Sentences with phrase «bribes and kickbacks since»

Prosecutors said he had collected nearly $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks since 2002 and disguised the proceeds as legitimate income.

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Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

Since roughly 2000, Silver received approximately $ 6 million in kickbacks and bribes from two law firms — Weitz & Luxenberg and, according to sources, Goldberg & Iryami — in a «secret and corrupt scheme» above and beyond his $ 121,000 official salary, prosecutors said.

Lawmakers» outside income has been under a spotlight since the arrest and conviction last year of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) on charges that he pocketed more than $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks that were disguised as legal fees.

Crain's reported this afternoon that the complaint, in which Southern District U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara accuses Silver of using his political power to line his own pockets with millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks from law firm Goldberg & Iryami, cites an unnamed «Developer 1» who was the largest political donor on the state level since 2005.

Bharara said Silver «corruptly collected some $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks disguised as «referral fees»» and said it accounted for «approximately two - thirds of all of Silver's outside income since 2002.»

The federal complaint against Silver accuses him of mail fraud and the federal crime of theft of honest services, saying he engaged in a scheme since 2000 to use the power and influence of his official position to obtain for himself over $ 6 million, including $ 700,000 in bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income he earned as a private lawyer.

One of those three men — Sheldon Silver, speaker since 1994 — was charged on Thursday in federal court with taking millions of dollars in kickbacks and bribes to influence laws and government funding.