The question facing investigators now is: if kickbacks were an accepted part of doing business with the Mayor of Syracuse, where else was municipal corruption flourishing?

With no independent oversight like NGOs or free media, corruption has flourished.

During his rule, corruption flourished.

No one proposes to turn the clock back to an era of big city machines, when corruption flourished and paternalism ruled.

Licence Raj established the "irresponsible, self-perpetuating bureaucracy that still exists throughout much of the country" and corruption flourished under this system.

Mr. Brecher said conditions in the industry helped explain how the corruption flourished.

But the district gained nationwide notoriety as the heart of the "Tenderloin," where prostitution, gambling, robbery and corruption flourished.

But in the last year in particular, inflation and corruption have flourished and aroused deep public bitterness and consternation.

Half the population suffers from malnutrition; there is difficult access to clean water and where traditional exports have collapsed, drug trafficking and corruption are flourishing.

Organised crime and corruption still flourish and the judiciary is too often manipulated by politicians.