; political malfeasance becomes a conceptual element of the art.
He has also alleged malfeasance in the award of certain contracts by Tata entities and that the group's aviation ventures were mismanaged.
As executives at startups like Theranos, Andreessen-backed Zenefits, and Uber are newly exposed for malfeasance, the troubling questions keep piling up.
Jia then issued a polemic press release accusing the duo of "malfeasance and dereliction of duty," and vowed to take legal action.
But he also faced envy-driven charges of malfeasance and thuggishness, which the author, who clearly admires his subject, leaves studiously unanswered.
I do think we could do a little bit better job of which specific sanctions are tied to which specific Russian malfeasance.
In most places politics as a whole fits her description very well, with no party or ideology enjoying a monopoly on malfeasance.
Whether the code actually prevents market malfeasance will be determined by the many institutions, large and small, that trade FX each day.
It was "one of the most egregious examples of corporate malfeasance since Enron," said Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer at the time.
Safer also delivered deep investigative pieces on injustice, corporate malfeasance and trade in human body parts among a raft of other subjects.
But the Teapot Dome scandal was the apex of presidential malfeasance until Watergate, which also occasioned the appointment of two special prosecutors.
"It will be journalistic malfeasance if the debate doesn't include questions about the Clinton Foundation, emails and Goldman Sachs speeches," Schuster said.
Undoubtedly, this instance of government malfeasance has thrust the country into turmoil, but corruption has not always been so detrimental to Korea.
Out of the spotlight at small tournaments around the world, the temptations are obvious and malfeasance very difficult to prove, sources added.
Major outlets saturated the news environment with innuendo-heavy reports, creating an aroma of malfeasance around Clinton unsupported by their actual findings.
Roth's critique is bolstered by the stunning tales of corporate malfeasance and unscrupulous profiteering that Jaffe identifies, from Walmart to Wall Street.
In the course of cleaning up the banking system the National Bank of Ukraine discovered malfeasance that continues to reverberate across Europe.
He said in December that he hoped the "forthcoming exposure of [Trump's] malfeasance and corruption will convince enough Republicans to abandon" him.
And its own aggressive spinning on Twitter, clearly trying to hype up evidence of Clinton malfeasance in its own disclosures, hasn't helped.
The FBI has a long and dishonorable record of political interference and malfeasance, often associated with its first director, J. Edgar Hoover.
The opposition said the government's tricks had continued on Sunday, as allegations of electoral malfeasance against the federal electoral commission piled up.
Armed with subpoena powers, they have also all but promised investigations into his tax returns and alleged malfeasance by his cabinet members.
That his malfeasance might now prompt other countries that signed the accord to withdraw from the agreement, or rethink their emissions pledges.
Barr has appointed John Durham, the US Attorney in Connecticut, to head a freewheeling investigation into purported malfeasance from Trump-Russia investigators.
When he received a corporate-malfeasance case, he reportedly told a colleague that the defendant was "right where he belongs" — in jail.
Judge Collyer is right to be outraged at the FBI's malfeasance here (as well as the Justice Department's failure to detect it).
One thing is clear: When politicians, caught committing malfeasance, claim that they will let future historians judge, you can't possibly believe them.
The whistle-blower affair probably involves malfeasance by high government officials, quite possibly President Trump, that in some way threatens national security.
The whistleblower's complaint is in large part an explanation of how dedicated the White House is to avoiding public disclosure of malfeasance.
A series of House Republican malfeasance claims against Democrats in recent years have fallen flat, one high-profile case after the other.
It makes readers question your ability to respond to and accurately report on any malfeasance when it occurs under your own roof.
There is no magic, nor are there mutant abilities, it's just a bunch of kids learning how to maximize their potential malfeasance.
The 213 UN Convention on Refugees set up a liberal and eventually near-universal regime for people fleeing oppression and other state malfeasance.
But rumours of malfeasance have swirled around the dapper politician since he came to prominence under President Hugo Chávez in the early 2000s.
He has also alleged malfeasance in the award of certain contracts by Tata entities and fraud at one of the group's aviation ventures.
They follow orders The problem with pinpointing blame for corporate malfeasance is that it may start with an abstract order from the top.
This, in turn, was misinterpreted by many on the left as Clinton rewarding her for malfeasance rather than simply letting her save face.
Racism and drug abuse are the series's initial dominant issues, but Cloak & Dagger also brings up sexual assault, corporate malfeasance, and suicidal depression.
It's whether those next steps lead to a more righteous future, or to more of the same malfeasance, that remains to be seen.
ROB JOYCE: I think we've got to understand as a nation how we are going to change the cost-benefit for cyber malfeasance.
Almost every week there is talk of another major company getting into financial difficulties or facing an investigation for fraud or other malfeasance.
The Vanity Fair piece also cites June 28 for big, end-of-day volumes followed by a news event as evidence of malfeasance.
Hawley pointed out that Big Tech companies already enjoy "sweetheart deals" under current regulations that make their malfeasance a matter of public concern.
The Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela, prepared a dossier over years on Zuma's malfeasance, and it became the hope on which the country hung.
The attorney general has forced out numerous sets of trustees and accused it of malfeasance by overpaying trustees and buying a golf course.
Dr. Karcher has nothing but praise for the Committee for Physicians Health and the Office of Professional Medical Misconduct, which oversees medical malfeasance.
In the film, set in Shanghai with a plot driven by corporate malfeasance, punches are thrown, shots are fired and people are killed.
Futurama (1999-2003, Fox; 2010-13, Comedy Central) SAMPLE MALFEASANCE Mind control via a virus spread through the corporation's social media app, Twitcher.
It was only in the second half of the 28503th century that we came to broadly label insider trading as an economic malfeasance.
An affluent bedroom community of New York City, with pockets of poverty, the county is rife with neither violent crime nor corporate malfeasance.
The vice president has either implicated himself in, or been hung out to dry for, a tremendous amount of malfeasance since the election.
It was far from clear if senators could reach an agreement on such a measure in time to deter malfeasance before November's election.
Congress first used inefficiency, neglect and malfeasance together in a statute in 1887, when it established the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate railroads.
Voter turnout among Latinos and Asian-Americans is low for a complicated mix of reasons, some of which are unrelated to Republican malfeasance.
"There are obvious reasons we need to conduct our investigations of agency malfeasance with representatives of the office under investigation," Mr. Cummings said.
Amazon fell by more than 5 percent as the president rattled off tweets accusing the company of tax and Post Office-related malfeasance.
My home state, Georgia, for example, suffered a vicious blend of electoral malfeasance, misfeasance and mismanagement during my race for governor last fall.
The leaking is a clear example of executive branch malfeasance, the leaks as pure an example of whistleblowing as one can think of.
In a statement prior to Facebook's decision to label the video on Monday, Biden Campaign Manager Greg Schultz slammed Facebook's "malfeasance" around disinformation.
"Moreover, in an actual contested removal, the President would certainly be entitled to substantial deference in identifying inefficiency, neglect, or malfeasance," Clement wrote.
We took a look at the mistakes, confusion and alleged malfeasance around Election Day — and the vulnerabilities in the country's patchwork election grid.
If agencies paid closer attention to public comments on all sides of any rulemaking, some of the manipulation and malfeasance might be uncovered.
If "obstruction of Congress" is a cause for impeachment, then "obstruction of the president" must also fall into that same arena of malfeasance.
As I wrote in the first recap of the show, "Billions" isn't like "The Big Short" or other stories of Wall Street malfeasance.
"Facebook's malfeasance when it comes to trafficking in blatantly false information is a national crisis in this respect," Schultz said in a statement.
Perhaps that's why "Pharma" devotes so many words to industry malfeasance and only one sentence at the end to a possible "multidisciplinary solution."
In other words, this article isn't even about the Trump plan — but about the gross malfeasance of the deeply-biased Tax Policy Center.
"Politics today is a conspiracy of insinuations," Mr. Arias wrote in an op-ed column last month in response to the malfeasance charge.
Let me ask you this: Nixon has become the standard of presidential malfeasance, and so every scandal is graded on a Nixonian scale.
These techniques undermine democracy because they prevent the press from informing the public about government malfeasance and how state power is actually being used.
In response to the excesses of Enron, Congress passed the highly prescriptive Sarbanes Oxley Act to protect shareholders and the public from financial malfeasance.
Logically speaking, there's nothing wicked about being fat, but in Rogers's world fatness is equated with malfeasance and corruption, or at least with foolishness.
But they will marvel at how an exaggerated belief in her malfeasance almost created the conditions for Mr Trump to seize the White House.
Menaker: Look, I'm all in favor of any investigation into Trump and his criminal malfeasance, of which I'm sure there is ample opportunity for.
The move raised fears that Donald Trump — who likely benefited from the election malfeasance — was moving away from the United States' stance toward Russia.
He established the Office of Accountability and Whistle-blower Protection in 2017 as part of his effort to root out malfeasance at the department.
They were not stolen by a conscientious whistleblower who took great personal risk to expose obvious malfeasance, as Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden did.
The nerve-agent attack sparked intense scrutiny of Russian malfeasance, including oligarchs' use of Britain and its offshore satellites to wash their dirty money.
The party is already trying to build a case of administration-wide malfeasance and obstruction that could shape public perceptions about the Trump presidency.
It's worth doing, though, because it drives home how much malfeasance takes place in the open, without the need for diabolical conspiracy or coverups.
What is occurring is something that borders on a criminal act of malfeasance by those who are leading, or wish to lead, this nation.
Due to some Bernie Madoff-style financial malfeasance in a previous administration, Morris Brown lost a lot of money and then lost its accreditation.
Russian malfeasance is another topic garnering bipartisan consensus -- although not the President's handling of it, nor his handling of his relationship with President Putin.
There's Paul Pelletier, the Justice Department attorney who spent years chasing malfeasance at insurance giant AIG, only to have higher-ups squash the case.
Accusations of corruption and criminal malfeasance against Ms Fernández and her closest associates, several of whom could face lengthy jail sentences, continue to mount.
Federal Reserve leaders blame congressional malfeasance, claiming monetary policy must offset what Congress refuses to address to ensure the viability of the labor market.
At that point he would never have imagined that he would become a driving force in a grassroots movement to expose Wall Street malfeasance.
But taken together, the accusations formed the West's latest public shaming of the Kremlin, over malfeasance that President Trump has shown reluctance to condemn.
But we're now living in a political world where an opponent's misstep or malfeasance is seen as justifying all manner of revenge and retaliation.
To cover up the financial malfeasance, Mr. Najib and his political machine resorted to censorship, cash handouts and even physical violence, his critics say.
Intrepid local journalists have exposed all manner of malfeasance over the past two years, but there have been virtually no prosecutions of top officials.
The system also provides an outlet for any investigator who suspects malfeasance on the part of the agency's leadership to make those concerns known.
I was insistent that if they showed the malfeasance that I and other reporters were already finding in droves, that Kalanick had to go.
Conspiracy theorists have accused the participating geneticists of malfeasance, claiming that they pursued a secret agenda to withhold genetic enhancements from the lower classes.
That was also 2006, when Democrats rode a wave of opposition to George W. Bush and Republican malfeasance back to power on Capitol Hill.
Carlos Ghosn, former CEO and chairman of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, was arrested in Japan in late 143 on allegations of financial malfeasance.
Conservatives in the House have suggested the appointment of a second special counsel who could investigate allegations of FBI and Department of Justice malfeasance.
Discussed are issues of sexual abuse and financial malfeasance, and nothing less than the future of the Roman Catholic Church appears to at stake.
Trump had resisted calls to punish Russia for its malfeasance, despite U.S. intelligence agencies' claims that Kremlin-backed operatives did interfere in the campaign.
I've even used the experience to counsel other people on how to sort of protect themselves from malfeasance in my work as a deaconess.
Through the first two years of Trump's administration, Democrats were immensely frustrated that Republican congressional majorities wouldn't investigate a great deal of seeming malfeasance.
But winning this case would have given Republicans, President Donald Trump, and Scott more fuel for their repeated claims there's malfeasance in the counting process.
But while the hacking excuses tend to be just that — excuses — this strategy of arguing that active, politically motivated malfeasance occurred is a disturbing trend.
They accuse honest judges of malfeasance and replace them with stooges, or unleash tax inspectors on independent television stations and force their owners to sell.
But even so, Pelosi and Democratic leaders remain committed to staying the course and "educating the public" on Trump's alleged malfeasance before launching impeachment proceedings.
Trump bizarrely devotes the FIRST paragraph of his shameful statement on Saudi atrocities to accuse IRAN of every sort of malfeasance he can think of.
As part of his corporate remake, Cohen had also turned over nearly the entire senior management staff with an eye toward rooting out future malfeasance.
But none of those concerns allows the Justice Department to avoid complying with oversight requests by an insistent congressional committee investigating possible corruption and malfeasance.
Adam McKay is signed on to write and direct, and he certainly has some experience in turning stories of financial malfeasance into Oscar-bait drama.
Thousands of people trusted Blind, an app-based "anonymous social network," as a safe way to reveal malfeasance, wrongdoing and improper conduct at their companies.
He took out the provision that CFPB's director could be removed for "inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office," allowing for at-will dismissal.
Where I think there has been real additional damage done, damage that wouldn't have happened but for Cameron's policy malfeasance, is within the UK itself.
