Sentences with phrase «control of the kickback»

My gun set to auto, I sprayed forward at the first sight of anything moving, each bullet moving my reticle higher and higher, as I struggled to maintain control of the kickback.

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Although the senior Jordan wasn't without a shadow in his past — he pleaded guilty in 1985 to having accepted a $ 7,000 kickback from a contractor while he was in charge of inventory control at a General Electric plant — as of Monday it appeared his death was the result of a random robbery.

The Obama administration knew that Russia had used bribery, kickbacks and extortion to get a stake in the US atomic - energy industry — but cut deals giving Moscow control of a large chunk of the US uranium supply anyway.

The push and pull over the control of the economic development spending comes after the arrests last year of prominent upstate developers, former SUNY Polytechnic President Alain Kaloyeros and an ex-top aide and confidant to the governor, Joe Percoco, in a case stemming from kickbacks and bid rigging related to key economic development spending in New York.

The Senate and governor's proposals would both update the state's controlled substances schedule, including adding new derivatives of fentanyl to the list and prohibiting kickbacks to doctors, counselors or organizations that refer patients to a treatment center.

Morris is accused of pocketing $ 19 million in kickbacks from firms that won business from the Hevesi - controlled pension fund.

Thus, as a public union, the NEA (so too the American Federation of Teachers), is, essentially, spreading around tax dollars, money over which the taxpayer has no control, an income redistribution effort that could easily be mistaken for a kickback or, in states where union membership and dues are not voluntary, a not - so - hidden and not - so - representative tax.

The class action alleged violation of U.S. securities law by Brazil's state - controlled oil company in connection with a multi-billion dollar bribery and kickback scheme.

A federal appeals court has considered whether section 8 (b) of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act («RESPA») is a price control statute or a prohibition on unauthorized kickbacks to third parties.