Sentences with phrase «engage in any bribery scheme»
But, Coffey said, Aiello didn't engage in any bribery scheme with Howe and Percoco.
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Prosecutors say he and another Cor Development executive, who was cleared of all charges Tuesday, engaged in a bribery scheme with Percoco.
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Percoco, often described as Cuomo's right - hand man and a «brother» is accused of engaging in two separate bribery schemes with companies doing business with the state.
Joseph Percoco, a former top aide and confidant of Cuomo, as well as SUNY Polytechnic Institute's founding President and CEO Alain Kaloyeros and officials at some of upstate New York's most prominent development firms were charged in a federal complaint with allegedly engaging in two overlapping schemes involving bribery, corruption and fraud in the award of hundreds of millions of dollars in state contracts and other official benefits.
To prove the bribery scheme, the government will be tasked with convincing that Mr. Silver was engaged in a quid pro quo with Mr. Taub and the real estate industry, trading the power he wielded over state money and laws that govern real estate for money.
«What we have learned so far in this trial is that the Governor is unequivocally responsible for the environment that allowed his closest aide and confidante to engage in these massive bribery and kickback schemes,» said Chairman Ed Cox.
Two Cor executives — along with a former vice president at an energy company — are on trial with Percoco over whether they engaged in an alleged bribery scheme in which payments allegedly flowed to Percoco and his wife in return for the former senior Cuomo adviser helping them.
Bruno, 85, is facing his second trial for depriving the public of the right to honest services by engaging in what prosecutors described as a «quid pro quo bribery scheme.»
The Manganos and Venditto have pleaded not guilty and assert they are victims of a plot by Long Island restaurateur Harendra Singh to get leniency for his own crimes by falsely claiming they engaged in a bribery - and - kickback scheme.
To prove the bribery scheme, the government will be tasked with convincing that Mr. Silver was engaged in a quid pro quo with Mr. Taub and the real estate industry, trading the power he wielded over state money and laws that govern real estate for money.