If Ivanka is the glamorous public face of nepotism, Trump Jr. shows how nepotism works in private.
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Anti-nepotism law All of the dangers that the federal anti-nepotism statute was passed to prevent come directly into play here.
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" When asked why he didn't nominate his daughter, the president said, "If I did, they'd say nepotism, when it would've had nothing to do with nepotism.
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If Hillary Clinton had won the election and installed Chelsea as one of her senior advisers, every Republican in town would be screaming bloody murder, nepotism, nepotism.
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" When asked why he didn't nominate her for the position, he said his critics would have called it nepotism, "when it would've had nothing to do with nepotism.
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There is no more obvious example of nepotism than the fact that the Trump administration defends their hiring by claiming that federal anti-nepotism laws just don't apply to them.
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Leaving aside the question regarding Ivanka and Kushner's credentials for their position and the role nepotism played in giving her that position, nepotism may now have resulted in a security risk.
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Critics, however, claim that Trump's hiring violates federal nepotism laws.
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You know what they say: like president, like nepotism beneficiary.
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For years he has railed against nepotism and political corruption.
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Giving Ivanka Trump a West Wing office might be nepotism.
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Maybe it's nepotism and our opinion / votes don't actually matter.
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There, the result sometimes looks like patronage or even nepotism.
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"It's pure nepotism that she's in that position," she added.
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It was nothing but nepotism and it always embarrassed me.
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That makes it hard to escape nepotism and crony capitalism.
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"Nepotism is a motivational thing in my life," he said.
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It was a highly unpopular move and critics cried nepotism.
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The news sparked concerns about nepotism and conflicts of interest.
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The clash has exposed Mr. Suzuki to accusations of nepotism.
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Headlines rotate daily charges of graft, nepotism and influence peddling.
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"It has nothing to do with nepotism," he went on.
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To me, Trump "values" are primarily narcissism, nepotism and nihilism.
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Prepare yourself for total irrationality and the most obvious nepotism.
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He is currently running the Trump Organization in his father's absence with his older brother, Donald Trump Jr. "We might be here because of nepotism, but we're not still here because of nepotism," he said.
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CNN host defines nepotism CNN's Don Lemon reacts to hearing President Donald Trump discuss nepotism while saying his daughter Ivanka's name was floated as a possible replacement for the US ambassador to the United Nations.
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" She continued, "There is a reason why anti-nepotism laws exist.
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Federal anti-nepotism laws bar federal managers from hiring a relative.
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The announcement prompted a wave of backlash and accusations of nepotism.
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Nepotism was not the biggest worry about Mr Trump's looming presidency.
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Donald Trump is Jeb Bush's opposite in every way (except nepotism).
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I felt like there was some kind of nepotism or something.
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That was the year the federal anti-nepotism statute was enacted.
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The trials exposed Albany's culture of secrecy, nepotism and influence peddling.
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He drew criticism in the later years for nepotism and corruption.
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Loeb warned against nepotism in a separate report by Bloomberg News.
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Every backstory was the same—East Coast, Harvard, trust fund, nepotism.
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Trump's administration is dripping with criminality, corruption, nepotism and self-enrichment.
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But better than the original title, the Bureau of Obvious Nepotism.
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This kind of blatant nepotism was impressive if not especially unusual.
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That means confronting elements of the deep state, nepotism and corruption.
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I don't believe that me being considered for this position is nepotism.
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She will also receive government-provided communications devices, per the official. Nepotism?
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Neither Kushner nor Trump have publicly commented on the concerns of nepotism.
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A millennial generation is sick of nepotism, frozen political systems and waste.
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"You teach her about nepotism and fraud everyday," singer John Legend responded.
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That paints an easy target on Buck, whom fans say embodies nepotism.
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Nepotism isn't eschewed in a healthy democratic society just because it's corrupt.
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"Nepotism is kind of a factor of life," Eric Trump told Forbes.
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Because nepotism pervades his administration, Trump may eventually face a similar dilemma.
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It is also a story of nepotism, privilege, and inexperience gone bad.
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But then I'd be accused of nepotism, if you can believe it.
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Leshchenko is obsessed with facts and documents, calling out corruption or nepotism.
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"I don't think it's nepotism," said President Trump, who endorsed the nomination.
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I worry that only employers have the power to stop nepotism, and that by avoiding it, I would just hand the internship to other children of employees or former employees who are less concerned about the ethics of nepotism.
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"Because she's the daughter of the President, that's how it's nepotism," Camerota responded.
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Yet it is still plagued by corruption, rights abuses, nepotism, and internecine rivalries.
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Such relationships are governed by our union's ethical code and anti-nepotism policy.
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She would be incredible, but I can already hear the chants of Nepotism!
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Widows' heist takes place against the backdrop of nepotism in local Chicago politics.
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"There was no nepotism — I wanted this relationship with the dog," he said.
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Corruption comes in many forms: cheating, bribery, nepotism, cronyism, embezzlement, fraud, state capture.
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But then I'd be accused of nepotism, if you can believe it right?
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"There is no nepotism exception for background investigations," Schiff said in a statement.
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Since 220006, U.S. immigration policy has prioritized nepotism—extended family relationships—over skills.
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As it turns out, we're punished because our colleagues see this as nepotism.
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For years, the United States has worked to eliminate nepotism in backwater regimes.
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It's a meditation on gender, crime, nepotism, corruption and race wrapped in heist clothing.
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"It's nepotism and the public deserves to know what the truth is," Maloney said.
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Fighting graft, nepotism and oligarchic power is seldom easy but Sofia's record is poor.
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But such a defence of nepotism breaks down when America has a bad president.
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Only an extremely naive person would see this as a career free of nepotism.
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Their rule featured patrimonialism (capture of public resources by the ruler's clan) and nepotism.
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Together we will make an India free of corruption and agreements based on nepotism.
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"Nearly everyone here suffers from corruption, nepotism, abuses of authority and impunity," Tábora notes.
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The Justice Department has ruled that Kushner's hiring does not violate anti-nepotism laws.
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On Wall Street you can please the party with some good old-fashioned nepotism.
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President Trump's son Eric suggested that nepotism is unavoidable during an interview published Tuesday.
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It's also going to leave you open to accusations of nepotism and free-riding.
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The spokesman said senior officials found Loeb's comments on nepotism to be "wholly unjustified".
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Something about New York sports team owners makes you despair the future of nepotism.
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Yes, your honor, I have written a lot about those who rule us, nepotism.
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Mr. Sharif, on the other hand, remains untainted by charges of corruption or nepotism.
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Sure. Because you came from ... not nepotism, but your dad was in entertainment, right?
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The details remain murky, however, both because of Trump's opaqueness and a federal nepotism law.
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During a pre-election debate, the prime minister appeared not to know what "nepotism" meant.
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Trump could also test anti-nepotism laws and offer Kushner a role in the administration.
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The company, they say, was riven by mismanagement and nepotism, creating a toxic workplace culture.
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He has for instance refused to answer journalists' questions about a minister accused of nepotism.
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Both the culture of nepotism in the White House and the president's tweeting irk him.
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John McCain, called out Ivanka and Kushner's work in the White House as pure nepotism.
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But better-governed ones may be able to open up hiring without returning to nepotism.
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According to some, Habte was sent to Rio based on nepotism as opposed to ability.
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Charter corporations have been repeatedly charged with fraud, nepotism, self-dealing, and conflicts of interest.
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I remember Panama City as a small town run on nepotism, Republicanism, racism, and religion.
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"It's called clearance by nepotism and a serious abuse that endangers our security," tweeted Rep.
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During his short stint as prime minister, tales spread of his nepotism and newfound wealth.
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I think that internships should be earned based on merit, and that nepotism is unethical.
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Politicians talk about hobbled sanitation and transportation agencies riddled by absenteeism, nepotism and bloated workforces.
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The ethics office report is also said to have raised accusations of nepotism and retaliation.
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The ethics office report is also said to have raised accusations of nepotism and retaliation.
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Trump was already under ethical fire for breaking anti-nepotism conventions by hiring family members.
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In our view, all of this violates both federal ethics laws and anti-nepotism ones.
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Wealthy museum board members underwrite frivolous exhibitions, the press follows the money, nepotism runs rampant.
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While there is a law against nepotism in government, it would not affect the Conways.
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Kushner will forgo a salary to avoid running afoul of nepotism laws, according to Bloomberg.
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Instead, he took on a systematic approach that avoided any signs of favoritism or nepotism.
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To Warren, the Trump administration's nepotism is emblematic of everything that is wrong with Washington.
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She said Congress in 1978 authorized the president to hire personnel for the White House office "without regard" to federal personnel laws like the anti-nepotism statute and that court rulings had determined the White House was not an "agency" under the anti-nepotism law.
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But he lost a 2015 re-election bid amid allegations of wartime atrocities, corruption and nepotism.
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I'm not hating on the nepotism because that happens across all industries on a regular basis.
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But during that time, reckless housing construction frequently coupled with cronyism and nepotism, took its toll.
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But nepotism is quite legal and widespread in, for instance, the National Assembly, the French parliament.
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Nicaragua's Constitution bars such nepotism, but for some inexplicable reason, the Supreme Court says it's cool.
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The Justice Department concluded that Kushner's post was not in violation of federal anti-nepotism laws.
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Karunanidhi, who wrote scripts for Tamil cinema before entering politics, faced allegations of corruption and nepotism.
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In the end, the surest brake upon nepotism may not be the law, but public opinion.
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Flouting nepotism laws, Donald Trump is making his son-in-law special adviser to the president.
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In Chinese, nepotism does not equal corruption — it is the norm, and sometimes even a burden.
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This is gross nepotism and it's just an embarrassment that he has any power at all.
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He then campaigned against corruption and nepotism and led a nationwide "reformasi", or reform, protest movement.
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The RAISE Act would also unshackle the chain migration approach that has operated as codified nepotism.
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He walked out after the party's candidate, Francois Fillon, was engulfed in an investigation into nepotism.
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Having no previous political experience, she is woefully unequipped for the job she earned through nepotism.
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The American president's nepotism and his paranoia about the "deep state" are familiar to Egyptian activists.
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Read more on the history of nepotism and politics here, and on Jared Kushner's role here.
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Read more on the history of nepotism and politics here, and on Ivanka Trump's role here.
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Due to all of this I would most certainly use nepotism to get a leg up.
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He has been accused, however, of human rights abuses, nepotism and excessively close ties to China.
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She had spent years exposing corruption and nepotism among the Maltese elite, and made many enemies.
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Sansone was also fired by her board, which accused her of nepotism — which she freely admitted.
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There was the matter, too, of financial conflicts and nepotism, an autonomic reflex of aspiring authoritarians.
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Kushner will reportedly forgo a salary to avoid running afoul of nepotism laws, according to Bloomberg.
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He made the nepotism-tarred center-right candidate, François Fillon, grin frigidly, murmuring about a lawsuit.
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We all know nepotism is rampant in showbiz, but Bryce kinda shocked us with her answer.
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Critics say his White House position is expected to test the limit of federal anti-nepotism rules.
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The Department of Justice assessed at the time that the hire did not violate anti-nepotism laws.
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Pine also adorably acknowledges that he's pretty sure he only got the Gilmore audition because of nepotism.
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I'm scared that if I start acting that I'll get accused of nepotism which is my nightmare.
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"I don't think the answer is cut and dry on anti-nepotism," Painter told The Daily Beast.
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Garden-variety nepotism like a city commissioner employing her daughter as chief deputy barely raises an eyebrow.
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And she was fired by the board after it accused her of nepotism, which she freely admitted.
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Many Lebanese are resigned to the idea that patronage networks and unchecked nepotism will remain the norm.
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The appointment sparked questions about conflicts of interest, with some saying it violated the anti-nepotism statute.
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Nepotism is a nationwide problem in Thailand, and the country still lacks infrastructure needed for social mobility.
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As with many such programs, privilege, connections and nepotism were often at least as important as ability.
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It's called nepotism, and it's clearly outlawed under the City Charter, New York's equivalent of a constitution.
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The public sector remains bloated; old Greek habits of cronyism and nepotism are too encrusted to extirpate.
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Indeed, Philippine democracy — with its reign of celebrity, dynasties and nepotism — is the opposite of a meritocracy.
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She and Mr. Kushner have examined how he could join the administration without violating anti-nepotism laws.
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At this point, Hunter Biden looks like he's guilty of greed, maybe nepotism, but not much else.
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For many, the bus crash has come to symbolize larger problems of poor governance, nepotism and corruption.
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But critics argue that even if Trump is legally in compliance with anti-nepotism laws, it's not enough.
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Because I'd be accused of nepotism even though I'm not sure there's anybody more competent in the world.
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Though Kushner will be heavily involved, anti-nepotism laws could prevent him from holding an official federal job.
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New York governor and angry ball of nepotism Andrew Cuomo has already capitulated, welcoming Trump with open arms.
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The whole system was penetrated by the spirit of boot-licking, persecution of dissidents, window-dressing and nepotism.
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He was given sweeping powers to investigate misappropriation of funds, embezzlement, bribery, nepotism and any other corrupt practices.
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His platform opposes what he describes as the state government's political nepotism, corruption and misuse of government funds.
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There is plenty of nepotism in the industry, but "Immunity" proves that Cottrill didn't deserve the Internet's ire.
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"That's why so many companies have policies against nepotism, which applies to married couples and relatives," says Taylor.
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Before it joins the EU, Montenegro must first root out organized crime, corruption, nepotism, bureaucracy and red tape.
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" Mr. Hall, whose grandfather, father, uncles and son went to Amherst, archly calls himself "a powerhouse of nepotism.
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Trump cannot formally hire his family members as employees in his White House because of anti-nepotism laws.
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It removes that nepotism that is inherent to all disciplines, and specifically in the creative realm right now.
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Democrats are unlikely to accept at face value the notion of a carve-out in the nepotism laws.
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Like nepotism, this kind of narcissism favors familiarity over talent, except that the person being privileged is yourself.
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But Americans' aversion to presidential nepotism has also been deep and lasting, even as presidents have tested it.
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However, I think the nepotism I benefited from was on a minor scale and done out of convenience.
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Was it simple nepotism and a foregone conclusion that you would join Hennessy and move into that position?
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The evidence at the four-week trial offered a raw, unvarnished look at dysfunction and nepotism in Albany.
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Second, there are a host of ways that presidents engage in self-dealing like nepotism under the Constitution.
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"It reeks of nepotism and good 'ol boy politics that I think everybody struggles with," Sanford told Hill.
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That think tanks will hire the most corrupt and entrenched apparatchiks to write reports about corruption and nepotism.
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Alas, she has emerged as a walking, talking reminder of why nepotism is generally considered a bad thing.
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The boom in nepotism in fashion has had a hand in killing a lot of the industry's creativity.
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Hamas also picked up on growing Palestinian criticisms of corruption, nepotism and economic mismanagement by Arafat's inner circle.
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But, it all adds up—the unsightly side of nepotism and conflicting interests has reared its ugly head.
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His pledge to tackle corruption and nepotism raises hopes of a long-term fix of governance and public institutions.