The memo is believed to make allegations of malfeasance against the Department of Justice and the FBI in the investigation of a Trump campaign official.
The remark was especially significant since, despite repeated accusations of malfeasance against the Russian leader, Trump has often refrained from directly and publicly criticizing Putin.
The state should swiftly review the record of this case, and the governor should begin removal proceedings if Mr. Abelove is proved guilty of malfeasance.
This situation would change with a new authority that publishes all its sanction decisions and imposes sufficiently large fines to discourage malfeasance, the report concluded.
Well, he is fooling (almost) no one, and we assess that statements ignoring Russian malfeasance may lead him to think he can just keep going.
Whether criminal prosecutions flow from that malfeasance is a question that likely will be answered by a grand jury working with special prosecutor John Durham.
Ghosn was ousted as chairman of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance last year amid allegations of financial malfeasance; he continues to await trial in Japan.
Despite the financial debacles that resulted in the largest economic crisis of our lifetime, few on Wall Street were held accountable for their egregious malfeasance.
Congressional noninterference, often expressed as outright political cowardice in confronting home-state malfeasance, remained the norm when Republicans took over the state in the 1990s.
Trump thought there was other malfeasance Comey should investigate, like the nonexistent wiretapping or the amount of leaks out of the administration to the press.
College basketball has a long, baroque history of malfeasance involving under-the-table deals, but rarely, if ever, have federal investigators exposed such widespread corruption.
So all of this incompetence or malfeasance, regardless of where or why it occurs, undermines trust in the entire process, and that's a serious problem.
" He criticized cities like Chicago for "the gall to feign outrage when their police departments lose federal funds as a direct result of their malfeasance.
The Democrats said they would first need to prove Trump was guilty of obstruction of justice or criminal malfeasance in colluding with a foreign government.
Former Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Chairman Carlos Ghosn has fled Japan, where he had been awaiting trial after a 2018 arrest on allegations of financial malfeasance.
Fiat Chrysler said in a statement the automaker and the United Auto Workers union were the victims of malfeasance by certain of their respective employees.
Once again, House Republicans have offered what they consider explosive evidence of malfeasance by top government officials — this time, at the Justice Department and FBI.
Bin Salman, in public comments the day after Khashoggi disappeared, professed to know nothing about any malfeasance, insisting Khashoggi had left the Istanbul consulate alive.
Its analysts instead captured an "image" of the hard drives and memories of affected machines, exact replicas that it could examine for signs of malfeasance.
In the final act of his political career he has also shown himself to be a coward, utterly unwilling to stand up to Trump's malfeasance.
The indictment also charges Mr. Abelove with lying to a separate grand jury investigating his handling of the case to cover up his earlier malfeasance.
In the video, drag queen Lady Bunny delivers a cogent monologue on how mass apathy and corporate malfeasance frustrate progress in the US and beyond.
Later Thursday, the U.S. and more than a dozen allies are expected to condemn China for its alleged economic and technological malfeasance, The Washington Post reported.
The documents detail potential malfeasance in democracies, autocracies and dictatorships alike, and powerful people around the world are no doubt breaking out in a cold sweat.
The risky and ungentlemanly gambit—stonewalling Merrick Garland, a moderate, highly respected appeals-court judge nominated by Mr Obama on March 16th—bordered on constitutional malfeasance.
They didn't find a whiff [of malfeasance] but rather former employees who'd left because they weren't a fit, because of an ethics issue, or for cause.
Kavanaugh's emerging malfeasance is showing the asses of all kinds of people: The President, Republican leadership in the Senate, the entirety of the conservative media infrastructure.
And then, on the last day of his season, it comes crashing down, all those years of malfeasance and disappointment bottled up into one clutch play.
I watched as the only sports team I really care about got absolutely crushed, for no particular reason aside from the malfeasance of the front office.
For the rest of us, at least those who aren't eager to seize any filament of possible malfeasance on the President's part, Comey's plight doesn't impress.
Federal involvement should only take place in the most obvious instances of malfeasance or police misconduct that city and state officials turn a blind eye to.
It opened the door to all stripe of cyber malfeasance, the database being a literal El Dorado for criminals who use personal information to commit crimes.
Even in the event that meaningful malfeasance is brought to light, I am not entirely certain under what circumstances the party would condemn him for it.
Even American legal practitioners were pessimistic about the headway law enforcement has made in fighting economic malfeasance despite the more aggressive tradition in prosecuting financial crimes.
Four other officers, who were not even present, later recorded statements backing up the fabricated charges, human rights groups said, showing that police malfeasance runs deep.
The former chairman and architect of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance has been in a Japanese jail awaiting trial on financial malfeasance charges since last year.
"The reported installation of this equipment is unprecedented and may represent yet another example of bureaucratic malfeasance by the Trump administration," Pallone wrote, along with Reps.
Finally, bystanders need to be empowered to act when they observe malfeasance, given their fears and natural tendency to turn a blind eye to toxic behavior.
All within the not-so-distant past, their malfeasance has crashed the economy, hobbled governmental institutions, mired the country in endless war, and frayed societal bonds.
Whistleblowers have demonstrated government malfeasance through the decades with the release of documents like the Pentagon Papers, the Panama Papers, and the NSA global surveillance disclosures.
As an act of protest against moderator censorship, Redditors have flooded the /r/videos subreddit with posts purporting to show United Airlines malfeasance through the years.
The charity's chief financial officer, Melody Chung, left last month after a New York Times article outlined allegations of mismanagement and possible malfeasance at the charity.
And the collapse of a common truth in the late 20th century was as much a function of modernity and post-modernity as of political malfeasance.
A combination of stupidity, negligence and malfeasance led a bunch of Wall Street firms to make excessively risky bets that the bubble would go on forever.
The Department of Investigation, which has a special unit for investigating malfeasance at Rikers, has the power to make arrests and refer city employees for prosecution.
Some Framers argued that a president should be subject to removal by the legislature if he engaged in malfeasance of office or other comparable noncriminal misconduct.
So stepping in to play Bilott, a man who has dedicated decades to get justice for the many affected by DuPont's gross malfeasance, seemed only natural.
The only person sitting at home that was enjoying that was Donald Trump seeing we are distracting from his malfeasance and selling out of his office.
The agency also banned forced arbitration clauses that deny consumers their right to sue banks for malfeasance, though Congress reversed this popular and common-sense rule.
Corruption, malfeasance and poor maintenance had left the territory with a power system that was unreliable, subject to constant interruption and weak at its strongest point.
Which means that unless the trade war ends soon — an unlikely prospect — the world economy will be held hostage by China's malfeasance and Trump's misguided views.
Goon-like leaders spout non-sequiturs and when we ask, like Joseph K. in The Trial, what these words mean, their minions explain away the malfeasance.
That system, not Trump's individual malfeasance, is what Democrats should focus on as they work to retake Congress this year and the White House in 13.
As proof of Mondelez's alleged malfeasance, Hydrox posted pictures showing their cookies obscured behind other products, moved onto shelves outside customers' direct line of sight, and more.
Redacted: Pompliano's original complaint is heavily redacted, including any evidence of the alleged user metric malfeasance, although an unredacted version was filed with the court under seal.
Simons also said the study could ultimately "result in unwinding" any number of acquisitions the companies have made over the past 85033 years if they identify malfeasance.
I created the image above using the word "malfeasance" and a picture of Keanu Reeves (because looking at his face is undoubtedly preferable to looking at mine).
And, while this aggression has largely taken the form of economic malfeasance, corrupt political engineering, and a willingness to extort, it may soon take a kinetic form.
When Suniye falsely accuses Tony of malfeasance (a switchblade is involved), she sics a disheveled tenant lawyer (Debargo Sanyal, a gifted practitioner of the pratfall) on him.
"Of course if there is no widespread fraud and irregularities and evidence of malfeasance, you can count on him for a peaceful transfer of power," Conway affirmed.
O'Keefe, who positions himself as a renegade battling against a "broken, rotten media machine," hypes the Bonifield video as proof of journalistic malfeasance, and promises future installments.
When that's the case, they are themselves less likely to object, making it all the easier for elites to continue to turn a blind eye to malfeasance.
Democrats, meanwhile, regard him as a completely illegitimate president — a racist and a liar who won thanks to malfeasance by the FBI director and the Russian government.
Pundits who preach transparency and allege malfeasance are almost always invited back to appear on talk shows because they ratchet up the conflict that draws ratings; 5.
If only the authorities showed similar zeal when it comes to investigating real malfeasance: no one has yet been charged in relation to allegations of state capture.
This is the first time that senior ZIMRA officials have been publicly accused of malfeasance in a country where arrests and prosecution of public officials is rare.
The bank has already clawed back some bonuses and Mr Winters said that it would do so again for "clear-cut cases of malfeasance" or "gross negligence".
Dratel says that if he can prove the government deleted evidence it will further undermine a case that has already been rife with corruption and government malfeasance.
Postseason bans: Most postseason bans come well after the offending players are out of school, meaning athletes who had nothing to do with the malfeasance are punished.
The Slack conversations are filled with technical debates about how to analyze precinct and voting data to identify an anomaly that could be explained only by malfeasance.
There's a toxicity to a two-tiered justice system that goes well beyond the particular crimes being excused, whether they pertain to financial malfeasance or sexual harassment.
The urge to utter a hash-taggable phrase generally trumps efforts to build a coherent narrative in service of an objective, like uncovering government malfeasance or incompetence.
The revelations have caused an uproar in Pakistan, an impoverished country with a history of corruption and malfeasance, and opposition politicians have pressed Mr. Sharif to resign.
An even bigger question is whether the elected board will have the nerve to close failing schools and resist the city's tradition of crony politics and malfeasance.
"The move follows many instances of suspected malfeasance ... and the lack of leadership that has crushed morale throughout the agency," the announcement from the deputies association says.
What's remarkable now is how, after months of withering scrutiny — including accusations of graft, malfeasance and racism — he remains apparently immune to the effects of negative news.
The people most likely to blow the whistle on malfeasance are employees of an administration who have insider knowledge about how city government is supposed to work.
The controversy over the lane closings is the biggest political corruption case in New Jersey in years, riveting a state with a long history of official malfeasance.
But voters in Arizona who lined up for the state's presidential primaries last month learned just how difficult and unfair voting can be even without criminal malfeasance.
In particular, the memo seems to directly contradict claims made by the Sacklers that they had no role in or knowledge of any malfeasance by the company.
They argue that there's not enough evidence of malfeasance in the current system to be worth the possible harms to doctors and drugmakers — and theoretically to patients.
The bottom line is this: fraud and malfeasance come in many different flavors, and food-stamp tomfoolery is a tempting variation for those looking to do wrong.
"They are really going after you," Mr. Trump said of efforts in the Democrat-led House to investigate his finances and allegations of malfeasance in his administration.
Maybe Kyrie returning will throw your team into a state of perpetual malfeasance (Terry Rozier is already doomed to Death By Kyrie, and he didn't even finish).
Pilots and former safety regulators said that Lion Air flight and maintenance crews regularly filled out two log books, one real and one fake, to hide malfeasance.
The president still has the power to remove someone if they are involved in "malfeasance" or wrongdoing, neglect their duties, or are inefficient in carrying them out.
" The CFPB director, for example, holds a five-year term and cannot be removed by the President except for "inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.
The contest, which was scarred by accusations of fraud and malfeasance, boiled down to a fight between two main political forces and the distinct futures they promised.
But this defense requires believing that a kind of "the worse, the better" response to elite malfeasance will somehow bring us back to a less corrupt equilibrium.
South Africa has a large, advanced economy, an aggressively free press and a wealth of independent organizations and scholars who keep a close watch on government malfeasance.
He's also claimed to be part of an ongoing, Trump-led operation to expose government malfeasance at all levels, although he was indicted long before Trump's election.
And I think the moment that we start to think that we should back away from exposing this kind of malfeasance and corruption is a dangerous point.
Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman, faces more than 300 years in prison due to a series of charges of financial malfeasance Mueller has brought against him.
The Institutional Revolutionary Party leadership has denied charges of malfeasance and said all the visits were legal and part of the government's efforts to provide public services.
The Tennessee Republican has said he'd rather wait until the Senate Intelligence Committee finishes its investigation into the alleged Russian malfeasance before going after Moscow using sanctions.
"The only person sitting at home enjoying that was Donald Trump seeing that we're distracted from his malfeasance and then selling out of his office," Booker said.
And the only person sitting at home that was enjoying that was Donald Trump seeing that we're distracting from his malfeasance and selling out of his office.
The sharp reduction in the size of Canada's press corps also has some questioning the media's ability to investigate and report on corporate malfeasance and political chicanery.
She said that the only malfeasance occurred when someone leaked the details of the meeting to the press after Trump Jr. volunteered the information to congressional investigators.
Most of these companies have used third-party investigators to compile reports on the extent and causes of the malfeasance, as well as measures to improve governance.
Washington (CNN)It was meant to be the moment when Democrats started to knit a narrative of presidential malfeasance that many of them hope will trigger impeachment.
Why not go after potential corrupt Trump business practices, allegations of sexual assault, government malfeasance like the family separation policy, or a whole host of other topics?
Still, what I don't see is the Panthers falling apart, the acts of failed policy, the intimidation and misogyny and malfeasance that occurred despite their revolutionary intentions.
The basic pattern of errant judgment — not, I think, because of malfeasance but simply because predicting the future is hard — came from last year's House special elections.
