corruption
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The primary difference is that the corruption Sorkin points to is unique to the digital age, where everything is ephemeral — trumped by the next headline.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
A former transport minister in June was sentenced to 24 years in prison for a pandemic-era corruption scheme.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The manager of the dump was arrested on Monday as part of a corruption probe.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
His brother Yoshitha was also arrested earlier this year on corruption charges.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Many Osage had come to believe that local authorities were colluding with the killers and that only an outside force like Davis could cut through the corruption and solve the growing number of cases.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
The subtext plays out in how the town confronts the other corruptions in its midst.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2025
Tasila and the former president's widow, Esther, continue to face corruptions charges, which they deny.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2025
I’ve long argued that journalism is not immune to such corruptions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025
The privilege becomes evident as the book unleashes its vision of interlocking corruptions among the spectacularly decadent elite presiding over Asia’s oldest democracy.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2022
The exciting synergy of institutional life in an all-purpose national metropolis was deemed less important than the dangerous corruptions likely to afflict a nexus of politicians and financiers.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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