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Instead, he filed a wrongful termination lawsuit alleging nepotism and waste along with four other former Hyperloop One employees.
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But now, as then, there will be political backlash if the President overreaches in circumventing the anti-nepotism statute.
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Either way, questions will remain as to whether the appointment violates the spirit of the anti-nepotism law. 6.
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She is estranged from her younger sister and brother—so as to be immune to nepotism, she has said.
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The furbo knows how to jump queues, dodge taxes and play systems of nepotism and patronage like a Stradivarius.
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For the past three years Mr Sirisena has blasted Mr Rajapaksa for alleged nepotism, corruption and human-rights abuses.
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The Justice Department ruled that federal anti-nepotism laws don't apply to the president's choice of White House advisers.
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Joel ends the encounter telling the owner that Ricky doesn't deserve his job (of course, nepotism is to blame).
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Mr. Trump's racism, bullying, misogyny, nepotism, crudity and warmongering don't inspire doubts; they are part of his perverse appeal.
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But debate moderator and decent nepotism hire Chris Wallace may try to push the debate off this expected script.
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These and other circumstances raise a persistent question in the media: Is Trump violating the federal anti-nepotism statute?
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First, the nepotism limitation may be an unconstitutional violation of the Appointments Clause (Article II, Section 2, Clause 2).
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Egyptian tradition, he thinks, is tainted by a culture of bribe-paying, nepotism and other behaviour banned by religion.
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In fact, she disinvited her dad, fearing a "media frenzy" and accusations of nepotism if she were to attend.
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The whole system was penetrated by the spirit of boot-licking, persecution of dissidents, clannishness, window-dressing and nepotism.
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The governor's deputy and information minister both resigned in May, accusing Mr. Ali of nepotism and misuse of funds.
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But anti-nepotism laws could keep Kushner, the husband of Trump daughter Ivanka Trump from an official federal job.
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Trump's nepotism would be easier to overlook if Ivanka and Jared had a net positive impact on the country.
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That time Ivanka briefly took her dad's seat at the G20 summit was enough nepotism controversy for one administration.
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Analysts also say that privatization won't solve the corruption problems like graft and nepotism that have plagued the utility.
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The endorsements from famous compatriots would stink of nepotism were there not a hint of Eazy-E to TeeCee.
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Since Algeria's independence in 1962, sadly, nepotism and corruption have remained the core tools of this model of governance.
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It's all ... Now, it's not nepotism because you actually get a lot of ... the audience seems to like you.
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No, nepotism would be a blot on Payton's Master Plan, which has only one final destination: The White House.
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While nepotism is legal in the French political system, it is not clear that she actually did any work.
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But it is not too late to avoid further damage to the conflicts rules and the anti-nepotism ones.
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As they rise, Thrawn and Vanto navigate the waters of Imperial politics and society, prevailing against ingrained nepotism and corruption.
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He even struck a blow against nepotism in government, turning down his nephew's request to be named a US attorney.
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Mr Rosselló might also have found ways to assuage voters who grumbled that his government presided over nepotism and corruption.
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History does not provide much confidence, though, that either the President or his family will resist the lure of nepotism.
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But federal anti-nepotism laws brought into question whether he could continue his influence in the President's life post-election.
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He has also appointed several friends and business associates to positions in government, but he has denied accusations of nepotism.
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Some argue that the American elite is functionally an old-fashioned aristocracy that owes its income to nepotism and opportunism.
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I accepted that, just as I accepted when I came into the industry that nepotism is a part of it.
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Opposition lawmakers have also sought to block Eduardo Bolsonaro becoming Brazil's envoy in Washington by introducing a bill against nepotism.
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"I was there because of me and not because of, you know, nepotism," he told IndieWire about landing the part.
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Hyperloop One has settled a lawsuit that accused top executives of cronyism, nepotism, misuse of funds and allegations of harassment.
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He points out this isn't a case of Hollywood nepotism ... "little Michael" won the role after an extensive interview process.
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They painted a picture of nepotism and influence-peddling, much of it involving lucrative construction contracts handed to party favourites.
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Democratic outcry against nepotism within the Trump administration could prompt them to sign on to anti-settlement legislation, he said.
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Ranged against him is the royalist and military establishment, which accuses Thaksin of poisoning Thai politics with nepotism and corruption.
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Just as often, they grew unhappy with the long hours, disorganization, hypocritical leadership, nepotism, and discrimination they say they endured.
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Ties That Bind: Part 1 This is the first part of an editorial series on nepotism in the White House.
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Ties That Bind: Part 3 This is the third part of an editorial series on nepotism in the White House.
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Ties That Bind: Part 2 This is the second part of an editorial series on nepotism in the White House.
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He's raised the money to keep it going," she said, adding, "When you found something, how can it be nepotism?
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Sirleaf, who despite being criticized for nepotism and failing to address endemic corruption, is often credited with Liberia's postwar turnaround.
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It will cover aspects like ensuring the names of laureates under consideration are kept secret, conflicts of interest, and nepotism.
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But worse still is the secrecy, misinformation, conflicts of interest, nepotism, cronyism and vitriol that characterize the Trump White House.
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Until recently, hip-hop was too young for nepotism: its stars found more success disavowing elders than looking toward them.
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Mr. Ghani came into office with a promise of cleaning up what he called a mess of corruption and nepotism.
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"Nepotism is part of French institutional genetics," said Matthieu Caron, an expert on government ethics at the University of Valenciennes.
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The sense of entitlement, and indeed nepotism, is an inheritance of the country's monarchical culture, political experts and historians say.
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He has also allowed Mr. Mubarak's closest allies, many fabulously wealthy through nepotism and corruption, to return to civilian life.
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But he decided not to accept the post after questions were raised about nepotism and a possible conflict of interest.
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Barred from teaching there due to nepotism rules, Westphal studied ceramics, and also began developing a line of textile prints.
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PREPA has also faced accusations of corruption and nepotism in its management, leading the island's utility to neglect its responsibilities.
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And still, both of them are less powerful than someone like Farrell's millionaire, Mulligan, a product of white privilege and nepotism.
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However, she has not yet spoken publicly at all -- at events or in media interviews — since her father assumed office. Nepotism?
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He'd also have to find a way around a 1967 anti-nepotism statute that bars even presidents from hiring family members.
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Those who didn't get the point needed only to consult Donald Trump Jr., who complained that Hunter Biden benefited from nepotism.
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It's a microcosm of the same Trumpworld shamelessness that has suddenly converted Donald Trump Jr. into an outspoken opponent of nepotism.
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Against Thaksin is the royalist and military establishment, which accuses him of poisoning politics with nepotism and corruption, charges he denies.
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In resolving the suit, Hyperloop One brings to a close a high-profile drama featuring allegations of harassment, conspiracy and nepotism.
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Of the 62 countries tracked in 2212-213 by Global Integrity, an NGO, 220 had rules against "nepotism, cronyism and patronage".
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"President Trump got an opinion from the Justice Department that the nepotism statute doesn't apply to his White House," Eisen continued.
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It's a populace metal, and knowing the Oscars' devotion to wealth, nepotism, and self-conceived faux aristocracy unintentionally explains its banishment.
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Nepotism, sexism, feminism, and plenty of other -isms are at play, so it's sure to be a thrilling take on Fitzgerald.
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Nepotism at the White House is hardly the most urgent or dangerous scandal in the administration, but it's a scandal nonetheless.
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Federal anti-nepotism laws weren't written with the assumption that it would be the president installing family members in key posts.
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Rama urged his party to engage with those who were angry, to "boost capacities" and to banish nepotism from public administration.
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When Colbert's jokes make obvious points (about nepotism, say), they feel weightless, but bolder ones (about Putin murdering journalists) feel trivializing.
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We and others have expressed concerns about the nepotism inherent in this arrangement when so many people are qualified to serve.
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Trump's self-dealing and nepotism are obvious weak points, but he can parry Biden's attacks on that front by citing Hunter.
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Dagestan is a predominantly Muslim region between Chechnya and the Caspian Sea and is known for, among other things, widespread nepotism.
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I am not sure, however, if avoiding nepotism as an applicant would do anything to put a stop to the practice.
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He also saw shades of nepotism, because the incumbent creative partner at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, Simon Armitage, wrote that play.
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But be wary of blaming nepotism, even though Shanahan was the first hire his father, Mike, made after being named coach.
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Yes, Mr. Mayor, as we've explained before, that's because paying her would be nepotism, and it's illegal under the City Charter.
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We should prioritize hiring fire chiefs who are fully committed to dismantling nepotism and tackling those professional traditions that degrade opportunity.
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"One can help your children in this business, and the nepotism works, and I have no problems with it," he said.
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"There was no nepotism — I wanted this relationship with the dog," Cooper told PEOPLE last week at the film's Los Angeles premiere.
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" He added that he had not received any "official" invitation yet and dismissed any claims that his possible nomination would be "nepotism.
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Ranged against him is the royalist and military establishment, which accuses Thaksin of poisoning politics with nepotism and corruption, charges he denies.
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Mr Bolsonaro nominated another son, Eduardo, to be Brazil's ambassador to the United States, adding nepotism to his administration's list of sins.
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He had said she would be "incredible" in the role and acknowledged he would be accused of nepotism if he nominated her.
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"There was no nepotism — I wanted this relationship with the dog," Cooper told PEOPLE at the film's Los Angeles premiere in October.
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Professional photographers were outraged at the choice, crying "nepotism" and explaining that hiring such an inexperienced photographer cheapens their skills and experiences.
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Six years after Kennedy's appointment of his brother, Congress passed a federal anti-nepotism law that was nicknamed the "Bobby Kennedy Law".
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His bumbling tenure was one example of the nepotism that plagues Iran, which ranks near the bottom of Transparency International's corruption index.
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For every story like Casio, there are plenty of others where the nepotism approach has a negative effect on a company's future.
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Defenders of nepotism—for they do exist—argue that close relatives are able to offer presidents more candid advice than any outsider.
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Here is a list of people who have criticized Hunter Biden of Nepotism in the last 24 hours:Presented to you by 23andMe.
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While anti-nepotism laws may complicate an appointment to a paid White House position, Trump could still find some role for Kushner.
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The commentator didn't only talk about Trump, though - he also went in on "triumph of double nepotism" Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
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Trump raised nepotism concerns by naming his daughter Ivanka Trump's husband, Jared Kushner, to a senior advisory role in the White House.
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This was often leaned on as an obvious storytelling tool for Cody Rhodes, but he brought more than nepotism to the table.
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Washington (CNN)Eric Trump defended his role at the head of the Trump Organization in an interview, revealing his thoughts on nepotism.
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However, the bank rebutted the nepotism charges in March and said the board had "full confidence and reposes full faith" in Kochhar.
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In short, it's unfathomable Ivanka would be one of the most powerful people in the White House if nepotism wasn't at play.
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The challenger parties, arguing that the Jugnauth family's rule has been marked by nepotism and corruption, appealed to voters to choose change.
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Competence before nepotism has been the guiding light of her choices, she said, as she prepared her team of City Hall councilors.
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Even more rage about corruption, which blights every industry and activity, and about nepotism, which rewards connections over talent and hard work.
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The great danger of Trumpian nepotism is the corruption of American democracy, but it's also a threat to the Trump clan itself.
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Earlier this year, the Justice Department said Trump could hire Kushner as a senior White House advisor without breaking anti-nepotism laws.
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IF YOU LOOK AT PRIVATE BUSINESSES, YOU LOOK AT THEIR PRODUCTIVITY, THEY'RE MUCH HIGHER UNLESS THERE'S NEPOTISM, BUT A FAMILY-OWNED BUSINESS.
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A spokesman for the governor denied the group's accusation that he was "showing nepotism and favouritism in the sharing of government resources".
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The president is specifically mentioned in the anti-nepotism statute, and it explicitly lists daughters and sons-in-law as prohibited employees.
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During the early 1960s, John F. Kennedy's brother Robert served as his AG -- an appointment that led to understandable charges of nepotism.
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Nepotism — from the Latin for nephew — occurs when we give a resource to a relative while overlooking people who are more deserving.
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Ms. Sirleaf herself appointed three sons to key government positions; she maintains they were qualified, but the perception of nepotism has stuck.
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Nepotism is common: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have senior jobs in their father's and father-in-law's White House, for instance.
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He used his mother's name, in its masculine form, professionally to avoid the appearance of nepotism, according to the Bolshoi Theater website.
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When John Adams appointed his son, John Quincy Adams, as U.S. minister to Prussia in 1797, he was widely accused of nepotism.
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Long-established democracies are different: They have traditions and regulations in place that set clear limits on nepotism and clan-based politics.
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But the nepotism has many investors concerned, said Peter Westmacott, who served as former British ambassador to Turkey from 2002 to 2006.
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She is mired in controversy over nepotism that has seen 20 of her family members appointed to her government, including three sons.
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The army seized power after months of unrest saying it needed to restore order and rid Thai politics of corruption and nepotism.
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He allowed his daughter and son-in-law to work in the White House in arguable violation of an anti-nepotism statute.
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Biden addressed Trump's allegations of nepotism and corruption related to work by the former vice president's son Hunter in Ukraine and China.
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His pious endorsement of an executive order related to anti-Semitism or any other matter reeks of nepotism and self-serving obsequiousness.
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On September 25th she was asked if she would outlaw the kind of nepotism that probably got his son his Ukrainian gig.
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The students say they are pushing for a Thai meritocracy to replace what they see as corruption and nepotism in the system.
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The world saw unabashed narcissism, nepotism, and moral emptiness in an administration that has so far failed to secure any major international agreements.
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Such an incident did not seem to be just another clumsy manifestation of garden-variety nepotism, as bad as that aspect might be.
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Nepotism is nothing new in the history of the US presidency, although the Trump administration looks as though it may be especially susceptible.
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Ivanka's new job as White House advisor may be unpaid, due to federal nepotism laws, but it does compensate very well in power.
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Almost every single time that the prospect of nepotism rears its head in the Trump White House, officials are quick to deny it.
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That put him a point ahead of conservative candidate Fillon, whose campaign has struggled as he seeks to defend himself from nepotism allegations.
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Meanwhile, the president said his daughter Ivanka would be "dynamite" as the next UN ambassador, but you know, there's that pesky nepotism thing.
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Fueled by the nepotism in hiring that creates the ineffective HR organizations that have facilitated the implosions at Uber, Zenefits and 500 Startups .
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According to this view, elites don't even need nepotism — they are using preexisting wealth and inheritance to rebuild an old-fashioned feudal class.
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When Troy gets the chance to see life from the other side, he's far less against nepotism and wealth than he was before.
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"Nepotism is kind of a factor of life," Trump told Forbes in his Trump Tower office in a February interview that posted Tuesday.
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But in order to avoid anti-nepotism laws, the children were often put on the payroll of the RNC or DNC, Wead said.
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But Algerians have since lost patience with unsuccessful efforts to reduce unemployment, ease daily hardships and tackle high-level unaccountability, corruption and nepotism.
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Cuomo, an angry ball of nepotism, wasn't initially suspected to be involved—in fact, he wasn't even asked about it for three months.
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Bush, the product of nepotism, is running for president and desperately seeking a VP who can teach him the ropes of the job.
