Sentences with phrase «bribes from»

The executives are being investigated by the German public prosecutor for taking bribes from contractors in connection with office projects in Frankfurt and Munich, The Wall Street Journal reported.

They started accepting bribes from Google when the Pixel came out (they reviewed the Pixel but held off or canceled their reviews other competing phones) and since then they're worthless.

Trevon Gross was charged in March 2016, with federal prosecutors alleging that the pastor took bribes from those

A New Jersey pastor convicted of accepting bribes from the now - defunct bitcoin exchange Coin.mx has been sentenced to five years in prison.

Mahmoud Thiam, convicted of laundering bribes from a Chinese investment firm last year, has rubbished arguments by the DOJ that McDonnell should not apply to his case.

Chicago gadfly Sherman Skolnick, known widely for conspiracy theories and pro se lawsuits, had charged that two members of the Illinois Supreme Court took bribes from a Chicago lawyer and Democratic Party insider named Ted Isaacs.

Michel Temer, vice-president under Rousseff and chairman of the centre - right PMDB party, who was confirmed as the new president in 2016, was last year formally charged for taking bribes from meat - packing giant JBS.

Tabloids alleged that the jury was accepting bribes from artists.

There's a reason why very few people actually trust IGN and that's because it's believed by many that they receive bribes from publishers like EA, and yes, it's not uncommon for a stink to be kicked up about that.

Many, many years later, her ne'er - do - well brother Frank was tried, and eventually acquitted, of extorting bribes from Chinese people while employed by U.S. Immigration.

Dennis Josleyn, former West Coast Honda sales manager, and John Billmyer, former senior vice president, were convicted of taking bribes from dealers in return for favorable treatment in getting sought - after cars and dealerships, especially during the booming 1980s.

FEDERAL PROSECUTORS in New Hampshire are preparing to charge more than a dozen current and former American Honda Motor Co. executives with accepting bribes from dealers in exchange for franchises and hot - selling Honda models from 1986 through 1991.

A jury found former school board member Olga Hernandez not guilty of taking bribes from an insurance contractor doing business with the San Antonio Independent School District, but that doesn't mean she is innocent.

Two school board members were charged with taking bribes from contractors.

Police charge that John Dransfield and Samuel Manoharan, both project directors with the School Construction Authority, accepted some $ 140,000 in bribes from contractors and planned to accept even more.

Michael has been supplementing his income by taking bribes from Turkish drug pushers, but when a pair of vicious Albanian kingpins blow through town, eager to take over, he's in a terrible spot.

The «father» of China's high - speed rail system, standing trial on corruption charges in Beijing last week, testified that he solicited bribes from businessmen because he needed money — a whopping 23 million yuan (about $ 3.8 million)-- to burnish his credentials and influence votes in the biannual elections for membership in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2007 and 2009.

The government is prosecuting Percoco, one of Cuomo's closest friends, for allegedly raking in more than $ 300,000 in bribes from Howe clients wooing the Cuomo administration.

A former small - time operator on the edge of the seventies self - help movement — he once ran the Institute for Emotional Education — Lindenauer was Manes's bagman at Parking Violations, largely in charge of collecting bribes from various private companies engaged in the always - booming New York City parking - ticket business.

Boyland was convicted after his attorneys failed to convince a jury that he had solicited more than $ 250,000 in bribes from undercover federal agents as part of a plan «to scam a pair of corrupt businessmen who were trying to scam him.»

He is accused of allegedly taking more than $ 300,000 in bribes from executives with two companies — an energy plant firm and a Syracuse real estate development firm — in return for allegedly using his influential post in the Cuomo administration to get official state actions to financially benefit them.

Stevenson was arrested for accepting over $ 22,000 in bribes from a group of crooked businessmen looking for help opening a number of adult daycare centers in Stevenson's district.

Mr. Stevenson, who was arrested in April and charged with taking $ 22,000 in bribes from four adult day care center developers in exchange for trying to help their business, has maintained his innocence.

The superseding indictment added two new charges of soliciting bribes from a Long Island company that had lobbied the state in return for favorable legislation.

Kruger allegedly took bribes from Forest City lobbyist Richard Lipsky in the process.

