Sentences with phrase «alleged bribes by»

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

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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.

Sam Allardyce, the manager once accused of taking» bungs» (bribes) with his son, failed to sue the BBC and clear his name about alleged corrupt practices, was called a crook by Steve Keane has begun sprouting utter drivel and lies to the media.

In October that year, it was alleged that loopholes in the Right to Buy arrangements were being abused by property developers, which were bribing tenants to buy their homes and let them out at market rates.

While alleging no misconduct by Cuomo, the complaint described how the bribe - payers donated use of a plane and $ 350,000 in contributions to his campaign.

The «Venditto's Bribes» slide alleged that Venditto received $ 11,370.38 in limo rides for himself and his family and friends; free use of Singh's conference room and free meals for himself and his family; free or discounted political events at Singh's restaurants for himself and his son, Michael Venditto; and $ 30,000 annually for the supervisor's golf event, which was financed by Singh.

Percoco, Aiello and Gerardi and are on trial in U.S. District Court in Manhattan along with energy company executive Peter Galbraith Kelly, who is alleged to have bribed Percoco by securing what prosecutors have termed a «low - show» corporate education job for his wife, a former schoolteacher.

It followed a report by the BBC's Panorama programme in 2010 that alleged three senior Fifa officials took bribes from Swiss - based ISL in the 1990s.

Smith sought to do this by bribing the officials, prosecutors allege, using former New York City Councilman Dan Halloran as his middle - man.

Silvers lawyers two weeks ago claimed that statements Bharara made about the charges — which allege Silver lined his pockets with nearly $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks in a stunning abuse of power dating to at least 2000 — «caused irreparable harm by tainting» the grand jury that indicted him on Feb. 19.

«As alleged, Senator Malcolm Smith tried to bribe his way to a shot at Gracie Mansion — Smith drew up the game plan and Councilman Halloran essentially quarterbacked that drive by finding party chairmen who were wide open to receiving bribes.

Prosecutors alleged Percoco turned to bribes as a way to pay for rising personal costs, driven in part by a move from a modest Staten Island neighborhood to a larger home in an upscale town in Westchester County near where Cuomo lives in the house of his girlfriend, Sandra Lee.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

The lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the charges — which allege Silver lined his pockets with nearly $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks in a stunning abuse of power dating to at least 2000 — claiming public statements that Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara made about the case «caused irreparable harm by tainting» the grand jury that indicted him on Feb. 19.

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.»

The prosecution had alleged that the accused persons committed the offence on March 27, 2015 by accepting bribe from the ex-Minister.

One of three Members of Parliament who alleged that the Appointments Committee of Parliament was bribed has complained of what seems to a snub by the ad - hoc committee investigating it.

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

Smith — one of the state's top Democrats — made the failed bid to secure the 2013 Republican mayoral primary line by bribing Halloran, Tabone and then - Bronx Republican Chairman Joseph «Jay» Savino, prosecutors allege.

His statement said, «It is important to note that Justices Ngwuta and Okoro have alleged that they are the targets of a witch hunt because they refused offers of inducement and bribes made to them by the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi; and the Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu, to subvert justice in appeals against the decisions of lower courts in election petitions in Abia, Akwa Ibom, Ekiti and Rivers states.

State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son were arrested Monday by federal authorities, who alleged the state's top Republican extorted bribes and campaign contributions from companies in exchange for steering key real estate legislation and rigging a lucrative Nassau County environmental contract to his son's benefit.

Savino and Tabone were both part of a criminal complaint that alleged that accepted thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for endorsing Smith's run on the Republican line by signing the waiver known as a Wilson - Pakula.

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

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Already hit with criminal charges alleging that he took bribes in a federal corruption case, New York City Councilman Daniel Halloran (R - 19th) is now facing an investigation by his own colleagues.

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.»

Mr. Schneiderman's call comes after the state's former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested on charges of fraud and extortion by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who alleged that the longtime power broker had used his influence to inappropriately earn attorney referral fees for work he had not done, disguising what amounted as «kickbacks» and «bribes» as legitimate income.

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.

Five of the charges are centred on an alleged N5m bribe given to the judge by the senior advocate while the remaining 25 charges are on the huge amounts that passed through the accounts of Ofili - Ajumogobia and her alleged inability to explain her source of wealth.

A class - action lawsuit brought against Honda by dealers alleged that Honda executives conspired to send cars to those willing to pay exorbitant bribes and punished dealers who refused.

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.»

As reported in the written decision of the Law Society Hearing Panel (which decision is under appeal by the applicant), the applicant threatened to sue the other board members for defamation after he was removed as President of the condo corporation and a notice of his removal was posted; circulated a letter (under a false name) on some floors within the building that falsely stated that some of the board members had previously gone bankrupt, had criminal convictions and were accepting bribes and free meals from the developer of the condominium to settle deficiencies with the developer; made a derogatory remark about some of the residents based on their ethnicity; threatened to report some of the directors to US / Canada border officials, falsely alleging that they were drug smugglers; threatened both the corporation's property manager and security services firm that their contracts with the condo corporation would be in jeopardy if they did not provide a character letter to the applicant.

The Republic of Croatia had commenced the Geneva - based arbitration against MOL in 2014 under the UNCITRAL rules, alleging that MOL (the largest company in Hungary and the second largest in Central and Eastern Europe) had acquired controlling rights in Croatia's national energy company, Ina Industrije Nafte d.d (INA), by paying a EUR 10 million bribe to former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader.

Europe Our European practice has recently focused on representing (i) the Fédération Internationale de Football Association («FIFA») in connection with U.S. and Swiss criminal investigations into allegations of bribery and corruption in the international soccer world («Investigation»), including conducting an internal investigation on behalf of the organization; (ii) two major European banks, including by investigating whether the banks knew or should have known that accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes; (iii) a multinational logistics and transportation company based in Switzerland in a DOJ investigation of alleged violations of the FCPA; (iv) a Switzerland - based, international private bank, in connection with the global criminal investigations involving 1MDB, Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund; (v) several major European banks in connection with the «Panama Papers» investigation focused on whether accounts at the bank held under the names of companies created by the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, were used to evade taxes, conduct business with sanctioned individuals or companies, or otherwise engage in criminal activity; (vi) ENRC, a large mining conglomerate formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange, in a high - profile investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office of alleged bribery in the company's operations in Africa and Kazikhstan; and (vii) several European banks in connection with the Petrobras and PdVSA investigations focused on whether accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes to Petrobras or PdVSA officials in return for contracts.