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The challenger parties, arguing that the Jugnauth family's rule has been marked by nepotism and corruption, had appealed to voters to choose change.
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Republicans' accept Trump's nepotism because they need his help to deliver on their promises to repeal Obamacare and cut taxes for the rich.
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The Trumps already know that, but they could soon discover how a "beautiful thing" like nepotism can turn uglier than they ever imagined.
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Modi said the constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir had encouraged corruption and nepotism, while creating injustice for women, children and minority communities.
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Mr. Jahangiri and the president's brother, Hossein Fereydoun, stand accused of nepotism and cronyism for placing relatives and friends in top executive positions.
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In a country where nepotism is rife, and government jobs and their perks come for life, bin Salman could have arrested many more.
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The decision hinted that the anti-nepotism statute might not have been meant to apply to the White House or to unpaid positions.
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The meeting comes as Mr. Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, seeks a way to join the administration without violating anti-nepotism laws.
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In the posts, made over several months, Nyanzi also accused Museveni - often in colourful language - of nepotism, extravagance, corruption and human rights violations.
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As he ordered, I saw the hope in his eyes that he'd get extra, and I panicked: I'd learned about nepotism in school.
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She also gave a promotion to her twin sister — who had worked for years in the attorney general's office — prompting accusations of nepotism.
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She's awful at this, but that makes her an excellent fit for an administration in which mediocrity, inadequate experience and nepotism run rampant.
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His own administration has seen dramatic cases of self-dealing, official grifting, Cabinet secretaries living high on the government dole, and nepotism galore.
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ICICI's long-serving Chief Executive Chanda Kochhar has also been battling allegations of nepotism in a loan the bank gave to the Videocon conglomerate.
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The fact that Lee family members occupy high positions in state bodies has nothing to do with nepotism but with talent and selfless energies.
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"There's some room to disagree on that, and I don't know what the right thing is," he said, referring to the anti-nepotism statute.
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Pitted against Thaksin and his allies is the royalist and military establishment which accused him of nepotism and abuse of power, accusations he denied.
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The ethnic fault lines deliberately created by successive Sudanese governments have worsened with the divisive ethnocentrism and nepotism of the Kiir government in Juba.
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But Obama did not set a precedent for authoritarian rule or kleptocracy or nepotism or any of the horrors Trump is promising to unleash.
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He'll also likely face questions about his decision to appoint son-in-law Jared Kushner as a senior adviser despite federal anti-nepotism laws.
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Opposition lawmakers have also sought to block Eduardo Bolsonaro becoming Brazil's envoy in Washington by introducing a bill against nepotism in the public administration.
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The most passionate lament of the Arab Spring was nepotism, and the primary demand of protestors was the decoupling of political and economic power.
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Modi's government has said the measure is necessary to defeat terrorism, reduce corruption and nepotism, speed up development, and integrate Kashmir fully into India.
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The political turmoil has highlighted growing public discontent with the allegations of corruption, nepotism and economic mismanagement that have tarnished Bouteflika's 20-year rule.
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This doesn't guarantee good policy — George W. Bush's Cabinet was pretty damn qualified on paper — but it is a basic guard against excessive nepotism.
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Yet even when taking Anthony's flaws and contract status into account, there is seemingly no plausible explanation for turning this down other than nepotism.
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I wonder if, also in Trump, we see a more uncouth and vulgar echo of another idea that the Democrats brought us: benevolent nepotism.
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An "exception" to an anti-nepotism law could allow Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, to hold formal roles in the White House.
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Allegations of nepotism, emoluments violations, channeling business to Trump properties and more have already painted a picture of a President doggedly pursuing self-interest.
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What ensues is a lot of shady corporate dealings, familial nepotism, cutthroat sibling rivalry, and big money power moves that leave behind many casualties.
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Enamored of loyalty and deaf to charges of nepotism and conflict of interest, he has kept his kids in a tight circle around him.
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To the Editor: Leaving aside issues of nepotism and Ivanka Trump's lack of qualifications, is it not telling that our president requires such intervention?
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Mr. Fereydoun, a former ambassador to Malaysia, has long been considered a potential political vulnerability for Mr. Rouhani over allegations of nepotism and cronyism.
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For a year, I worked for a company founded by the daughter of a venture capitalist who notoriously and proudly boasted about his nepotism.
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The board had initially backed Kochhar, calling the nepotism allegations against her "malicious and unfounded", but later instituted the probe into the matter in June.
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Washington (CNN)Ivanka Trump's growing role in her father's administration directly conflicts with his past statements and renews questions about nepotism in the White House.
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Others, however, said the appointment could make it more difficult for international banks to do business with Sonangol, given the perception of nepotism it creates.
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Chelsea Clinton is not seen as individually accomplished as Ivanka and has been hit with criticism for apparent nepotism in securing some high-paying jobs.
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But leftist Jean-Luc Melenchon has seen his ratings surge and conservative Francois Fillon, damaged by a nepotism scandal, has also regained some lost ground.
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Against the backdrop of Depression New York, with a collapsing private sector, 25 percent unemployment and imploding tax revenues, this was shocking profligacy and nepotism.
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Trump has ignored repeated calls to release his tax returns, stoking concerns about conflicts of interest in his foreign policy and nepotism in his administration.
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Their leader, former Belgian premier Guy Verhofstadt, evoked the case of Juncker's compatriot Jacques Santer, whose Commission was ousted in 1999 over a nepotism scandal.
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From bringing home such an amazing win to tainting it by hanging out with Kremlin Barbie – the epitome of greed, bigotry, nepotism and slave labor?
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The latest scandal surrounding President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency administrator has it all: Cheap housing, forceful door-breaking, nepotism, and questions about negotiated bribery.
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Instead of starting a conversation about corruption and nepotism, Walsh has started one about clothes, and in the process she has reinforced old patriarchal narratives.
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Modi accused Gandhi of nepotism, and having no other qualifications other than the fact that he was born to a family of previous Indian rulers.
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As corruption and nepotism threaten the hope of Ukraine's revolution, journalists are being told that they are helping the enemy just by doing their jobs.
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Business Insider's investigation uncovered a long list of issues including mandatory alcohol-fueled company retreats, apparent nepotism, and discrimination employees say they witnessed or endured.
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She doesn't have a choice — a 13 anti-nepotism law prohibits public officials, including the president, from hiring or promoting a relative within the government.
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That three-judge opinion discussed whether President Bill Clinton violated the anti-nepotism statute when he allowed his wife to head a health care panel.
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Early hopes about Virginia Raggi, who was elected mayor last year on an anti-establishment agenda, promptly faded amid familiar allegations of corruption and nepotism.
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The federal anti-nepotism law was adopted in 85033, six years after President John F. Kennedy tapped his brother, Robert, to serve as attorney general.
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"These are allegations of abuse of power, subversion of due process, cronyism and nepotism," Kirsten Han, an activist and journalist, wrote in a popular blog.
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They also question the image he is projecting of an outsider and military commander not involved in the political mismanagement, corruption and nepotism plaguing the country.
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"[Nepotism] is a heavy thing for anyone whose parents are actors and in the very beginning I didn't want to tread on his patch," she said.
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"[Nepotism] is a heavy thing for anyone whose parents are actors and in the very beginning I didn't want to tread on his patch," Kate said.
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Chris, Pennsylvania: According to federal law, nepotism is illegal, so why isn't anyone pressing this issue against Trump's appointment of his children to high-ranking positions?
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"One can help your children in this business, and the nepotism works, and I have no problems with it," the Shameless star, 69, told Entertainment Tonight.
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Democrats were quick to seize on the reports of Trump's interest in getting security clearance for his children, expressing concerns and hurling accusations of nepotism. Rep.
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Her writers' room is stacked with white guys, some of whom were hired thanks to nepotism, and most of whom have never interacted with Katherine directly.
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But leftist firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon has seen his ratings surge and conservative Francois Fillon, damaged by a nepotism scandal, has also regained some lost ground.
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Everyone knows this, yet still you have all these disgruntled writers scapegoating diversity programs instead of talking about the real issue at hand, which is nepotism.
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These problems include a lack of faith in the party, lax discipline, fraud and corruption, "money worship", nepotism, and a trade in official positions, Xi said.
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His opponents sought to block the nomination by introducing a bill in Congress against nepotism within public administration, but it has not yet been voted on.
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Students from the top 1 percent of households overwhelmingly dominate elite colleges and universities, despite the fact that bribery and nepotism are much less the norm.
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" Specifically, Brogan alleged that Shervin Pishevar and Lonsdale, though they were largely "uninvolved in day-to-day matters," practiced nepotism and "wasted the company's previous cash.
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NBC News' Andrea Mitchell also reported that anti-nepotism laws could prevent Kushner, the husband of Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump, from holding an official federal job.
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She suspended her son and 45 other government officials in 2012 for failing to declare their assets to anti-corruption authorities and faced accusations of nepotism.
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If Kushner takes an official position in the administration — and he's hired lawyers who say he could, despite anti-nepotism laws — he will be more constrained.
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The blatant act of nepotism dogged Frank Murkowski, who went on in 2006 to face Palin in a primary challenge for governor, which she easily won.
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Their missteps and melodramas make for comic gold, but the film has dark twists that are honest about the nepotism, depression and sexism in the army.
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But anti-nepotism laws could prevent Kushner, the husband of Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump, from holding an official federal job, NBC News' Andrea Mitchell reported Tuesday.
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Mahinda Rajapaksa lost power in January 2015 after a campaign in which he faced allegations of misusing public funds and nepotism during his 10-year rule.
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Our system of admittance is a decades old program based largely on nepotism and family ties, rather than any logical system of governance that benefits Americans.
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He was creating fictitious jobs in his office in order to put his sister on the payroll, as she couldn't be employed under state nepotism laws.
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A three-part series addressed the history of nepotism and politics and provided close looks at the worrisome roles of both Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
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Still, presidents throughout history have been tempted to hire their relatives, so much so that 50 years ago Congress finally passed a law forbidding such nepotism.
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Firming up the anti-nepotism law to cover White House advisers has been criticized as an infringement on a president's right to seek private personal counsel.
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We don't want a president who makes his version of make-believe real, and who looks with favor on deceit, hypocrisy, conflict of interest and nepotism.
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Twenty-one-year-old rapper Kristoffer Eriemo, one of loads of artists who played a – low-key nepotism alert – VICE Norway festival afterparty on the Wednesday.
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Nepotism, egregious conflicts of interest, flights on the public dime to see Wimbledon and the eclipse — the Beltway wetlands are now wilder and murkier than ever.
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Furthermore, since the first lady is eligible for office by virtue of being married to the president, greater politicization inevitably bumps up against charges of nepotism.
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Concerns about nepotism are, if anything, stronger in a White House appointment, where multiple close advisers and fragile hierarchies can easily become snarled by family allegiances.
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They are part of a significant contingent – including a "No For Now" movement – that opposes Mr. Barzani, and accuses his government of corruption, incompetence and nepotism.
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The articles chronicled dysfunction and incompetence within the department, corruption and nepotism at the tribal level, and misallocation of funds at Indian reservations around the country.
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If nepotism and corruption in one's foundation and business are just the way of the world, then why was the Clinton Foundation suspected of possible wrongdoing?
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Any presidential election campaign by Ms. Nazarbayeva would likely revive that chapter, which opened a window on nepotism, corruption and other sordid practices within Kazakhstan's elite.
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Janet Jackson was released two months before Thriller and though nepotism got her in the door, she would prove it wasn't what would make her stay.
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The suit involving Bam Brogan alleges the company was riven with nepotism, mismanagement and toxicity and names Lloyd as well as its co-founder Shervin Pishevar.
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Montenegro, the newest NATO member, wants to join the European Union, though it must first reform the rule of law and eradicate corruption, nepotism and red tape.
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Washington (CNN)The Justice Department concluded Friday that Jared Kushner serving in his father-in-law's administration would not be a violation of federal anti-nepotism laws.
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Obviously, I was very wary of my father being a producer on my work 'cause I was already thoughtful enough about nepotism and being accused of it.
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She's not a fan of shows based on comic books, and even though he's a Netflix exec, nepotism wouldn't have been enough to make her tune in.
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Despite comparisons to Kendrick Lamar, who is labelmates with Smoke's brother SiR on TDE, the rapper is less interested in the nepotism attached to his brother's success.
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Its lawyers concluded that the federal nepotism law doesn't apply to Mr Kushner, because the White House is not an agency and therefore exempt from the law.
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The court was acting in response to a case filed by 14 Angolan lawyers who accused the president of nepotism and violation of the Angolan probity law.
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Their anger was fed by the rise of anti-liberalism, the lack of an independent judiciary, a surge in crime and a return of corruption and nepotism.
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A paper by Francisco Pérez-González of the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México finds that "nepotism hurts [firm] performance by limiting the scope of labour-market competition".
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And though it might be seen as nepotism (Schwartzman is Coppola's cousin), Schwartzman occupies the part with a sad clown grace that eventually leads to quiet resolve.
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" In a nod to his father, late actor Lloyd Bridges, and mother, late actress Dorothy Bridges, the star said, "I'm a product of luck and of nepotism.
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Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage said his appointment was "the perfect stitch-up", an example of "nepotism" that showed Britain was right to be quitting the European Union.
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But the basis for such exquisite, filial privacy (wherein, presumably, RFK would have willingly taken a congressional contempt finding) won't reoccur — the anti-nepotism statute bars it.
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Added to this are accusations of nepotism after the president appointed her three sons to major posts in the government, albeit they were qualified for those positions.
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A group of lawyers has filed a lawsuit accusing the president of nepotism and violating Angolan probity by appointing her as head of the state oil firm.
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While he may not have voting control, charismatic founders like Neumann will still have his loyalists throughout the company, especially given how much nepotism occurred at We.
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Neumann presided over a company in which mandatory parties, nepotism, and over-the-top behavior flourished, according to an in-depth Business Insider report published on Sunday.
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Others are placed there by nepotism, advertiser or political connections, and this tends to dumb down the news programs and the general credibility of the professional journalists.
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Conventional wisdom long held that America's free market would never tolerate the sort of clientelism, nepotism, and outright theft that prevailed in places like Brazil and Italy.
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Critics might still knock the move as some kind of national nepotism, and Bradley's nationality surely played a role, but not in the way many might suspect.
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The initial findings of an internal legal study carried out by the president's office showed that top-ranking appointments, like those of ambassador, do not constitute nepotism.
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Appalling as it is, White House nepotism is only one element of Mr. Trump's broader determination to install unqualified friends, patrons and political lackeys across the government.
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Voltron Thunderstorm from Wilmington said nepotism was fair only in certain situations: Yes, I think that family connections should definitely be used to receive a job opportunity.
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Even so, accusations of nepotism surrounded the project, especially after Henry resigned from Congress 19 months later, rejoined the park commission and became its president in 1865.
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For decades, they criticized the secular elite for nepotism and corruption, for weaponizing the judiciary and for using the news media to demonize and intimidate their opponents.
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The players' union was also undercut by infighting that led to the ouster of Hunter after an audit charged him with nepotism and abuse of union resources.
