Sentences with phrase «bribes and kickbacks silver»

Much of the $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks Silver was charged with accepting were disguised as legal and referral fees, prosecutors said.

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Approximately $ 700,000 came in «undisclosed bribes and kickbacks» from a scheme in which Mr. Silver used his influence as speaker to induce real estate developers with «business for the state» to use a real estate law firm run by an attorney who previously worked as Mr. Silver's counsel in the Assembly, and which paid Mr. Silver for the referrals.

The charges come just months after Mr. Bharara charged former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver with accepting what he described as kickbacks and bribes disguised as legitimate work done for law firms.

Bharara in January made his most high - profile arrest, charging now former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver with accepting bribes and kickbacks.

Silvers lawyers two weeks ago claimed that statements Bharara made about the charges — which allege Silver lined his pockets with nearly $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks in a stunning abuse of power dating to at least 2000 — «caused irreparable harm by tainting» the grand jury that indicted him on Feb. 19.

The governor's speech comes shortly after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested by federal law enforcement officials and accused of taking millions in bribes and kickbacks as part of his work with two outside law firms.

Approximately $ 700,000 came in «undisclosed bribes and kickbacks» from a scheme in which Mr. Silver used his influence as Assembly Speaker to «induce real estate developers with business before the State» to use a real estate law firm run by an attorney who previously worked as Mr. Silver's counsel in the Assembly, and which paid Mr. Silver for the referrals.

After opening statements that alleged «bribes and kickbacks, illegally conducted,» prosecutors from U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office used Paulin's testimony to establish how the Assembly operated under then - speaker Silver.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver used his office to mask millions of dollars in «bribes and kickbacks» as legitimate outside income from two private law firms over more than a decade, according to a bombshell 35 - page criminal complaint filed by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara today.

The Assembly is set to elect a new speaker on Feb. 10, following Silver's arrest last week for allegedly pocketing millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks that he tried to pass off as legitimate income for legal work, according to prosecutors.

Silver is charged with subverting his employment at two private law firms to gain nearly $ 6 million dollars in kickbacks and bribes.

In her opening statement, Assistant U.S. Attorney Carrie Cohen outlined Silver's two alleged plots, frequently using the terms «bribes and kickbacks,» and «secrets and lies.»

The grand jury indictment said he used that position to mask bribes and kickbacks, including more than $ 3 million earned for referring asbestos sufferers to the firm from a doctor whose medical research secretly received $ 500,000 in state funds at Silver's direction, as well as other benefits.

Silver, a Manhattan Democrat who led the Assembly for 20 years, is accused of taking more than $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks.

The charges against Mr. Silver are focused on his outside income — which U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has argued amounted to «bribes and kickbacks» disguised as legitimate earnings — and today's agreement calls for new disclosure requirements for any income in excess of $ 1,000.

Silver, who stepped down from his longtime position as Assembly speaker in the wake of the corruption case, was indicted on federal fraud and extortion charges in February related to claims that he took more than $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks.

Being arrested himself and accused of receiving millions in bribes and kickbacks is, obviously, trouble on an entirely different scale for Silver.

The federal case against Silver focused on his private legal work, which generated millions in what prosecutors were able to cast as bribes and kickbacks disguised as legal fees.

New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested Thursday on public corruption charges and accused of using his position as one of the most powerful men in Albany to obtain millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income.

Silver was convicted of engaging in a two - track corruption scheme that padded his bank account with an estimated $ 4 million that prosecutors characterized as bribes and kickbacks disguised as legal fees.

The lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the charges — which allege Silver lined his pockets with nearly $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks in a stunning abuse of power dating to at least 2000 — claiming public statements that Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara made about the case «caused irreparable harm by tainting» the grand jury that indicted him on Feb. 19.

Silver was found to have engaged in a two - track corruption scheme that netted him an estimated $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks disguised as legal fees.

Silver, 71, was indicted in January on corruption charges alleging that he abused his political power in order to line his pockets with more than $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks dating back to 2000.

Silver, who ruled the Legislature with an iron fist for the past two decades, was charged with taking bribes and kickbacks, using his office to obtain nearly $ 4 million in corrupt payments from two law firms over the past 15 years.

