The arrests come just months after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested for
an alleged kickback scheme involving real estate deals and asbestos cancer patients.
In March, the scheduled trial of a former Nassau County Executive begins for
an alleged kickback scheme to help a restaurant owner receive over $ 20 million in grants and loans.
Silver also received another $ 700,000 in referral fees from a real estate law firm in
an alleged kickback scheme as he directed tax breaks to two developers, including Glenwood Management, the largest political donor in the state.
Silver received $ 700,000 in referral fees from a real estate law firm doing tax appeal work for Glenwood in
an alleged kickback scheme as he directed tax breaks to Glenwood, the indictment claims.
Four of the Democrats running in Long Island races — Jim Gaughran, Ryan Cronin, Adam Haber and John Brooks — released statements blasting the corruption scandal and
alleged kickback scheme that has also engulfed Mangano's wife.
He has said he knew nothing about
the alleged kickback scheme, and another aide testified the governor was shocked to learn of the investigation of one of his closest confidants.
His company was a key player in
an alleged kickback scheme involving former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, as well as a figure in a corruption case against former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.
At the heart of the charges are payments Percoco and his wife received while the governor's aide was on sabbatical from the state to manage Cuomo's 2014 re-election campaign, though the complaint purports that
the alleged kickback schemes date back as far as 2010 — the year then - Attorney General Cuomo successfully sought the state's top office.
Two former film executives agree to settle lawsuit over
alleged kickback schemes, The National Post
Not exact matches
A former Cuomo administration official is among those named in a criminal complaint by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara that
alleges kickback and bribery
schemes carried out over several years.
Prosecutors took the first full day of testimony in the corruption trial of Sheldon Silver to lay out one of two bribery and
kickback schemes they
allege the former Assembly speaker undertook.
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.
The bottom line for some in the Assembly is that A) Silver has been in the speaker's chair for far too long and B) The
alleged bribery and
kickback scheme that ensnared Rapfogel, the husband of Silver aide Judy Rapfogel, entered a new phase when the scope of the scandal was revealed.
And on Friday, DiNapoli in a radio interview on WCNY suggested he would support more controls for the state's procurement process after nine people — including a former top aide to the governor — were arrested in connection to an
alleged bribery and
kickback scheme.
Prosecutors in the Sheldon Silver corruption case called two key players, including an official with Glenwood Management, to the stand today to answer questions about the former Assembly speaker's
alleged involvement in a real - estate
kickback scheme.
Federal authorities plan to unseal charges against a former top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as early as Thursday in connection with an
alleged bribery and
kickback scheme involving the governor's signature economic - development program, according to people familiar with the matter.
NEW YORK CITY — Sheldon Silver is out as speaker of the Assembly just days after his arrest on federal corruption charges in an
alleged bribery and
kickback scheme.
Federal authorities plan to unseal charges against Joe Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, as early as today in connection with an
alleged bribery and
kickback scheme involving the governor's signature economic - development program, according to people familiar with the matter.
The councilman was charged in a bribery
scheme to get state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D - Hollis) onto the Republican ticket in the race for mayor and both were nabbed amid revelations of
alleged kickbacks centering around the senator's desire for the mayor's office.
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.»
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.»
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.
Authorities
allege that Mangano and Venditto
schemed «to solicit bribes and
kickbacks» from a businessman.
The class action
alleged violation of U.S. securities law by Brazil's state - controlled oil company in connection with a multi-billion dollar bribery and
kickback scheme.
Each of the
alleged schemes involved the use of provider
kickbacks, a popular activity in healthcare, to entice healthcare professionals to inappropriately redirect clients and beneficiaries to specific healthcare businesses.
Home mortgage borrowers
allege that bank, mortgage servicer, and reinsurer created a captive reinsurance
scheme whereby they selected mortgage insurers for their customers, and the insurers then paid
kickbacks to the Defendants for non-existent reinsurance services in violation of RESPA.