Sentences with phrase «alleged bribery scheme»

Building inceptors in New York City have been charged in a series of alleged bribery schemes following a two - year investigation.

DiNapoli said he assisted the feds in their probe, but learned the extent of Kang's alleged bribery scheme with two brokers only when the indictment was unsealed on Wednesday.

This week, his takedowns included Queens State Sen. Malcolm Smith, City Councilman Daniel Halloran and Bronx Assemblyman Eric Stevenson in connection with two elaborate alleged bribery schemes, including one that tried to get Smith on the ballot for New York City mayor.

Howe has already pleaded guilty to eight felonies, several of which pertain to the alleged bribery scheme that he testified this week he was a part of with Percoco and executives with two companies.

The lawyer, Daniel Gitner, represents a former energy company executive who is on trial with Percoco and two others in an alleged bribery scheme.

Venditto, Mangano and Mangano's wife, Linda, are scheduled for a federal trial March 12 after pleading not guilty in an alleged bribery scheme.

The court session Wednesday also saw the conclusion of some five hours of testimony by Mollie Brewster, a forensic accountant with the FBI Field Office in Buffalo, who examined the finances of Percoco and those allegedly involved in the alleged bribery scheme.

Stern was revealed Wednesday as an FBI cooperating witness who brokered an alleged bribery scheme involving Smith, Halloran, Bronx GOP boss Joseph Savino, Queens Republican party vice-chairman Vincent Tabone and two Rockland county officials.

Two co-defendants at the corruption trial of a former top aide to Gov. Cuomo gloated that their alleged bribery scheme helped them get one over on an «S.HEAD» state official,...

Mr. Ulrich further said he was shocked that his colleague, Republican Councilman Dan Halloran, was charged with participating in an alleged bribery scheme to land Democratic State Sen. Malcolm Smith in the Republican primary, but was not surprised Vince Tabone, the executive vice president of the Queens GOP, was arrested as well.

Prosecutors claim the arrangement was one of the alleged bribery schemes that helped Silver amass $ 5 million in illicit income in two decades as assembly speaker.

A former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, an energy company executive and two Syracuse - area development company executives are on trial in Manhattan over their roles in an alleged bribery scheme.

Venditto, Mangano and Mangano's wife, Linda, all have pleaded not guilty in an alleged bribery scheme in which the former elected officials are accused of illegally helping Singh get $ 20 million in indirect loan guarantees and government contracts in exchange for kickbacks and a $ 450,000 no - show job for Linda Mangano.

Mangano, his wife Linda and Venditto are scheduled for federal trial March 12 and have pleaded not guilty to the alleged bribery scheme involving Singh.

Howe signed the agreement after pleading guilty in 2016 to an alleged bribery scheme with Percoco, but his bail was revoked Thursday night after he reluctantly conceded on cross examination that a few weeks later he tried to scam Capital One out of $ 604 for a stay at the Waldorf Astoria.

He is accused of playing a role in an alleged bribery scheme to get State Sen. Malcolm Smith on the Republican mayoral ticket for this fall.

An undercover FBI agent posed as a corrupt real estate developer as part of the federal government's investigation into the alleged bribery scheme.

Aiello, Percoco and two others go on trial Jan. 22 for charges related to an alleged bribery scheme.

Stevenson was arrested on April 4 by federal law enforcement for his role in the alleged bribery scheme.

Prosecutors declined to comment on reports that the senator was Sampson and there were no charges brought Monday that were related the alleged bribery scheme.

In 2016, he admitted to acting as the middleman in the alleged bribery schemes and agreed to testify against Percoco as part of a plea deal.

NEW YORK (CBSewYork)-- Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano appeared in court Wednesday for a pre-trial hearing in connection with an alleged bribery scheme.

The complaint unsealed today describes an alleged bribery scheme in which Percoco, the former executive deputy secretary to Cuomo, solicited more than $ 300,000 from two companies in return for helping them with state business.

Platinum Partners is considering buying out a $ 20 million investment from the New York City correction officers» union, weeks after a former executive at the hedge fund and the union's ex-president were charged in an alleged bribery scheme.

The major remaining permits needed for the natural gas - powered plant, which was part of an alleged bribery scheme involving a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, are for pipelines to deliver the fuel.

In an interview on Talk 1300's «Live from the State Capitol,» DiNapoli said that federal investigators had been given access to whatever they needed as they probed the alleged bribery scheme involving Navnoor Kang, but his office learned the depth of the issue when U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced charges against Kang on Wednesday.

Howe pleaded guilty in September 2016 to eight felonies, related to the alleged bribery scheme as well as tax fraud and embezzlement from his former employer, the Albany - based law and lobbying firm Whiteman Osterman & Hanna.

Technically speaking, there are three defendants in a corruption trial under way in Manhattan: a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and two businessmen, all accused in an alleged bribery scheme.

Weitz told jurors he never knew that Silver was scoring clients from Taub, a Columbia University cancer doctor who got $ 500,000 in state grants as part of an alleged bribery scheme.

Last month, federal prosecutors listed him among 10 un-charged participants in an alleged bribery scheme involving ex-NYPD Deputy Inspector James Grant, a former 66th Precinct commander, and Jeremy Reichberg, a former fund - raiser for Mayor de Blasio.

In 2016, Howe, 57, admitted to acting as the middleman in Percoco's alleged bribery schemes and agreed to testify against him as part of a plea deal.

Howe pleaded guilty in 2016 for his role in the Percoco alleged bribery scheme.

NEW YORK — A former government and campaign adviser to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo testified Monday he participated in an alleged bribery scheme with one of Cuomo's closest associates to help his private sector clients get favorable attention in the governor's administration.

Two Cor executives — along with a former vice president at an energy company — are on trial with Percoco over whether they engaged in an alleged bribery scheme in which payments allegedly flowed to Percoco and his wife in return for the former senior Cuomo adviser helping them.

Avella testified he didn't know about the alleged bribery scheme, in which Dean Skelos promised political favors to two companies if they paid his son hundreds of thousands of dollars for no - show work.

Venditto, Mangano and Mangano's wife, Linda, have pleaded not guilty in an alleged bribery scheme in which the elected officials are accused of illegally helping Singh get $ 20 million in indirect loan guarantees and government contracts in exchange for kickbacks, and a $ 450,000 no - show job for Linda Mangano.

The proposal comes after Sen. Malcolm Smith and five others were arrested in an alleged bribery scheme in order to secure ballot access for the Republican mayoral line through the Wilson - Pakula process.

The governor wasn't implicated in the alleged bribery scheme involving Percoco, an ex-lobbyist, and top Cuomo campaign contributors, so it might not weigh heavily on his upcoming re-election campaign, said Marist College pollster Lee Miringoff.

Defense lawyers argued that Percoco — assigned temporarily away from his top state job to serve as chairman of Cuomo's re-election campaign in 2014 — was not a government official during a period when some of the alleged bribery scheme occurred.

In another alleged bribery scheme, prosecutors said Halloran agreed to route city discretionary funding to Stern and an undercover FBI agent, who Halloran believed was a wealthy business partner of Stern's, in exchange for $ 24,800 in donations for his own failed congressional bid.

A former superintendent of community schools in the New York City borough of Queens, her husband, and four associates were charged last week in an alleged bribery scheme involving what authorities said were rigged bids for new computer labs.