Sentences with phrase «alleged scheme»

More than two years later, the event is drawing new attention because it was hosted by Todd Howe, the disgraced lobbyist who pleaded guilty in September to a raft of federal felony charges for his role in alleged schemes in which clients received special government favors.

Question: How does this kind of alleged scheming personality type evade the vetting process of wannabes?

Testimony in the bribery and corruption case against Joseph Percoco, former executive deputy secretary to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has honed in on three alleged schemes involving Syracuse - based Cor Development Co. executives Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi.

Seller's representative was not liable for alleged scheme to defraud home purchasers where licensee had no involvement in mortgage and there was no evidence of an intent to deceive.

The second alleged scheme related to the construction of the so - called NanoFab West research building in Albany.

In a separate alleged scheme, Cor Development executives Aiello and Gerardi are accused of paying bribes to Percoco in exchange for favors in state government.

The string of endorsements come just as the New York Times revealed recently that U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance impaneled grand juries to contemplate charging the mayor and / or his top political aides in two alleged schemes over his fundraising.

In the other alleged scheme, the energy company, Competitive Power Ventures, and COR — both Howe clients — paid bribes to Joseph Percoco, who at the time was either a top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo or, for a stint in 2014, the manager of Cuomo's reelection campaign.

In the first alleged scheme, the state senator stood accused of leaning on luxury developer Glenwood Management to get work and money to his son while the builder was looking to get legislation passed in Albany.

«The President also noted that at a time his administration is preoccupied with governance issues, rumours of divisions and alleged scheming within the party are counterproductive to internal unity and cohesion in APC.

Greed and corruption are rampant among politicians in New York, the Manhattan U.S. attorney said Tuesday in a stinging indictment of the state's political system that he unleashed as he announced a massive alleged scheme to rig the city's mayoral race.

Kenneth Sherrill, professor emeritus of political science at Hunter College, said Silver's alleged scheme smacks of old - style machine politics.

Currently, at least a half - dozen legislators are under investigation for such alleged schemes, including Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez and state Sen. Malcom Smith and Assemblywoman Vivian Cook, both of Queens.

In the third alleged scheme, Kaloyeros agreed to give an architectural firm future work on SUNY Poly projects in exchange for the firm leasing space in a SUNY Poly building, the complaint said.

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One alleged scheme involved a SUNY Poly student housing project that Kaloyeros steered to Nicolla's firm.

Federal charges are being levied against top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco, the influential head of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Alain Kaloyeros, and others for a series of alleged schemes that include fraud, bid - rigging and bribery; Kaloyeros is also facing felony corruption charges from the state.

Seller's broker not liable for alleged scheme to defraud purchasers where there was no evidence of broker's knowledge of the scheme.

Silver's lawyers also claimed there wasn't enough evidence to even consider charges related to a second alleged scheme, in which Silver steered a real estate company to a friend's law firm, also in exchange for fees, Defense attorneys say the parties involved had no idea Silver was even collecting the money.

In a separate alleged scheme, Mr. Skelos pressured medical liability coverage provider Physicians Reciprocal Insurers, which also had legislation vital to its business up for review in the state capitol, into providing another job for his son.

Russian nationals identified in a Justice Department indictment released Friday used cryptocurrency exchanges as part of an alleged scheme to mislead U.S. citizens leading up to the 2016 presidential election.

In a filing in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Winterkorn was one of six defendants charged in an alleged scheme where they knew VW vehicles did not meet U.S. emissions standards and used software to cheat the U.S. testing process.

The acting U.S. Attorney Southern District of New York, Joon Kim, showed two diagrams of the alleged schemes during a press conference on Tuesday:

As part of the alleged scheme, vendors also billed the Park District for landscape work at the homes of Parrott and Patterson as well as work on both their autos, authorities said.

Steve Croman, a Manhattan landlord long accused of harassing tenants to force them from their apartments, was arrested for an alleged scheme that officials said helped him secure more than $ 45 million in loans.

In the letter, the attorneys write that» when constitutionally - protected contributions are trotted out as evidence of a bribery scheme — particularly when they have scant relevance to the alleged scheme — jurors are unlikely to consider them merely on the convoluted signaling theories the Government relies on for its assertion of probative value.»

Former Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos, 67, and Adam Skelos, 32, both of Rockville Centre, are to go on trial Nov. 16 on conspiracy, bribery and extortion charges alleging schemes to use the lawmaker's clout to get his son work with a developer, a malpractice insurer and an environmental company.

Besides the alleged scheme involving Taub, prosecutors said Silver improperly profited from tax work performed by a second law firm in Manhattan.

Besides the alleged scheme involving cancer patients and a Columbia researcher, prosecutors said Silver improperly profited from tax work performed by a second law firm in Manhattan.

The trial is expected to last four to six weeks, and with jury selection already largely completed, prosecutors say when they kick off their case this week their third witness will be Taub — the one - time Columbia University researcher who was pivotal to one of the alleged schemes.

On Twitter, Wylie claimed his account was suspended after he spoke up about his role in an alleged scheme to secretly hold data from millions of Americans.

Percoco, the key figure in the first of the two alleged schemes, was described in the complaint as a close confidant of the Cuomo family, sometimes referred to as Mario Cuomo's «third son,» who controlled access to Andrew as his executive deputy secretary.

Schneiderman said he was disgusted by the alleged scheme, which his investigators seem to have stumbled upon during a probe of Pigeon's campaign fundraising practices.

The Manganos and Venditto are also accused of obstructing justice in an attempt to cover up the alleged scheme, Capers said.

The trial of New York State Senator Malcolm Smith has brought to light new evidence concerning his alleged scheme to become mayor of New York City.

Stevenson, meanwhile, had planned to bring in — and potentially try to pay off — Senate co-majority leader Jeffrey Klein (D - Bronx) on the alleged scheme to help the businessmen open the Bronx adult daycare centers and block competition, according to new testimony.

In another alleged scheme, Silver was accused of accepting bribes in exchange for enacting tax breaks that helped a Manhattan real estate firm.

New York State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R) surrendered to federal authorities Monday morning, and was charged with six counts of corruption, including bribery and extortion, in connection with an alleged scheme that used his political position to enrich himself and his son.

Federal investigators allege that Hou not only knew about the alleged scheme, but also helped coach volunteers in forging signatures to cover up donors» identities and even offered to personally reimburse one $ 500 donation with her own cash, according to court documents.

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Prosecutors charged the elder Libous with lying to FBI investigators about the alleged scheme.

But for good government groups, a more serious question emerges from another of the alleged schemes: Was it illegal for Percoco to accept payments when he was ostensibly working for the governor's reelection campaign and not the office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo?

The medical - insurer payout brings the amount Adam Skelos cleared on the alleged scheme to $ 320,000.

The alleged scheme behind Singh's first line of credit also was a focus Wednesday as an attorney whose law firm prosecutors say advised the town on sidestepping the state constitution and indirectly guaranteeing the loans said repeatedly from the stand that he didn't remember details surrounding the process.

In one of those alleged schemes, Percoco purportedly took a $ 35,000 bribe to get ESDC to pay a company for the construction of a parking lot in Syracuse even though the project didn't have required labor agreements in place.

Though the trial is about Percoco — and Cuomo has not been implicated in any of the alleged schemes — the governor's name was invoked during a day of questions and answers in court a total of 37 times, according to court transcripts.