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A former employee featured in his 2017 report said Celadon leadership "fostered a toxic work culture where nepotism and a lack of accountability are rampant," Asbahi wrote.
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Sirisena and Wickramasinghe had originally joined forces to defeat Rajapaksa, who was unceremoniously voted out of office in 2015, amid allegations of corruption, nepotism and war crimes.
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Further research online would show that he's famous for his blatant nepotism, and engaging in what has been characterized in court as attempted blackmail of a charter school.
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Discussions are still ongoing about whether it's possible to give the couple official titles in a way that would be appropriate and permissible under ethics and nepotism rules.
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William H. Macy said he had "no problems" with nepotism in Hollywood years before wife Felicity Huffman was arrested as part of an alleged college admissions bribery scam.
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The effect of this is to propagate a collaborator's genes collaterally, in a way that sociologists might refer to as nepotism, instead of directly from parent to offspring.
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Excluding relatives from official posts, though, hardly solves the nepotism problem; even when relatives do not occupy policymaking positions, they can still have a considerable impact on policy.
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Donald Trump's going to name his son-in-law Jared Kushner as a senior adviser, in a move sure to test the limits of federal anti-nepotism laws.
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The Shinawatras had commanded huge support by courting rural voters, helping them to win every general election since 2001, but their foes accused them of corruption and nepotism.
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" Her alleged claim ignores the fact that the president appointed her as his senior adviser, in a move that Cindy McCain and other critics have denounced as "nepotism.
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Fillon - an early favorite before his campaign hit the rocks following nepotism allegations that he has denied - scored 20 percent, meaning he was now gaining on Le Pen.
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In the union ranks, rampant nepotism and byzantine work rules mean it may take longer for a black aspirant to become a makeup artist than a heart surgeon.
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A 2013 report from the New York City Investigation Department found that the board was plagued by nepotism, badly trained poll workers and error-prone voter-removal procedures.
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"The very fact that his daughter is senior adviser smacks of the kind of nepotism not seen since John F. Kennedy named Robert F. Kennedy as attorney general."
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"The old arrangement in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh encouraged corruption, nepotism but there was injustice when it came to rights of women, children, Dalits, tribal communities," Modi said.
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Mr. Suzuki denied that he was seeking to promote his son, saying that he was "stunned" to hear rumors that nepotism was behind his battle with Mr. Isaka.
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Tens of thousands have taken to the streets of Algiers for more than a month, complaining of corruption, nepotism and economic mismanagement they say has tarnished Bouteflika's rule.
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And, Conyers' son is likely to face off against Conyers' great nephew in the race to replace him -- taking the whole nepotism thing down a few notches. Still!
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More to the point, the stunning disarray, nepotism, score-settling and incompetence of the Trump transition effort make clear that your administration will not be "assisting" a transition.
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Mr. Buhari also hired a national health insurance executive who was being investigated by Nigeria's anti-graft agency on suspicion of approving shady contracts and engaging in nepotism.
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Part of it may be nepotism — Trump has a history of trying to reward people who say nice things about him or are polite to him in-person.
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"The old arrangement in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh encouraged corruption, nepotism but there was injustice when it came to rights of women, children, Dalits, tribal communities," said Modi.
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"At the start of 'Reformasi', people said we have to be free of corruption, collusion and nepotism, but now public officials are still caught red handed," he said.
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And now that man and his spawn — born into nefariousness and groomed by nepotism — are waging an all-out war on the country he is supposed to lead.
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And since Trump has made clear that he will relentlessly go after family, it only makes sense to draw attention to the overwhelming nepotism in the White House.
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In other words, the crisis lies less in the specific actions than in the fact that they seem to be driven by nepotism, personal loyalty, and sometimes ethnonationalism.
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It successfully charts the way Amy's attempts to rise within the Cloud 143 hierarchy are initially stymied by an unqualified white guy who's granted his role through nepotism.
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According to GAN Integrity: "Political corruption constitutes a challenge to fair business as politicians use their positions to gain benefits, and practices of nepotism and cronyism are widespread."
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The downfall of long-serving autocrat Suharto in 229 - amid a crisis widely blamed on a culture of nepotism and graft - brought an end to a regime of repression.
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And Graham also said that he approved of Trump's apparent moves to install his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as an adviser, despite the controversy and charges of nepotism.
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Even so, if Mr Trump wishes to avoid accusations of nepotism, he would be wise not to appoint his son-in-law, Jared Kushner (pictured), as his senior adviser.
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Today, Mr Brentin goes on, Croatian football is the last bastion of "Tudjmanite institutions", by which he means that it is dominated by strongmen, riddled with nepotism and corrupt.
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Having his son on the board of a company with some of Ukraine's most corrupt figures makes the former Vice President vulnerable to accusations of nepotism and selective judgment.
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Kushner's plan to sell many of his assets to his brother and a family trust still leaves questions over conflicts of interest and the applicability of anti-nepotism laws.
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The president has never seen anything wrong with nepotism, and so he saw no reason not to port the practice over from his business career to his politics one.
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There are many lessons Trump could take from Richard Nixon's behavior about what not to do as president -- flouting nepotism in the Oval Office is only one among many.
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Corruption and nepotism: The Constitution prohibits the president from receiving any "emolument" from a state and prohibits anyone from receiving payments from foreign governments without the consent of Congress.
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The IMF defines corruption as "the abuse of public office for private gain" which can transpire in various ways like payments of bribes, embezzlement, nepotism and conflicts of interest.
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In the end, that division isn't so clean, and her successes can't be evaluated without the reality of nepotism, which is a card Shiv plays every chance she gets.
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But instead, hours after he was inaugurated in January, the Justice Department declared in a 14-page opinion that the new president was exempt from the anti-nepotism law.
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Working from Phoenix, who better to trust as his on-site executive than his son, Bryan, who is reportedly in line for the general manager's job, nepotism implications aside?
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Nepotism occurs in many fields; friends and family of New York City police officers often carry Patrolmen's Benevolent Association cards, which may confer special treatment in a traffic stop.
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Nepotism is a heavy charge to throw around, especially when Austin Rivers has previously gone on record claiming that he and his father are not close outside of basketball.
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The arrangement has prompted accusations of nepotism and self-dealing even after Mr. Granger's role changed in the fall to oversee more specific aspects of the flood control project.
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And his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, appears to view M.B.S. as a kindred spirit; both, after all, are rich millennials making world-altering decisions thanks to extreme nepotism.
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I don't think people would give me the part if they didn't believe in me, but at the same time, I can't imagine there isn't some nepotism going on.
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The link between Lebanon's sectarian leaders and the country's acute corruption crisis is very strong, because they use nepotism and exploit state institutions to strengthen control over their constituencies.
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" He also attacked any notion of continuity: "Instead of rewarding the best people in the organization and firing the worst, they promoted on the basis of longevity and nepotism.
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After riding into office on promises to "drain the swamp," he now appears equally untroubled by the real dangers posed by nepotism, and uninterested in following a sensible law.
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Transition officials confirmed that President-elect Donald Trump is appointing his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as a senior White House adviser, a move that could test nepotism laws.
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Despite their differences, all the candidates know the public is angry, and all have vowed to root out corruption, to fight organized crime and nepotism and to lower unemployment.
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In addition, it is not only "lawyers for Mr. Trump and Mr. Kushner" who have concluded that the anti-nepotism law does not apply to the White House Office.
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The bill would repeal the visa lottery, which was sold as a way to create immigration opportunities for those shut out by the institutionalized nepotism of family chain migration.
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John Conyers on Monday asked the Justice Department to investigate Trump's appointment of his son-in-law to a senior White House role despite a federal anti-nepotism statute.
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While a federal anti-nepotism law prohibits a president from hiring family members to serve in his administration, Kushner is set to remain a key insider and trusted confidant.
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"The legacy of socialism: To have destroyed PDVSA and the oil industry and turned it into a den of corruption and nepotism," opposition lawmaker Jose Guerra said on Twitter.
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"Bring on diversity yes, and also let's get rid of this culture of nepotism that so blatantly plagues Vogue, the industry it's in, and other industries," ex-journalist @cdunne1 writes.
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Federal law does prohibit nepotism, defined as the hiring by the President or other senior officials of a family member to an agency over which he or she has jurisdiction.
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The suit also claims that Shervin Pishevar is uninvolved in day-to-day Hyperloop One matters, that he's wasting the company's cash and that the company is rife with nepotism.
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Liberia is currently 177th out of 188 countries ranked by the U.N. human development index, and Johnson Sirleaf has faced accusations of nepotism and failing to crack down on corruption.
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In essence, Koffsky reasoned that the anti-nepotism law covers only appointments in an "executive" agency and that the White House Office is not an executive agency within the law.
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He switched to a new car service in Park Slope, which he found to be rife with nepotism: All the best jobs went to friends and family of the dispatchers.
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Government opponents at the mostly student-led protests accuse Ortega of trying to install a dictatorship characterized by corruption and nepotism along with first lady and Vice President Rosario Murillo.
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Gorelick argued that the anti-nepotism statue which applies to presidential administrations excludes the White House office where Kushner would be based, though the statute is open to different interpretations.
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Nepotism, or favoring kin, as well as the avoidance of close inbreeding is seen throughout the animal kingdom, which suggests the importance of being able to distinguish family from others.
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But Cummings isn't just trying to find out about nepotism; he wants to know what national security risks are being posed by the White House disregarding protocol around security clearances.
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Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia in 2008 but is still not recognized by Belgrade, remains one of the poorest countries in Europe and is dogged by corruption and nepotism.
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Iran's shadow economy has been a breeding ground for corruption and nepotism, and foreign companies will be wary of approaches by local "fixers" who would pay bribes on their behalf.
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The president has bent anti-nepotism laws to put his daughter and son-in-law in the house whose first occupant, John Adams, hoped only to "do a little good".
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Kushner, 35, who is married to Trump's daughter Ivanka, is taking the post after receiving legal counsel that doing so would not violate U.S. anti-nepotism law, transition officials said.
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But his appointment will test federal anti-nepotism laws and raise questions about how he plans to separate himself from his business interests in order to avoid conflicts of interest.
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But, at least for now, the rules have changed; Donald Trump doesn't seem even vaguely concerned about being accused of nepotism or typecasting his administration by race, gender, and ethnicity.
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From extravagant spending on security and travel to nepotism to allegedly destroying federal records—Pruitt racked up dozens of blatant and potential infractions over his short career at the EPA.
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Rajapaksa, who was accused of corruption, nepotism, and mismanagement of the economy during his term, has since rallied his support base of rural Sinhala Buddhists to make a political comeback.
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Trump even floated the idea of making her his new US ambassador to the UN, saying she "would be dynamite," but said he could "already hear the chants of nepotism!"
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Now that start-up, Hyperloop One, is mired in legal infighting between the two men and other former senior executives as accusations of nepotism and threats of physical harm rise.
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The former executives' lawsuit, filed in California Superior Court in Los Angeles, paints a picture of disarray and nepotism at what was one of the most aspirational start-ups around.
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All the weighty factors are still there—the Trump administration's nepotism, corruption, and obstruction; its stacking of the judiciary; and its frenzied stripping of the bark off the welfare state.
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The anti-nepotism law "would seem to block out Kushner flatly," said Norman L. Eisen, who served as Mr. Obama's ethics counsel during his transition and at the White House.
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According to the study, Nelson-Flower believes that nepotism helps to ensure the fitness of the group by allowing subordinates to inherit the dominant position, should the alpha male die.
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Satellite television and the internet spawned previously inconceivable fantasies of private wealth and consumption, even as inequality, corruption and nepotism grew and India's social hierarchies appeared as entrenched as ever.
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Self-dealing, nepotism, conflicts of interest: Donald Trump campaigned on ending that kind of corruption in Washington, then, once in office, threw open the doors of his administration to it.
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John Kennedy, too, found it helpful to reach out to the Russians through his most trusted man: his brother Robert Kennedy, appointed attorney-general in an act of breathtaking nepotism.
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Back in 2004, the "Shameless" star spoke to "Entertainment Tonight" about his willingness to utilize nepotism in order to help his and Huffman's two daughters get ahead in the industry.
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Mr. Fillon, a former prime minister, and once the presidential front-runner, had languished in polls after becoming entangled in a nepotism scandal that led to embezzlement charges against him.
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Accusations of nepotism dogged her in her first campaign, in 2004, but she won — only to lose the Republican primary to Joe Miller, a Tea Party firebrand, six years later.
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To combat rampant corruption and nepotism, Nigeria should strengthen its toothless anticorruption bodies by adopting harsher penalties for unscrupulous officials and foster greater transparency by joining the Open Government Partnership.
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The teachers, whose average salary is around 450 dinars ($630) per month, said they have fallen behind others in many government ministries and state agencies plagued by graft and nepotism.
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Some ethics experts have questioned whether the appointment will be legal under federal anti-nepotism laws designed to prevent family ties from influencing the functioning of the United States government.
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And yet as president, Trump has taken nepotism to new extremes and demonstrated a shocking and unprecedented willingness to abuse his position in order to enrich himself and his family.
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"We are all being given a living lesson in why governments adopt and enforce anti-nepotism standards," said Kathleen Clark, a Washington University law professor who focuses on government ethics.
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Nepotism, or favoritism to one's family, one's tribe, one's ethnic group for privilege, is still perceived as part of the ills that bestowed upon Africa decades of war and deprivation.
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Johnson Sirleaf, who is due to replaced in October elections, promised to tackle corruption when she came to power in 2006 but has faced accusations of nepotism which she has denied.
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Trump has been accused of nepotism for giving his son-in-law a plum job in the administration and of using the presidency to boost profits at his various private businesses.
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You see it in new-age comedians whose jokes punch against sexism and homophobia, rather than relying on them, and in Bollywood A-listers who push back against decades of nepotism.
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In mid-January Olusegun Obasanjo, a former president and still-powerful statesman, wrote an open letter urging him to quit after one term, accusing him of nepotism and mismanaging the economy.
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The hedge fund blamed Forest City's "tangled web of nepotism", "self dealing" and failure of corporate governance for its depressed margins, bloated general and administrative expenses and "value-destroying capital allocation".
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump can hire his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as a senior White House adviser without breaking federal anti-nepotism laws, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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Trump also has expressed interest in finding a way to bypass a federal anti-nepotism law in order to give his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a formal White House role.
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Tens of thousands have taken to the streets of Algiers for more than a month, complaining of corruption, nepotism and economic mismanagement which they say has tarnished Bouteflika's 20-year rule.
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In a statement, the bank's board had said "there is no question of any quid pro quo/nepotism/conflict of interest" in its lending decisions, and expressed confidence in the CEO.
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The military will face resistance from the leaders of mass demonstrations fueled by anger over alleged corruption, nepotism and economic mismanagement who said the plan still did not go far enough.
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Caroline: If she is, then she's right to be concerned that she doesn't know Stan very well at all, because he would never allow nepotism to get her into the FBI.
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Clay Krupp from North Carolina believes bias in hiring is unavoidable: Nepotism is a two lane road, some people see it as being selfish, and others see it as an opportunity.
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However, if nepotism is used to promote a family member, with no regard to their skill level, or the wellbeing of the people affected by their position, then it is unacceptable.
