Sentences with phrase «exchange cash bribes»
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
You forgot to mention that Bloomberg News reported this week that Ripple offered cash bribes to cryptocurrency exchanges to support XRP.