His departure follows a boardroom shakeout at wealth manager AMP Ltd, also after revelations of corporate malfeasance, as Australia's banks face immense pressure to repair their tarnished image.
With Jack around, Kim Kardashian could have a buddy to help her study affirmative duties and malfeasance, which is what she was reading up on during her profile.
The 2011 game comes to Nintendo Switch on May 10, and it's the same ridiculously over-the-top story of superstardom, gang warfare, and government malfeasance you remember.
These days, a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau headed by a Republican appointee is likely to ignore corporate malfeasance and act to undo any strong rules put into place.
But former House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes has been insistent that these events constituted malfeasance, and Papadopoulos linked them up with his larger Mifsud/Downer conspiracy theory.
" Faraday Future also released a public statement that day which claimed the company was "taking legal actions as a result of Stefan Krause's malfeasance and dereliction of duty.
If Trump's bigotry were not enough to bring his morals into question, the malfeasance at his foundation should undermine his image as a scourge of corruption in America.
Currently the head of the CFPB can only be removed in cases of "inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office," as stated in the Dodd-Frank Act.
By the time Nixon rose to power and began a tradition of openly insulting the press, the media was already on high alert for deep-seated government malfeasance.
If Democrats take over Congress, there will be no way without that appointment to continue investigations that have turned up real malfeasance of the sort by these officials.
Xu proved an irresistible target not because of his own malfeasance, but because he offered a path to an even larger target — perhaps the clique of Shanghai princelings.
An investigation will determine whether Joel Abelove, the D.A. in upstate Rensselaer County, also committed acts of malfeasance that would obligate Mr. Cuomo to remove him from office.
Obviously, all this can change if Mueller ultimately determines that there is sufficient evidence pointing to obstruction of justice by Trump, or some other flavor of impeachable malfeasance.
One June 28503, NPR ran a story about VA employees in Alabama who have faced retaliation and intimidation from management for attempting to blow the whistle on malfeasance.
Railroads in Pakistan, which are owned by the government, have long suffered from malfeasance and neglect, and the country is struggling to turn them into a profitable enterprise.
This piece, by two Iranian doctors now living in the US, documents how government cover-ups and malfeasance left the country woefully unprepared for what was to come.
The book, which won a Pulitzer Prize this year, captures the layers of government malfeasance and neglect that allowed a corporation's interests to win out in the region.
"There is a real difference between trying to prove prosecutorial misconduct or malfeasance by detectives and being acquitted, versus convincing the world you're a good person," he said.
Democrats, paging through the catalog of legal malfeasance connected to the president, worry that investigating too many of them will make the party vulnerable to claims of overreach.
In postwar Argentina, when President Juan Perón encountered Supreme Court opposition, his congressional allies impeached three of five justices on grounds of "malfeasance" and replaced them with loyalists.
His administration, The Times reported, "has presided over a sharp decline in financial penalties against banks and big companies accused of malfeasance," sparing corporate wrongdoers billions in fines.
Those raids — and Mr. Cohen's own malfeasance — opened the door for Robert Mueller, on Thursday, to convict President Trump's longtime loyalist and personal lawyer of lying to Congress.
And even as they ready an onslaught of investigations into alleged malfeasance by the president and his administration, they said common ground could be found with Mr. Trump.
An ad could falsely accuse a candidate of the worst malfeasance a day before Election Day, and the victim would have no way of even knowing it happened.
He told us to recruit consumer protection experts, experienced lawyers and investigators to set up a new enforcement office dedicated to combating consumer malfeasance in the education sector.
The local police — an honorary, if usually uninvited, participant in every chat group in China — detected malfeasance and pounced, briefly detaining the doctors on grounds of rumor-mongering.
Carlos Ghosn, the French-Lebanese-Brazilian former C.E.O. of the Nissan and Renault motor companies, spent millions of dollars to avoid being tried in Japan for financial malfeasance.
I believed then and I believe now that the most appropriate place to litigate the malfeasance and incompetence of this administration is at the ballot box in 2020.
If this was allowed to stand, Schiff argued, there was no limit to the presidential malfeasance Americans would be told to just "get over it" in the future.
Twelve months after the DNI shared its assessment that it was highly confident of Russian malfeasance, US national security is worse off than it was a year ago.
Outside the courthouse, lawyers for Mr. Greitens reiterated claims of malfeasance by Ms. Gardner's office and called for the other felony case against the governor to be dropped.
On top of disinformation, the beat includes hacking and election security and political digital malfeasance in general — yes, campaigns know a lot more about you than you think.
Even before Mr. Bentley's resignation, there was a budding movement among religious conservatives here to combat malfeasance in state government that has extended well beyond the governor's office.
That plea agreement has since fallen apart, with Flynn last year hiring a more combative legal team that's accused prosecutors of malfeasance and coercing him into pleading guilty.
As an independent agency headed by a single director who could only be dismissed for negligence or malfeasance, the bureau enjoyed an autonomy unprecedented in U.S. regulatory history.
Cruz conservatives and Trump populists agree that McConnell and his team are problems even as they disagree strenuously over what their alleged malfeasance is keeping them from doing.
The usual explanation you hear for G.O.P. acquiescence in Trumpian malfeasance is that elected Republicans fear being defeated in a primary if they show any hint of wavering.
The 65-year-old is assumed to be in Beirut, where he holds citizenship and can avoid extradition to Japan, where he faces multiple charges of financial malfeasance.
"I suspect that one consequence will be an ever-greater tolerance for executive malfeasance, on the logic that Congressional representatives and state governments lack democratic legitimacy," Pepinsky writes.
But this anecdote also makes clear that all Cruz's posturing against the GOP's alleged malfeasance is part of a quite deliberate political strategy aimed at advancing his own career.
Harvey Weinstein In an expansive story in The New Yorker, Ronan Farrow has further chronicled allegations of sexual malfeasance on the part of the former movie executive Harvey Weinstein.
The Outer Worlds portrays corporate malfeasance and exploitation of workers, but its setting is so heightened that you can as easily reject it as an allegory for late capitalism.
In nontheme news, I liked GO TO RUIN, THE MIKADO, HOLODECK, PETARD (because who doesn't love that word?), BANH MI (because yum), POLAR BEAR, ETYMOLOGY, NEON DEION and MALFEASANCE.
"If the mainstream media is focused on, as they usually are, one thing Donald Trump said, or one thing he tweeted, or one thing — it's really malfeasance," she said.
And the whiff of malfeasance is all the justification that sites like 8chan and neo-Nazi outfit The Daily Stormer needed to start collecting personal information on CNN employees.
It was a three-ring circus of sexual malfeasance: When two exposed adulterers were forced to step down as House speaker, a serial child molester was installed (Dennis Hastert).
Now, the Wall Street Journal reports that the US government is trying to hold the German bank accountable, demanding it pay $14 billion in settlements for its alleged malfeasance.
In the early going, Foster's film has a similarly jazzy, playful directorial vibe, and a similarly exasperated attitude toward financial malfeasance and lack of Wall Street oversight or regulation.
Manning will be freed from prison in May after serving seven years in a military prison for revealing a huge amount of malfeasance by the American military and government.
The Washington Post reports Michael Murphy, the school's student president, was served with a formal impeachment resolution from the student government and accused of malfeasance and abuse of power.
"In short, the Constitution establishes a clear mechanism to deter executive malfeasance; we should not burden a sitting President with civil suits, criminal investigations, or criminal prosecutions," Kavanaugh wrote.
Managers in all sorts of companies—Chinese, foreign, state-owned and private—complain that the law makes it difficult to fire office staff, even in cases of egregious malfeasance.
Several key city officials have resigned while being investigated for malfeasance, and this summer, garbage piled up in the streets because the city's sanitation agency is heavily in debt.
The health of our nation's political life depends on the Congress—the people's branch—holding the executive branch to account and exposing malfeasance in the public and private sectors.
It was one of the fastest civil settlements in the history of corporate malfeasance, coming together in six months instead of the years usually required for such complex negotiations.
What Ricciardi and Demos wanted to probe and indict was corruption and systemic malfeasance, and so they chiseled away some of the facts that did not support their case.
As far back as the 18th century, courts and legislatures used "neglect" and "malfeasance" to define what it meant for sheriffs and other officials to violate their statutory duties.
And through the first two years of Trump's administration, Democrats have been immensely frustrated that Republican majorities have been distinctly uninterested in investigating a great deal of seeming malfeasance.
State and federal officials have cracked down on suspected malfeasance at shelters in the past year, closing multiple facilities, including two run by Southwest Key, and moving children elsewhere.
For pictures of kittens or your friends' children, such provenance is probably not necessary, but if you seek to document a public figure's malfeasance, the evidentiary threshold is higher.
Puerto Rico was in financial distress and had crumbling infrastructure before Hurricane Maria, and many residents complain of government malfeasance that exacerbated the storm's impact, echoing criticism from Washington.
Attorneys general across the United States are taking a newly aggressive stance in investigating sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy, opening investigations into malfeasance and issuing subpoenas for documents.
For the real hazard of today's conspiracy theory boom is that it had smoothed the way for actual malfeasance, which these days you can disclose publicly with minimal consequence.
The cavalcade of lies uttered by the President has blown to smithereens the traditional metrics of assessing a candidate's fealty to the truth and the consequences of such malfeasance.
Haley's tough talk about human rights, Russian malfeasance and the need to oust Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is more in line with the hawkish takes of Republicans like Sens.
That malfeasance includes decisions made during the first half of 85033 to unlawfully divert $3.5 billion to $4.5 billion from the Treasury to insurance companies through the "reinsurance" program.
The highly anticipated 355-page report fell short of providing clear evidence of malfeasance by Mr. Zuma, whose seven-year presidency has been marred by a series of scandals.
And more policy experts started touting the "name and shame" theory — the idea that shedding light on other governments' digital malfeasance could encourage international condemnation and deter such behavior.
The settlement represents the latest government penalties for Wells Fargo and its former management for malfeasance in which millions of fake accounts were set up to meet sales quotas.
In some cases, I believe, state governments can insulate their citizens from malfeasance at H.H.S. But the most important thing, surely, is to place the blame where it belongs.
It&aposs malfeasance from a firm overseen by a 26-year-old who has been handed $3.2 billion, a mediocre idea, and tremendous pressure to be the next Airbnb.
"This is just another press release by fossil fuel industry allies hoping to distract, deflect, and delay a serious fraud investigation into potential corporate fraud and malfeasance," he said.
But the announcement on Monday suggested that the authorities might identify only low-level officials as those ultimately responsible, a common practice in China when obvious cases of malfeasance occur.
The Virginia state constitution says elected officials who have acted "against the Commonwealth by malfeasance in office, corruption, neglect of duty, or other high crimes or misdemeanor" may be removed.
On Tuesday, Guccifer 2.0—the same hacker that previously broke into the Democratic National Committee's servers—posted data that purportedly show evidence of corruption and malfeasance at the Clinton Foundation.
By the time Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal reared its head six months later, however, nearly every effort to pass a comprehensive bill that might punish corporate data malfeasance had stalled.
Those on the right advocating for its release have touted the four-page document as an unprecedented example of government corruption and malfeasance exceeding that of even the Watergate revelations.
Buyers were given generous coupons of more than 4 percent, but could lose their investment if the bank is hit with charges from employee malfeasance, cyber attack or other issues.
It's the least the Trump regime can do as they engage in the most troubling acts of government malfeasance that the United States has seen in at least a generation.
" The Post also reported that HUD Secretary Ben Carson blamed Puerto Rick's "history of fiscal malfeasance," for the "additional financial controls ... to ensure this disaster recovery money is spent properly.
So, it just really just shows the hypocrisy and how disingenuous because when they have evidence of actual malfeasance and things going on, they don&apost do anything about it.
"As a result of [HHC's] misconduct and malfeasance, [Milano and Bugliari] have suffered financial and reputational devastation that will take years — and millions of dollars — to repair," the documents state.
An acting director could also dramatically scale back the consumer complaint database, a key tool the CFPB uses to resolve disputes for individuals and to identify corporate malfeasance, Truong said.
Ten years ago, it seemed remarkable that America had gotten so soft on corporate crime that nobody was prosecuted for the banking malfeasance that crashed the world economy in 2008.
To further efforts to pass comprehensive federal law shielding consumers from malfeasance from corporations like Facebook, hearings continue to be scheduled with experts over the need for government-imposed regulation.
The report by the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) showed inflated bills, fraud and non-compliance with rules among other malfeasance that caused losses for the U.N. refugee agency.
First came the act of vehicular malfeasance, now comes the public apology and the promises of redemption, good behavior, and rededication to the principles of hard work and clean living.
Mr. Gatling did, and his request began an inquiry that led investigators into a tale of legal malfeasance, one that is to culminate on Monday in Mr. Gatling's formal exoneration.
Using family documents and her mother's memories, Echols depicts a man whose financial malfeasance foreshadowed the savings-and-loan debacle of the eighties and the stock-market crash of 2008.
Anyone in possession of the keys or entrance codes to a polling booth could be considered a collaborator to crimes of disobedience, malfeasance and misappropriation of funds, the order said.
Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) argued that the two decrees that impose checks on the major music collectives must remain in place to ensure that collusion and malfeasance do not occur.
The richer citizens get, the less tolerant they may be of a political leader's malfeasance – even if said leader helped to bring about the positive change in the first place.
