corruption
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French prosecutors said the raid at the bank’s Paris office was part of a preliminary investigation into possible corruption charges targeting the former diplomat following revelations in the Epstein files.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
His son: the man who would later become tangled up in a huge corruption and bribery scandal that would last the next 10 years.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
Yoon's wife, former first lady Kim Keon Hee, is also languishing in prison for unrelated corruption crimes.
From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026
The survey specifically asked about the topics of the economy, housing, immigration, crime, corruption and artificial intelligence, measuring how voters in each of the four subgroups responded across these six categories.
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026
"I saw the queues, the shortages, the filthiness of public lavatories, the bureaucracy, the corruption, the red tape, the rudeness of officials, the impossibility of obtaining redress when one had a complaint," he remembered.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
Vocabulary lists containing corruption
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