Sentences with phrase «armed companies into»

He told the judge before she handed down her sentences that he was motivated by a father's love when he strong - armed companies into giving work to his son.

Skelos earlier told the judge he was motivated by a father's love when he strong - armed companies into giving work to his son.

The Skeloses were convicted in December of bribery, corruption and conspiracy after prosecutors played tapes showing that the Long Island Republican strong - armed companies into paying Adam more than $ 330,000.

The pair were convicted in 2015 for a corruption scheme in which the elder Skelos, 70, strong - armed companies into hiring his son Adam, 35, for no - show jobs.

But in the end, it wasn't enough to avoid prison sentences: six - and - a-half years for Adam; five years plus a $ 500,000 fine for Dean, who, as senate majority leader, strong - armed companies into giving payments and largely no - show jobs to his son.

Skelos, 69, and son Adam, 33, were convicted of bribery, corruption and conspiracy in December 2015 after a jury found that the Long Island Republican strong - armed companies into paying his son more than $ 330,000 for a no - show job.

Tying together three weeks of testimony and dozens of subpoenaed documents and secretly recorded phone calls, prosecutors described yesterday how former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos turned his powerful office into a cash cow, allegedly strong - arming companies into paying his son Adam for doing little or no work.

Not exact matches

Companies that value the leadership and experience earned in the armed forces are working to make sure veterans have that same kind of training going into the civilian world.

The move marks the Chinese company's first foray into owning a music label and comes ahead of the highly anticipated initial public offering of its music arm, Hong Kong's South China Morning Post reports.

The startup investment arm of the digital giant is aiming to put support into new European companies.

Once armed with your financial information, the company determines how much money you can afford to safely transfer into a savings account every two to three days.

Too many entrepreneurial companies have leaped into the arms of the first underwriter willing to take their IPO dreams seriously.

While privacy policies were originally intended to be a protection mechanism for consumers, they have turned into «ownership policies,» said Nico Sell, CEO of the Wickr Foundation, the non-profit arm of a company that bills itself as the world's most trusted messenger site.

Companies that make or sell food, home, or drugstore products; and comparison shopping sites that were funneled into the company's now - defunct Amazon Local arm.

Taxi aggregator Ola, operated by ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd, has made a fresh infusion of Rs 50 crore ($ 7.68 million) into cab - leasing arm Ola Fleet Technologies Pvt. Ltd, filings with the Registrar of Companies show.

A prime example are the banks in Japan that have venture capital arms investing money into companies to help cultivate that business in Japan.

The Republican Governors Association and its tax - exempt arm have maintained close ties to some of America's most prominent companies, which have poured millions into the campaigns of Republican governors since 2008.

Not in the manner of Ponzi schemes, but by the even more devilish leaky faucet in which a significant portion of the returns of the capital markets are diverted away from Main Street investors and into the arms of Wall Street and the insurance companies.

WESCO, originally the distribution arm of the old Westinghouse Electric, is still perceived to be a mere distributor, but we believe the company has evolved into a value - added supply chain outsourcer.

It's a complete about - face for Ducey, who welcomed Uber into the state with open arms after the California Department of Motor Vehicles revoked the ride - hail company's vehicle registrations.

In addition to boardroom squabbles, Uber's newly minted chief legal officer Tony West will also have to navigate a trade secret battle against Alphabet's self - driving arm, in addition to several federal probes into the company's privacy practices.

Now it's putting a big chunk of money into Uber's chief U.S. rival, Lyft, leading a $ 1 billion financing round in the ride - hail company via its growth investment arm, CapitalG.

The wearable technology company is the maker of the Myo armband, which detects the electrical activity of arm muscles and translates them into computer input, so users can control technology using gestures.

To reduce delivery times during the high - volume 11.11 festival — more than $ 9.3 billion in GMV was generated during the 24 - hour sale last year — Alibaba is bringing into play its logistics arm, Cainiao, which operates a «smart» logistics network that coordinates delivery companies and courier services throughout the country.

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Controversial changes over two years ago to Europe's chocolate rules - that had cocoa puritans and producers up in arms - came into force in the summer, providing ingredients companies with a raft of new opportunities.

Speculation is mounting that National Australia Bank could spin out its MLC arm into a separate listed company.

Barr grew the company into The IHL Group International Herbs Ltd. www.internationalherbs.net of Companies, which includes a U.S. - arm of Headquarters: Vancouver, British International Herbs and other produce and specialty Columbia, Canada Products: Herbs and produce food item distributors throughout North America.

