Sentences with phrase «action kickback scheme»
As this story from the San Jose Mercury News and multiple others report, class action lawyer William Lerach, formerly a partner in the indicted class action law firm Milberg Weiss, struck a plea agreement to pay $ 7.75 million for his involvement in a class action kickback scheme by which Lerach made undisclosed payments to class action plaintiffs in exchange for signing them up for representation.
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Prosecutors charge that Mr. Silver, a Democrat from the Lower East Side, traded official actions for $ 3 million in an illegal kickback scheme.
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.»
The class action alleged violation of U.S. securities law by Brazil's state - controlled oil company in connection with a multi-billion dollar bribery and kickback scheme.