Sentences with phrase «bribed former»

Howe is expected to describe how two Syracuse developers and an energy company executive bribed former top governor's aide Joseph Percoco for favors with the Cuomo administration.

At the core of the case is the allegation that Ciminelli, Laipple and Schuler bribed a former Albany lobbyist in an effort to gain an unfair advantage over competitors across New York.

Howe also testified that he bribed the former top government aide.

Two Cor principals, Steve Aiello and Joseph Gerardi, are facing charges that they bribed a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo as part of the corruption scandal.

Former Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who has been outspoken in his opposition to a gas power plant under construction in Orange County, says the project should be scrapped altogether in the wake of the corruption charges brought by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, which showed the company behind it, Competitive Power Ventures, allegedly bribed a former top aide to the governor, Joe Percoco, seeking favorable treatment from the administration.

A Chinese billionaire who faces federal charges that he bribed a former United Nations General Assembly president won the right to go free on $ 50 million bail Friday, but he...

During closing arguments, lawyer Marc Agnifilo said star prosecution witness Harendra Singh — who also claims to have bribed former Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano — «is like a politician buff.

-- Long Island restaurateur Harendra Singh was arrested and indicted in September on 13 federal charges including one that he bribed a former Town of Oyster Bay deputy attorney in order to have the town give him an «indirect guarantee» of $ 32 million in loans.

Former CPV executive Peter Galbraith Kelly has pleaded guilty in connection with a scheme to bribe former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco.

In Long Island's Eastern District, Singh faces more than 10 years in prison if convicted on a September 2015 indictment charging him with fraud and with bribing a former Oyster Bay Town employee.

A former energy company executive has pleaded guilty in connection with a scheme to bribe a former top aide to Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Six weeks into the trial of Percoco and three executives accused of allegedly bribing the former Cuomo adviser in exchange for government favors, prosecutors and defense lawyers spent all day Tuesday giving closing arguments to a case that could have sweeping implications for its sister case — the Buffalo Billion trial expected to start in June in the same courtroom.

Singh admitted in October 2016 to bribing former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto, and attempting to bribe the city official.

COR Development Co. executives Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi were charged Thursday with bribing a former top Cuomo aide.

Harendra Singh, the restaurateur linked to corruption probes of elected officials in New York City and Long Island, secretly pleaded guilty in October 2016 to bribing former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto and trying to bribe an unnamed New York City official, newly unsealed court records show.

NEW YORK — A former energy company executive has pleaded guilty in connection with a scheme to bribe a former top aide to Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Ciminelli, chairman and CEO of LPCiminelli, is accused of bribing a former Albany lobbyist in an effort to gain an unfair competitive advantage over other contractors seeking work through Gov. Andrew Cuomo's upstate development program.

Smith — a Democrat and former Senate majority leader — was busted last year in a failed scheme to secure a spot on the Republican primary line for mayor, allegedly by bribing former Queens Councilman Dan Halloran and then - Queens GOP Vice Chairman Vincent Tabone.

Singh was indicted in September 2015 on federal charges that include bribing a former Oyster Bay attorney to obtain loan guarantees from the town.

Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney said she was «surprised» to hear news of indictments against top COR officials, who are accused of bribing former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco.

Steve Aiello and Joseph Gerardi are accused of bribing a former top aide to Cuomo.

Newly unsealed court records show that a Long Island restaurateur secretly pleaded guilty last year to bribing former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and trying to bribe an unnamed New York City official.

Singh, charged in September 2015 with income - tax evasion, obstruction of justice and bribing a former deputy Oyster Bay Town attorney, has pleaded not guilty and has had his trial postponed indefinitely.

Forest City Ratner, the developer behind the Echo Bay Redevelopment Project in New Rochelle, has been implicated in a scheme to bribe former Yonkers City Councilwoman Sandy Annabi.

On Thursday, two executives from the company, Joseph Gerardi and Steven Aiello, were charged with bribing a former top Cuomo aide, Joseph Percoco.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara charged COR Development Co. executives Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi with bribing a former top Cuomo aide.

A high - profile Southern California congressional race descended into chaos on Wednesday when Republican Carl DeMaio was peppered with questions from reporters about whether he had sexually harassed and then intimidated and attempted to bribe a former campaign staffer.