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Also, if I intern (and possibly get a full-time job) with a company that practices nepotism, I might one day be able to change the hiring policy from the inside.
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After making a campaign promise to root out nepotism, Angola's new leader turned his sights Wednesday on the oil industry, ousting his predecessor's daughter as head of the nation's largest company.
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Investigators from the Global Fund reported in March that they had found evidence of nepotism, double-billing and conflicts of interest at Cambodia's National Center for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control.
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There's an incredible amount of political nepotism on campus, which has led to ignorance about us, and quite a bit of strawmanning in regard to what it is we truly believe.
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During Wednesday's night's edition of The Daily Show, Trevor Noah broke down the recent bizarre trend of Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. appearing on news shows to moan about nepotism.
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There is precedent for working around anti-nepotism laws stemming from a court challenge to Hillary Clinton's role leading a health care task force under President Bill Clinton in the early 1990s.
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My team and I carried out the reforms that created this environment, and we did it to reject the Soviet legacy of corruption, opacity, and nepotism—which still characterize the Russian system.
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Is it accurate to refer to Hollywood as a whole—a tremendously moneyed industry that often faces derision and charges of elitism, cronyism, and nepotism—as a place where outsiders truly thrive?
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Politicians seem to be encouraging nepotism: a new banking law will allow directors to stay on boards for nine years (up from six); and allow controlling families four members (up from two).
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Her appointment is pure nepotism: There is nothing on her résumé that suggests Ivanka Trump is qualified, by any traditional definition of the term, to advise the president of the United States.
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"We've already passed the nepotism Rubicon, with Ivanka and Jared serving in amorphous White House roles in a manner that would have been unthinkable as recently as two years ago," he wrote.
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"Consequently, even if the anti-nepotism statute prevented the president from employing relatives in the White House as advisors, he would remain free to consult those relatives as private citizens," it said.
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While no one is asserting that these deals have cross legal lines, the partners' links to Matolcsy have led to some opposition politicians calling for him to resign, accusing him of nepotism.
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There are not quite 500 roster spots in the league, and the same dumb luck, nepotism, chance, and other cosmic mitigators that shape careers in every field exist in the NBA, too.
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When the Justice Department concluded on Inauguration Day 2017 Jared Kushner could serve in his father-in-law's administration without violating anti-nepotism laws, legal experts scratched their heads at the ruling.
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DOJ: Hiring Kushner does not violate anti-nepotism law Monday's newly released memos -- first reported by Politico, which filed a Freedom of Information Act request -- illustrate why the reversal was so stark.
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Congress passed a so-called anti-nepotism law in 1967 that prevents a member of the executive branch from appointing relatives to a position in an agency that he or she controls.
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His surname alone, after all, was "always a bit" of a burden; while a young player at Barcelona, during his father's time as coach there, he was aware of accusations of nepotism.
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Mr. Band, who had already planned to leave the foundation to focus on Teneo, often expressed frustration at the global charity's nepotism, pointing to Ms. Clinton's installing her friends in central roles.
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Modi said special constitutional status for the state of Jammu and Kashmir had encouraged corruption and nepotism, while creating injustice for women, children and minority communities in India's only majority-Muslim region.
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As for Chelsea Clinton, anti-nepotism laws, strengthened after President Kennedy appointed his brother Robert as attorney general, could prevent her mother from appointing her to some of the highest government positions.
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But it is the public — and personal — rebukes that paint the most troubling picture of a troubled workplace: "We are okay with nepotism here," one review said, mentioning both Berhalters by name.
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And in general, the personnel process has been so rigorous in its selection of inexperience that those who were hired on the basis of mere nepotism look like Dean Acheson by comparison.
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While some see her appointment as a symbol of nepotism, Ms. Patton sees it as giving residents of New York and New Jersey an advocate with unprecedented access to those in charge.
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Earlier Monday, reports surfaced that Trump will name his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a senior adviser in the White House, raising concerns that the appointment could violate federal anti-nepotism rules.
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The CNRP, which had drawn the support of a new generation of voters not content with what they see as the corruption and nepotism that has stalked the Southeast Asian nation's politics.
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But Trump told reporters at the White House before embarking on Marine One that, while Ivanka would be incredible in the role, he would face accusations of nepotism if he selected her.
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If Molly and Amy's peers still managed to get into schools like Stanford while being hard partyers and underachievers, it seems likely the reason stems from nepotism, wealth or even, perhaps, bribery.
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Officials also point to massive staff shortages, poor personnel management and rampant nepotism in intelligence agencies, as well as a police-to-population ratio that is one of the lowest in the world.
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"We believe that the President's special hiring authority in 3 U.S.C. § 105(a) permits him to make appointments to the White House Office that the anti-nepotism statute might otherwise forbid," Koffsky wrote.
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Mr. Pinchuk is the son-in-law of a former president of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, who from 20073 to 2005 led a government criticized for corruption, nepotism and the murder of dissident journalists.
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Kushner's legal team and Trump's advisers said that Kushner plans to put his various financial holdings into a blind trust, which they hope will relieve him of any possible violations of nepotism laws.
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But there was once a group of kids who ran in Warhol's circle who didn't need outside validation (see: social media, nepotism) because they had the ultimate arbiter of cool's seal of approval.
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For many, the small-scale corruption and nepotism they had seen in local politics had bolstered their lack of faith in government—and an accompanying desire for less of it on every level.
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Jamie Gorelick, a New York lawyer who served as deputy attorney general for Democratic President Bill Clinton and helped advise Kushner, said his new post would not violate a 1967 anti-nepotism statute.
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Handing your child an unidentifiable high level job is straight up nepotism, even if she isn't "earning a salary" (but let's be honest, no one in the Trump family does anything for free).
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Because we love them and they make us laugh often (and let's be real, a little bit of nepotism), we asked them to tell their story and how they've arrived at this moment.
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But the kleptocratic model Baku has brought to bear—the sheen and the shell companies, the nepotism and hostility toward basic democratic norms—serves as an archetype to which all budding autocrats aspire.
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If it succeeded, he might lose to Fernando Lugo, a left-wing former bishop who was president until 2012, when he was impeached over allegations of failing to keep order or prevent nepotism.
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Mr. Ojeda said he believed the attack was politically motivated because he had been "questioning leaders" and publicly calling out entrenched nepotism that he said had resulted in favoritism in jobs and salaries.
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But he gave no timetable for his exit, advocating a national conference on reforms to address the outpouring of discontent over corruption, nepotism, economic mismanagement and the protracted grip on power of veterans.
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In "Nothing but Nepotism," Zoey Johnson learns a thing or two about family advantages after she lands a fellowship position at Teen Vogue through the help of her dad, Dre Johnson (Anthony Anderson).
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Ghadhban, nominated by Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi and confirmed as minister in a parliamentary vote last week, said he would look at ways to reform the oil ministry, including by eliminating nepotism.
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Noah argued that we should be talking about how the first daughter has an undefined role in the West Wing, whether there could be conflicts of interest, and whether it violates nepotism laws.
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The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, the island's public electricity utility, is effectively bankrupt and is undergoing privatization following years of neglect of the power grid and accusations of nepotism in its management.
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He even has the power to pick people off the street with no qualifications and make them SEALs, he added, though nepotism laws might prevent him from giving the title to family members.
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But so far, no Democrat is taking this opportunity to prove they consider stamping out nepotism and other forms of political corruption more important than circling the wagons for the party and Biden.
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However, Trump later told reporters that his daughter would be "incredible" as US Ambassador to the United Nations, but said he would be "accused of nepotism" if he appointed her to succeed Haley.
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In interviews, current and retired detectives said a patronage system of promotions had bumped detectives based more on connections to powerful bosses, and less on their work, fueling bitterness and accusations of nepotism.
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There is no nepotism exception for background investigations," the California Democrat said in a statement, adding, "This is a clear indication of the deep unease that national security officials have about Kushner's suitability.
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The refusal of the international community to hold Abbas and the PA accountable for nepotism and corruption drove Gazan Palestinians into the open arms of Hamas, the terrorist group which promised them reform.
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When questions were raised about whether Mr. Kushner's appointment violated federal anti-nepotism laws, the Justice Department wrote a memo in January concluding that the rules did not apply to the White House.
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University students largely sat out last week's protests, but have been protesting for months about a quota system for government jobs and university spots that they claim is plagued by nepotism and corruption.
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As well as shedding light on graft, mismanagement and nepotism within state firms at a time privatization is accelerating, the arrests show the ascendancy of a more conservative faction within the ruling Communist Party.
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News also broke on Monday that Jared Kushner would be a senior adviser to the president despite being Trump's son-in-law, federal nepotism laws and his own potential conflicts due to business interests.
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The absurdity of Ivanka Trump -- who never worked in foreign affairs before her father became President -- attempting to conduct high-stakes foreign relations with other world leaders underscores the need for anti-nepotism laws.
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As reflected by recent protests, voters were not only angered by Park's actions, they revealed broader frustration with the nation's history of political corruption, crony capitalism and nepotism—issues that resurfaced in Park's case.
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The 35-year-old businessman-turned-political strategist played a key part in his father-in-law's presidential campaign and his new position is expected to test the limit of federal anti-nepotism rules.
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The same episode, the narrator reveals that Dr. Henry Adams, the scientist behind phrenology, established the "Legacy Admissions Program," a secret society of sorts that ensured nepotism would keep the community at Winchester white.
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However, in June 2015, Afghanistan's Independent Joint Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Committee reported that education was being "significantly undermined by bribery and nepotism," and that "ghost" teachers have been a long-standing problem.
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People are quick to point to the nepotism angle for obvious reasons, but I like to believe the Bills brass just likes the Wolfman Rob jokes as much as the rest of us. 4.
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Both Montenegro and Serbia are seeking join the European Union but have been told they must root out organized crime, corruption and nepotism and reduce bureaucracy before they can become members of the bloc.
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The moment was mocked online, with Twitter users editing Ivanka's photo into other historical scenes, and multiple members of Congress calling out her presence at the summit as evidence of nepotism in the administration.
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Aside from nepotism issues, doesn't the involvement of his children and son-in-law, even as informal advisers, allow for his family to trade on inside, confidential or secret information to their financial benefit?
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An Office of Legal Counsel memo last year, issued in response to questions about Ivanka Trump's husband and senior White House advisor Jared Kushner, said the White House is exempt from anti-nepotism laws.
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Three years ago, an inquiry into the board by the city's Investigation Department found a wide range of problems, including hiring practices marred by nepotism and political influence, and a lack of voter privacy.
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The worst approach would be for President Trump to "comply" with the anti-nepotism statute by not formally appointing these family members to any position while giving them an informal role in making policy.
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In a direct test of anti-nepotism laws, Trump plans to bring family members like his daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner — along with their own complicated business entanglements — into the White House.
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"The leaders say they are good Muslims, but they don't prove it in action — it's all nepotism and ethnic prejudice," said Mr. Mohammed, teary-eyed as he looked at the site of Wednesday's blast.
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As well as shedding light on graft, mismanagement and nepotism within state firms at a time privatisation is accelerating, the arrests show the ascendancy of a more conservative faction within the ruling Communist Party.
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Despite the public hoo-ha about nepotism engendered by the recent election, the palpable discomfort with political dynasties and the ambiguity around Ivanka Trump's role, when it comes to what sells, apparently, lineage matters.
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Such is the price the organization pays for decades of boiler-room horse-trading, of cash-filled envelopes and thinly veiled nepotism, followed by years of dawn raids and arrest warrants and corruption charges.
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It further alleges Gentry engaged in nepotism, appointing friends to a specific panel after also coercing then-incumbent members of that same panel to donate to her campaign the maximum amount of money allowed.
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Anti-nepotism statutes prohibit close relatives of the president from playing an active role in the government, but at the same time, the Constitution gives the president broad authority to choose his own advisers.
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The return of Rajapaksa to public life marks an unlikely turnaround for the two-time former president, who was unceremoniously voted out of office in 2015, amid allegations of corruption, nepotism and war crimes.
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That Trump would pull such a power move -- which is legal, yes, but ethically dicey -- speaks to his commitment to nepotism, a trait that has always defined his life in and out of politics.
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They range from the Mexican opposition leader Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2005 (he was finally elected in July) to several Guatemalan candidates barred by corruption charges, anti-nepotism clauses and human rights violations.
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We passed anti-nepotism laws, which were written in a way that had a loophole, through which Donald Trump can now have his daughter and his son-in-law working in the White House.
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In addition to running classes on conflicts of interest, it does things like run classes on how to deal with vendors, impart the rules on receiving gifts and deal with issues like nepotism and corruption.
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The Justice Department released a memo concluding the president's "special hiring authority" allows the New York real estate mogul to appoint Kushner to the administration and the move does not contravene federal anti-nepotism laws.
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They have been told they must root out organized crime, corruption and nepotism and reduce red tape first, and the political elite in both countries is deeply divided between pro-EU and pro-Russia camps.
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The bigger problem for Kushner could be the anti-nepotism law, said Richard Painter, who was President George W. Bush's top White House ethics lawyer and is now a professor at the University of Minnesota.
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From President Donald Trump's appointment of his daughter Ivanka Trump to the White House to the clerkship recruiting circuit, the ability to pull off flagrant nepotism is the 21st century's must-have display of power.
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They have been told they must root out organised crime, corruption and nepotism and reduce red tape first, and the political elite in both countries is deeply divided between pro-EU and pro-Russia camps.
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But Trump, and by extension his family, is dogged by the American press in a way that Modi rarely is in India, where the press frequently turns a blind eye when it comes to nepotism.
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The change, the government said, was necessary to integrate Kashmir fully into India, tackle corruption and nepotism, and speed up its development, which Modi says is the key to securing lasting peace and defeating terrorism.
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Romney (Ronna) Hunter Biden's exploits also make it hard for Biden to launch what should be a broader, and damning, attack on Trump: that he's compromised and corrupted the government through nepotism and self-dealing.
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The 36-year-old likes to compare himself to a young John F. Kennedy, which almost makes sense if you simply focus on the nepotism that enabled him to rise to a position of power.
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Another option would be for Trump to put Kushner into a paid position on the White House staff, according to several legal experts, who say the federal anti-nepotism law would probably not prevent it.
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In American history, anti-nepotism laws are actually a relatively recent development: They were put into place in 1967 by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson not long after one of his predecessor's appointments raised eyebrows.
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"My view ... is that the nepotism statute does apply to the White House," Eisen said on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" of the announcement that Ivanka Trump would receive an official role in the Trump administration.
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Melenchon's score climbed to 17 percent in the first round from 13.5 percent two weeks ago while Fillon, whose campaign has struggled as he faced nepotism allegations, saw his score hold steady at 18 percent.
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It concluded an extraordinary chapter during which two trials, held a block apart at almost the same time last year, exposed a culture of kickbacks, secret deals and nepotism in the State Capitol in Albany.
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Permission was also obtained through corruption and nepotism, he added, using the example of the upmarket Phoenix restaurant, which was built on top of the Roman Cisterns of La Malga after the site was listed.
