Sentences with phrase «alleged bribe scheme»

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.

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In another alleged scheme, Silver was accused of accepting bribes in exchange for enacting tax breaks that helped a Manhattan real estate firm.

In one of three alleged schemes, prosecutors said that the two men solicited bribes from Charles Dorego, a real estate executive at Glenwood Management, who directed $ 20,000 check for title insurance work to the younger Skelos, at a time when the company was lobbying for housing and rent - related legislation that was crucial to its business.

Fusion candidates have come under new scrutiny after Sen. Malcolm Smith was arrested in an alleged scheme to bribe his way onto the New York City mayoral ballot through securing a Wilson - Pakula and run on the GOP line.

The call for the hearings, of course, comes in the wake of the arrest of erstwhile IDC member Sen. Malcolm Smith, D - Queens, in an alleged scheme to bribe his way onto the New York City mayoral ballot on the GOP line.

That year, prosecutors alleged, the first bribe scheme began not long after Percoco, who had been a member of Cuomo's tiny inner circle, had dinner at a Connecticut restaurant with Peter Galbraith Kelly, an executive with an energy company that at the time was trying to build a gas - fueled power plant in Orange County.

The indictment alleged that they plotted to solicit bribes for state assistance and to rig economic development contracts for companies that contributed to Cuomo's campaigns in a pair of interlinked schemes.

His record, however, includes the indictment of former State Senator Malcolm Smith and the conviction of former Councilman Dan Halloran for an alleged scheme to bribe Mr. Smith's way onto the 2013 ballot for mayor.

An array of figures from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's inner circle — including a confidante so close the governor called him «my father's third son» — got slapped with a sweeping 14 - count federal indictment today, which alleges they colluded in a pair of schemes to solicit bribes for state assistance and to rig economic development contracts for companies that gave to Cuomo's campaigns.

Defense lawyers for hedge funder Murray Huberfeld — accused of paying ex-NYC prison guards» union head Norman Seabrook illegal bribes — demanded an «evidentiary hearing» to suss out Rechnitz's role in Nissen's alleged Ponzi scheme.

The Syracuse developers are accused of paying Percoco bribes, through a «shell company» set up by disgraced lobbyist Todd Howe, in three alleged schemes.

A 35 - page criminal complaint filed by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office lays out his alleged scheme where Silver «used the power and influence of his official position to obtain for himself millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income earned by Silver as a private lawyer.»

NEW YORK — The trial of former - Andrew Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco continued on Wednesday, as prosecutors alleged that one of the companies involved, Competitive Power Ventures, bribed Joseph Percoco through a $ 300,000 scheme where they educated his wife, Lisa Percoco, for what prosecutors say was very little work.

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.»

Howe, 57, a cooperating witness on his first day on the stand in Manhattan federal court, laid out how he came to be the linchpin of an alleged scheme by two clients to pay more than $ 300,000 in bribes to Percoco — referred to by them in code as «zitti» — to buy influence for an energy company and a Syracuse developer.

Authorities allege that Mangano and Venditto schemed «to solicit bribes and kickbacks» from a businessman.

In the other alleged scheme, the energy company, Competitive Power Ventures, and COR — both Howe clients — paid bribes to Joseph Percoco, who at the time was either a top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo or, for a stint in 2014, the manager of Cuomo's reelection campaign.

State Senate Leader Dean Skelos — who will be arraigned this afternoon on charges of extortion and soliciting bribes — is proclaiming his innocence in an alleged scheme to steer money to his son.

Federal authorities have charged a Philadelphia police detective with accepting $ 24,000 in bribes in an alleged six - year scheme to aid the business of a Harrison Detective Derka Abbate has accused Police Chief Michael Olsey of years of sexual harassment.

In fact, DOJ recently charged a foreign national, among others, in connection with an alleged scheme to bribe a Russian state - owned entity.