Silver, 73, the state's most powerful Democrat, was convicted in 2015 of accepting $ 4 million in kickbacks and bribes while speaker making him one of the three most powerful officials in Albany.

Silver, 72, was convicted of taking millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks in exchange for various favors, including directing state grants to a particular doctor who passed on leads to him about potential law clients.

Three weeks after the Moreland Commission — which Governor Cuomo founded in 2013 — was due to release its report on public corruption in New York State, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested by federal authorities on charges of taking millions in bribes and kickbacks.

Silver, accused of using his position to influence real estate legislation and state funding in exchange for millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks, was convicted of corruption in November.

on charges of extortion, fraud and bribery, barely four months after former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver resigned over federal charges that he had taken millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks.

First came the Assembly speaker, the powerful Democrat Sheldon Silver, who in January was dragged by federal authorities to a courthouse, black fedora perched on his head, and charged with exploiting his position by accepting millions in bribes and kickbacks.

This has become almost routine in the state Legislature: In early 2015, state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was arrested on charges of extortion, fraud and bribery, barely four months after former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver resigned over federal charges that he had taken millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks.

But discontent with Silver grew over the weekend following his arrest on charges that he masked bribes and kickbacks as legal referrals.

Silver, a Manhattan Democrat who is accused of masking legal referrals as bribes and kickbacks, resigned from the speakership after his arrest.

Prosecutors charged Silver «betrayed» his office through allegedly masking bribes and kickbacks as legitimate legal referrals.

New York politics were roiled Thursday when Sheldon Silver, the longtime speaker of the state Assembly, was charged with using the power of his office to seek and receive millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks.

Silver, 70, was arrested and is accused of using his position to obtain millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income.

U.S. Atty. Preet Bharara said Silver collected about $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks disguised as referral fees.

New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, 70, was arrested on public corruption charges and accused of using his position to obtain millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income.

Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested last month on public corruption charges and is accused of using his position to obtain millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income.

Prosecutors tried to show that millions of dollars Silver received in legal fees and other payments were bribes and kickbacks for favors he did for a cancer researcher and real estate developers.

Assemblyman Michael Cusick (D - Mid-Island) and Assemblyman Matthew Titone (D - North Shore) spoke briefly Monday afternoon before entering a Democrat conference to discuss appointing Majority Leader Joseph Morelle (D - Rochester), Herman «Denny» Farrell (D - Manhattan), Joseph Lentol (D - Brooklyn), Cathy Nolan (D - Queens) and Carl Heastie (D - Bronx) to take on certain responsibilities of Silver's as the Manhattan Democrat fights federal charges that he collected millions in bribes and kickbacks and tried to disguise it as legitimate income.

The 35 - page criminal complaint alleges that Silver, a lawyer, used «the power and influence of his official position to obtain for himself millions of dollars of bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income.»

The indictment accuses Silver with using the power and influence of his office to obtain $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks from two law firms for legal work that he never did, WCBS 880's Irene Cornell reported.

Silver was found guilty for mail fraud, wire fraud and extortion, for using his position to receive nearly $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks.

A little more than three months ago the defendant in question was a Democrat, Shelly Silver, accused of taking bribes and kickbacks of $ 4 million, some of the money being listed as «referral fees» for steering asbestos cases and real - estate developers to Silver - connected law firms.

Silver, who remains an Assemblyman, is accused of using his employment connections at two law firms to illegally gain $ 6 million dollars in kickbacks and bribes.

In one example, prosecutors said Silver received $ 700,000 in bribes and kickbacks by pushing a pair of developers, including one with a $ 1 billion luxury portfolio, to use Goldberg & Iryami without them knowing them he was getting a cut.

Did former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver sell his office in exchange for kickbacks and bribes, or simply make legitimate outside income that prosecutors just don't like?

Those were the two narratives presented to jurors today in the Manhattan federal courthouse where Mr. Silver, still an assemblyman and once among the three most powerful men in the state, is standing trial on charges of honest services fraud, extortion and money laundering for allegedly taking more than $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks.

By Thursday morning, Silver was handcuffed and under arrest for allegedly taking almost $ 6 million in bribes and kickbacks over the last decade based solely on his power as a legislator.