Sentences with phrase «earned kickbacks»

Prosecutors said Silver had earned kickbacks through work he professed to do for personal injury law firm Weitz & Luxenberg.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Carrie Cohen has accused the former New York assembly speaker of using his «enormous power» to earn kickbacks and bribes.

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This would mean brokers could take undisclosed kickbacks to push certain products, and place their interests ahead of their customers — recommending mutual funds and other products that earned them the highest fees, rather than served the interests of clients.

Silver was convicted of receiving millions in kickbacks from companies with business before the state by masking the income as money earned from legitimate employment.

The grand jury indictment said he used that position to mask bribes and kickbacks, including more than $ 3 million earned for referring asbestos sufferers to the firm from a doctor whose medical research secretly received $ 500,000 in state funds at Silver's direction, as well as other benefits.

Prosecutors allege he used his position to take more than $ 6 million in bribes and kickbacks, which he masked as legitimate income earned as a lawyer over 15 years.

Silver, 72, a once - beloved Lower Manhattan assemblyman and one of the most powerful men in the state, was convicted by a federal jury in November on charges of money laundering and extortion related to two bribery schemes where he earned millions in kickbacks by trading political favors for money.

Judge Valerie Caproni also ruled that Silver must pay a $ 1.75 million fine and forfeit $ 5 million, the net amount of money prosecutors said he earned through two kickback schemes.

Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was convicted Monday on charges that he used his power to illegally earn more than $ 5 million in bribes and kickbacks.

A 35 - page criminal complaint filed by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office lays out his alleged scheme where Silver «used the power and influence of his official position to obtain for himself millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income earned by Silver as a private lawyer.»

Prosecutors argue that Silver's relationship with Glenwood Management was part of a kickback network that illegally earned the lawmaker $ 700,000.

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.

The federal complaint against Silver accuses him of mail fraud and the federal crime of theft of honest services, saying he engaged in a scheme since 2000 to use the power and influence of his official position to obtain for himself over $ 6 million, including $ 700,000 in bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income he earned as a private lawyer.

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.

The perennial question of how some people practice law while they make laws arises anew as U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's high - octane criminal complaint against Silver alleging «millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income earned as a private lawyer.»

Prosecutors said Silver, who stepped down from his powerful position as speaker of the Assembly after he was indicted, abused his office to earn nearly $ 4 millon in kickbacks disguised as a legitimate salary.

«These commissions are earned through a combination of charging upfront fees and higher interest rates to earn «kickbacks.

The financial advisor will often get a kickback from the mutual fund company (as was the case in this Edward Jones example), so they earn more money from you than if they put your money into stocks outright.