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Take, for example, the DEA executive who just this week was found to have engaged in nepotism by routing hundreds of thousands of dollars to contractor jobs for his son and retired colleagues or friends.
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Since then, the White House has supported Abadi's efforts to address inefficiencies, nepotism, and corruption inside the Iraqi political system, while also maintaining a more balanced approach to the country's many ethnic and sectarian constituencies.
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Photo: APJared Kushner, President Donald Trump's golden boy son-in-law and nepotism hire as a senior White House adviser, is not the only administration official using private email accounts to conduct official government business.
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Already a rogue figure in the West Wing, where he constantly feuded with rivals like former chief of staff Reince Priebus and nepotism hire Jared Kushner, Bannon could be even more troublesome on the outside.
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But it isn't all that, as the statelet suffers from the regional woes of authoritarianism, corruption, nepotism, and misogyny, despite the snaps of cute Kurdish girls with machine guns, most of whom are really Syrian.
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Being a script supervisor has meant that I sat next to some really good directors, and some incredibly bad ones — the only reason they're in there is because of nepotism, their gender and their race.
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Mr. Kushner, the son-in-law of President-elect Donald J. Trump, is expected be named a senior White House adviser, a move that may be challenged on the basis of an anti-nepotism law.
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Forbes sat down with Eric Trump, who called nepotism "kind of a factor of life" and spoke about the Trump siblings' relationship with their father, especially as it applies to their role in the family business.
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Last month, dos Santos made his 43-year-old daughter Isabel chief executive, inviting cries of "supersonic nepotism" from anti-graft website Maka Angola, a rare dissenting voice in one of Africa's most politically-closed states.
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The Trump clan has gone far beyond even normal self-dealing — that is, you get rich after you leave office — and are explicitly profiting during his presidency, while having the nerve to accuse others of nepotism.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's right-wing president, Jair Bolsonaro, plans to push ahead with the appointment of his son Eduardo for ambassador to the United States despite accusations of nepotism and mounting resistance in his country's Congress.
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Kushner, who was found by the Department of Justice to not be in violation of anti-nepotism laws (for some strange reason), is optimistic that the Office of American Innovation will make Washington run more smoothly.
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A federal anti-nepotism law prohibits a president from hiring family members to serve in his administration, but the Journal said it was not clear if the law applied to a position inside the White House.
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WHEN asked to bend an anti-nepotism law so that President Donald Trump could put his son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka in the White House, the Department of Justice produced a sinuous argument.
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"We believe that the President's special hiring authority in 3 U.S.C. § 105(a) permits him to make appointments to the White House Office that the anti-nepotism statute might otherwise forbid," he added, according to CNN.
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President John KennedyJohn Neely KennedyMORE's appointment of his brother, Robert Kennedy, as attorney general in 1961 set in motion the creation of America's anti-nepotism law, which became a permanent policy beginning with the next administration.
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Mr. Painter based his decision on a reading of the anti-nepotism law by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel during Jimmy Carter's administration, which barred the president from doing so for his own child.
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"Nepotism has likely played a vital role in the evolution of family life in this species," said Nelson-Flower, who is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia's faculty of forestry, a statement.
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Why it matters: Word of Yunaska's work on energy arrives as the administration has already been under fire for nepotism with Trump's installation of Jared Kushner, his daughter Ivanka's husband, as a senior White House adviser.
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The candidate of the mainstream right, François Fillon, an experienced former prime minister, took about 20 percent of the vote in the first round after being tarnished by a nepotism scandal that led to embezzlement charges.
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But Congress, which passed the measure in 1967 partly in response to President John F. Kennedy's appointment of his brother Robert to be attorney general, was aiming to curb the negative effects of nepotism throughout government.
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Her former cook told a South Korean magazine that she usually ate alone, watching TV. She has said she cut ties with her brother and sister to prevent nepotism, a bane of past South Korean presidents.
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In the pantheon of ill-conceived public policies, our policy of admitting the vast majority of immigrants based on who they're related to (in other contexts, known as nepotism) would have to rank right up there.
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Kushner, along with his wife Ivanka, are both grossly unqualified for the positions they have been given—rather than appoint experts into positions responsible for these innovation efforts, Trump's choices signal that he favors nepotism over aptitude.
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He says that his daughter's struggles played out in a particularly public fashion — because he was Florida governor at the time — and perhaps faced stricter penalties as a result, lest the drug court be accused to nepotism.
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Later, after Fillon's prospects faded under the weight of a nepotism scandal, Putin took the unusual step of granting a Kremlin audience to far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who was Macron's opponent in Sunday's run-off.
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A court in the communist-ruled country upheld the sentence for former Politburo member Dinh La Thang, 57, who was arrested and tried in a crackdown on graft, mismanagement and nepotism that felled many high-profile officials.
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"If politicians set bad examples by using fraudulent tactics like rigging elections, nepotism and embezzlement, then the honesty of citizens might suffer, because corruption is fostered in wider parts of society," the study authors wrote in Nature.
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But that move would probably invite a legal challenge, forcing a court to decide whether the president's executive authority to choose his advisers takes precedent over a law passed by Congress that bans nepotism in the government.
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It was around the time that the diversity numbers at big technology companies — long held as an island of meritocracy in a sea of industries that were rife with sexism, racism and nepotism — were generating more criticism.
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Buried in this answer is an assertion by Mr. Trump that the federal government's anti-nepotism law does not apply to him as president, but he also says he would want to avoid the appearance of conflict.
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Katharine from Rhode Island wondered if the issue was more nuanced: As someone who has gotten a job (albeit a minor one, scoring hockey games) through nepotism, I would find it hypocritical to completely deny its effectiveness.
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I was looking today at the website for a Democrat running in a conservative part of Cincinnati, and his big selling point seemed to be the way he "ended patronage and nepotism" in his current county office.
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"I think Ivanka would be incredible, but it doesn't mean I'd pick her, because I'd be accused of nepotism even though I'm not sure there's anybody more competent in the world," he said on the South Lawn.
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Their ascendance has some conservative supporters fretting about the rising influence of the urbane young New Yorkers, as some moderates and liberals swallow concerns about nepotism in the hope that the couple will temper the temperamental president.
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The lawyers concluded that at least one obstacle, a federal anti-nepotism law, was not applicable because, while the law prohibits federal officials from hiring relatives for agencies they lead, the White House is not an agency.
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He wants to "drain the swamp" through nepotism, empower the marginalized through the coddling of the superrich, and toss the ethics of hard-working heartland Americans out the window of that gold-daubed apartment atop his tower.
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Popularized by House Greyjoy in Game of Thrones, a Kingsmoot is like a regular meeting in several ways — the frequent interruptions, the roundtable arrangement and the way nepotism plays a major role in who gets to speak.
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A spate of high-profile arrests has shed light on graft, mismanagement and nepotism in state firms at a time of accelerating privatization, while spotlighting the ascendancy of a more conservative faction in the ruling Communist Party.
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According to interviews with WCBS-TV last week, nepotism currently has Beckham thinking that, without having played anything past high school football, that he can just waltz his way into the NFL as a running back. Psh!
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As President he will not be able to appoint his children or in-laws to any government job under the anti-nepotism statute passed by Congress after President John F. Kennedy appointed his brother to be attorney general.
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Top Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee issued a statement within hours of Kushner's appointment calling on the Justice Department and the Office of Government Ethics to review the appointment's legality in light of the anti-nepotism statute.
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Kurti, 44, also told parliament before the vote of approval - won with 66 votes in the 120-seat assembly - that he would fight corruption and nepotism, which foreign businesses cite as the main obstacles to investment in Kosovo.
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The Service Employees International Union suspended Executive Vice President Scott Courtney after "questions were raised ... relating to our union's ethical code and anti-nepotism policy," Sahar Wali, a spokesperson for the powerful union, said in a statement Tuesday.
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Raul Grijalva, who as the top Democrat on the House Committee on Natural Resources, will soon be in a position to investigate the Department of Interior for a number of ethics scandals, including allegations of nepotism against Zinke.
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You can bracket the question of Russian influence entirely and still find Trump up to his bronzed wattle in financial conflicts of interest, nepotism, and naked aggression against every attempt to subject him to the rule of law.
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Kushner also became a key figure in the campaign and was appointed senior adviser after the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel ruled that the president's "special hiring authority" allowed him to get around federal anti-nepotism rules.
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ICICI Bank's board, which had initially backed Kochhar calling the alleged nepotism charges against her "malicious and unfounded", last month said it would institute a probe headed by an independent person into allegations raised by an anonymous whistleblower.
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Former Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel rejected an offer to become the head of Germany's VDA car lobby group after media reports that he was in line for the post caused a public outcry and prompted accusations of nepotism.
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In Fields's case, the answer comes when she leaves behind the overtilled subject of the spoiled press corps and instead reports on politicians — junketeering congressmen in both parties as well as beneficiaries of Clinton- and Bush-family nepotism.
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McCallum pointed out that character Luke Healy (Danny Piro) wouldn't be able to hire his sister Laurel (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) in his Senate office due to nepotism laws, though the detail was already part of the show's plot.
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His employment of family members raises questions of nepotism, and he has refused a bipartisan effort by the Senate to provide a report on the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
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However Democrats proceed, Mr. Kushner's peculiar role in his father-in-law's White House has prompted widespread concern that is both broader and more specific than the generic questions of accountability and competence often raised by raw nepotism.
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Although Mr. Ghani has tried to bring about a generational shift at the top by making an opening for the young and well educated, nepotism still trumps merit for much of the rest of country's civilian work force.
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Teed up by moderators with a question about Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, and whether Republicans could successfully exploit any appearances of nepotism in the general election despite Trump's own record of corrupt acts, Buttigieg was dismissive.
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Rules were routinely ignored in the name of meeting management goals, but few spoke out against colleagues because life in the office revolved around hometown, family and school connections, reinforced through nepotism and late-night wining and dining.
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Two well-respected members of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia expressed that view in a published opinion, after the Clinton Justice Department advocated for the very same reading of the nepotism law.
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The children of other presidents have readily, even greedily, reaped the fruits of nepotism, but how many have done so while simultaneously suggesting that they're around to provide crucial ballast, performing an invaluable service for the American people?
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Girls premiered in 2012 to an immediate shitstorm of disdain, critical praise, charges of obliviousness and nepotism, and in the uglier parts of the internet, fierce shaming because women like Dunham dared to get naked and filthy onscreen.
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Much of the blame for that crisis focused on the nepotism and corruption that became the hallmark of Suharto's later years in power and which saw family members and close associates amass fortunes and come to dominate Indonesia's economy.
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WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner can probably thank nepotism for winning a security clearance that even President Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly opposed, but he's hardly the only one whose approval set off alarm bells, according to House Democrats.
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There is little question that Mr Moon, in contrast, would try to tackle the corruption and nepotism that produced the crisis, and to curb the state's special treatment of the chaebol, the conglomerates at the heart of the scandal.
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With a plethora of faiths, castes and political allegiances, spiced up by garish nepotism, rank criminality and a first-past-the-post voting system prone to wild swings, elections in UP are always raucous and notoriously tricky to predict.
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Nepotism among legendary and iconic members of the ballroom scene causes history and knowledge to be selectively passed down to a younger generation, leading to cyclical condescension from the legends towards those without the same access to that knowledge.
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Tellingly, President Trump said in his Atlantic interview that he was warded off from a U.N. nomination for Ivanka because of the potential criticism of nepotism — the very thing that has most dogged her White House role since 2017.
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But Mr Trong's abrupt removal of the offspring of the party elite from plum jobs can be seen as promoting pluralism and meritocracy in a country where nepotism is rife, says Bill Hayton of Chatham House, a think-tank.
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Though Kushner's appointment does not require Senate confirmation, it is a controversial one: Anti-nepotism laws forbid the hiring of relatives to Cabinet positions, but are less clear on whether they can be appointed to White House staff roles.
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The couple's planned move with their three children reflects the expectation that Kushner will serve as an adviser to President-elect Donald Trump in some capacity, though the precise role -- potentially complicated by nepotism laws -- remains to be seen.
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Koffsky argued that the president is given broad powers to hire and manage his staff in the White House and that anti-nepotism laws mainly apply to individuals holding an official position within an agency of the executive branch.
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YOU can pursue a meaningless life of poverty in subjugation to a system rife with nepotism and hedonism, or, if you're lucky, you can die a martyr's death fighting the enemies of God, resurrecting His law and attaining paradise.
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Despite having no policy background, Kushner made a splash by getting behind several key areas early in the administration like peace in the Middle East, and would later land in controversy for accusations of nepotism influencing his security clearance.
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So to summarize, I would and did use nepotism because I see it not as unethical abuse of social capital but as a useful advantage that should be allowed to be utilized and not looked down upon by some.
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But Cellino and Barnes have also been embroiled in a years-long legal battle, which started with various nepotism- and workload-related disputes and escalated with the removal of Cellino's name from all the law firms offices in California.
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But because it's Ivanka, the daughter of the most hated Republican in U.S. politics, she's a villain guilty of nepotism; she's an insult to working women; she only got her position because of her privilege and her last name.
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Under the RAISE Act, the 85033s concept of family chain migration — a form of codified nepotism — would be ended in a way that is not only beneficial to the nation, but also to the integrity of the immigration process.
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Unless Congress updates the anti-nepotism language to clear up the legal questions as to whether it applies to the White House, we will have this Ivanka Trump situation again sometime -- and it won't end any differently (or better).
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Mr. Khan has positioned himself as a fighter against corruption, taking aim at the dynastic politics and nepotism of parties like the PML-N while maintaining a good relationship with the military, which he credits with protecting the country.
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The move was revealed after a fellow co-founder and defector Brogan BamBrogan filed a lawsuit alleging widespread mismanagement and nepotism within the company, enabled in part by "the disproportionate influence that the current ownership structure provides," McBride points out.
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That solution is unlikely to please ethics experts who have even taken to The New York Times opinion page to encourage Trump to ask Congress to amend the anti-nepotism statute in order to give limited family members formal roles.
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His USA Today op-ed Friday said that "Zinke is embroiled in scandals and nepotism," and warned that scrutiny of Zinke by the Natural Resources Committee "will only intensify if I'm chairman" of the committee in the upcoming session of Congress.
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The Trump transition announced Monday that Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner would become one of Trump's three most powerful advisers at the White House -- a decision that will test the bounds of an anti-nepotism statute barring such hires.
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"There is a strong case to be made that the White House is an "agency" for purposes of the anti-nepotism statute and that it would apply to bar Mr. Kushner's appointment as a White House staff member," wrote Rep.
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The internal report details what the charity did after receiving an email on July 12, 2011, claiming that various members of staff in the Haiti project had breached Oxfam's code of conduct relating to sexual exploitation, fraud, negligence and nepotism.
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It's difficult because I don't want to make any sweeping judgements without knowing anyone, but I do think that the fact that there have been so many celebrity kids getting famous recently has brought out a lot of people yelling nepotism.
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President Trump told reporters Tuesday that he thinks his daughter, Ivanka Trump, "would be dynamite" as a replacement to UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, who resigned this morning, but added that he fears he'd be accused of nepotism if he chose her.
