Sentences with phrase «cash bribes from»

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.

Soul singer Marshall Thompson, 59, of Oak Forest, a former sergeant with the Maywood Park District Police Department, acted as a «bagman,» relaying cash bribes from people who wanted badges.

According to city campaign finance records, the campaign paid Tabone $ 3,000 on Feb. 16 — two days after the aide allegedly took a hefty cash bribe from an undercover FBI agent posing as a real estate developer, according to the criminal complaint.

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Napout's driver performed another duty — he drove 30 hours from Asuncion, Paraguay, to Buenos Aires and back to pick up and deliver cash bribes to his boss and facilitate payments to another Argentinian official, according to former sports - marketing executive Alejandro Burzaco, who pleaded guilty and is cooperating with the U.S. government.

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.

A week later, the Presby Moderator in an unprovoked manner, organized a press conference claiming some politicians who are uncomfortable with his utterances attempted buying his silence by bribing him with a cash of US$ 100, 000 and a house with a swimming at the expensive Trassco Estates, which he rejected, but hours after his claim, his former PRO, popped to refute the claim, saying he was present when his Moderator pocketed US$ 100, 000, and collected the keys to a four - wheeler car from a political figure.

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.

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.

The motion, filed in February, asked U.S. District Judge Joan M. Azrack to allow Singh to testify about how a «panicked» Mangano asked him to exchange a cash bribe he'd received from a contractor, in case the bills were marked.

Mei, 58, of Bayville, is cooperating with prosecutors after pleading guilty to accepting bribes from Singh, including $ 50,000 in checks made out to cash, a trip to South Korea and cash payments to cover a $ 36,000 BMW lease.

Mei testified that he received bribes in the form of meals, trips, cash and other items from Singh, but what did the former restaurateur get in return?

Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian A. Jacobs told jurors that Stevenson accepted more than $ 20,000 in cash bribes in 2012 to help protect a new Bronx adult center in his district from competitors.

Former Queens Councilman Daniel Halloran testified at his federal trial that an envelope of cash he took from someone who turned out to be a government informant wasn't a bribe but a personal loan.

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.

Mayor Bill de Blasio won't be forced to testify about claims he accepted bribes of campaign cash from a crooked restaurateur, a defense lawyer said Wednesday.

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.

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.

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.

Former Queens City Councilman Daniel Halloran testified at his federal trial Thursday that an envelope of cash he took from someone who turned out to be a government informant wasn't a bribe but a personal loan.

Mei also said the very first time he took a bribe as a government official was in 1995, when he accepted a set of new car tires and then $ 2,500 in cash from a town contractor named Joe Rutigliano.

I receive no bribes or cash payments from those companies, either.