Sentences with phrase «alleged bribe payments»

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

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.

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.

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.

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Prosecutors allege developers paid «bribes» to Howe that «were purported to be consultancy payments and bonuses but which were in fact payments for Howe's actions in his capacity as an agent» of SUNY Poly, who had «substantial control» over its projects.

Agnifilo of Manhattan contrasted the bribes that Mei pleaded guilty to accepting from Singh — multiple overseas vacations to South Korea and India and $ 1,000 monthly lease payments for a convertible BMW — with Venditto's alleged benefits, which included «discounted» limo rides and the use of a conference room in the basement of one of Singh's restaurants.

Prosecutors allege Percoco got the energy company to allegedly hire his wife, Lisa Percoco, for a job as a consultant for $ 90,000 a year and that the Cor officials allegedly bribed him with $ 35,000 in payments in 2014 during a period when he stepped down for eight months from his state job to run Cuomo's re-election campaign.

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 complaint alleges that Howe arranged for more than $ 315,000 in bribe payments to go to Percoco and his wife, Lisa Toscano - Percoco, who is not named in the complaint.

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.

It alleges that Percoco actually took inspiration from the TV show about organized crime, choosing to use the word «ziti» as a code word when demanding bribe payments and, according to the complaint, saying at times, «keep the ziti flowing,» and «don't tip over the ziti wagon.»

They also asked to see more information about payments alleged to be bribes, Lisa Percoco's alleged «low - show» job with a Hudson Valley energy company and testimony from Linda Lacewell, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's chief - of - staff.

Silver's lawyers argue each of the alleged schemes represents a «routine financial relationship with the entity to which he is allegedly steering business» and does constitute «the sort of «side payment... from a third party» that Skilling requires for a payment to be deemed an illegal bribe or kickback.»

And the immediate past Sports Minister alleged that the Black Stars failed to make it to Russia because his outfit failed to pay «unclassified payments» to the GFA to bribe referees.

Bharara alleges the payments were masked through the LLC in order to obscure the fact that they were coming from the Maryland firm Competitive Power Ventures, which the prosecutor says also bribed Percoco for government favors.

It alleges that Percoco actually took inspiration from the TV show about organized crime, using the word «ziti» as a code word when demanding bribe payments and saying at times, «keep the ziti flowing,» and «don't tip over the ziti wagon.»

US prosecutors allege the payment was a bribe to help secure the 2010 World Cup for South Africa.