Sentences with phrase «prosecutors allege the bribes»

Prosecutors allege the bribes were mostly arranged through a consultant teaching job for his wife Lisa who is an educator.

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Prosecutors allege developers paid «bribes» to Howe that «were purported to be consultancy payments and bonuses but which were in fact payments for Howe's actions in his capacity as an agent» of SUNY Poly, who had «substantial control» over its projects.

Prosecutors allege that Venditto and Mangano conspired with Singh to have the town back Singh loans in return for kickbacks and bribes.

Prosecutors allege bid - rigging, bribes and extortion.

They checked off more than a dozen potential witnesses, including Lisa Percoco — who prosecutors allege was the direct recipient of more than $ 300,000 in alleged bribe money intended to influence her husband.

Percoco, Aiello and Gerardi and are on trial in U.S. District Court in Manhattan along with energy company executive Peter Galbraith Kelly, who is alleged to have bribed Percoco by securing what prosecutors have termed a «low - show» corporate education job for his wife, a former schoolteacher.

Prosecutors have introduced evidence showing Percoco's household was under intense financial pressure at the time the alleged bribes were paid.

Smith sought to do this by bribing the officials, prosecutors allege, using former New York City Councilman Dan Halloran as his middle - man.

Howe has already pleaded guilty to several felonies related to his alleged role as a conduit for bribes and is cooperating with prosecutors.

Prosecutors allege Percoco got the energy company to allegedly hire his wife, Lisa Percoco, for a job as a consultant for $ 90,000 a year and that the Cor officials allegedly bribed him with $ 35,000 in payments in 2014 during a period when he stepped down for eight months from his state job to run Cuomo's re-election campaign.

Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York allege that Percoco took bribes from CPV officials for help in seeking a price guarantee for the 680 megawatts of power the plant is expected to generate.

In the phone call that day in 2016, Percoco talked about a job his wife had gotten with an energy company — a post prosecutors have called a job in return for nearly $ 300,000 in what they allege amounted to alleged bribe payments to Percoco, allegedly in return for official government favors.

Prosecutors alleged Percoco turned to bribes as a way to pay for rising personal costs, driven in part by a move from a modest Staten Island neighborhood to a larger home in an upscale town in Westchester County near where Cuomo lives in the house of his girlfriend, Sandra Lee.

After opening statements that alleged «bribes and kickbacks, illegally conducted,» prosecutors from U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office used Paulin's testimony to establish how the Assembly operated under then - speaker Silver.

Legal experts said Howe's arrest and the testimony that led to it would sap his value as a credible narrator of the alleged bribe scheme and leave prosecutors with an uphill slog to make their case.

In one of three alleged schemes, prosecutors said that the two men solicited bribes from Charles Dorego, a real estate executive at Glenwood Management, who directed $ 20,000 check for title insurance work to the younger Skelos, at a time when the company was lobbying for housing and rent - related legislation that was crucial to its business.

Federal prosecutors allege that in return for a bribe Cuomo aide Joe Percoco helped Cor Development avoid a costly state mandate prior to construction of a parking lot near the Aloft hotel at the Inner Harbor.

Prosecutors allege he used his position to take more than $ 6 million in bribes and kickbacks, which he masked as legitimate income earned as a lawyer over 15 years.

Federal authorities have interviewed several individuals involved in the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office's 2007 wiretap investigation of politically connected defense attorney Robert Macedonio and are examining whether an alleged bribe to prosecutor John Scott Prudenti went uninvestigated.

That selling of influence translated to $ 300,000 in bribes in order to construct a power plant in the Hudson Valley, prosecutors alleged.

Prosecutors say the alleged bribes were funneled to Percoco through a shell company controlled by Howe, the lobbyist.

That year, prosecutors alleged, the first bribe scheme began not long after Percoco, who had been a member of Cuomo's tiny inner circle, had dinner at a Connecticut restaurant with Peter Galbraith Kelly, an executive with an energy company that at the time was trying to build a gas - fueled power plant in Orange County.

Smith — one of the state's top Democrats — made the failed bid to secure the 2013 Republican mayoral primary line by bribing Halloran, Tabone and then - Bronx Republican Chairman Joseph «Jay» Savino, prosecutors allege.