In April 2013 Castro abruptly resigned his Bronx Assembly seat, shocking his colleagues and constituents by announcing that he had worked for the U.S. Attorney's office and that his role as an informant was key to convicting former Assemblymember Eric Stevenson for taking $ 20,000 in bribes from businesspeople building a daycare facility.

Last month, longtime Cuomo friend and advisor Joseph Percoco was convicted of fraud and soliciting bribes from executives at companies seeking to do business with the state.

Boyland faces up to 19 years in prison after he was convicted in March 2014 of trying to solicit bribes from federal agents posing as real - estate developers.

started taking bribes from a wealthy donor shortly after he entered the Senate in 2006.

Percoco served as the governor's executive secretary, he is accused of taking more than $ 600,000 in bribes from an energy company that needed state approval to build a power plant in the Hudson Valley and an upstate developer that received several state contracts, as well as getting a job at the energy company for his wife.

After taking $ 35,000 in bribes from COR, Percoco reversed an adverse decision against the company made by the Empire State Development Corp., according to court papers.

In just the past five years, a lawmaker was convicted of taking bribes from a carnival promoter.

Has anyone read the story on how Congressman Virgil Goode did this with MZM the same company that Duke Cunningham took bribes from.

Mei, who pleaded guilty to accepting bribes from Singh in exchange for helping him secure town - guaranteed loans, said the GOP wielded outsized influence in Oyster Bay.

She noted that Lacewell testified that Percoco, who is accused of accepting bribes from companies with business before the state, continued to come into his old government office at times after leaving the state payroll to run Cuomo's campaign.

He is accused of soliciting and accepting bribes from restaurateur and former town concessionaire Harendra Singh in return for helping him obtain town guarantees on $ 20 million in loans.

And it came days before the Nov. 23 deadline for Bharara to deliver indictments in the bidding case, in which former Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco and two others allegedly sought or received more than $ 315,000 in bribes from companies that were Cuomo campaign contributors seeking state contracts.

Jurors have heard nine weeks of testimony put forth by prosecutors in efforts to buttress their case that Edward Mangano and Venditto took bribes from restaurateur Harendra Singh.

Jury selection is expected to continue Tuesday in the corruption trial of Skelos, who is facing federal charges that he extorted bribes from companies with business before the state.

In 1932, New York City mayor Jimmy Walker responded to the public demand for regulation with a new regulatory scheme, one that rapidly fell apart, in the later accounting of the Seabury Commission, after he took bribes from a taxi company.

Former Assemblyman William Boyland Jr., a Democrat, was sentenced to 14 years in prison last month for a scheme to take bribes from FBI agents posing as real estate investors as well as a carnival promoter looking for help with local permits

The jury found Joe Percoco guilty of two counts of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and one count of soliciting bribes from an energy company.

Officer Richard Ochetal was also arrested on charges he accepted bribes from Lichtenstein in exchange for gun licenses.

Blake, who is still in his first two - year term as an Assemblyman, was elected in 2014 to fill the seat vacated by former Assemblyman Eric Stevenson, who was convicted for accepting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes from developers hoping to build senior centers in the Bronx.

Frederick Mei, a former Oyster Bay deputy town attorney, admitted Monday to taking bribes from restaurateur Harendra Singh and another contractor as part of what he described as the «pay - to - play nature» of conducting business in the Republican - controlled town.

Speaking with Saturday PUNCH shortly after they were paraded at the command's headquarters in Ikeja, Olujobi, Oyekan and Igbo, alleged that the police collected bribes from their co-suspects and released them.

CPV, the company building the 680 megawatt plant, was in the news in 2016 when federal prosecutors charged Joe Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, with accepting bribes from the firm in an unrelated matter.

Villanueva and Ochethal, who is cooperating, are accused of speeding up gun permits in exchange for bribes from an expeditor, Alex Lichtenstein, who has already been charged in the case.

The scandal appeared to come to a head in 2005, when a court found Durban businessman Schabir Shaik guilty of soliciting bribes from a French arms company «for the benefit of Zuma».

Percoco stands accused of pocketing more than $ 300,000 in bribes from three businessmen who wanted contracts from the state.