Word: watchdogs
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...complete audit of the company, and another heavyweight, Davis Polk & Wardell, as corporate counsel. He named Daniel Noa, a former German prosecutor, as the company's new chief compliance officer (CCO) and hired Michael Hershman, a former U.S. military intelligence officer and one of the founders of anticorruption watchdog Transparency International, as a compliance consultant...
...million people, Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, and its oil wealth and military power make it, together with South Africa, the continent's major political player. But since independence, Nigeria has set an example for corruption unrivaled in Africa. The country's own anti-corruption watchdog estimates that successive Nigerian rulers have stolen a total of $400 billion since independence - the equivalent of the total economic aid sent by the international community to the entire African continent in the same period. Nigeria's governments have made the country a byword for corruption - a reputation not improved...
...After years of security breaches at Los Alamos - and this shocking episode in the trailer last fall - you have to wonder, when will it end?" says Danielle Brian, the executive director of the Project on Government Oversight, an independent, non-partisan government watchdog group. "How can we continue to believe Department of Energy promises to end this brazen laxity in the handling of national security information...
...were listening didn’t care much, or there just really weren’t that many people listening. The resulting backlash makes it clear that it’s not the former. No, people just didn’t know that anything had been said until liberal watchdog Media Matters for America broke the story (online, mind you) much later that evening...
...communications staffer, Shaha Alia Riza, was transferred to the State Department after Wolfowitz moved to the Bank in 2005, in accordance with Bank conflict of interest rules. But Wolfowitz admitted this week that he had helped secure a salary bump for Riza when she made the move. A private watchdog group has estimated that Riza's salary (which was still paid for by the World Bank) jumped from $132,000 to more than $194,000 when she relocated to Foggy Bottom, where she no longer works. "In hindsight," Wolfowitz said yesterday, "I wish I had trusted my original instincts...