Sentences with phrase «cash bribes for»

Halloran is accused of pocketing $ 20,500 in cash bribes for masterminding cross-party negotiations to get Smith — one of the state's top Democrats — the Republican line in last year's mayoral race.

Halloran is also accused of pocketing $ 20,500 in cash bribes for masterminding cross-party negotiations for a failed $ 200,000 bid to get Smith — one of the state's top Democrats — the Republican line in last year's mayoral race.

A jury concluded he collected more than $ 20,000 in cash bribes for promises that he would help developers of senior centers in the Bronx with custom - tailored legislation.

Halloran is accused of pocketing $ 20,500 in cash bribes for masterminding cross-party negotiations to help fix the Republican mayoral primary for Smith.

Not exact matches

Men and women who have been caught time and time again falsifying results for special interest groups with cash bribes and threats?

This is the same man who reportedly took cash - briefcase bribes for all kinds of things, including competing bids to put the 2010 World Cup in Morocco or South Africa.

«We have had a government that, for the first time, is bribing and sharing physical cash openly.

The President has deliberately refused to institute proper investigation into reports of corruption allegations involving his appointees including the grievous BOST scandal, activities at the National Communication Authority, allegations against his two deputy chiefs of staff, the cash for seat scandal, inflation of cost, breaching of procurement regulations, illegal oil deals with foreign companies, bribes taking at the Presidency, etc..

Halloran, a Republican, was charged with taking more than $ 20,000 in payoffs from two undercover FBI operatives posing as corrupt developers in exchange for agreeing to funnel public cash to them and to help bribe Republican NYC county leaders to allow Democratic Sen. Malcolm Smith, also of Queens, to run Row B in the party's mayoral primary.

As the jury unanimously found, Daniel Halloran played a key role in two distinct political corruption schemes: first, for $ 20,000, Halloran was willing and able to serve as a go - between to deliver bribes to political party officials, and second he also took nearly $ 25,000 in cash and illegal campaign contributions to steer $ 80,000 in City Council money to other bribe payers.»

Mei, who was charged with accepting $ 50,000 and cash payments for a luxury car lease from Singh, secretly pleaded guilty in September 2015 to receiving «bribes and kickbacks» for helping Singh secure the loan guarantees, according to an indictment unsealed last week.

Halloran is also facing charges of allegedly pocketing $ 18,300 in cash bribes and $ 6,500 in straw - donor campaign donations for agreeing to steer $ 80,000 of council discretionary funding for his district to a company he believed was controlled by those who paid him the bribes.

«As the jury unanimously found, Daniel Halloran played a key role in two distinct political corruption schemes: first, for $ 20,000, Halloran was willing and able to serve as a go - between to deliver bribes to political party officials, and second he also took nearly $ 25,000 in cash and illegal campaign contributions to steer $ 80,000 in City Council money to other bribe payers,» Mr. Bharara said in a statement.

Also Monday, the feds arrested Sgt. David Villanueva and Officer Richard Ochetal of the NYPD License Division for allegedly taking cash bribes from Brooklyn businessman, Alex Lichtenstein, who wanted gun permits for undeserving applicants paying him as much as $ 18,000 each.

Marc Agniflio, the lawyer for former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, jumped right in after the lunch break Tuesday, hitting hard at prosecution witness Frederick Mei's credibility — and culpability for accepting cash, trips and other bribes from restaurateur Harendra Singh.

In the motion filed by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Lara Treinis Gatz, Catherine Mirable and Raymond Tierney, the government described how Mangano got a deck railing installed at his house for free and then had Singh launder cash associated with the bribe.

Singh also claims that he bribed Mayor Bill de Blasio with campaign cash for favors that included a lease extension on Water's Edge, but prosecutors last year declined to charge de Blasio, who has vehemently denied the bribery allegations.

The Bronx Republicans are led by Chairman Joseph Savino, who was arrested Tuesday for accepting cash bribes to support Democratic state Sen. Malcolm Smith's attempt to run for mayor as a Republican.

But prosecutors argued that the tapes tell the story and provide evidence that Stevenson made a decision to sell his legislative powers for cash bribes.

He is accused of taking a $ 15,000 cash bribe in return for supporting Democratic state Sen. Malcolm Smith's bid to run for mayor as a Republican.

