The judge Thursday will have to decide whether to let that agent discuss — as the prosecution wants — how Percoco came up with ziti as the term he used to describe what the government
calls alleged bribe money.
Not exact matches
Sam Allardyce, the manager once accused of taking» bungs» (
bribes) with his son, failed to sue the BBC and clear his name about
alleged corrupt practices, was
called a crook by Steve Keane has begun sprouting utter drivel and lies to the media.
In the phone
call that day in 2016, Percoco talked about a job his wife had gotten with an energy company — a post prosecutors have
called a job in return for nearly $ 300,000 in what they
allege amounted to
alleged bribe payments to Percoco, allegedly in return for official government favors.
The
call for the hearings, of course, comes in the wake of the arrest of erstwhile IDC member Sen. Malcolm Smith, D - Queens, in an
alleged scheme to
bribe his way onto the New York City mayoral ballot on the GOP line.
An array of figures from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's inner circle — including a confidante so close the governor
called him «my father's third son» — got slapped with a sweeping 14 - count federal indictment today, which
alleges they colluded in a pair of schemes to solicit
bribes for state assistance and to rig economic development contracts for companies that gave to Cuomo's campaigns.
Mr. Schneiderman's
call comes after the state's former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested on charges of fraud and extortion by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who
alleged that the longtime power broker had used his influence to inappropriately earn attorney referral fees for work he had not done, disguising what amounted as «kickbacks» and «
bribes» as legitimate income.