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Following a review of the president's tweets, rallies and media remarks, here are new definitions for some key terms in the Trump lexicon: Nepotism: (n.) Actions whereby powerful officials use their influence to obtain high-level positions for their children.
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Kenny Heslep, Hill's now-estranged husband, was moved out of one of those jobs because Hill's employer "was concerned about nepotism and how it looked that she was my boss," Heslep said in the divorce complaint he filed in July.
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After reporter Julia Ioffe tweeted in December 2016, "Either Trump is f - - king his daughter or he's shirking nepotism laws," Spicer reportedly called Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg demanding that he axe Ioffe, according to the book Media Madness by Howard Kurtz.
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Her writers' room is stacked with white guys, some of whom were hired due to nepotism, most of whom have never interacted with Katherine directly, and in all her years as the show's host, she's never hired a female writer.
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The former Yugoslav republic joined the military alliance last year and hopes to join the European Union in 2025 at the same time as Serbia, though it must first reform the rule of law and eradicate corruption, nepotism and red tape.
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"Trading employment opportunities for less-than-qualified individuals in exchange for lucrative business deals is an example of nepotism at its finest," William Sweeney, assistant director-in-charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's New York office, said in a statement.
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There were already concerns that Kushner's role as a senior adviser in the White House, despite having no relevant policy experience, was the product of nepotism — that he received favorable treatment because he's the son-in-law of the president.
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Richard Briffault, a government ethics expert at Columbia Law School, disagreed, saying: "Given the fact that the president is specifically mentioned, you would think that someone that is working for the president would be covered" by the anti-nepotism law.
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The dam project became a lightning rod for what critics saw as China's growth-at-all-costs economic model, coming in billions of dollars over budget, and was later linked to embezzlement and nepotism scandals, according to the national audit office.
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Meanwhile, Groysman and his finance minister Oleksandr Danylyuk have been in an open spat over the naming of appointees, with the latter having sent a letter to his G7 counterparts complaining that nepotism and political corruption continue to dominate Ukraine.
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At a time of decreased US global engagement and diplomacy, having Ivanka represent America in any capacity on the international stage only gives the world one clear message -- that nepotism and corruption remain deeply entrenched in the Trump White House.
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Now he is following his showbiz role model into politics because Zelenskiy, vowing to scrub Ukraine's parliament clean of corruption and nepotism, invited members of the public to run on his party's ticket at a parliamentary election on July 21.
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Would the manifest corruption of Trump's transition—his nepotism, his covert meetings with international business partners, his refusal to divest himself of properties that posed a conflict of interest—lead to his impeachment under the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution?
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The revelation, first reported by The New York Times on Thursday, drew accusations of nepotism and impropriety from Democrats and contradicted statements made by the president and others that he had no role in Kushner receiving a clearance last year.
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But a word for Jeff Jarrett, amidst all of the unspectacular solidity, the nepotism, and the involvement in possible pyramid schemes: Never has anyone been as much of a kindred spirit of Vince McMahon's carny heart as Double J Jeff Jarrett.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday that the nomination of his son Eduardo to be ambassador to the United States was not an act of nepotism and that he would not make the appointment if it were.
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The ideal — and honest — solution to this legal question would be for President Trump to ask Congress to amend the anti-nepotism statute to allow the president to appoint a limited number of relatives to formal positions in the White House.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump on Tuesday said his daughter Ivanka Trump would be "incredible" as US ambassador to the United Nations but said he would be "accused of nepotism" if he appointed her to succeed the out-going Nikki Haley.
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But there is also fear that the effort and attention being lavished on the referendum will be just one more distraction from the issues the island needs to address, among them corruption, nepotism and the need for a cleareyed economic plan.
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Trump Jr. was criticizing Hunter Biden for his history of business dealings in Ukraine, which have been seized upon recently by conservatives as achieved through nepotism since his father, Joe Biden, was vice president at the time of his hiring.
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They include: imposing a limitation on public mandates; forbidding nepotism; reinforcing scrutiny over the financing of public parties and the use of public money; imposing stronger penalties against culpable politicians; as well as creating a public bank to finance political parties.
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Graft and nepotism still exist, and are blamed for high levels of poverty, polarization, social and economic injustice; those, in turn, have sent millions of young Romanians fleeing to other parts of the European Union, the United States or Canada.
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In small towns like my hometown, nepotism is just as natural as inheriting something from your parents, going to church on Sundays or watching the seasons go by: It is one of our customs or something that goes without saying.
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The inability of anyone to play the dual role of official adviser and blood relation is why, in the late 1960s, Congress passed an anti-nepotism law in the wake of John Kennedy's appointment of his brother, Bobby, as attorney general.
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Though Patrick Jr.'s assistant coaching position would be eliminated because of an anti-nepotism policy, the young Mourning could not dismiss the chance to play under the senior Ewing, who is actually listed in Trey's smartphone as Uncle Patrick.
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Every new episode seemed to spawn dozens of articles about privilege, sexism, nepotism, and sometimes even some sexual position that Dunham or a fellow cast member simulated onscreen, raising the hackles of mortified commenters all across this great wide internet.
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But legal experts don't agree on whether there could be a legal case against Trump for her current employment, and Trump's Justice Department also declared that the president has broad power to appoint his "personal staff," which isn't included under nepotism laws.
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Incompetence, competing centers of power, nepotism, and warring staff are always a toxic recipe—and for the Trump administration, the departure of the man who led "Lock her up" chants while passing information to Russia may be just the beginning of the disaster.
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Following decades of industry nepotism and monopolization by the major studios which collapsed the independent film scene started during the Parallel Cinema movement, indie cinema again sprouted new roots alongside Bollywood in the early 2000s, around the same time, Kashyap started making features.
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There is a legend that the word "nepotism" was invented in honor of the grasping nephews of popes who sought and obtained more than they deserved thanks to their powerful uncles (and "nephews" we can sometimes see as a euphemism for "sons").
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There's always been public opposition to corruption and nepotism in the country's chaebol conglomerates, but the country has never seen anything like the massive protests that swept the streets last year and helped drive President Park's approval rating down to 4 percent.
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As first reported by BuzzFeed News, the SEIU suspended Courtney last Monday following complaints about his relationships with staffers and after "questions were raised ... relating to our union's ethical code and anti-nepotism policy," Wali said in a statement at the time.
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The party is presently under the media glare over party boss and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's attempt to let taxpayers foot his lawyer's bill in a defamation case and the Shunglu Committee report indicting his government of nepotism and irregularities in appointments.
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We prohibit presidents from hiring family to avoid nepotism; we insist that politicians not place themselves or their families on both sides of the Chinese wall, so that they can't profit off of their own policymaking or trade policymaking favors for personal enrichment.
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Starpotism (noun): The ever-present version of hockey nepotism in which NHL teams with front office openings conduct extensive searches for the best possible candidates for the job, only to inevitably end up hiring a former star player from the team's glory years.
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But he had stopped short of leaving immediately in favor of waiting for a national conference on reforms to address discontent over corruption, nepotism, mismanagement and the prolonged grip on power of elderly veterans of the 1954-62 war of independence against France.
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But he gave no timetable for his exit, advocating a national conference on reforms to address the outpouring of discontent over corruption, nepotism, economic mismanagement and the protracted grip on power of veterans of the 1954-62 war of independence against France.
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If they wanted to, they could push for laws requiring him to reveal his taxes, force him to place his assets in a blind trust, and use nepotism rules to limit the power of family members, among a range of other checks.
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Quartz wrote that Ivanka's situation "seems to illustrate a common problem facing working women: men get more of the plum assignments that lead to advancement"—as if Ivanka, a product of pure nepotism, is at the vanguard of women's rights in the workplace.
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Fight Back documented discrimination; staged boycotts, protests and sit-down strikes; and filed lawsuits (sometimes with Columbia University's Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law) against contractors and unions that were closed to newcomers, a consequence, the group said, of nepotism and racism.
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WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President-elect Donald J. Trump, has spoken to a lawyer about the possibility of joining the new administration, a move that could violate federal anti-nepotism law and risk legal challenges and political backlash.
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Regardless, those abroad who are related to citizens and permanent residents who may be affected by the proposed change (longer queues, etc.), of course, would still be free to come here; but only if they can meet a standard not based on nepotism.
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Last month, Isra News, an investigative news website, reported that Pathompol Chan-ocha, a nephew of junta chief Prayuth Chan-ocha, was awarded seven construction projects with the Third Army Region, which had been under his father's command, prompting claims of nepotism.
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After following the movement for several months, I now think most members of the alt-right aren't fueled by racial resentment but want a technocracy with positions earned through merit, instead of through the nepotism and cronyism that they see in Washington.
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A senior adviser to Mr. Trump on Thursday indicated that his oldest daughter, Ivanka, and her husband, Mr. Kushner, are likely to take formal roles in the White House, saying the transition team believes there's an "exception" to the anti-nepotism law.
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It fell to Pruitt to embody the entire Trump ethos — grab what you can, exploit your insider status, lift nepotism to an art form and carom through the corridors of power with flashing lights and screaming sirens — in one heedless, shameless bureaucrat.
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" He said that Mr. King was also accused of allowing his wife, Neva Shillingford-King, "to perform Council business" in violation of nepotism rules, and of "creating a work environment where his spouse was permitted to engage in harassment of a council employee.
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Committees will hold hearings on potential election collusion with Russia, of course, but also Mr. Trump's immigration enforcement policies, including family separation, his financial entanglements with the federal government, nepotism in the White House and allegations of corruption in the Trump Organization.
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A good example was Pierre Haux, a teacher at a technical school, who attended a rally last week in Lille of the mainstream conservative candidate, François Fillon, who is under the cloud of a nepotism scandal that has led to claims of embezzlement.
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Eiad Asbahi, the founder of the Louisiana-based fund, told Business Insider that a number of things signaled issues at Celadon, including its accounting practices, nepotism among hires at the executive level, and the use of a regional firm for its auditor.
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For all the idealism, daily life in these "heavens on earth"—to borrow the title of Mark Holloway's classic 1951 work on American utopias—rarely managed to rise above the mundanities that mark most human settlements: financial shenanigans, nepotism, authoritarianism, envy, sexual exploitation.
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For more than a half century, Africans have been battling the vestiges a colonialist system that bequeathed unshakable leaders, one-party states, and authoritarian structures of government which lacked respect for human rights, denied the rule of law, and entrenched corruption and nepotism.
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In addition to restraining their political and monetary ambitions and their various power plays in Kabul, they need to recognize that years of abusive, discriminatory, exclusionary governance; extensive corruption; and individual and ethnic patronage and nepotism are the roots of Afghanistan's predicament.
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The Department of Justice may have ruled Kushner's hire as not being in violation of anti-nepotism laws, but Ivanka, despite divesting some of her assets and selling $36.7 million in assets to comply with ethics rules, still owns her clothing and jewelry brand.
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The investigation is looking "into questions about potential violations of our union's anti-nepotism policy, efforts to evade our Code of Ethics and subsequent complaints related to sexual misconduct and abusive behavior towards union staff," International President Mary Kay Henry wrote to staff on Monday.
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It was never directly mentioned that he was Jerry Lawler's son while they were in the USWA, seeming from the outside to be some mix of Christopher trying to avoid any appearance of nepotism and Lawler insisting his son make it on his own.
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Late on Monday, a group of six Democrats on the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee said they had written to the Justice Department and U.S. Office of Government Ethics asking them to review concerns about nepotism and conflicts of interest arising from Kushner's appointment.
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The request, made under the Freedom of Information Act, demands that the agencies to turn over documents that shed light on any of Trump's actual or potential conflicts of interest and seeks details concerning regulations on divestment of financial interests and prohibitions on nepotism.
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Following the ouster of South Korean President Park Geun-hye, the culmination of a colorful corruption scandal that included nepotism, corruption, and shamanic rituals to communicate with the dead, Americans want to know a little more about the process for peacefully removing a leader.
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However, with no major attacks on French soil since last summer, polls show that unemployment, stuck around 10 percent, and political integrity - an issue that has arisen after accusations of nepotism leveled at Fillon in particular since early this year - are bigger issues for voters.
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The bank's board "has come to the conclusion that there is no question of any quid pro quo/nepotism/conflict of interest as is being alleged in various rumours," the third-biggest Indian lender by assets said in a stock exchange filing on Wednesday.
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We know this because Kissinger wrote an exceptionally lukewarm tribute to Kushner for Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People issue, which he concluded by comparing Kushner to the mythical Icarus, a nepotism hire who crashed and burned after flying too close to the sun.
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Among these, the anti-nepotism law should be clarified to stipulate beyond any doubt that presidents are prohibited from appointing their relatives to any position in the executive branch, and the size of federal contracts that a president's family member may receive should be limited.
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For more than a decade, Thailand has been divided between populist political forces led by former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, who was toppled in a 2006 coup, and the royalist and military establishment, which accuses Thaksin of poisoning politics with corruption and nepotism, which he denies.
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Ted LieuTed W. LieuCities are the future: We need to coordinate their international diplomacy George Conway opposes #unfollowTrump movement Puerto Rico resignations spur constitutional crisis MORE (D-Calif.) and Democratic mega-donor Tom Steyer, who claimed the move would be an act of nepotism.
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An anti-nepotism law passed by Congress after President John F. Kennedy appointed his brother Robert as attorney general in 1961 would make it difficult, if not impossible, for Mr. Kushner to take a senior position in the Trump administration, according to legal experts.
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"The anti-nepotism law apparently has an exception if you want to work in the West Wing, because the president is able to appoint his own staff," said the adviser, Kellyanne Conway, who was Mr. Trump's final campaign manager, on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program.
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Platforms of self-generated media are home to these new generations, whose self-earned influence has given birth to a new species of power that has less to do with silver spoons or nepotism, and everything to do with the numbers that quantify influence.
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The move followed President Maithripala Sirisena's dismissal in late October of Sri Lanka's prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, and his naming as a replacement a popular former president who had been accused of human rights abuses, nepotism and excessively close ties to China during his tenure.
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This nepotism folded in on itself speaks volumes about the Trump administration's faulty response to the coronavirus crisis — both the uniquely Trumpy incompetence at play and a deeper flaw in the specific kind of right-wing populism that has taken over the Republican party.
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When I stepped down as artistic director of the American Conservatory Theater last month, he said in his toast to me that nepotism had no place at A.C.T. because he had slept with the director for 25 years and still never gotten a role.
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In fact, the anti-corruption watchdog went so far that, in a blatant act of nepotism and personal benefit, the chairman of TIP who signed a contract with USAID for an anti-corruption hotline had his own son appointed as head of the program.
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SENTUL, Indonesia (Reuters) - The youngest son of former Indonesian President Suharto, Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra, said on Monday he is leading a party into elections next year because two decades of reform have failed to move the country on from corruption, collusion and nepotism.
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Because we can no longer rely on presidents to comply voluntarily with ethical norms, we need new laws to address their conflicts of interest, their receipt of compensation for the use of their names while in office, nepotism and the release of tax forms.
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If adult sons in need of nepotism, family loans, and an enduring dalliance with Dinesh D'Souza all sound familiar, you won't be especially shocked to hear which candidate Ricketts and the rest of his clan (minus his liberal daughter, Laura) are gearing up to support.