ZTE Chairman Yin Yiming, in a company-wide town hall, expressed his apologies for the events and pledged to make the appropriate changes to prevent such malfeasance in the future.
While we battle here in America over interference in our election, we cannot ignore that Putin and his ring of oligarchs' malfeasance has been growing and now requires urgent action.
It's a funny and weird story initially, but it reveals itself to be a much more complicated tale of tragic loss and industrial malfeasance as you learn more about it.
WASHINGTON — As President Trump's voter integrity commission looks under rocks for possible voter malfeasance, its members might want to examine a presidential nominee awaiting confirmation by the Senate Finance Committee.
To appreciate how misguided this reading of "inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office" would be, you have to understand the history of the words and the relevant statutes.
"Neglect of duty" was a willful or repeated failure to fulfill statutory responsibilities; "malfeasance in office" meant committing some unlawful act, such as extortion or bribery, under color of law.
Over the last two years, Mr. Arnold has fashioned himself an anti-Trump sleuth and crusader, working to dig up evidence of past malfeasance on television and in social media.
The image is one of desperation, as befits Mr. Malkovich's character, a film mogul by the name of Barney Fein who has been laid low by his own sexual malfeasance.
But Mr. Agrizzi's testimony indicated that malfeasance has long been — and still is — an integral part of the A.N.C., which has held power since the end of apartheid in 1994.
A recent Pew study found that 76 percent of Democrats believe journalists act in the public interest; many support what they see as the ferreting out of executive office malfeasance.
But the shifts back and forth between the abuse story, a well-documented tale of institutional malfeasance, and the murder story — full of circumstantial and conflicting theories — can be jarring.
Back home, his aides and generals were accused of profiting from diamond fields in the east, and outsiders feared that the proceeds would be used to finance more political malfeasance.
" Impeachment, he reminds his readers, is a political issue, not a legal one, and it is the main lever in the Constitution's tool kit to respond to "egregious executive malfeasance.
For this reason, virtually no assets were ever returned to the U.S. It would have been malfeasance for corporate leadership to subject their shareholders to such a punitive tax rate.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia plans cutting recurrent funding to its corporate regulator in coming years, even as a wide-ranging inquiry into the financial sector exposes corporate malfeasance and regulatory shortcomings.
"The general absence of electoral malfeasance, including of vote-buying and pressure on voters, allowed for genuine competition," the statement, which also summarized the findings of other international observers, said.
And then there's the recent story of mismanagement and malfeasance at Away, which has caught the tech world's attention because it seems a shibboleth for all the industry's fault lines.
Mohamed Daoud Chehem, a leader of Djibouti's embattled opposition and a former presidential candidate, said the lack of information about the terms of China's loans raised questions about potential malfeasance.
And while, sure, we should take the security of our election systems seriously, finding proof of past malfeasance is not what the DEF CON Voting Machine Hacking Village was about.
" As the brand-naming agency founder Shore explains, "millennials and others, we've all lived through these incredible breaches of trust from these large institutions: security breaches, identity breaches, financial malfeasance.
The challenge today is the one faced by Anthony and Willard: how to bring the outrage over male malfeasance to bear on the more far-reaching campaign for women's equality.
They also appear perfectly comfortable turning the story of a Republican Supreme Court nominee allegedly sexually assaulting his high school acquaintance into a tale that is actually about Democratic malfeasance.
She is seeking to paint a picture of corruption, malfeasance and incompetence through House investigations that Democrats can place before voters to argue Trump is not fit for a second term.
For its part, Hippo's chief executive and co-founder had sued Blink for wrongful termination under whistleblower protection rules after he allegedly uncovered corporate malfeasance at the discount drug membership service.
Sure, everybody's worried about the potential for World War III and the likelihood that both China and the US will each destroy the world's economy with massive corporate and government malfeasance.
The revelation of the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws put the company at the epicenter of a vulnerability story, then a processor slowdown story, and even a CEO stock malfeasance story.
The CBOE S&P 500 Volatility Index (VIX) — which everyone keeps accusing of blithe negligence for staying near all-time lows — is not a gauge of political dissension or executive malfeasance.
After he investigated a case of alleged malfeasance involving the prime minister's brother, Mr Jankovic says, police files concerning the 1993 suicide of a friend were released to a government minister.
The massive, black-box anticorruption campaign — Beijing's effort to scare graft and malfeasance out of the system by the politics of fear — has created a degree of paralysis within the bureaucracy.
According to British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, May wants to set up a "rapid response unit to identify Russian malfeasance… whether it's cyber warfare, assassinations, calling it out and identifying it,"
" Riehl announced a five-hundred-dollar reward for anybody exposing "local media malfeasance," and he fashioned a hundred newspaper delivery boxes decorated with a "Ghostbusters"-style icon that read, " FAKE NEWS .
Tavares is a disciple of Carlos Ghosn, the disgraced former architect of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance (he's been awaiting trial in Japan since last year on allegations of financial malfeasance).
That's thanks in part to the sizable number of Democrats who have come to regard Bush-era malfeasance and scandal as petty or low-stakes when held up against Trump's behavior.
Authorities at the United States Department of Justice, who are conducting a criminal investigation of Volkswagen, have signaled they are fed up with company executives who get away with serious malfeasance.
But Mr. Pallone, a member of the Progressive Caucus, could certainly raise the profile of his party's solutions and could use the committee for hearings into malfeasance in the private sector.
Even though some critics of the president may wish to tie Mr. Manafort's baggage to President Trump, he writes, the federal prosecutors are mostly interested in financial malfeasance before the campaign.
Without that knowledge, it's easy to see a pattern of Iranian malfeasance and violation of the terms of the deal — which is exactly the story deal critics are trying to tell.
"We feel confident based on the evidence that a jury, when presented with all of the evidence, will see that Monsanto has committed 40 years of corporate malfeasance," Ms. Moore said.
An investigation conducted for the university by Patrick Fitzgerald, a former United States attorney, found no knowledge among university administrators of Dr. Nassar's malfeasance before a newspaper report in August 2016.
Social media around the world reflect that the Chinese people — who are among the primary victims of this crisis — are subjected to collective guilt because of the malfeasance of their rulers.
Lerner's "limited-hang-out"—and carefully calculated—admission was made shortly in advance of an explosive report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, blowing the whistle on IRS malfeasance.
Mr. Cho, South Korea's justice minister, and his family are being investigated over a number of allegations, ranging from financial malfeasance to pulling strings to get a daughter into medical school.
In the episode's closing minutes, Ken pulls an impressively sinister switcheroo, accusing his father of gross malfeasance during a televised news conference in which he was supposed to resign in disgrace.
Ms. Caruana Galizia, who wrote extensively about politics, fraud and government malfeasance, was killed by a car bomb near her home, drawing attention to corruption in the European Union's smallest country.
In an interview with Bret Baier on Fox News early Friday evening, Nunes suggested that alleged malfeasance on the part of the State Department would be the focus of further investigation.
The statement said anything short of a blanket ban of all Russian athletes would be an insufficient response to Russia's repeated violations of antidoping rules, and would only encourage further malfeasance.
The SALT deduction encourages big spenders at the state level to mask the severity of their fiscal malfeasance; on the other hand, lower marginal income taxes encourage investment and risk taking.
"While there was no malfeasance, there was clearly a major negligence in our studies reported in the Science paper," Ansari Aftab, senior author of the 2016 study, told Gizmodo via email.
And while Congress passed a law directing the administration to sanction Russia specifically for its election malfeasance, the White House has stopped short of actually using it, to lawmakers' great frustration.
The book seems to have been written in haste, a patchwork of bits and pieces from his Atlantic columns, additional examples of Trumpian malfeasance, and new ways of expressing old outrage.
He concludes the section: In short, the Constitution establishes a clear mechanism to deter executive malfeasance; we should not burden a sitting President with civil suits, criminal investigations, or criminal prosecutions.
With various acts of corruption and possible Russia-related malfeasance swirling around him, Trump requires the rock-solid support of the business community to maintain his rock-solid support in congress.
The ingredients here make a tasty brew, with elements of corporate malfeasance, Cold War conspiracy theory, the allure of ridiculous high-tech neuroscience, space travel, and a whiff of extraterrestrial exoticism.
It has many of the same primary actors and, now that transfer fees can be a nine-figure affair when all is said and done, there is plenty of margin for malfeasance.
Regulators in other markets including the United Kingdom and Hong Kong have introduced rules that would make senior bank managers more responsible for corporate malfeasance, in a bid to curtail risk-taking.
"Oklahoma's history of mistakes and malfeasance reveals a culture of carelessness around executions that should give everyone pause," Dale Baich, a federal defender representing some of the inmates, said in a statement.
"At what point does malfeasance become fraud?" asked Scott Galloway, a New York University Business School professor who dubbed the company WeWTF after reading through its financials in the company's IPO filing.
I asked a black office worker what made him so sure Mr. Simpson had been framed, and he recounted just that kind of malfeasance by Oakland cops when he was growing up.
The past year has revealed that key political actors, including members of Congress, will tolerate flagrant malfeasance by the president and members of his administration, both in politics and on personal matters.
Nevada, unlike many other states that allow for recalls, doesn't require that the petitioners demonstrate malfeasance on the part of the targeted lawmaker or state any reason for the campaign at all.
The Kobe Steel case, one of the country's biggest industrial scandals in recent memory, set off a rash of malfeasance revelations by other Japanese heavyweights, hitting the country's reputation for manufacturing excellence.
The case was one of the country's biggest industrial scandals in recent memory, which set off a rash of malfeasance revelations by other Japanese heavyweights, hitting the country's reputation for manufacturing excellence.
" He also writes, because I guess why not throw in a little personal shade while you're tossing around allegations of massive corporate malfeasance, "Mark Zuckerberg is by no objective measure a genius.
Republicans have given every indication over the course of the past several months that no malfeasance, no matter how naked and severe, will impel them to rein in Trump or impeach him.
Mr. Cuomo has ordered a state-led investigation of possible fraud, while noting that two of his former aides — Joseph Percoco and Todd R. Howe — are being looked at for possible malfeasance.
If the purpose of these accounts is to serve as a whistleblower to malfeasance and censorship within the agencies, to serve as a voice for the silenced, then they should verify themselves.
American Oversight will primarily use litigation and open records laws to "uncover and publicize information about malfeasance and corruption by administration officials," it said in a release announcing its creation on Monday.
And yet, years later, when she meets a Department of Defense investigator who is looking into malfeasance at Homecoming, she turns dogged, intent on uncovering her own role in a rotten system.
Kane and Fattah's political posturing under indictment for corruption are proof our fractured political system will always allow bad actors to make overt political pleas when faced with overwhelming evidence of malfeasance.
But we had much malfeasance, from Lance Armstrong and his United States Postal Service team to Carl Lewis, who dominated several Olympics and was the greatest American track athlete of his time.
It emphasized her role in pushing back against malfeasance on the part of financial institutions but also framed that as part of a bigger story, portraying her as a fighter for fairness.
Some modern advocates of organized labor, striving to link unionization with matters such as inequality and corporate malfeasance, have decided that Big Labor's choice to become a partner with employers was stupid.
Once Democrats retook control of the House of Representatives in last year's midterm elections, great expectations were placed on their new ability to hold public hearings to probe the Trump administration's malfeasance.
But they do think it's really dumb to do anything that might be misconstrued by congressional Republicans as malfeasance and spark an investigation, especially when that thing you're doing is completely unnecessary.
We will make sure that they pay a price and we will help those that have been a victim of these malfeasance in this country get them treatment and long-term care.
The case also casts new doubt on the department's Internal Affairs Bureau, which has in the past faced questions about its anticorruption programs and has a spotty record of uncovering major malfeasance.
Jia and Faraday Future maintained that Krause had been fired, alleging "malfeasance and dereliction of duty" as well as a "possible violation of law" in a polemic press release in November 2017.
One could even imagine a world where a president battling corruption felt legitimately compelled to dispatch his personal lawyer to run a secret inquisition into malfeasance that the existing bureaucracy wouldn't touch.
The plan, signed by Mr. Putin on Monday but published on Tuesday, described a threat to Russia of technological malfeasance similar to what the United States has accused the Russians of committing.
Moreover, there is no evidence that a series of "errors and omissions" that occurred during the bureau's Russia probe – some of them significant – were the result of political bias or intentional malfeasance.
He has his suspicions about the cause, but the deaths are an enigma that becomes a murder mystery that, in turn, opens into a legal inquiry into corporate malfeasance and government accountability.
Multiple Obama administration officials briefed on the allegations of Russian malfeasance were reportedly reluctant to act on the intelligence out of concern that doing so would create the appearance of political bias.
"If published, our legal team will review your article for any inaccuracies and will sue with the highest extent of the law for any malfeasance by you or TechCrunch," the spokesperson said.
The senator also promoted her "Ending Too Big to Jail Act," a proposal introduced last year that calls for making it easier to hold the executives at big banks accountable for malfeasance.
"Donald Trump has spent decades violating our nation's tax laws to shield his malfeasance," Pascrell said in a statement after the New York Times published its investigation into Trump's tax dealings. Rep.
Rather than focus on market excesses, financial malfeasance, or corporate greed, Sternberg believes the problem is that Republicans and Democrats have continually sought a "third way" between state intervention and market freedom.
