Sentences with phrase «alleged bribes through»

Not exact matches

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.

Yesterday, we wrote about Shafran's role in excuse - making for the corrupt and dysfunctional legislature up in Albany, but what wasn't discussed is that Shafran also worked as the goto political spinmaster for Senator Malcolm Smith — the same Senator that was arrested in a statewide FBI corruption probe that alleges he attempted to rig the Mayoral election through fraud and bribes early this morning.

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.»

Mr Ayariga had alleged that Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko had offered, through committee chair Joe Osei - Owusu and Minority Chief Whip Alhaji Muntaka Mubarak Mohammed, bribe of GHS3000 to each of the Minority MPs on the Appointments Committee to facilitate his (Mr Agyarko's) approval as Minister.

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.

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.

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

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 — 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.

Howe, wearing a dark blue suit, testified through the day of Percoco's work to help his clients, who later paid him the alleged bribes.

Mr. Bharara has alleged that what Mr. Silver presented as legitimate outside income from law firms was actually millions of dollars of kickbacks and bribes gained through his official position in Albany.

Bharara alleges the payments were masked through the LLC in order to obscure the fact that they were coming from the Maryland firm Competitive Power Ventures, which the prosecutor says also bribed Percoco for government favors.

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

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.

The alleged bribe payment moved through shell corporations in the Seychelles, the United Kingdom, and the British Virgin Islands, then to bank accounts in Cyprus, Latvia, and Switzerland.

The alleged bribe payment moved through shell corporations in the Seychelles, the United Kingdom, and the British Vir - gin Islands, then to bank accounts in Cyprus, Latvia, and Switzerland.