Sentences with phrase «alleged bribe»

The agency booked Mittal, Kulkarni, Agrawal, public servant Pradeep Mishra and the alleged bribe delivery person, Akashdeep Chouhan, in the case on December 22

The alleged bribe payment moved through shell corporations in the Seychelles, the United Kingdom, and the British Vir - gin Islands, then to bank accounts in Cyprus, Latvia, and Switzerland.

The alleged bribe payment moved through shell corporations in the Seychelles, the United Kingdom, and the British Virgin Islands, then to bank accounts in Cyprus, Latvia, and Switzerland.

According to the police, the alleged bribe was offered and taken at the Rivers State Government House.

Lawan's admission to detectives that he collected the alleged bribe «to expose Otedola» was said to be a strong evidence that proved that he was criminally culpable.

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Ziti is the term Percoco allegedly devised, Howe said, to describe alleged bribe payments Howe arranged for him.

«And he asked for help, and I did whatever I could to help him,» Howe testified of the alleged bribe money he said he helped arrange for Percoco.

According to the criminal complaint, Halloran needed the alleged bribe money to pay for his mortgage.

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.

The director said that the commission would allow the law to take its course on any of its staff members indicted in the alleged bribe.

Howe and Percoco repeatedly referred to the alleged bribe money as «ziti,» the complaint says — a code word for money apparently lifted from an episode of HBO's mafia drama «The Sopranos,» Bharara said.

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.

Let the NPP continue to make noise about the alleged bribe, the people who are benefiting from the road will act accordingly by voting for the NDC come December 7.»

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.

Feds examining whether Robert Macedonio's alleged bribe to John Scott Prudenti went uninvestigated, source says

In emails, Howe and Percoco refered to the alleged bribe money as «ziti,» just like the characters on the «The Sopranos» did.

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.

In the ensuing debate, Nii Lantey Vanderpuije, a minority member of the Appointments Committee, was also said to have said on Montie Fm — a sister station of Radio Gold — that he didn't know anything about the alleged bribe, even though he was expected to have benefitted from it.

Of one of the alleged bribe deals, he told jurors: «That should disgust you because it's a crime.»

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.

The judge Thursday will have to decide whether to let that agent discuss — as the prosecution wants — how Percoco came up with ziti as the term he used to describe what the government calls alleged bribe money.

They will argue that Percoco, who left government at one point to work on Cuomo's campaign, wasn't a public official at the time he received the alleged bribes.

In regard to an arrangement to pay Percoco through a shell company for alleged bribes from Cor Development, he said, «In retrospect I never should have.»

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

But, as Tierney pointed out to jurors, information about the alleged bribes introduced at trial is.

The government reform groups say the latest scandal involving Senator Smith's alleged bribes to GOP officials to try to obtain permission to run on the Republican Mayoral ballot once again emphasizes the need to get money out of politics.

An official from an energy company linked to alleged bribes of nearly $ 300,000 paid to former Andrew Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco through his wife testified in Manhattan federal court Thursday that the payments were suspicious from the start.

The first corruption trial, likely to begin later this month, involves former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco and three business executives, and will focus on alleged bribes paid to Percoco in exchange for government favors.

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

Percoco was charged with the following felonies: conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right; extortion under color of official right; two counts of conspiracy to commit honest - services wire fraud related to alleged bribes from two companies; and solicitation of bribes or gratuities from the two companies that allegedly paid him more than $ 300,000 between 2012 and early 2015, when he last left Cuomo's office for good.

Yet when pressed specifically on the interwoven nature of the defendants actions — which include $ 322,000 in alleged bribes for Percoco in exchange for helping companies with business before the state — and those of Cuomo, Bharara refused to opine on what the governor may have known or been involved in.

Boone also signaled that the government in its case will highlight Percoco and Howe's use of the word «ziti» as code for alleged bribes, a term he says they took from the TV series about the mob «The Sopranos».

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.

The decision found that a quid pro quo arrangement must show some kind of direct benefit to the person paying the alleged bribes — or, in de Blasio's case, the legal campaign contributions.

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.

Howe, wearing a dark blue suit, testified through the day of Percoco's work to help his clients, who later paid him the alleged bribes.

NEW YORK CITY — Two Syracuse developers facing charges in a six - week long corruption trial say they have innocent explanations for their alleged bribes.

Todd Howe, a fixture in Cuomo's life since the mid-1980s, said he funneled «ziti» — a code name they used for alleged bribes — to Joseph Percoco as part of an alleged plan to use Percoco's influence with the Cuomo administration help a firm building a downstate energy plant and a Syracuse development company.

A criminal complaint alleges they bribed state officials to secure the contract to build a nanotechnology hub in DeWitt.

The charges allege the involvement of another former top Cuomo aide, Todd Howe, and the former head of external affairs and government relations for CPV, Peter Galbraith Kelly, Jr., and that some of the alleged bribes also went to Percoco's wife.

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.

Cuomo was so close to Pigeon — charged last week with nine felonies in connection with the alleged bribing of a state Supreme Court justice — that he gave him a key role in his 2014 re-election campaign despite objections from more important political aides like Joseph Percoco and Larry Schwartz, who considered him «untrustworthy and a little sleazy,» a source close to the campaign told The Post.

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

Labelled «the Fall Guy» by the Guardian, Wardle was further described as «a man who will go down in history for caving in to political pressure to drop the investigation of the arms giant BAE over alleged bribes to Saudi Arabia.»

Isaacs was also implicated, and the alleged bribes took the form of stock.

When I read The New York Times front - page article in 2012 about Wal - Mart's alleged bribes in Mexico, I thought it was going to be the U.S. equivalent of Siemens in Germany.

Obtained declination of prosecution for prime contractor on construction of federal courthouses in New York and Nevada in connection with investigation of alleged bribes and kickbacks.

Not exact matches

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.