Prosecutors want to present evidence of Smith's alleged payoffs at his upcoming corruption trial, where he's accused of trying to bribe city Republican leaders to get on the GOP line for mayor last year.

On Thursday, federal prosecutors alleged that Mangano and Venditto received discounts at Singh's facilities and accepted limousine services and other bribes.

Federal prosecutors allege Percoco solicited bribes from a power company and a developer with business before the state.

Prosecutors allege that Venditto and Mangano, who have pleaded not guilty, conspired with Singh to have Oyster Bay back Singh loans in return for kickbacks and bribes.

In the criminal case, prosecutors contend that the loans were among the fruits of alleged bribes by Singh.

Naturally, the word «ziti» — the euphemism borrowed from The Sopranos to describe the alleged bribes to Percoco as payments to his wife for what prosecutors say was a «low - show» job — was tossed around in court on Tuesday.

Federal authorities have interviewed several individuals involved in the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office's 2007 wiretap investigation of politically connected defense attorney Robert Macedonio and are examining whether an alleged bribe to prosecutor John Scott Prudenti went uninvestigated, according to a source with direct knowledge of the ongoing federal probe.

Prosecutors have alleged the couple paid Ippolito about $ 1.6 million in bribes from 2009 to 2016 so Ippolito, as a town commissioner, would help facilitate the construction of a Hicksville senior citizen housing development that would have been known as Cantiague Commons.

Contributions to Seabrook's political club from Leon Eastmond, whom prosecutors allege paid Seabrook $ 50,000 as a bribe to get a boiler contract for the new Yankee Stadium.

Queens City Councilman Daniel Halloran, who was arrested last week as part of an alleged plan for state Sen. Malcolm Smith to bribe his way onto the Republican ticket for mayor, dangled $ 40,000 to $ 80,000 in his City Council discretionary funding as a tool in the plot, according to prosecutors.

Of the more than $ 300,000 in alleged bribes to Mr. Percoco, prosecutors said the bulk came from Competitive Power Ventures, in the form of a «low - show job» for Mr. Percoco's wife, Lisa Toscano - Percoco.

NEW YORK — The trial of former - Andrew Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco continued on Wednesday, as prosecutors alleged that one of the companies involved, Competitive Power Ventures, bribed Joseph Percoco through a $ 300,000 scheme where they educated his wife, Lisa Percoco, for what prosecutors say was very little work.

Federal prosecutors allege that Percoco pocketed more than $ 300,000 in bribes in return for official actions on behalf of an energy company and a developer seeking lucrative deals with New York State.

Prosecutors Monday focused heavily on the energy company dealings, but Howe said he acted as a middleman for an alleged $ 35,000 bribe from Syracuse developers Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi of Cor Development allegedly paid to Percoco.

While Mangano and Singh had been friends for 25 years, the alleged bribes to Mangano began shortly after he took office as county executive in 2010, the Eastern District prosecutors allege.

Bharara alleges the payments were masked through the LLC in order to obscure the fact that they were coming from the Maryland firm Competitive Power Ventures, which the prosecutor says also bribed Percoco for government favors.

Federal prosecutors allege Smith hatched a plan to bribe City Councilman Dan Halloran, the head of the Bronx Republican party Joseph Savino and the vice chairman of the Queens Republican party, Vincent Tabone, to get the necessary permission to run for mayor as a Republican.

Federal prosecutors alleged that Mr. Smith, a Democrat, tried to bribe Republican county leaders in an unsuccessful attempt to allow him to run on the GOP ballot line.

US prosecutors allege the payment was a bribe to help secure the 2010 World Cup for South Africa.

Halloran said the government misinterpreted his statements during a September 2012 meeting with Stern, where prosecutors allege Halloran accepted a cash bribe.

Smith agreed to steer $ 500,000 in state transportation money to an upstate project in exchange for the bribes paid on his behalf, according to the complaint, and in total Halloran allegedly accepted upward of $ 60,000 in bribe money while Tabone pocketed $ 25,000, prosecutors allege.

Trevon Gross was charged in March 2016, with federal prosecutors alleging that the pastor took bribes from those