Sentences with phrase «accepting bribes and kickbacks»

Crime: State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan, was charged Jan. 22, 2015 with accepting bribes and kickbacks totaling nearly $ 4 million.

In October, Mangano was arrested on federal corruption charges for allegedly accepting bribes and kickbacks from a local restaurateur who received benefits including a county contract.

Bharara in January made his most high - profile arrest, charging now former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver with accepting bribes and kickbacks.

Beginning in or around 2004 and continuing through 2011, I and others on the FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with the selection of South Africa as the host nation for the 2010 World Cup... Beginning in or about 1993 and continuing through the early 2000s, I and others agreed to accept bribes and kickbacks in conjunction with the broadcast and other rights to the 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2003 Gold Cups.

Prosecutors say the Manganos and Venditto accepted bribes and kickbacks to arrange loan guarantees and contracts for restaurateur Harendra Singh.

Mangano has pleaded not guilty to charges that he accepted bribes and kickbacks from a businessman in exchange for benefits, including a county contract.

He and Venditto, who was elected in 1996, allegedly accepted bribes and kickbacks from Singh between January 2010 and February 2015.

Not exact matches

Mei, who was charged with accepting $ 50,000 and cash payments for a luxury car lease from Singh, secretly pleaded guilty in September 2015 to receiving «bribes and kickbacks» for helping Singh secure the loan guarantees, according to an indictment unsealed last week.

The charges come just months after Mr. Bharara charged former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver with accepting what he described as kickbacks and bribes disguised as legitimate work done for law firms.

Silver, 73, the state's most powerful Democrat, was convicted in 2015 of accepting $ 4 million in kickbacks and bribes while speaker making him one of the three most powerful officials in Albany.

First came the Assembly speaker, the powerful Democrat Sheldon Silver, who in January was dragged by federal authorities to a courthouse, black fedora perched on his head, and charged with exploiting his position by accepting millions in bribes and kickbacks.

Federal prosecutors accused Silver of using his position as speaker to accept millions of dollars worth of bribes and kickbacks.

The presiding judge, Valerie E. Caproni of Federal District Court, told jurors at the outset of the trial that the government must prove that Mr. Silver knowingly participated in a scheme to defraud and «received things of value in the form of bribes or kickbacks, and that he knew when he accepted those things he was expected, in exchange, to take official action as the opportunity arose.»

Much of the $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks Silver was charged with accepting were disguised as legal and referral fees, prosecutors said.

In January, Silver was charged with using his office to benefit his real estate industry donors and accepting almost $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks, according to the Associated Press; Skelos was charged in May with using his power over real estate laws to enrich his son, Adam, a real estate developer based in New York City.