Halloran said his use of the term under - the - table did not refer to bribing former Queens GOP Chairman Vince Tabone, but rather to covertly putting him on Smith's campaign staff so Tabone would have an income if his boss, then mayoral - candidate John Catsimatidis, found out he was backing an opponent.

Robert Aquino, former chief executive officer of Parkway Hospital, was sentenced to four months in prison for bribing former state Sen. Carl Kruger.

In one situation, they were asked what they would do if a foreign language newspaper ran a story saying their company — a telecommunications firm dual listed in Canada and the U.S. — is accused of bribing the former telecommunications minister in a country they are new to operating in to obtain a key licence.

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Napout's driver performed another duty — he drove 30 hours from Asuncion, Paraguay, to Buenos Aires and back to pick up and deliver cash bribes to his boss and facilitate payments to another Argentinian official, according to former sports - marketing executive Alejandro Burzaco, who pleaded guilty and is cooperating with the U.S. government.

She settled one lawsuit brought by a fashion designer for a reported $ 430,000, and has since been sued by a former lawyer after alleging the attorney had accepted a bribe.

Recently former president Fernando de la Rúa was charged with bribing senators in the 2000 election and current president Cristina Kirchner has faced harsh public criticism over rampant corruption as well.

Former communications chief was arrested Friday over allegations of phone hacking celebrities and murder victims and bribing police for information.

The undercover agent said that former sports agent Christian Dawkins bluntly explained the benefits of paying bribes to Lamont Evans, associate head coach of Oklahoma State's basketball team, to other defendants.

The search warrant document, which was later resealed, said the bribes were paid to Saadi Gadhafi by former SNC vice-president Riadh Ben Aissa, who is now jailed in Switzerland.

FBI agents arrested former Insys Therapeutics (insy) CEO Michael Babich and five other former company executives on Thursday for allegedly bribing doctors to prescribe an extremely addictive opioid painkiller to patients who didn't need it.

David Samson, former chairman of the agency that controls New York City - area bridges, tunnels and airports, pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal charge of soliciting a bribe for pressuring United Airlines to reinstate a money - losing flight offering convenient access to his vacation home.

Indeed, the original owner of the Bridgeport Jai Alai fronton, David Friend, claimed he paid a $ 250,000 bribe to John Bailey, the former state and national chairman of the Democratic Party, to get the license to build his fronton.

Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner accepted a $ 1 million bribe to back Morocco's bid for the 2010 World Cup, but gave his support to the South Africa campaign because it gave him more money, the Telegraph reports.

March 15 — Having bowed to global pressure and finally banned former Brazilian FA boss Marco Polo Del Nero for 90 days, FIFA's ethics committee has extended the suspension for a further 45 days while it continues to investigate his alleged role in taking bribes.

February 22 — The next round of sentencing has begun in the US Department of Justice case against football's corrupt officials and marketing partners with Panama - based Mimo International Exports and Imports ordered to pay a fine and restitution totalling $ 1.4 million for bribing Costa Rica's former FA president Eduardo Li (pictured).

Carl Swanberg, 61, retired Chicago Park District harbor master who pleaded guilty to charges that he funneled bribes from boat owners seeking harbor permits back to Gerald Pfeiffer, former director of the Park District's marine division, was sentenced to 60 days «work release Monday by U.S. District Judge Ilana Diamond Rovner.

Soul singer Marshall Thompson, 59, of Oak Forest, a former sergeant with the Maywood Park District Police Department, acted as a «bagman,» relaying cash bribes from people who wanted badges.

A former close aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Joe Percoco, will go on trial next month in connection with charges of fraud and receiving bribes.

Former Sen. Malcolm Smith was found guilty on Thursday of attempting to bribe his way on the New York City mayoral ballot.

Malcolm Smith, the Democratic former Senate majority leader who was convicted of trying to bribe his way onto the New York City Republican mayoral ballot, was sentenced on Wednesday to seven years in federal prison.

Skelos's sentencing comes just over a week after his former counterpart, ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, was sentenced to 12 years in prison in a separate case involving the Manhattan Democrat masking bribes as legal referrals.

A federal prosecutor accused New York's former assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, today of taking millions of dollars in legal fees as bribes, while a defense lawyer insisted there was nothing illegal about the transactions.

A prosecutor was noncommittal when asked by Manhattan U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni if the government plans to retry Peter Kelly Jr., an energy executive accused of paying bribes to Joe Percoco, a convicted former aide to Cuomo.