But as we've already seen over the course of this week, the government often gets in the way of such moments of collective bliss—either through willful malfeasance or bureaucratic red tape.
Such a nomination could be a balm for liberals and young people if Mr. Sanders loses the nomination, given that he and Ms. Warren are strong critics of corporate malfeasance and public corruption.
It still shares DNA with The Good Wife (which often dealt with corporate malfeasance), but also opens up new territory to explore, something The Good Wife sorely lacked in its last two seasons.
These common law crimes—malfeasance (doing a wrongful act), misfeasance (doing a lawful act in a wrong manner) or nonfeasance (willful neglect of duty)—all can be prosecuted under the Michigan Penal Code.
While in May 2018, the FCC claimed to be investigating the matter, here we are, eight months later, with reporters continuing to unearth new and even more damning evidence of big telecom malfeasance.
There is, in the mind of the Portlander, no more ship-outtable player, no worse contract, no more vile sign of malfeasance on the part of the gray-coiffed General Manager Neil Olshey.
Distrust of human malfeasance could translate into an enormous advantage for online wealth managers like Betterment and Wealthfront, which use automated investing to tailor users' accounts to their risk tolerance and performance goals.
So many women have accused Weinstein of sexual malfeasance; the range falls from his own employees at one end of the power spectrum, to Oscar winners known throughout the world at the other.
The duo—made up of two of the friendliest, most Courtney Love-loving​ malcontents you ever did meet—have become frighteningly adept at invoking discomfort, and summoning a shivery, dread sense of malfeasance.
Although the arrest of Dasuki and others demonstrates Buhari's commitment to fighting alleged corruption, its systemic presence in Nigeria suggests that possible malfeasance within the defense sector is unlikely to be remedied overnight.
That hazy aura of malfeasance never had much concrete basis in the first place, and it's not going to dissipate just because a document no Benghazi-truther will read anyways confirms as much.
At the time, a lawyer involved in human rights cases was made to confess on state television about his involvement in the malfeasance and lawyers' use of Telegram to hide messages from surveillance.
Convicting someone on fiscal malfeasance is hard — or so the dearth of arrests after the 2008 market collapse would have us believe — but the money trail on police payoffs is easier to follow.
Driven by a kind of old-school journalistic purity that often works against her in a new media environment, she writes about rape, corporate malfeasance, young motherhood, and the BRCA breast cancer gene.
They planned to deliver it to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) office, the Communist Party of China's top organ for rooting out corruption and malfeasance, at 8 AM the next morning.
Democrats hope to bring back important witnesses -- for example the top US diplomat in Kiev, Bill Taylor, who they believe will help them build a devastating picture of presidential malfeasance and unconstitutional behavior.
Even without deliberate foreign malfeasance, if too many people got too amped and called in a panic about Venus, the government would have fewer available resources to sort the MiGs from the chaff.
The Justice Department proposes a more surgical remedy: striking the part of the law that limits the president to removing the bureau's director only for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.
The result of either kind of leak, shady-seeming normal activity or actual malfeasance, is embarrassing to the United States and weakens the next likely president (Hillary Clinton) even before she takes office.
" Given Russia's record of malfeasance — from its annexation of Crimea to its interference in the American election — Mr. McFaul said, "Trump should not praise Putin and signal a desire to just move on.
"I don't think there is a profile for somebody to become corrupt or to get involved in various forms of malfeasance or to become a traitor," said Mr. Smith, the former intelligence adviser.
The bottom line is, the US doesn't believe the UK or anyone else can insulate themselves from China's 5G malfeasance if they use Huawei gear, specifically from software updates that open back doors.
As a result, what the public will see of Mr. Bolton's account of malfeasance and corruption in the White House is, to a disturbing extent, up to the White House itself to decide.
Released in 2005, Mr. Huang reopened the site and won numerous human rights awards for his reporting of malfeasance, especially about the shoddy construction of schools that collapsed in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.
I also talk about Secretary of State Brian Kemp in Georgia, a Republican who engaged in this kind of incompetence, although in that case it was more a combination of incompetence and malfeasance.
Under the new regime, Abdellahi, the spy chief, was demoted, and given the task of investigating corruption and malfeasance within the security services; the standard path for accountability required Abdellahi to investigate himself.
All are the kinds of figures one might expect to be on a list of people targeted by the Obama administration in retaliation for Russia's malfeasance, including efforts to influence the 2016 election.
The exoneration of Hillary Clinton was an act of government malfeasance, a conscious choice favoring political expediency over the principle of "equal justice under law" in order to preserve a corrupt status quo.
We don't know the full extent of Donald Trump's malfeasance — we don't know, for example, how much his policies have been shaped by the money foreign governments have been lavishing on his businesses.
A few courts had even begun to invalidate them, ruling that they ran afoul of the constitutional right to free speech by gagging plaintiffs and their lawyers from disclosing evidence of alleged malfeasance.
Although the main points of his testimony were already known, Mr. Davis's roughly four hours on the stand amounted to an extraordinary admission of malfeasance by the former chairman of a public company.
The stock has fallen around 90% since October thanks to a combination of government scrutiny over its pricing practices and accusations of malfeasance from a short seller, who revealed the existence of Philidor.
As these new partnerships strengthen, the United States will have a harder time putting up a united front with our old friends to penalize rival powers like China and Russia for their global malfeasance.
Meanwhile on Saturday afternoon, the Broward County Canvassing Board continued to review votes to determine "voter intent" in a largely urban, Democratic county that's been beleaguered by past election anomalies and accusations of malfeasance.
But it is a shameful one for the Republican Party, whose members remain more dedicated to minimising Mr Trump's malfeasance than to the idea that nobody, not even the president, is above the law.
But it is a shameful one for the Republican Party, whose members remain more dedicated to minimising Mr Trump's malfeasance than to the ideal that nobody, not even the president, is above the law.
The Medical Board of California has called for a hearing to suspend or revoke the medical license of David Chao, the former San Diego Chargers team doctor with a long history of medical malfeasance.
"If consumers enjoyed the web experience and felt there were adequate controls for privacy and the ad industry was making a sincere effort to fight abuse and malfeasance, we wouldn't be having this conversation."
The notion of "educating the public" on Trump's alleged malfeasance has been core to the impeachment strategy of Democratic leaders, who have said they're waiting to get the public on board before moving forward.
While Modi had the political savvy to deny any alleged malfeasance in relation to the riots, many of his supporters already made peace with a world where he may have been guilty of murder.
Notably, Zuckerberg also refused to appear at the last joint-parliamentary hearing held by the United Kingdom and Canada, which likewise concerned Facebook's data-privacy malfeasance and the virality of disinformation across the platform.
It is unrealistic to expect even the most motivated, resource-flush regulators or concerned citizens to be able to spot all potential malfeasance when that system's developers may be unable to do so either.
If our primary concerns are user privacy, ad-targeting, and political malfeasance — as you would think, based on the questioning from politicians over the past two days — then the product itself is fundamentally broken.
Which brings us back to the WWE world title, and the strange truth that despite all the flaws, malfeasance, negligence, and weirdness of WWE, the promotion is so close to a third golden age.
Ford and VW's expanded collaboration comes as the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance is embattled, with its former chairman and architect of the partnership, Carlos Ghosn, awaiting trial in Japan on allegations of financial malfeasance.
Now Mueller has the capacity to look not only at the Russia case but also at other malfeasance he may find along the way, including possible financial crimes and, in particular, obstruction of justice.
But a troubling report from the state inspector general, Catherine Leahy Scott, shows that malfeasance and security lapses were the order of the day at the Clinton Correctional Facility when the two men escaped.
The occasion was the introduction of Nissan's Leaf EV, a car that's still on sale today, even though Ghosn's career is in ruins as he awaits trial in Japan on charges of financial malfeasance.
They're also increasingly aware that the privacy protections offered by tech companies aren't always proving reliable, even if others' malfeasance is technically the most direct target to blame, as in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
" The Supreme Court ruled in 1935 that the Senate-confirmed chiefs of certain independent agencies can only be fired "for cause," which the court defined as "inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.
And while you'd be forgiven for suspecting NSA-style malfeasance, Russian troll farms, or some hackers trying to trick you into sending them bitcoin, we now know what actually happened — and it's a doozy.
John Preston has resurrected the 1979 trial of Jeremy Thorpe, the charismatic (and secretly gay) leader of the Liberal Party, whose career was upended by Britain's stringent laws against homosexuality and his own malfeasance.
Even if the attackers' claim to have hacked into secure government servers was false, in this day and age of "fake news," the mere perception of cyber malfeasance can lend an adversary significant leverage.
But another position the court may consider is nearly as dangerous: that those eight magic words, "inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office," don't actually make independent agencies all that independent after all.
Invoking the Espionage Act in this case threatens to blur the distinction between a journalist exposing government malfeasance — something that news organizations do with regularity — and foreign spies seeking to undermine the nation's security.
By the time all of Senator Bond's claims had been investigated, it was clear that out of the 2.3 million Missouri voters, four people committed some type of malfeasance — hardly constituting "brazen" voter fraud.
But because they're willing to criticize the ruling party and report on official malfeasance, the government hasn't credentialed its reporters, so they can't attend its news conferences and question officials there, Mr. Lukacs said.
Frustrations about the administration's inaction and its soft-handed approach to Russia came to a head in mid-February, with a bipartisan group of senators introducing a massive bill aimed at countering Russian malfeasance.
On Wednesday, Reverend Slaughter sent a letter to William Fitzpatrick, the acting United States attorney for New Jersey, requesting that he open an investigation into "inappropriate political interference" and financial malfeasance at the college.
The office was set up by the Trump administration in 2017 to root out malfeasance and has become a target of accusations that it retaliated against the very people it was meant to protect.
Most of Trump's base is sticking with him, while the list of prominent Republican politicians willing to call out Trump's malfeasance in clear language consists so far of Mitt Romney and, well, Mitt Romney.
Its investigations arm, however, which is charged with rooting out corruption and malfeasance in the department's ranks, has far fewer than its allotted share: 210 are there currently, not the 101 in the budget.
And that's a story that reflects badly not just on Ryan himself, not just on his party, but also on self-proclaimed centrists and the news media, who boosted his career through their malfeasance.
It's as if he has worked out that as long as his incessant assault on the senses keeps gathering pace, no one will be able to keep up with the magnitude of his malfeasance.
Opposition leaders say PDVSA has been crippled by malfeasance under two decades of socialist rule, with sporadic arrests more the result of infighting among rival factions than a real effort to root out corruption.
The creation of the CFPB as a rogue agency with a dictatorial leader is one of the most significant acts of malfeasance perpetrated on the American constitutional system since the Sedition Acts of 1798.
These remain some of the most enduring questions for our own age, where perpetual war, police brutality, and political malfeasance at the highest levels of government have evolved from the spectacular to the mundane.
On Monday, former Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Chairman Carlos Ghosn escaped from Japan, where he had been in legal limbo, released from jail but awaiting trial on allegations of financial malfeasance and unable to travel.
Short-seller Muddy Waters Capital held a screening for what it called the first annual "Fidouchies" awards — a spoof award show that celebrated financial malfeasance and criticized some of the industry&aposs top players.
My guess is they've already factored in malfeasance from the President and his team and are willing to accept it as one factor, not the only factor in deciding whether he deserves another term.
The law allows for the president to terminate a director over inefficiency, malfeasance or neglect of duty, which leaves room for Trump to find cause regardless of what the appeals court decides, Calabria added.
Anyone imagining that the mountainous evidence of Trump's malfeasance will lead to a moral awakening, or that Republicans will return to democratic political norms once Trump is gone, is living in a fantasy world.
Either Reid is lying about something incredibly important — or, at very least, taking advantage of his position to hint at malfeasance where it doesn't exist — or Comey is abusing the powers of his office.
It is being discussed as Georgia elections officials appear to be on the cusp of certifying Republican Brian Kemp as the winner of a bitterly fought campaign that's been marred by charges of electoral malfeasance.
This week, we saw President Donald Trump accept the resignation of Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, whose extraordinary record of malfeasance in office finally appeared to do more harm than good for the president.
It wasn't a security analyst, like Ric Jacobs, a former Uber employee whose allegations of malfeasance within the company delayed the Uber-Waymo trial by two months as the judge reopened the document discovery process.
The country's sixth-largest bank by market value made the comments at the quasi-judicial Royal Commission which, under halfway into a year-long inquiry, has uncovered widespread malfeasance by Australia's biggest lenders including fraud.
"It's easy to point to deliberate malfeasance, but the unintentional distortion of results is always the most insidious," says Carson Benowitz-Fredericks, a public health expert and research manager of the industry watchdog Alcohol Justice.
The Federal Reserve Act is clear that Powell can only be removed from the Fed's board of governors "for cause," which is generally understood to mean malfeasance, rather than disagreements over interest rates, Binder said.
When Great Western went bankrupt a decade later amid charges of malfeasance, a company called Silver Saddle Ranch & Club picked up the reins, marketing Cal City as a recreation destination for off-roaders and golfers.
But since precisely one lowly person went to prison after our economy was nearly destroyed by systemic corporate malfeasance, everything Wall Street did in the lead up to 2008 must not count as shady activity.
In a political twist, Lulzim Basha, Albania's youthful opposition leader, has repeatedly questioned Rama's leadership and accused him of widespread and extensive financial malfeasance to benefit himself and his cronies, reportedly including many underworld figures.
