Sentences with phrase «accepting cash bribes»

His aide, Vincent Tabone, was arrested Tuesday and was accused of accepting cash bribes in return for helping Democratic state Sen. Malcolm Smith run for mayor as a Republican.

The Bronx Republicans are led by Chairman Joseph Savino, who was arrested Tuesday for accepting cash bribes to support Democratic state Sen. Malcolm Smith's attempt to run for mayor as a Republican.

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

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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.

Two of de Blasio's campaign donors have pleaded guilty to using contributions as bribes, but the mayor was never charged with anything though he accepted that cash.

Marc Agniflio, the lawyer for former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, jumped right in after the lunch break Tuesday, hitting hard at prosecution witness Frederick Mei's credibility — and culpability for accepting cash, trips and other bribes from restaurateur Harendra Singh.

Mei, 58, of Bayville, is cooperating with prosecutors after pleading guilty to accepting bribes from Singh, including $ 50,000 in checks made out to cash, a trip to South Korea and cash payments to cover a $ 36,000 BMW lease.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian A. Jacobs told jurors that Stevenson accepted more than $ 20,000 in cash bribes in 2012 to help protect a new Bronx adult center in his district from competitors.

The charge: accepting $ 22,000 in cash bribes and campaign contributions in exchange for a legislative bill that would give four Bronx businessmen preferential treatment in building senior daycare centers.

Mayor Bill de Blasio won't be forced to testify about claims he accepted bribes of campaign cash from a crooked restaurateur, a defense lawyer said Wednesday.

Mei, 58, of Bayville, pleaded guilty in 2015 to honest - services fraud for accepting bribes from Singh, who gave him $ 50,000 in checks made out to cash, trips to South Korea and Italy and cash payments for a $ 36,000 BMW lease.

That scandal also swept up Correction Officer Benevolent Association Norman Seabrook, for allegedly accepting a bribe in a Ferragamo bag, handed off by one of the businessmen in exchange for investing union cash in a high - risk hedge fund.

Mei also said the very first time he took a bribe as a government official was in 1995, when he accepted a set of new car tires and then $ 2,500 in cash from a town contractor named Joe Rutigliano.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Jurors will see video recordings of political party leaders accepting bribes — envelopes stuffed with cash — that were meant to get former state Sen. Malcolm Smith a spot on the 2013 New York City mayoral ballot, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

Do you really think a politician who'll trade anything to gain / retain office is somehow less venal than one who just accepts a cold hard cash bribe?