Sentences with phrase «bribes by»

While the Blockchain insurance offer is pertinent, the increased security jars with reports that attendees are being sought out for bribes by local police.

Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn

The operation used con artists to help ensnare politicians with bribes by fake Arab sheiks.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's one - time top adviser Joseph Percoco was convicted Tuesday on three counts of soliciting and taking bribes by a Manhattan federal court jury after an eight - week trial.

Longtime Cuomo family loyalist Joseph Percoco — whom the governor once called a «third son» to his late father, Mario — was accused of pocketing more than $ 315,000 in bribes by shaking down a Maryland - based energy company and a Syracuse development firm in pay - to - play schemes.

In the criminal case, prosecutors contend that the loans were among the fruits of alleged bribes by Singh.

U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said: «Joseph Percoco was found guilty of taking over $ 300,000 in cash bribes by selling something priceless that was not his to sell — the sacred obligation to honestly and faithfully serve the citizens of New York.

In a prepared statement following the conviction, interim Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman said, «Joseph Percoco was found guilty of taking over $ 300,000 in cash bribes by selling something priceless that was not his to sell — the sacred obligation to honestly and faithfully serve the citizens of New York.

If this were a bribe by someone seeking to influence Edwards as an office - holder, that would be one thing.

No client wants to feel bribed by an unexpected payoff at year's end.

Idolatry is «allowing the impulse to be bribed by incomplete but immediate satisfaction.»

Cumanus, who according to Josephus had been bribed by the Samaritans to remain inactive, did nothing about the incident, and when Jewish zealots took vengeance on the criminals he attacked them.

Also he was bribed by Winchester who gave him gold for all the trouble he had gone through.

First one small self - disclosure: I can be bribed by a hamburger.

Nevertheless, I am bribed by anything that is topped with cream cheese.

The papers say that Jackson was bribed by Rosenhaus with a ton of cash and Louis Vuitton bags and that is why he shouldn't have to repay the money.

He further indicated that the accusation affirms what some Minority Members talked about with regards to the attempted bribe by the Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko to the Appointment committee.

The Rivers state government has described as false, the claims by the Police that it has recovered the sum of 111 million Naira from electoral officers allegedly bribed by the government to manipulate the Rivers rerun election.

The statement said, «parliament has noted with grave concern, allegations that the Leadership and Members of the Appointments Committee have been bribed by some of the President's nominees to facilitate the recommendation of approval of their nomination as ministers to the House.»

That's because your doctor has been brainwashed or bribed by the drug companies that now generate $ 29 billion dollars a year from selling statin drugs.

She is sentenced to death by firing squad, but at the last moment a guard, bribed by the Polish Home Army resistance movement, frees her.

I was bribed by a 18 year old sugar baby.

John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein's true directorial talents lie in their ability to pull off simple visual gags with aplomb, as in a scene in which Ryan attempts to offer someone a paltry $ 17 bribe by slowly sliding the bills, one by one, across a table.

It won't be easily bribed by treats and if you need to use treats to get its attention it obviously does not fully respect you and you are doing some thing wrong.

Am I in the pocket of Sony Online Entertainment, bribed by all of that cash they made on The Agency?

[108] This suggestion ironically echoes Hadfield's description of a «lousy legal infrastructure» where courts can be bribed by those richer and better connected, and it exacerbates the failure of law to provide equal protection for all citizens.

The system — which is run by the private sector operating on a commission basis — allows citizens to avoid the woeful government infrastructure and saves them from traveling to government offices, lining up for hours, or being extorted for a bribe by corrupt officials.

Not exact matches

Some of it has been hidden from the public - the nightly legal battles to keep defamatory stories out of papers; her mother having to struggle past photographers in order to get to her front door; the attempts of reporters and photographers to gain illegal entry to her home and the calls to police that followed; the substantial bribes offered by papers to her ex-boyfriend; the bombardment of nearly every friend, co-worker, and loved one in her life.

Billionaire Vincent Bollore was charged by French investigators as part of a probe into the possible use of bribes in two African countries to obtain port contracts from public officials, according to a statement from his company.

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.

Jurors have been shown thousands of pages of records that include two secret ledgers kept by sports - marketing officials documenting what prosecutors say were bribes paid out to soccer officials.

The U.S. says the money originated from a Swiss account controlled by Burzaco, part of what the businessman testified were the millions of dollars in bribes he paid to officials, including Marin, for the broadcasting rights to the Centennial tournament and another in Brazil.

JBS, which paid $ 1.5 billion from Moy Park two years ago, is near completing an asset sale plan unleashed by the Batistas» admission to bribing 1,893 politicians in Brazil.

Such decrees have been cited by Venezuela prosecutors as a means of extracting bribes in some recent PDVSA corruption cases.

The National recently featured a 17 - minute report by Lang on private security firms in Afghanistan using NATO money to bribe insurgents, a topic with only the most tangential link to her beat.

To top off its challenges, the company announced in September that it was looking into certain eyebrow - raising payments made by its employees to various foreign government officials as they could have constituted illegal bribes.

In one of the three complaints, Jim Gatto — director of global sports marketing for basketball at Adidas — and four other defendants were accused of bribing high - school athletes to play at universities sponsored by Adidas (referred to as «Company 1» in the case).

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.

By June 2013, media reports about Glaxo bribes prompted Chinese officials to accelerate their own probe.

Adding to its headaches, Cambridge Analytica's since - suspended chief executive, Alexander Nix, was caught on tape by a UK news broadcaster suggesting that the firm could use bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians it had hoped to defeat.

Alfie Kohn is the author of four books, including No Contest: The Case Against Competition and the newly published Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes, from which this article is adapted.

Therefore a scheme developed by two or more persons to bribe a foreign public official that is later not followed through can still result in the violation of the CFPOA.

They eventually were taken over by a Canadian firm (well, the Canadian assets anyway) a few years ago some time after a Veco executive was secretly filmed in a hotel room bribing some Alaska gov» t officials.

The company's CEO, Alexander Nix, was also caught on tape by the UK's Channel 4 News telling a potential client that he could entrap potential opponents with bribes and sex.

Meanwhile, the second part of an undercover investigation conducted by the UK's Channel 4 aired today in which Cambridge Analytica executives were caught on tape bragging about bribing and entrapping politicians using hired sex workers to compromise its clients» political opponents.

It'd be better to hedge the risk by spreading it across a property fund for example, the tax bribes for the rich will still apply, just in nominally different form (name) to buy - to - let.

- revfeed promotes binarytilt - «Scam or not» review websites promote it, It would be fair to say some are written by binarytilt authors and some authors are just simply bribed (I mean they're human) and binarytilt seems to have lots of money.

Billionaire Vincent Bollore is being held for questioning by French judicial police Tuesday as part of an investigation into possible bribes of public officials in two African countries.

In the United States, which has a history of aggressively pursuing companies whose staff pay bribes, DPA agreements are standard and overseen by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Now, if the Fed decides to gobble - up still more Treasury or government - agency securities, putting a like sum of fresh reserves at banks» disposal, it can still keep inflation at bay by hiking the IOER enough to bribe banks to hoard the reserves instead of lending them out.