Sentences with phrase «alleged bribes»

Over a year of alleged bribe taking in exchange for writing favorable legislation, Assemblyman Eric Stevenson claimed more than $ 28,000 in per diem and travel expenses, much of it for non-session work.

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.

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.

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.»

Another Howe email to Percoco worried about a halt in alleged bribe payments from the energy company executive; Howe called it time for «operation ziti replenishment.»

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.

Cuomo has not been accused of any wrongdoing and has said he was surprised by Percoco's alleged bribe scheme.

Those allegations are separate from the trial now under way, which focuses on alleged bribes paid to former Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco.

Besides the Syracuse developer allegations, Percoco is also accused of using his state position to assist an energy company that built a downstate power plant in return for nearly $ 300,000 in alleged bribes through what prosecutors called a «low show» consulting deal with the firm for Percoco's wife.

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.

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

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

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.

In the criminal case, prosecutors contend that the loans were among the fruits of alleged bribes by Singh.

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

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.»

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.

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 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.

Jury selection is slated to begin Jan. 8 in the trial of Joseph Percoco, a longtime confidant of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and three other defendants facing charges related to alleged bribes paid to Percoco and his wife, who was not charged, by construction and energy executives with business before the state.

[Updated 8:41 p.m.] The founder of a successful Midtown - based real estate firm is accused of funneling nearly $ 500,000 in alleged bribes to Brooklyn State Senator Carl Kruger, who in turn took action to benefit that company's development projects, a complaint unsealed today in Manhattan Federal Court says.

And in the fifth case, Steve Pigeon, a former Erie County Democratic chairman and one - time key state Senate adviser, stands accused by state and federal prosecutors of bribery, conspiracy and wire fraud in connection with elections in western New York and the alleged bribing of a judge.

And, although Cuomo isn't charged with wrongdoing, his reelection campaign and national ambitions may form a backdrop to a case in which both lead defendant Percoco and the star government witness, lobbyist Todd Howe, the conduit for the alleged bribes, were trading off long relationships with the governor.

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.

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

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.

That included Stevie Jr., whose raise while he was working in the governor's chamber is the subject of one alleged bribe.

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.

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.

The McDonnell ruling eliminates the so - called stream of benefits concept, they wrote, in which the action in exchange for the alleged bribe is «not yet identified at the time of the allegedly corrupt exchange, that will emerge in the future as «opportunities» arise.»

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.

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

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

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.

The Syracuse developers are accused of paying Percoco the alleged bribes through a «shell company» set up by lobbyist Todd Howe.

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.»

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.

The paper reported that the NPP members against Mr Agyarko's nomination and subsequent appointment decided to kick the Energy Minister out of office by blowing the lid on the alleged bribe money to members of the minority MPs on the Appointment Committee of Parliament.

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

The complaint details a Montauk fishing trip, a steak lunch, and a private jet trip — but all this predated the alleged bribe.

Howe said Percoco used the term «ziti» for the alleged bribes, borrowing the phrase from the HBO crime drama «The Sopranos.»

One potential wrinkle in the government's case is the fact that Percoco left state service in April 2014 to work on Cuomo's re-election campaign, returning only after the election — and after the alleged bribes were paid.

The founder of a successful Midtown - based real estate firm is accused of funneling nearly $ 500,000 in alleged bribes to Brooklyn State...

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

The testimony overall provided the clearest picture to date of how the alleged bribes were arrange as consultant payments to Percoco and his wife Lisa.

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.