With 370 employees and a state - of - the - art facility in Scranton, Pa., Gertrude Hawk's ingredients arm has grown into the family - owned company's largest division.

As a result of this policy, we now see people struggling to make ends meet, forced into the ever - willing arms of payday loan companies who, on the face of it appear to be offering help and financial security.

A major twist has crept into the prosecution of the alleged $ 2.1 b arms fund diversion charges as former Sokoto State Governor, Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa, his son Sagir Attahiru and their family company, Dalhatu Investment Ltd have applied for a separate trial from former National Security Adviser, retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki.

A jury convicted Skelos, also in 2015, of strong - arming three companies into giving his son about $ 300,000 through consulting work, a no - show job and a payment of $ 20,000.

At trial, the government had accused the elder Skelos of strong - arming three companies with a stake in state legislation — a major real estate developer, an environmental technology company and a medical malpractice insurer — into giving his son about $ 300,000 through consulting work, a no - show job and a payment of $ 20,000.

Only after «arms» length and prolonged and heated negotiations» did LPCiminelli enter into a deal to build RiverBend, the papers state, adding that the company signed not a «state contract» but a deal with Fort Schuyler, which is not a state entity.

But most of the real evidence may never come to light, Davis argues, because scientists have been strong - armed into silence by companies who fund their work, and because, as a condition of any settlement, lawyers have kept the human evidence sealed.

The Dream Lab Corey Powell: A half century ago, AT&T was the biggest company in the world, and its R&D arm, Bell Labs, was the archetypal incubator for hatching crazy ideas into brilliant technology.

The best you're going to do there is Luna, a human - size «robot» that will soon be widely available from a company called RoboDynamics in Santa Monica, California, for $ 3,000 — incredibly cheap for a humanoid, but incredibly expensive for a device that can't do much more than try not to bump into furniture and senior citizens as it desultorily wheels itself around your home, toting a tray of drinks you've carefully placed on its precarious, pipe - like «arms.»

To modify these tagging vectors for your specific gene, the lab recommends designing homology arms with the modification of interest, ordering them from a gene synthesis company such as IDT or Genscript, and cloning them sequentially into the chosen acceptor vector.

Some employees of an international arms dealer go out into the Hungarian wildeness for a weekend company retreat, only to find themselves menaced by a group of militants who don't like having them around their territory in this modestly budgeted dark comedy / horror film from Christopher Smith, who also directed Black Death (with Sean Bean).

In The Honorable Woman, the protagonist is 36 - year - old Nessa Stein (Maggie Gyllenhaal), the British - Israeli daughter of an arms dealer and CEO of the company he founded, who in the first few moments of the miniseries is sworn into the House Of Lords.

This meticulously constructed armed conflict procedural jumps into the morally ambivalent battle lines between Denmark and Afghanistan, where commander Claus M. Pedersen (Pilou Asbæk) is stationed with his company.

A handsome and much younger new executive in her company might provide the idiosyncratic Doris with a chance of romance, just the catalyst she needs to get out of her rut — and into his arms.

According to the organization's most recent Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 990 reports (2014), in addition to the $ 5.7 million that has flowed into SFER's coffers as of September 1, 2014, an additional $ 1.6 million has been collected by a closely - related company called the SFER Action Network Inc. which appears to serve as the political arm of SFER and formed in 2013.

The School Board is currently on the brink of legal action with a contractor, Woodrow Wilson, whose directors said the contracting office strong - armed them into using a particular company that did not complete the work.

In - car entertainment has evolved into an arms race among the manufacturers: One company adds a touch - screen display, another one upgrades to haptic feedback.

They told me there is nothing they are willing to do and the sales manager told me to run to another company with open arms... so that's what i did and got approved and into a new truck..

Formed back in 1984, Nismo (Nissan International Motorsports Co. Ltd) is the official racing arm of the company and it's that track - bred DNA that Nissan has attempted to infuse into the Juke Nismo.

However, this time they are armed with a new 7 inch tablet which boasts of a sleek design and could be the tablet to mark the company's entry into what is considered the biggest tablet... [Read more...]

However, this time they are armed with a new 7 inch tablet which boasts of a sleek design and could be the tablet to mark the company's entry into what is considered the biggest tablet market in the world.

They like to get the inside scoop on what it's like to be more or less screwed over by a company like Random House only to emerge from the dark wilderness and into the welcome arms of a family run publisher like StoneHouse / StoneGate Ink.