Sentences with phrase «alleged bribes from»

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.

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.»

Not exact matches

But her ruling left intact six other charges related to the alleged payoffs from COR Development Co. and about $ 280,000 in bribes Percoco allegedly accepted from an exec with Competitive Power Ventures.

Had he known that town officials were alleged to be taking bribes from Singh, he would not have made any deal, Strollo also said.

The trial, expected to last four to six weeks, will have plenty of seamy detail about backroom dealings, court filings suggest — from jokes about wanting more «zitti» in alleged coded references to bribes taken from «The Sopranos,» to using clout to influence state agencies and routing more than $ 300,000 in alleged payoffs to Percoco through his wife.

In the indictment, the defendants are alleged to have received the «bribes and kickbacks» from an unidentified co-conspirator, whom sources have identified as Singh.

Mr Zuma is alleged to have sought bribes from a French arms company to support an extravagant lifestyle.

The genesis of the bribery scandal stemmed from a Minority member of the Committee, Mahama Ayariga, who alleged that Mr. Agyarko, attempted to bribe the ten minority members on parliament's Appointments Committee with GHc3000 each to ensure the approval of his nomination as the Energy Minister.

Earlier Wednesday, Strollo said that had he known that town officials were alleged to be taking bribes from Singh, he would not have made any deal.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York allege that Percoco took bribes from CPV officials for help in seeking a price guarantee for the 680 megawatts of power the plant is expected to generate.

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.

Ibrahim alleged that a member of staff of the commission demanded $ 1m bribe from him before she could collect his nomination papers from him.

After opening statements that alleged «bribes and kickbacks, illegally conducted,» prosecutors from U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office used Paulin's testimony to establish how the Assembly operated under then - speaker Silver.

The Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office alleges Percoco accepted bribes from Syracuse developer Steven F. Aiello, a co-defendant in the upcoming trial.

However, the complaint from Bharara's office alleges that Silver performed no legal work at the firm, and his position was just a cover to allow him to accept bribes.

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.

It also alleged that Yunusa collected N1.5 million bribe from Tarfa for the purpose of giving favourable rulings and judgments in the cases.

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.

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.

Those charges stem from an alleged case involving longtime judge John Michalek, who admitted in court Wednesday to taking a bribe, allegedly from Pigeon, whom the judge had allegedly communicated with to earn a desired position.

The judge blamed his decision to disqualify himself from the case on a Tuesday March 21, 2016 report in an online news medium, alleging that he had been bribed to rule in Saraki's favour.

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.

Panorama alleged that three of the members of Fifa's executive committee took a series of bribes from now - bust marketing company International Sport and Leisure (ISL) in the 1990s.

The CFE saga is just one of many reasons why Cuomo should drop his plan to bribe voters in 2014 with check from an alleged FUTURE surplus.

Embattled Queens state Sen. James Sanders is abandoning his bid to unseat Rep. Gregory Meeks, and he's blaming the congressman, saying Meeks is behind leaks regarding FBI probes into his use of slush funds and alleged solicitation of a $ 250,000 bribe from a non-profit.

(Two executives from the company are alleged to have bribed the ex-Cuomo aide.)

Howe and Percoco repeatedly referred to the alleged bribe money as «ziti,» the complaint says — a code word for money apparently lifted from an episode of HBO's mafia drama «The Sopranos,» Bharara said.

The complaint alleges that Percoco, from January 2012 until 2014 and then again in 2015, used his official position as executive deputy secretary to the governor to seek bribes from executives at companies with business before the state.

Federal prosecutors allege Percoco solicited bribes from a power company and a developer with business before the state.

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.

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».

Rev. Martey stoked controversy last year after alleging that the out - going Mahama administration sought to bribe him to keep him silent from voicing on national issues.

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.

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.

Percoco, who left state government in Jan. 2016, is alleged to have taken bribes from an energy company and real - estate developer in exchange for state actions benefitting them.

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.»

Prosecutors have alleged the couple paid Ippolito about $ 1.6 million in bribes from 2009 to 2016 so Ippolito, as a town commissioner, would help facilitate the construction of a Hicksville senior citizen housing development that would have been known as Cantiague Commons.

Contributions to Seabrook's political club from Leon Eastmond, whom prosecutors allege paid Seabrook $ 50,000 as a bribe to get a boiler contract for the new Yankee Stadium.

Percoco, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's longtime confidant and former executive deputy secretary, is alleged to have taken more than $ 300,000 in bribes from Steve Aiello and Joseph Gerardi of Syracuse - based COR Development and Peter Galbraith Kelly of Competitive Power Ventures.

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.

Of the more than $ 300,000 in alleged bribes to Mr. Percoco, prosecutors said the bulk came from Competitive Power Ventures, in the form of a «low - show job» for Mr. Percoco's wife, Lisa Toscano - Percoco.

The complaint alleges Percoco, from January 2012 until 2014 and again in 2015, used his official position to seek bribes from executives at companies with business before the state.

The complaint alleges Percoco, from January 2012 until 2014 and again in 2015, used his official position to seek bribes from the executives.

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.»

Prosecutors Monday focused heavily on the energy company dealings, but Howe said he acted as a middleman for an alleged $ 35,000 bribe from Syracuse developers Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi of Cor Development allegedly paid to Percoco.