Sentences with phrase «after accepting a bribe»
He restated the comments by the former PRO of the Presby Church, Dr. Emmanuel Acheampong that Prof. Martey is corrupt and a liar after accepting a bribe of 10, 000 dollars from a presidential candidate of a leading political party in Ghana.
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She settled one lawsuit brought by a fashion designer for a reported $ 430,000, and has since been sued by a former lawyer after alleging the attorney had accepted a bribe.
Does that mean he willingly accepted the bribe and only had a change of mind after his party had found out?
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.
Pigeon — who for decades has quietly assisted candidates, companies and sitting officials as they navigate the labyrinthine factions of Erie County politics — was arraigned the day after the judge, state Supreme Court Justice John Michalek, resigned from office and pleaded guilty to accepting bribes.
Pressed into doing so by the FBI, after supposedly being videotaped accepting a bribe from a Hudson County vendor — a psychiatrist whose company serviced jails and a psychiatric hospital.
A former New York state assemblyman has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after he was caught in a sting operation accepting bribes from a carnival promoter and two undercover FBI agents posing as out - of - town real estate investors.
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.
Blake said the right opportunity presented itself when Assemblyman Eric Stevenson (D - Morrisania) left behind an open seat last month after he was convicted of accepting $ 22,000 in bribes from businessmen building an adult day care center in his district.
Bronx Assemblyman Eric Stevenson was removed from office Monday after jurors found him guilty of accepting $ 22,000 in bribes.
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.
He spoke after Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Boone said Percoco accepted over $ 300,000 in bribes to help corrupt businessmen.
Cunningham's resignation after acknowledging that he accepted $ 2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors, coupled with former San Diego Mayor Dick Murphy's (R) resignation earlier this year, seemingly create an appetite for change in the 50th District.
Smith — who is also accused of accepting bribes from others — remains a lame duck until the end of the year after losing a re-election bid in September's» primary.
Jurors found Percoco guilty of soliciting and accepting more than $ 315,000 in bribes in return for taking official state action to benefit energy company Competitive Power Ventures and Syracuse - based real estate developer COR Development after an eight - week trial.
She noted that Lacewell testified that Percoco, who is accused of accepting bribes from companies with business before the state, continued to come into his old government office at times after leaving the state payroll to run Cuomo's campaign.
Savino was subsequently arrested by the FBI and, after an emergency meeting of the Town Board, he was fired for accepting a bribe to give an election line to a Democrat in the New York City mayoral race.
Two days after a New York state Senator was arrested for trying to bribe his way onto the New York City mayoral ballot, a state Assemblyman has been accused of accepting payments to sponsor legislation that would benefit developers of an adult day care center in the Bronx.
These plans collapsed when Savino was arrested for accepting a bribe — he was fired by Gromack after an emergency Town Board meeting — and is now cooperating with the Feds prior to being sentenced to prison.
So, when his crimes were exposed, Berndt gamed the system by accepting a $ 40,000 bribe and retired — but only after racking up another year of credit toward his pension.
Just two months after the top Chinese food and drug regulator was sentenced to death, a second regulator has been given a similar sentence for accepting more than $ 300,000 in bribes.
Four assistant basketball coaches at NCAA Division I schools have been charged with accepting bribes to steer players to work with clothing companies, sports agents and financial advisers after they...
As reported in the written decision of the Law Society Hearing Panel (which decision is under appeal by the applicant), the applicant threatened to sue the other board members for defamation after he was removed as President of the condo corporation and a notice of his removal was posted; circulated a letter (under a false name) on some floors within the building that falsely stated that some of the board members had previously gone bankrupt, had criminal convictions and were accepting bribes and free meals from the developer of the condominium to settle deficiencies with the developer; made a derogatory remark about some of the residents based on their ethnicity; threatened to report some of the directors to US / Canada border officials, falsely alleging that they were drug smugglers; threatened both the corporation's property manager and security services firm that their contracts with the condo corporation would be in jeopardy if they did not provide a character letter to the applicant.
Buchanan countered that entering that order after illegally accepting a bribe to do so made the order less the product of a judicial act and more the product of a crime.