His aide, Vincent Tabone, was arrested Tuesday and was accused of accepting cash bribes in return for helping Democratic state Sen. Malcolm Smith run for mayor as a Republican.

DiNapoli said he has ordered an internal review of hiring practices and oversight after the arrest of Kang, who was accused of taking bribes that ranged from cash to crack cocaine to prostitutes in exchange for steering $ 2 billion in investments to Wall Street broker - dealers.

Wormuth later pleaded guilty to taking cash bribes and stealing thousands of dollars from a campaign account for personal use.

Lawyers for indicted ex-correction union president Norman Seabrook are claiming that more than $ 20,000 in cash found locked in his bedroom safe wasn't a bribe — it was gambling earnings...

The charge: accepting $ 22,000 in cash bribes and campaign contributions in exchange for a legislative bill that would give four Bronx businessmen preferential treatment in building senior daycare centers.

Mei, 58, of Bayville, pleaded guilty in 2015 to honest - services fraud for accepting bribes from Singh, who gave him $ 50,000 in checks made out to cash, trips to South Korea and Italy and cash payments for a $ 36,000 BMW lease.

Lichtenstein — a member of Shomrim, the Orthodox Jewish crime - prevention group in Borough Park — approached an NYPD officer in April and offered thousands of dollars in cash bribes to secure gun licenses for associates, federal prosecutors said.

Mr. Tabone, 48, was convicted of receiving a $ 25,000 cash bribe in a sport utility vehicle parked outside a Manhattan restaurant by promising to deliver the county's support for Mr. Smith's mayoral bid.

That scandal also swept up Correction Officer Benevolent Association Norman Seabrook, for allegedly accepting a bribe in a Ferragamo bag, handed off by one of the businessmen in exchange for investing union cash in a high - risk hedge fund.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli on Thursday said he has ordered an internal review of hiring practices and oversight in the wake of the arrestof a former state pension fund manager accused of taking bribes that ranged from cash to crack cocaine to prostitutes in exchange for steering $ 2 billion in investments to Wall Street broker - dealers.

The guilty plea comes just days after Republican State Senate Leader Dean Skelos was charged with using his position and influence to earn cash for his son, Adam Skelos, and months after Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was charged with disguising kickbacks and bribes as outside income.

Mr. Stevenson was convicted on four counts stemming from charges that he drafted legislation and performed official government services in exchange for more than $ 20,000 in cash bribes — the latest in a long string of corruption arrests hitting the state's lawmakers.

In the second scheme, Halloran allegedly received $ 18,300 in cash bribes and $ 6,500 on straw donor contributions in exchange for steering an $ 80,000 City Council contract to a company he believed was controlled by one of those who paid him the bribes.

In an unrelated incident, Halloran also pledged to steer $ 80,000 to a shell company operated by the cooperating witness and the undercover agent in exchange for cash bribes and fake donations to his unsuccessful 2012 congressional campaign, which he lost to U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D - Bayside).

These were bribes of tens of thousands of dollars in cash, stuffed into envelopes to enable State Senator Malcolm A. Smith, a Democrat of Queens and at times the Senate's majority and minority leader, to pursue a run for mayor as a Republican, a prosecutor said in his opening statement on Wednesday.

In little more than a month, three state legislators were arrested on federal charges; one of them was accused of trying to bribe his way onto the New York City mayoral ballot, and another had sold legislation for cash.

This time the model is even more bizarre, advocating Mayors you won't have to vote for, an end to local government as we know it, and the giving of desperately needed public cash to bribe councils to do away with themselves.

One of the group's officers was arrested last year for allegedly bribing cops with cash and other goodies to expedite gun permit requests.

For those of you who are unaware of how the bribe works, the BF «donates» money to cash - strapped districts IF the people it has trained (superintendents, superintendent - types, and Broad Residents) are placed in the central office.

Competition for students is so vicious that schools are reportedly bribing parents with iPads and cash to drive up enrollment.

My next step would be to send Chef Lowell tee - shirts to the helpful salesman in the dive shop, one for him, his wife, and their two children, and — FedEx's ideas about not sending cash in envelopes be damned — money to bribe both salesman and chef.

Penny Punching Princess, an isometric brawler where you can bribe all of your enemies with cash, for the Nintendo Switch will be released on April 4th in North America.

The prohibition was put in place not because it is politically incorrect but because tourists might construe such a greeting as solicitation for a bribe, tip or cash.