Many people believe that Trump is so demented and dangerous that any criticism of Hillary should be tabled or suppressed, that her malfeasance is so small compared to his that it is not worth mentioning.
And she's not the only one—as David Dayen wrote for the New Republic, virtually the entire Democratic Party has been criminally negligent when it comes to taking on corporate malfeasance during the housing crisis.
Although he was the lead author on many of the other papers that Harvard said must be retracted, the university said the evidence did not support his being responsible for the malfeasance in those cases.
Some Republican politicians have openly admitted that this makes the party's congressional wing unwilling to hold Trump accountable for even the most spectacular malfeasance, up to and including possible collusion with a hostile foreign power.
In Cordray's five years at the helm, the bureau levied billions of dollars in fines for bank malfeasance and authored dozens of consumer-friendly rules and regulations on everything from student loans to credit cards.
Sure, it's prudent for auction houses to implement any new technology that may possibly stymie illicit activities such as fraud, but there is no guarantee that blockchain will serve as a stopgap to financial malfeasance.
Evidence of financial malfeasance by Mr. Najib and his cronies helped Mr. Mahathir's opposition alliance win national elections on May 295, unseating a political force that had governed Malaysia since it gained independence in 21998.
The director can only be fired for "inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance," meaning that unlike officials at most executive branch agencies, the CFPB's leader cannot be removed just because there's a change in administration.
The menu of possibilities from the first two years of the Trump administration is dizzying: from possible malfeasance with the inauguration fund to the possible illegal use of the military to repel Central American immigrants.
The Salt Lake County mayor Ben McAdams, a Democrat, was leading the incumbent, Mia Love, the only black Republican woman in the House, who spent much of the campaign battling accusations of campaign finance malfeasance.
The regulation, created after fraud and malfeasance by those businesses financially ruined thousands of Americans and almost wrecked the world economy, joins a series of Obama-era rules that Congress and Mr. Trump have shredded.
They pointed out that under the statute creating the agency, the president can remove the bureau's director only for "inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance," and advised that he wait to make a recess appointment.
My July 8 testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations showed how the government's unlawful spending on the CSR program fits into a broader pattern of malfeasance in ObamaCare implementation.
Some of the investigators have vast experience prosecuting financial malfeasance, and the prospect that Mr. Mueller's inquiry could evolve into an expansive examination of Mr. Trump's financial history has stoked fears among the president's aides.
When the news came out, I — probably like most observers — expected it to be another fizzle, yet another clear example of Trump malfeasance that would just fail to catch fire with Congress or the public.
The company's Port Arthur refinery, they allege, had committed more than 600 Clean Air Act violations over the last five years that emitted 1.8 million pounds of chemical pollutants, a startling catalogue of corporate malfeasance.
Time and again, they floated the possibility of some far-fetched malfeasance by Trump, declared the dire need to investigate it, and then suddenly dropped the issue and moved on to their next asinine theory.
The government has unveiled plans to significantly increase penalties for corporate malfeasance and is now considering whether to extend the commission's one-year mandate for another year, which could take it into the 2019 election.
"Forcing businessmen and businesswomen who are operating legally under Oregon state law to shuttle around gym bags full of cash is an invitation to crime and malfeasance," said Senator Jeff Merkley, a Democrat from Oregon.
"It is more than the (annual) budget of five Central American countries," said Freddy Guevara, comptroller commission president and a member of one of Venezuela's hardline opposition parties, alleging widespread malfeasance at the state oil producer.
No one has been fired by a president since the Supreme Court in 1935 set those standards of inefficiency, negligence or malfeasance for removal, according to an analysis by the left-leaning Americans for Financial Reform.
A recent symposium convened by Case Western Reserve University and the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) gathered art market experts with lawyers and money laundering specialists to discuss how prevalent financial malfeasance is in the industry.
Years of corruption scandals implicating senior party officials and government ministers have sullied the ANC's reputation and could prove costly on May 13 as opposition parties target malfeasance as a key pillar of their election campaigns.
"To continue pouring money into building planes that have ejector seat issues, cyber vulnerabilities, flawed aerodynamics, maintenance problems, an inability to fly at full speed while using weapons, and overheating issues is borderline malfeasance," she said.
The perils surrounding political commentary has prompted journalists to flee Mexico or eschew grappling with investigations that could endanger their lives, which has compelled brave citizens to megaphone malfeasance via social media at their own risk.
We'll never know what the standings would look like if that Red Sox trainer had never bought an Apple Watch, but it's far from clear that malfeasance accounts for much of Boston's lead in the standings.
Catching athletes in the act can be difficult because there are so many substances to test for, so many athletes in competition, a narrow window to detect malfeasance, and new drugs being introduced all the time.
"There's always some degree of violence and malfeasance in a PNG election, however no one expected the electoral roll to be this bad," Jonathan Pryke, director of the Lowy Institute of Policy's Melanesia Unit, told Reuters.
Business Kobe Steel admitted its data fraud has been going on nearly five decades and also revealed new cases of cheating, highlighting the challenges facing the 112-year-old company mired in compliance failures and malfeasance.
In a Monday ruling, a Florida judge told Democrats and Republicans invested in the Florida recount battle to "ramp down the rhetoric," warning that unsubstantiated allegations of malfeasance could undermine the public's support for state officials.
The sanctions aim to stop or contain Russian malfeasance, such as the occupation of Crimea, military aggression in eastern Ukraine, cyber warfare, election hacking, human rights violations in Syria and chemical warfare in the United Kingdom.
Serious malfeasance really began with Jackson, reached a pitch with Buchanan, then quieted down until the Presidencies of Grant and Harding, but all these shenanigans, he thought, seemed quaint compared with what Nixon stood accused of.
It said that if the party was to win in 2016, it needed to diversify its appeal, reach out to minorities, "help everyone make it in America" and attack corporate malfeasance and even chief executives' bonuses.
The trade secrets directive, in the works since 2013, has provoked a strong reaction from journalists, who fear the law could effectively make it impossible to report on corporate malfeasance, like Volkswagen's deceptions on diesel emissions.
It weaves together corporate malfeasance, international intrigue and an astounding hip-hop stylist, and was partly shot at a ruined American listening station in Berlin, a satire edged in ominousness in the era of fake news.
The governor has steadily escalated his rhetoric against the company recently, as the embattled provider has fended off both Mr. Cuomo's charges of malfeasance and an unrelated workers' strike that has lasted more than a year.
And if there was collusion with Russia or some other malfeasance by the campaign, the fact that it might have been discovered by an FBI mole, illegal or not, will not prevent criminal charges or impeachment.
The twin announcements were the party's latest attempts to kick-start stalled investigations into accusations of malfeasance by President Trump and his administration and to try to force key witnesses resisting their oversight demands into compliance.
The country has been grappling with evidence of widespread malfeasance in past decades since 2012, when Jimmy Savile, a television personality who had died the previous year, was revealed to have been a serial sexual predator.
Though it was not clear what findings the special counsel's investigators viewed as troubling for the president, Mr. Barr has suggested that Mr. Mueller may have found evidence of malfeasance in investigating possible obstruction of justice.
He wants people to believe that he was the victim of an illegitimate investigation and overcame FBI malfeasance to win an election, then began "draining the swamp" once he took office by firing Comey and others.
Frustrations around the administration's inaction on Skripal and its soft-handed approach to Russia came to a head in mid-February, with a bipartisan group of senators introducing a massive bill aimed at countering Russian malfeasance.
But the longer the investigation proceeds without finding convincing evidence of malfeasance, the likelier Americans will draw the conclusion that Trump is right to call the investigation a witch hunt and begin to sympathize with him.
They have been especially critical of Duterte, investigating his extrajudicial killing campaign against people suspected of dealing or using drugs, documenting the spread of government disinformation on Facebook and reporting on malfeasance among his top advisers.
A Florida judge in a Monday ruling told Democrats and Republicans invested in the Florida recount battle to "ramp down the rhetoric," warning that unsubstantiated allegations of malfeasance could undermine the public's support for state officials.
The Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General found no "misconduct or malfeasance" by immigration authorities in the cases of two immigrant children died in Border Patrol custody last December, according to reports obtained by BuzzFeed News.
When the malfeasance was discovered, Mr. Ito was full of I'm-so-sorrys and bad-judgment excuses, and he even allowed prominent friends and colleagues to put up a now-embarrassing letter in support of him.
"The Cambridge Analytical scandal had the right combination of scale, malfeasance, and consequence to sear into everyday Americans how companies like Facebook sell access to our personal information and how dangerous that can be," Laroia said.
The filing is an attempt to remedy instances of malfeasance on the part of Chinese steel companies, specifically conspiring to fix prices illegally, mislabeling products and shipping them through third countries, and stealing proprietary trade secrets.
Searching out malfeasance among state employees — which, thanks to the nationalization programs, was practically everybody — fueled the Cheka, a brand-new "state within the state," as one employee sagely called it, for the next 70 years.
"Eskom continues to work with law enforcement agencies ... to root out corruption and malfeasance," the power provider said in a statement, adding the names of the individuals could not be revealed until they appeared in court.
Kobe Steel Ltd said on Tuesday its CEO will step down to take responsibility for a widespread data fraud scandal, although doubts remain over a corporate culture mired in malfeasance and the possibility of future fines.
"Eskom continues to work with law enforcement agencies ... to root out corruption and malfeasance," the power provider said in a statement, adding the names of the individuals could not be revealed until they appeared in court.
Mr. Barrett sided with nonunion teachers on the hiring issue, but he also documented malfeasance by the local school board and reported it to prosecutors and in The Voice, revelations that led to federal corruption charges.
In the case of the governor, there are two possible paths for removal: He could be impeached for "malfeasance in office, corruption, neglect of duty, or other high crime or misdemeanor," according to the Virginia Constitution.
Ron Wyden of Oregon, for example, recently circulated a draft bill of his own, which also relies heavily on the FTC and would impose stiff fines and potentially even jail-time in cases of serious corporate malfeasance.
US policymakers have repeatedly accused Iran of regional malfeasance in recent days, like mysterious attacks on ships in the Gulf of Oman, which many observers say echo the drumbeats heard ahead of the Iraq war in 2003.
"This is a fraud and gross malfeasance case where a whistleblower from the Mandels' own firm described under oath illegal acts she was ordered by Joel Mandel to commit relating to Mr. Depp's account," the statement read.
The Royal Commission, as the Australian inquiry is called, has been a publicity disaster for Australia's major lenders, all of which own New Zealand banks, turning out revelations of widespread corporate malfeasance since it began in February.
Moreover, Pettis contended that a court order impounding the ballots would lend credence to the idea that there was malfeasance by Snipes, without evidence, and Republicans would manipulate a decision to argue Snipes was breaking the law.
To many members of the African-American community, it didn't matter much that Simpson was an unlikely target for police malfeasance; it was critical that this successful black man not be taken down by a discriminatory system.
As a check against the idea that all of the scandals must result in President Trump's downfall, Trump's opponents should start paying attention to another case of presidential malfeasance with a far more ambiguous resolution: Iran-Contra.
By itself, Xu's market malfeasance might have been enough to spell his downfall; that he was said to be protected by some of the same corrupt officials targeted by the anticorruption push meant there was no escape.
Here's a sample from Mike Allen's absurd article accusing the CDC of gross malfeasance and a global conspiracy:By the way, the CDC is totally fabricating its claim that all cases of microcephaly are caused by Zika virus.
The Dodd-Frank financial reform law established the CFPB as an independent agency, meaning the president could only remove him "for cause," meaning some sort of wrongdoing or malfeasance would have to be evident in his work.
On the flip side, Putin would also view it as a success if NATO members express public frustration with you for your perceived obfuscation on Russian election meddling, Russia's invasion of Crimea or Russian malfeasance more generally.
That case involved a challenge to a law barring the president from removing the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from office unless the director was inefficient, neglectful of duty or engaged in malfeasance in office.
They document tedious office politics, relentless meeting scheduling, deeply embarrassing romantic drama, misogynist jokes, chain-emails, reflections on life as a corporate executive [in the 2000s] and, of course, revelations of large-scale corporate malfeasance and fraud.
Most of the candidates are, instead, what Europeans would call "social democrats": advocates of a private-sector-driven economy, but with a stronger social safety net, enhanced bargaining power for workers and tighter regulation of corporate malfeasance.
Some Democrats in Congress (including the Congressional Hispanic Caucus) have painted the deaths of children in custody as the result of malfeasance on the part of border agents, and have called for McAleenan to resign over them.
Though plea bargains were introduced in 22019, their use is limited to categories such as corporate malfeasance, according to Colin Jones, a law professor at Doshisha University, although defendants who cooperate can expect a more lenient sentence.
Saudi accusations of Iran orchestrating a serpentine Shiite takeover of the Arab world are self-serving exaggerations that conveniently cloak Riyadh's own malfeasance, yet Iran's policies in Syria make these claims sound perfectly plausible to many Sunnis.
Much as 20th-century militaries learned to combine soldiers, sea power and airplanes to mount a coordinated assault, Russia has proved adept at meddling in elections by blending different types of digital malfeasance into one larger operation.
Muckraking journalism of the late Progressive Era was mostly comprised of middle-class writers who worked for mainstream newspapers but wrote exposés of corporate malfeasance, workplace exploitation, and other issues that impacted poor and working-class people.