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Nobody does nepotism better than Nascar, which raises the question of how Elliott would have fared if his real name had not been William Clyde Elliott II. "I don't want to dwell on hypotheticals, on speculation," said Waltrip, whose brother Darrell was also a champion Nascar driver.
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Kushner explains how he led Trump to victory Even as the Trump transition is expected to announce how Kushner's appointment won't violate anti-nepotism laws, Kushner, who owns his own real estate development firm, has continued to chase deals that raise questions about conflicts of interest.
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The seeds of this sort of weekend have been growing for a while now -- ever since the President found a loophole in the Federal Anti-Nepotism Act that allowed him to appoint both Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, to senior roles in the White House.
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Kushner's time in public service has been fraught with concerns from the moment he was hired, when Department of Justice attorneys reasoned that an anti-nepotism law applied only to executive agencies and that the White House itself, overseeing the executive branch, was not an executive agency.
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These days, people are hungry for new leadership and quick to criticize the increasingly heavy-handed Palestinian Authority for corruption, nepotism, and inaction, while calling on PA President Mahmoud Abbas, who is 83 and serving his 14th year of a nominally four-year term, to resign.
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Opinion Columnist BEIRUT — Lebanon was ahead of the game on civil war and now is last to the Arab Spring, or at least an Arab something — a vast, united exhalation of disgust at the thievery, corruption and nepotism that has caused widespread misery across this wounded land.
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While it's unclear when Kushner would receive security clearance, the legality of such a move is murky as well, as it raises questions about whether Trump is contravening the anti-nepotism law that bars presidents from appointing family members to cabinet positions or formal government jobs.
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Why it matters: Both are formal White House officials, and their presence creates periodic confusion and resentment — for some, a reminder of why nepotism isn't a good idea: White House Counsel Don McGahn has vented to friends about the complications of having the couple in-house.
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But he gave no timetable for his exit in favour of waiting for a national conference on reforms to address the outpouring of discontent over corruption, nepotism, economic mismanagement and the protracted grip on power of veterans of the 1954-62 war of independence against France.
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Other findings showed that Mr. Kiir's wife, his brother-in-law and at least seven of his children, including a 12-year-old son, had stakes in "a wide range of business ventures" in South Sudan that suggested nepotism and corruption in violation of the country's laws.
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Government must serve the people by offering them a better life, higher wages and improved health, rather than ripping off the people with a scandal-ridden regime that treats the government of the people as a piggy bank for greed, sweetheart deals, nepotism and insider corruptions.
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Quite the parallel between members of the decadent golf set cheating to get their kids into college and a decadent golf setter cheating to get his daughter and son-in-law clearances after committing nepotism to get them civil service jobs – except for the national security risks.
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"I am grateful that there are no material findings regarding nepotism, conflicts, financial mismanagement or personal gain, and that I may continue to work hard within the academic mission knowing that my integrity has been exonerated on these issues," Ms. Katehi wrote in a letter of resignation.
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Secretary Carson's family has had more involvement in official business than is par for the course — executive branch officials aren't supposed to use their offices to advance private or commercial interests, and anti-nepotism laws bar officials from employing or promoting the interests of their relatives.
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Mr. Abe's decision was seen as self-serving not least because he is perceived to have been dodging the Diet's efforts to hold him accountable for two scandals possibly involving nepotism and an alleged cover-up concerning the activities of Japan's Self-Defense Force in South Sudan.
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Christina M. Greer, a political-science professor who is a McSilver Institute Fellow at New York University, said that concerns over nepotism may be particularly strong at the moment given the way President Trump has included his daughter and son-in-law in his inner circle.
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And this week, it was announced that the 37-year-old would get an award from Variety and the Lifetime channel for her charity work, an honor that was wrongly reported as a "lifetime achievement award," which led to people denouncing her for benefiting from nepotism.
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He needs to repeat that there are no facts showing that Hunter's actions were anything but above board — and then do a hard pivot to Trump's own corruption, nepotism, abuse of power and law-breaking actions based on his position as president of the United States.
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Black, after all, is a 70-year-old with a self-sustained career of his own and no close ties to Romney, while Hunter is the troubled scion of an immensely prominent politician — a familiar story of American nepotism that anyone can instinctively understand, though perhaps can't fully substantiate.
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Satirists in Kenya have gone so far as to issue mock "travel warnings" for black Africans heading to the US. Recent headlines — ranging from accusations of nepotism to the president's top spiritual adviser openly advising on policy-making — are unnervingly familiar in many fragile states on the continent.
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Twitter is full of liberals mocking the hypocrisy of the Trump children for attacking Biden, but the money Hunter Biden made trading on the Biden name weakens Joe Biden's ability to make the case against Trump's nepotism and corruption, even though it's clearly one of Trump's core vulnerabilities.
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Trump's comments to Hannity came on the heels of both Donald Jr. and Eric Trump displaying a stunning lack of self-awareness during Fox News interviews in which they pretended, absurdly, as though the idea they've benefited from nepotism or are exploiting their father's administration for profit is unthinkable.
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They include, but are not limited to: the hard route, which includes long days, long nights, and long mastheads to climb; the easy route, which could involve a bit of nepotism; and then there's the alternative route, a path paved with a bit of star aligning and luck.
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The couple, speaking to the Computer History Museum in a 2004 oral history, noted that they were not allowed to work directly together due to a nepotism rule at the bureau, which led Henrietta to voluntarily leave the bureau's computer team and work with its electron tube laboratory instead.
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I know people love to think that nepotism is the root of all the good that happens to those of us who have parents in various positions of power, but contrary to what they might think, people don't just say, like, 'Oh, you're related to a news person?
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"Quite the parallel between members of the decadent golf set cheating to get their kids into college and a decadent golf setter cheating to get his daughter and son-in-law clearances after committing nepotism to get them civil service jobs – except for the national security risks," Shaub tweeted.
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Right, so those examples you cited, FDR staying on for four terms and Congress enacting a two-term limit for presidents; JFK appointing his brother attorney general and Congress passing an anti-nepotism law; all of the laws enacted after Nixon — that all took place in a different moment.
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Sri Lankans were glued to their television sets Friday after President Maithripala Sirisena dismissed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and replaced him with Mahinda Rajapaksa, a popular former leader who was accused of human rights abuses, brazen nepotism and excessively close ties to China when he governed the country.
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After prioritizing the World Cup bid, U.S. Soccer took more than a year to hire a new coach for the men's national team, and the choice of Gregg Berhalter immediately brought accusations of nepotism because the organization's chief commercial officer at the time was Jay Berhalter, Gregg's brother.
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Just as important, the opposition and some analysts say, the city has become a vital source of wealth in a network of cronyism and nepotism that has benefited from the awarding of municipal contracts and the distribution of city funds to charitable foundations with links to the president's family.
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The goal of the project, she said, is to combat the rampant "nepotism" in her industry (she herself is the daughter of the actor and director Peter Masterson) and encourage more women, minorities and the economically disadvantaged, and so she is working with local vocational schools and community colleges.
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The only news to come out of South Texas is framed in the superlative, and not positively: extraordinary poverty, profound rates of illiteracy, generations-deep nepotism, off-the-charts diabetes, casual civil-rights abuses, untreated wastewater in the Rio Grande, the mythical crossover border violence and the mosquitoes.
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IBM CEO Ginni Rometty speaks with President Donald Trump and nepotism hire Jared Kushner (Photo Credit: Aude Guerrucci / Pool via CNP /MediaPunch/IPX)IBM CEO Ginni Rometty has taken some major heat from her employees for continuing to advise President Trump, and that seems likely to continue in the near future.
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The co-founder of an influential left-leaning NGO and fierce critic of South Korea's family-run conglomerates, or chaebol, Mr Kim seemed the ideal candidate to clean up after his predecessor, Choi Heung-sik, who had to quit after just six months when he became embroiled in a nepotism scandal.
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Trump, who has spent most of her career working in the family business, can simultaneously be a bright young woman and also ridiculously unqualified for the role she now occupies (ditto for her husband, to whom the job of White House Innovations Director came only as a result of nepotism).
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In an introductory scene, Kendall is dismissed as a "daddy's boy" when a big deal he's trying to engineer blows up in his face, serving notice both of the weight that comes from nepotism, as well as the assumption that the apple might have fallen uncomfortably far from the tree.
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Mr. Kushner has consulted with at least one lawyer and believes that by forgoing a salary and putting his investment fund, his real estate holdings and The New York Observer into a blind trust, he would not be bound by federal nepotism rules, according to one of the people briefed.
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Editorial President-elect Donald Trump's decision to appoint his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as a senior White House adviser very likely violates a federal anti-nepotism law, and shows again how little he seems to care about the legal and ethical obligations of the office he is about to assume.
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Trump's blind nepotism created this: One of the most senior White House staffers, who has a hand in any number of extremely sensitive situations, including attempting to negotiate peace in the Middle East(!), is someone about whom intelligence officials had concerns regarding the potential exposure he could cause the US government.
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It's quotable, not too demanding, and it's got a happy ending, unless you have questions about whether a New York corporate type accustomed to workplace nepotism and a cartoonish bushman who can't operate a bed can make it work together, in which case the ending could be considered a Graduate-type downer.
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No amount of bluster and rhetoric, or blaming "the Germans" and "Brussels," or simply pulling up the drawbridge, will shoo away such challenges, not to mention Italy's ingrained problems, its clunky bureaucracy and judicial system, north-south divide, inequality, nepotism, and low employment rates, especially among women and the young, for starters.
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Still, experts note the purpose of the 1967 anti-nepotism statute is to prevent nepotistic favoritism in the wielding of federal power and benefits, so any notion of granting such an important federal power to a non-employee family member contradicts the purpose and spirit of that law, as well as standard practice.
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Together they formed a broad coalition that successfully ended the ten-year rule of Mr Rajapaksa, under whom the army brutally crushed a quarter-century rebellion by minority Tamils, but whose government also leant towards nepotism, repression and cronyism, and towards China rather than such traditional partners as India and the West.
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Two top Democrats on Thursday are accusing President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE of "nepotism" and putting "blood" ahead of national security. Reps.
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Third Point Warns Seven & i Over Nepotism | Toshifumi Suzuki, the chief executive of Seven & i Holdings, has chronic health problems, and investors fear he may try to name his son to lead Seven‐Eleven Japan and eventually become president of Seven & i, Daniel Loeb, the founder of Third Point, wrote in a letter.
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Indeed, in an attempt to smooth out the anti-nepotism concerns of her husband's appointment, Ms. Trump will no longer run her own brand or serve as an executive with the Trump organization and is moving with her family to Washington — even as her brothers will continue to run the family company.
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Trump has gone so far -- racial demagoguery and slurs, abuse of office, dictator appeasement, nepotism and family corruption, blazing incompetence, contempt for the rule of law, betrayal of public institutions, epic dishonesty, authoritarian thuggishness... the list never ends -- that he is damaging public institutions and debasing the Presidency of the United States.
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Dakota Johnson is the best possible result of nepotism in that she's actually talented AND her upbringing as the child of A-List celebrities means she is afraid of absolutely no one Viewed through that lens, Johnson and DeGeneres's uncomfortable conversation wasn't just a viral talk show clip about a harmless mistake.
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On the right, Mr. Fillon initially looked like a potential winner, but a nepotism scandal — in which he was accused of embezzling public funds by paying his wife and children to work as his assistants, although they appear to have done little work — defeated his efforts to make it to the second round.
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Because while most kids are content with wiping boogers on the side of the sofa while watching cartoons, Egypt has already burst into his father's shoes and entered the world of music production, helping to craft the beat for "Untitled 07" on Kendrick's untitled unmastered.. Call it nepotism, call it talent; call it both.
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" Shahidi says of the nepotism-focused episode: "What I appreciate is the fact that they tie in black history … It's more than just feeling like you haven't earned it, but finally being in position after years where you may be the first in your family to get that far … I appreciate how nuanced it is.
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He also said his daughter, Ivanka TrumpIvana (Ivanka) Marie TrumpDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Trump Jr. dismisses conflicts of interest, touts projects in Indonesia Ivanka Trump talking to lawmakers about gun reform legislation: report MORE, would be "incredible" in the job, but lamented that he would be accused of nepotism.
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Proposals to require presidential candidates to disclose their tax returns, give teeth to the Emoluments Clause, strengthen anti-nepotism rules that should keep unqualified family members out of sensitive offices, extend conflict-of-interest rules to include the president, and turn blind trust norms into binding rules won't be hard to understand under Mr. Trump.
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"I care about corruption and conspiracy and collusion and nepotism and all that, but I think that the duration of this whole process has led me to feel skeptical and less hopeful," said Evan Amo, a 30-year-old Presbyterian pastor who just recently moved to Denver and did not support Trump in 2110.
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"This comes a week after she suspended him from his assigned duties based on preliminary information that surfaced through an internal investigation launched to look into questions about to potential violations of our union's anti-nepotism policy, efforts to evade our Code of Ethics and subsequent complaints related to sexual misconduct and abusive behavior towards union staff," Wali added.
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Noted coward and President of the United States Donald Trump talks with noted invertebrate and IBM CEO Ginny Rometty as noted violator of nepotism laws and overall toad Jared Kushner looks on during a meeting on February 3, 2017 (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The list of companies opposing President Trump's discriminatory Muslim travel ban has grown.
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The lawsuit accused top execs Shervin Pishevar, Afshin Pishevar, Joseph Lonsdale and Robert Lloyd of nepotism and corruption, specifically hiring a brother with no experience, leaving a noose on the desk of one of the defendants and handing a fiancé a PR position paying a monthly salary of $40,000 that's "far above market value," according to the suit.
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His awkward magnum opus Ian "Hahahrawrrahaha" Malcolm returns to Civil Lawsuit Park in Jurassic World 2, coming out in 2018—not to mention his Independence Day franchise homecoming last year (OK, maybe I should not have mentioned that.) He's even reached Bill Murray-levels of Wes Anderson casting nepotism with Isle of Dogs, also set for next year.
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There's also Aunt May (Peter Parker's guardian; apparently there are no anti-nepotism rules at the council), J. T. Hutt (a superfan abbreviation for Jabba the Hutt, the "Star Wars" gangster who hangs a frozen Han Solo on his wall), the actor John Cleese, Kathryn Janeway (a "Star Trek" captain) and someone called John Snow (more on him later).
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The report released by Transparency International measured corruption in governments by aggregating data from nearly a dozen data sources that "capture the assessment of experts and business executives on a number of corrupt behaviours in the public sector," including bribery, nepotism in the civil service, diversion of public funds and use of public office for private gain.
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Continuing his inexplicable insistence that nepotism and trading on your famous family name is only bad when that name isn't Trump, Don Jr. was going in on Joe Biden's son Hunter for his appointments to various boards including one in Ukraine, and his recent admission that being the vice-president's son may have benefited his career.
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Trump's critics have always been against his nepotism (there is a reason there are laws against it) but especially when the family members he puts in charge of the most sensitive issues facing the country have absolutely no experience in these fields and have huge vulnerabilities given their past business dealings that can clearly be exploited by our adversaries.
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