As much as lawmakers and officials praise those who expose corruption or malfeasance, becoming a whistle-blower in the intelligence world is a process that almost inevitably ends one's career, no matter the validity of the disclosure.
So for a good chunk of the country, they watched the impeachment hearing and they waded in, sort of got a sense that maybe there was some presidential malfeasance happening and they could kind of follow along.
This is of course a corrupt and illegal ask because the Washington Press Corps has decided once and for all that there is no malfeasance whatsoever behind Hunter Biden's totally legit business dealings in Ukraine and China.
Though a full release of the public report isn't in the cards, one possibility is that the Justice Department could let members of Congress review it for themselves, to assure them there's no malfeasance or cover-up.
The handful of instances of census malfeasance in the past — notably involving Japanese Americans in the 1940s and, according to some advocates, Arab Americans in the 2000s — have all led to stringent increases in privacy law strictness afterward.
His Kabuki theater act feigning dismay over the president's tweets criticizing the Justice Department is more likely a clever feint to divert attention away from his own malfeasance than an expression of real dismay over Mr. Trump's behavior.
Nor does that explanation credit Sean Hannity, Fox News, or the GOP lawmakers who championed the memo as a Watergate-esque revelation of government malfeasance and kept it in the news for the better part of a month.
Eric Chang of Michigan State University, with Miriam Golden and Seth Hill of UCLA, found that between 1948 and 1994, more than half of those elected to Italy's Chamber of Deputies were charged by the judiciary with malfeasance.
At times, the president sought to frame allegations of Russian meddling within a broader framework of "fake news" and media malfeasance — jabs he threw over and over again in a news conference that lasted well over an hour.
Making his speech in flowing white African robes, he promised to deliver on his key campaign promises, especially tackling the malfeasance that his predecessor is widely seen as having failed to address during her 12 years in office.
He cannot be forced from office over this scandal: The state constitution only allows impeachment if the governor commits "malfeasance in office, corruption, neglect of duty, or other high crime or misdemeanor," none of which has happened here.
Under the Federal Reserve Act, a Fed chairman or governor can only be fired by the president "for cause," which is considered to be "inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office" per a 1935 Supreme Court ruling.
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's top court on Thursday approved an injunction against a congressional probe that found Rafael Ramirez, the former president of state oil company PDVSA, was responsible for corruption and malfeasance that cost the firm $11 billion.
In other instances of medical malfeasance, physicians at private clinics have bargained with patients during surgery, female patients have been tricked into aborting healthy fetuses, and there have been many documented deaths as a result of physician negligence.
WASHINGTON — Tom Price's fondness for taxpayer-funded private jet trips drew the ire on Wednesday of President Trump, who said he was disappointed in his secretary of health and human services, and would personally examine any financial malfeasance.
The TTP — a research project by the nonprofit Campaign for Accountability, a group which focuses on exposing misconduct and malfeasance in public life — reported finding web users still being targeted with face mask ads on Google this week.
And it need not prove disastrous: The fall of the president, Park Geun-hye, over arrant corruption marked the coming-of-age of a democracy that had hitherto regarded political malfeasance as a necessary adjunct of economic development.
Carlos Ghosn, the fugitive former Nissan executive facing charges of financial malfeasance in Japan, painted a picture of a corporate plot between his former employer and Japanese prosecutors in his first public comments on the case on Wednesday.
The announcement, made jointly with the United Kingdom, is the latest in a growing string of cases where Western governments have pointed a finger at Moscow for high-profile digital malfeasance — a significant shift in digital deterrence strategy.
GOP lawmakers ignored a strong body of evidence of presidential malfeasance in Ukraine, leading to questions over whether the insurmountable partisan divisions in Washington render the ultimate constitutional tool designed to constrain an unchained president is now obsolete.
"With what the president is doing in raising money, it would almost be malfeasance for any candidate that wins the nomination to be in a competitive disadvantage to make an ideological point about who's funding them," Adler said.
Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on Monday to news organizations that uncovered instances of malfeasance and outright fraud in President Trump's financial past, recognizing journalists' perseverance in the face of the president's ever-sharper attacks on a free press.
Another would be that when placed under a microscope by an aggressive prosecutor, several Trump aides turn out to have been involved in financial malfeasance only loosely related to the Trump campaign and Trump himself did nothing wrong.
As far-right ideas spread, and misinformation abounds, her books are a piercing reminder of how extreme politics can appeal to the sanest-seeming people—and that half-truths and malfeasance are as intrinsic to human nature as breathing.
" Commentary (1973-present) Winner: Tony Messenger of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch "for bold columns that exposed the malfeasance and injustice of forcing poor rural Missourians charged with misdemeanor crimes to pay unaffordable fines or be sent to jail.
The oil companies said they saw malfeasance in all this, and it's true that some of the same lawyers involved in those ideas back then are serving as outside counsel for the cities that have filed the recent lawsuits.
For decades, Colombia's ruling elite has gotten away with attributing all manner of institutional shortcomings and malfeasance to the scourges of communist insurrection and narco-trafficking—which, to let the government tell it, are pretty much the same thing.
"She will be putting forward a British plan that will have global support to set up a rapid response unit to identify Russian malfeasance… whether it's cyber warfare, assassinations, calling it out and identifying it," Johnson told the group.
"It's impossible to disagree with Kavanaugh that, in a perfect world, Congress would take the lead when it comes to investigating misconduct and malfeasance by the President," said Stephen Vladeck, a University of Texas law professor and CNN analyst.
A new book examines German influence on modern day graphic designUPS is hoping to convert most of its New York City fleet from diesel to electricFaraday Future issues bombastic statement accusing former CFO of 'malfeasance and dereliction of duty'
Chris Christie of New Jersey, another adviser to Mr. Trump, argued that rather than demonstrating any kind of malfeasance, the tax records published by The Times showed Mr. Trump to be singularly qualified to overhaul the federal tax code.
In the 19th century, states tackling big projects, like building schools, prisons and railroads, that required diligent oversight and presented ample opportunities for self-dealing made "neglect" and "malfeasance" grounds for removing officers authorized to serve for fixed terms.
She has an entire wing of policy devoted to corporate malfeasance — she wants to jail lawbreaking executives, to undo the corporate influence that shapes military procurement, and to end the scandal of highly profitable corporations paying no federal taxes.
Instead, we're heading for a period of divided government, in which the opposition party has both the power to block legislation and, perhaps even more important, the ability to conduct investigations backed by subpoena power into Trump administration malfeasance.
A message sent to providers from the Department of Health and Human Services' office of the inspector general on Monday said investigators would be "minimizing burdens" and relaxing reporting deadlines, but continuing to look for malfeasance or fraudulent billing.
The company has taken lengths to deny any wrongdoing, settling lawsuits in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Oklahoma for sums in the millions of dollars to avoid claiming fault or releasing details of their alleged malfeasance to the public record.
Similarly, today's GOP must rely on anti-democratic methods to cling to power in a changing America, and prop up a President who will most certainly stay in office through malfeasance, playing to xenophobic fear and threats of violence.
I mean how reliably Trump's outrageous behavior always reaches journalists, as government officials use the very media that he demonizes to expose his malfeasance, ridicule his cluelessness, warn Americans about his intentions and head him off at the pass.
Since then, the Durham County board has rejected a protest filed by Thomas Stark, a lawyer and McCrory supporter, who claimed that county officials had engaged in "malfeasance" in counting those ballots because they relied on inaccurate ballot machines.
The film uses snippets of television news and remarks from lay people to remind viewers of the revelations of sexual abuse and financial malfeasance plaguing the church, but it also tries, somewhat awkwardly, not to dwell on those problems.
And Secretary Tillerson, how would your former corporate board have reacted if a top executive at Exxon Mobil had accused a predecessor of a major act of malfeasance and the F.B.I. then told the board the claims were false?
As corporations become increasingly tight-lipped, government scientists are muzzled, and official government statements contain outright lies, reporters have been forced to rely on brave people willing to leak, give context to, and speak about corporate and government malfeasance.
" The singer believes that AKoin would best serve nations with currencies destabilized by runaway inflation or corrupt governments, as the public ledger of blockchain guards against malfeasance, and would allow users to "control their own economy and control their own destiny.
Washington (CNN)A day after his labor secretary convened a news conference defending himself against accusations of prosecutorial malfeasance, President Donald Trump is questioning whether Alex Acosta's efforts were sufficient in quieting the uproar, people familiar with the matter said.
On Thursday, U.S. Attorney General William Barr, FBI director Christopher Wray and U.S. counterintelligence chief William Evanina will address a Washington conference on U.S. efforts to counter Chinese "economic malfeasance" involving espionage and the theft of U.S. technological and scientific secrets.
But two years and many proclamations later, the country's ranking in a standard gauge of government malfeasance, Transparency International's corruption perception index, has barely budged: Ukraine has moved to No. 130 in 2015, from No. 144 in 2013, in the list.
Corporate malfeasance expert Kurt Eichenwald, who literally wrote the book on Enron, points out how closely the Trump Organization appears to be implicated in Cohen's hush money payments, and the apparently narrow circle of people who could have participated in them.
While the police and prosecutors are investigating multiple cases of corruption and plan to recover more than $4 billion lost from state coffers, they have done little to prosecute political leaders who enabled malfeasance across many sectors of the economy.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Kobe Steel Ltd admitted on Tuesday its data fraud has been going on nearly five decades and also revealed new cases of cheating, highlighting the challenges facing the 112-year-old company mired in compliance failures and malfeasance.
The Chamber is seeking to make it harder for individuals and small businesses to use the civil justice system to hold corporations accountable for wrongdoing as it is simultaneously lobbying to weaken prosecution of corporate malfeasance by government prosecutors and regulators.
The mostly favorable ruling for the No. 2 Australian lender was a rare bright spot for an industry facing daily allegations of malfeasance and fraud in a year-long public inquiry that has wiped billions of dollars from companies' market values.
Inspired by the television series "Moonlighting," she spent college summers as a licensed private investigator, ferreting out shady dealings on anything from insurance fraud to malfeasance at a hardware store, sometimes armed with a stun gun and a fake badge.
Somewhat analogous to internal affairs at a police department, the inspector general's office for a given agency is tasked with looking into potential malfeasance by that agency or members of that agency, and issuing reports and recommendations on its findings.
In no specific order:• The board's willingness to sell shares at 22008% off (after seven days) says insiders knew the firm desperately needed money, and the price they advertised seven days before was not a real number (see above: malfeasance).
Given how small a stake Abacus had in the actual drivers of the collapse—and the fact that, unlike most banks, they self-reported the malfeasance they were ultimately prosecuted for—the movie paints a portrait of scapegoating writ large.
"She will be putting forward a British plan that will have global support to set up a rapid response unit to identify Russian malfeasance...whether it's cyber warfare, assassinations, calling it out and identifying it," he was quoted as saying.
Meanwhile, Avery Bradley, who is pretty good at defense, sees this malfeasance unspooling in front of his eyes, and charges toward the rim in, I suppose, a vainglorious stab at doing something to mend this disastrous defensive possession for the Pistons.
And to avoid saddling the government with a six-year mistake, Congress copied state law and allowed the president to remove commissioners for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office — circumstances in which commissioners were objectively harming the public welfare.
However, their outrage should be directed at the actions of a handful of officials in a clique at the top who, through either partisan malfeasance or simple incompetence, have tarnished this agency's reputation at the expense of thousands of upstanding agents.
Brill, a lawyer who became a journalist and entrepreneur, draws quite a bit here on his previous work, using several decades of writing and thinking about subjects as varied as education and corporate malfeasance to figure out what has gone wrong.
And now, after 26 years without a recession in the country, with pressure for growth intensifying as the real estate market cools, the banking industry's everyday practices — along with incidents of malfeasance — have prompted intense outrage and demands for change.
Across the corporate landscape, the Trump administration has presided over a sharp decline in financial penalties against banks and big companies accused of malfeasance, according to analyses of government data and interviews with more than 60 former and current federal officials.
Beyond checking possible malfeasance inside the White House, Democrats in the House can also push back against international corruption and money laundering, including by instituting rules that make it harder to establish anonymous shell companies that hide ill-gotten wealth.
But based on migration trends, as well as Trump's net-negative approval rating in the state, along with ongoing investigations into electoral malfeasance, we cannot evaluate Bishop's electoral prospects based solely on favorable 2016 numbers or even less favorable 2018 numbers.
The usual answer is working-class whites, but a deeper dive into the data suggests that it's more specific: It's really evangelical working-class whites who are staying with Trump despite growing evidence of his malfeasance and unsuitability for high office.
Such indictments are also regularly used by Mr. Trump's allies to advance rhetoric about a "deep state" of government leakers seeking to undermine his presidency; reporters say their sources are often dedicated public servants concerned about malfeasance or abuse of power.
Xi called for greater accountability for financial regulators at the meeting, saying it would be "negligence of duty" if regulators fail to identify risks in time, and it would be "malfeasance" if they fail to report and contain the identified risks.
Since last summer, the accusations of Russian cyberattacks have been widely reported, and it is clear that Mr. Obama — and Mr. Trump — were aware of the malfeasance, though Mr. Trump has repeatedly refused to acknowledge that Russia was behind the hacking.
Six members of the United States Congress had appealed to the Nigerian attorney general on behalf of Mr. Sowore, who lives in New Jersey with his wife and children but whose work focuses on exposing corruption and government malfeasance in Nigeria.
When I was in the FBI, I was read-in on many investigations involving alleged malfeasance on the part of elected officials, and one pattern I noticed is few woke up one day and decided to engage in criminal activity.
The depths of the city's malfeasance were amply exposed in 2014 by what is known as the Mafia Capitale investigation, which showed corruption and tainted bidding for a wide variety of city services, including refugee shelters, sanitation and public housing.
Specifically, the court held that the provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that says the CFPB's director can be removed by the President only for cause—"inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office"—violates constitutional separation-of-powers principles.
A 2016 Wall Street Journal story said that 43 percent of the 22 million Americans with federal student loans weren't making payments, and there were more than a million defaults on student loans last year amid allegations of malfeasance by lenders.
The Daniels case has a lot in common with the unfolding story of the Trump campaign's alleged collusion with Russia — both involve allegations of campaign violations and financial malfeasance, of Trumpworld figures working behind the scenes to protect their candidate.
In one view, the story is essentially that hard-working investigative journalists revealed a handful of cases of spectacularly egregious malfeasance by a handful of prominent men — Roger Ailes and Harvey Weinstein, most obviously — and that's all to the good.
The social network's list includes events like the Royal Wedding, the World Cup, the Super Bowl, and International Women's Day, but seems to omit more Facebook's involvement with things like genocide, election interference, privacy violations, data breaches, executive malfeasance, and conspiracy theories.
Since then things have only got worse, with a major global scandal kicking off in March after fresh revelations about the Cambridge Analytica data misuse sandal snowballed and went on to drag all sorts of other data malfeasance skeletons out of Facebook's closet.
That Uber — a poster child for startup malfeasance and miscreantism — could manage to cast a pall over Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial spirit is yet another example of how the company's hyper-aggressive corporate practices have done real damage to the Bay Area's startup factory.
The gusher of scandals and malfeasance uncovered, and the expectation that fines and regulations will follow has already knocked almost A$55 billion ($39 billion) from the market cap of the big four banks, and Thorburn said it had spooked international investors.
Mr Birkenfeld, who now speaks out against the economic damage done by offshore malfeasance, spilled the beans because he discovered by chance that his superiors had drawn up documents that left managers like himself exposed to prosecution while covering their own backs.
The 74 percent slump in interim profit was expected but the company's admission that customers were pulling funds during the so-called Royal Commission demonstrates the immediate and unpredictable effects the powerful inquiry is having as it airs allegations of industrywide malfeasance.
Her new documentary The 13th—which opens the New York Film Festival on September 30—traces black America's dealings with the justice system after emancipation, and the vast political malfeasance that has allowed mass incarceration to thrive in the twenty-first century.
"We're pretty proud of delivering a midterm election that was free of malfeasance and interference, and we're already working pretty hard on the 2020 [election]," the NSA's Joyce told CyberScoop, emphasizing the NSA's partnership with agencies including U.S. Cyber Command and the FBI.
The recorded killing of Woods, a 26-year-old black man shot by several cops on the street after brandishing a knife, remains a point of contention for many concerned with police malfeasance, and was a key impetus for the COPS Office review.
Its reporters have been routine recipients of reliable leaks from a variety of government sources in what over the months is hard to interpret as less than a controlled drip-feed of details to keep Khashoggi's plight -- and Saudi's malfeasance -- in the headlines.
And when, more recently, television delivered "Billions," a series about hedge-fund malfeasance and excess, the role of the psychologist was relegated to that of an in-house performance coach helping asset managers achieve the right mental balance to make more money.
In a December 220006 article entitled "You're Not Fired, Ever," National Review contributor James Richardson described instances of federal employees remaining on the payroll long after supervisors learned of malfeasance that should have resulted at the very least in dismissal, if not prosecution.
The California congressman was doing an interview Monday on MSNBC's 'Hardball' with host Chris Matthews -- and while he was going on and on about Ukraine and alleged malfeasance by DT ... something that sounded like a loud, wet fart blasted through the airwaves.
A grand jury on Friday indicted Daniel Cipriano on one count of simple battery and Anthony Dupre on one count of malfeasance in office in connection with the October incident involving a 14-year-old at Brusly Middle School, CNN affiliate WBRZ reported.
Not only will the companies you own suffer as society begins to abandon fossil fuels in earnest, they will also be dragged through the courts here and abroad for their long-standing malfeasance and denial of what they have done to the world.
READ: Trump supporters are hyping a doctored video of Nancy Pelosi appearing drunk "Facebook's malfeasance when it comes to trafficking in blatantly false information is a national crisis in this respect," Greg Schultz, Biden's campaign manager, said in a statement on Sunday evening.
But evidence of big-time malfeasance has not prevented Mr. Trump from admiring the likes of Vladimir Putin of Russia, Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt or Kim Jong-un of North Korea ("we fell in love").
The barrage that the president and his allies have launched at the F.B.I. is focused on one small part of the mission — surveillance warrants — in an agency of 35,000 people that investigates everything from bank robberies to human trafficking to Wall Street malfeasance.
" Making their case to move forward with impeachment, the report said that "any future President will feel empowered to resist an investigation into their own wrongdoing, malfeasance, or corruption, and the result will be a nation at far greater risk of all three.
During his run from the law, Mr. Duarte, once considered a luminary of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, became a quintessential symbol of malfeasance and a huge embarrassment to the party, which has been criticized for its inability to rein in rampant corruption.
Anticorruption activists say that some of the worst malfeasance in Mexico has occurred in governors' offices around the country, in part because of limited checks on governors' power, allowing state leaders to hand out patronage contracts and secretly amass ill-gotten wealth.
This defining moment for Tehran – perhaps the most critical since the Iranian Revolution of 1979 -- has been prompted by the Trump administration's "maximum pressure" campaign of sanctions, Iran's dangerously declining economy, and the cumulative effect of Tehran's domestic malfeasance and regional overstretch.
The Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General said Friday that it had found "no misconduct or malfeasance" by department officials in the deaths of two Guatemalan children who died in the custody of the United States Border Patrol last year.
While most of the misconduct identified by the Inspector General was committed in 2016 and 2017 by a small group of now-former FBI officials, the malfeasance and misfeasance detailed in the Inspector General's report reflects a clear abuse of the FISA process.
" Making their case to move forward with impeachment, the report said that "any future President will feel empowered to resist an investigation into their own wrongdoing, malfeasance, or corruption, and the result will be a nation at far greater risk of all three.
"We have said that this is -- we've told the court, we've said it in the hearings -- that we are examining the various malfeasance of the President with the view of the possibility of recommending articles of impeachment to the House," Nadler said.
Opportunities for mischief and malfeasance often occur when expertise is siloed, fields intersect only at the margins, and when the gathered knowledge of small, expert groups doesn't make its way into the larger body of practitioners who have important contributions to make.
The number of cases, first reported by The New York Daily News, is significantly larger than noted by the United States attorney last month in a civil complaint filed against Nycha after a yearslong investigation that accused it of mismanagement and malfeasance.
Pompeo has, however, publicly broken with the president over the question of Russian interference in the election, making clear that the CIA's view differs from that of the president himself, who has steadfastly refused to say explicitly that he believes in Russian malfeasance.
"I think there is a very strong case to be made that this was criminal negligence, deliberate malfeasance in providing Morsi basic prisoner rights," Sarah Leah Whitson, the executive director for the Middle East and North Africa at Human Rights Watch, said Monday.
As a consequence, such movements have the capacity to create defections within the opponent — such as changes in policy preferences among political and economic elites, police officers' refusal to serve in departments with racist practices, and corporate managers whistleblowing on their company's environmental malfeasance.
The result was that, after Krause walked away from the company, Jia released a statement alleging that he (and CTO Ulrich Kranz, who worked closely with Krause and also resigned) had been fired because of "malfeasance and dereliction of duty" while on the job.
"We are glad to see our leaders recognizing the magnitude of problems Georgians faced in 2018 due to the Secretary of State's malfeasance, as well as the state's continued refusal to guarantee the right to implement meaningful reforms in the 2019 legislative session," she said.
Especially in the wake of the scandals that have come to light since 2014 about long wait times, malfeasance, and cover-ups in the Veterans Affairs (VA) medical system, there's been a burst of public and legislative pressure to improve the department's accountability and capacity.
Plainview's story serves as an unusually frank exposé of what it really takes to get to the top of our heap in a system that routinely turns a blind eye to the misdeeds and malfeasance of the people who get rich enough to rig it.
Deepening the Democratic gloom, Gillum's party colleague in Georgia, Stacey Abrams, was also behind in her race for governor, which had been dogged by allegations of malfeasance by her opponent Brian Kemp, who oversees elections in his current post as Georgia's secretary of state.
"We are giving our officers the tools they need to manage inmate behavior without resorting to unnecessary force — and we have stepped up investigations and enforcement divisions to probe any unnecessary uses of force and malfeasance," said Eve Kessler, a spokeswoman for the department.
In her decision, Justice ShawnDya L. Simpson of State Supreme Court in Brooklyn ordered a new trial for Mr. Bunn, saying that "malfeasance" by the former detective, Louis Scarcella, had undermined the evidence that led to Mr. Bunn's conviction and eventual term in prison.
But where Nixon's malfeasance ultimately became too much for his party to bear, it doesn't look like Trump is going to face the same kind of revolt from the modern GOP—even if he's proven in the end to have personally broken the law.
Critics say that while Justice Nisar has been quick to take up cases related to the governing party and malfeasance by civilian authorities, he has sidestepped more delicate issues like the intelligence agencies' practices of enforced disappearances, intimidation and harassment of the military's critics.
The development not only devastated those familiar with Moldova's efforts at cleaning up its internal malfeasance—and completely trashed America's soft power along the way—but it put paid to the Trump administration's laughable claims to be interested in clamping down on transnational corruption.
" On Monday, the B.J.P.-led government in Rajasthan State introduced an ordinance in the state's Legislative Assembly that would essentially bar reporting of government malfeasance by requiring government permission to investigate "both serving and former judges, magistrates and public servants for on-duty actions.
Instead, they got a packet of assorted news clippings and conspiratorial memos about Democratic malfeasance in Ukraine that the State Department's inspector general, Steven A. Linick, said had been delivered to Mr. Pompeo earlier this year from someone purporting to be at the White House.
If Trump is not a criminal target, that does not necessarily mean that Mueller has insufficient evidence to charge Trump; rather, it may indicate that Mueller reads the Constitution to mean that impeachment rather than indictment is the appropriate remedy for any serious presidential malfeasance.
The film's screenwriter, Matthew Wilder, and director, Paul Schrader, have loosely adapted Edward Bunker's grim, earnest 1997 crime novel (which is flecked with genuine social commentary about mass incarceration, corporate malfeasance and other issues) into a purposefully coarse, giddy-approaching-giggly, pulp-Pop Art cartoon.
And constitutional bribery is defined more broadly than the statute — the Constitution was written well before the federal bribery statute and was meant to capture a host of executive malfeasance that might not be captured within the narrow confines of our specific federal laws.
Deputy press secretary Shah may also be questioned on ongoing debates over immigration policy, and special counsel Robert Mueller's recent indictments of Russian nationals and a Russian oligarch's son-in-law as part of his probe into Russian malfeasance in the 2016 presidential election.
I am not a constitutional scholar, but surely those who drafted our guiding document could not have intended that any president would be able to wield the power of pardon to excuse the malfeasance of those closest to him, let alone to pardon himself.
"While most of the misconduct identified by the Inspector General was committed in 2016 and 2017 by a small group of now-former FBI officials, the malfeasance and misfeasance detailed in the Inspector General's report reflects a clear abuse of the FISA process," Barr said.
Most famously, this strategy benefitted Facebook during the Cambridge Analytica where successive drips of information showed the company's knowledge of possible malfeasance stretched back farther and the scale of misuse was larger than initially reported, all as momentum around the rapidly complicating story dwindled.
And while it may be politically tempting to let Wall Street take the hit for Puerto Rico's financial malfeasance, investors won't get burned twice—the long term repercussions could shut out Puerto Rico from credit markets and legitimate borrowing projects for years to come.
The dilemma shows how Moscow's election malfeasance is deepening Washington's acrimony, complicating US foreign policy, and could ultimately force some allies to choose between the White House and the Kremlin, at a time when Russia is aggressively expanding its influence, particularly in the Middle East.
After the spectacular implosion of their Russia hoax on July 24, in which they spent years denouncing any Republican who ever shook hands with a Russian, on July 25 they turned on a dime and now claim the real malfeasance is Republicans' dealings with Ukraine.
Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat of Oregon, who has repeatedly pressed the FCC for answers about potential malfeasance during the net neutrality process, said it was clear that "dirty tricks" had been used, including identity theft, to generate millions of fake comments ascribed to real Americans.
Yet for many white Mormons, statistics about the looting of sacred sites are eclipsed by more personal events — like a federal raid on a Blanding grave-robbing operation, which ultimately resulted in the suicide of a beloved local doctor — that validate their understanding of the federal malfeasance.
The company accused Krause and Kranz of "malfeasance and dereliction of duty," and eventually filed a lawsuit against the new company that the duo started after they left Faraday Future, alleging that they got their own startup off the ground by stealing employees and trade secrets.

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