Sentences with phrase «exchange for his bribes of»

Singh, 59, of Laurel Hollow, testified that he received lucrative county contracts and town - guaranteed loans in exchange for his bribes of the officials.

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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.

Nor would his three co-defendants, executives with two companies accused of bribing him in exchange for favors related to state business.

Singh, 59, of Laurel Hollow, has pleaded guilty to bribing Edward Mangano and Venditto in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in county contracts and millions of dollars in town - guaranteed loans.

Authorities charge that Edward Mangano — whose eight years in office came to a close at the end of the year — and Venditto received «bribes and kickbacks» from Singh, including a lucrative no - show job to Linda Mangano, in exchange for benefits including county contracts and town loan guarantees.

Percoco stands accused of accepting more than $ 300,000 worth of personal bribes in exchange for favorable action on behalf of two of Howe's clients — Steve Aiello and Joe Gerardi, executives at Syracuse real estate firm COR Development, and Peter «Braith» Kelly, a government relations executive at energy company Competitive Power ventures.

In exchange for bribes, Smith promised to get $ 500k in Senate transportation earmarks for a road project and Holloran promised hundreds of thousands in NYC City Council member items.

The governor's former closest aide is accused of accepting $ 35,000 in bribes from the Syracuse developers, in exchange for helping ease economic development projects in Central New York.

The scandal is a hit parade of corruption issues involving money, politics and bribes in exchange for public spending.

Percoco, who has pleaded not guilty, is accused of pocketing bribes in exchanging for rigging lucrative construction projects for Cuomo campaign donors.

In addition to Grant and Harrington, NYPD Sergeant David Valenueva and Officer Richard Ochetal have been arrested on charges that they providing gun permits to unqualified applicants in exchange for thousands of dollars in bribes.

Six weeks into the trial of Percoco and three executives accused of allegedly bribing the former Cuomo adviser in exchange for government favors, prosecutors and defense lawyers spent all day Tuesday giving closing arguments to a case that could have sweeping implications for its sister case — the Buffalo Billion trial expected to start in June in the same courtroom.

In another alleged scheme, Silver was accused of accepting bribes in exchange for enacting tax breaks that helped a Manhattan real estate firm.

NEW YORK, NY — Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that former New York State Senate Majority Leader DEAN SKELOS was sentenced today to five years in prison after having been found guilty by a federal jury of using his official position to obtain more than $ 300,000 in bribes and extortion payments that were paid to his son, ADAM SKELOS, in exchange for DEAN SKELOS's official acts.

Huntley pleaded guilty in January to embezzling $ 87,000 from a phantom charity and taking a $ 1,000 bribe from businessman Edul Ahmad, a law client of Sampson's, in exchange for helping him expand his business at JFK airport.

Singh has testified in the federal corruption trial of Edward Mangano and Venditto that he bribed them with meals on the house and other benefits in exchange for help securing county contracts and town - guaranteed loans.

Prosecutors have accused Percoco of receiving bribes masked as consulting fees in exchange for a favored contract to construct a power facility in the Hudson Valley.

«When you earn outside income in exchange for official action, it's a bribe,» said one of the prosecutors, Howard Master.

In exchange for their help and ponying up the bribe money, Smith is accused of promising to use his position in the senate to steer $ 500,000 in state funding to a development project in Spring Valley that the cooperating witness and the undercover agent claimed they were planning.

Silver was convicted on charges brought by Bharara's office of exchanging bribes for political favors.

«Peter Galbraith Kelly was involved in a criminal scheme to bribe one of the most powerful men in New York in exchange for favorable treatment for his energy company,» said U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman in a statement.

Percoco is on trial with three other defendants (who were Cuomo campaign contributors), accused of rigging lucrative public construction contracts in exchange for bribes.

Longtime Cuomo insider Percoco, 48, of South Salem in Westchester County, is accused of taking more than $ 300,000 in bribes set up by ex-lobbyist Howe from clients — co-defendants Peter Galbraith Kelly, an energy executive, and Syracuse developers Steve Aiello and Joe Gerardi — in exchange for official favors.

Mangano is accused of accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bribes from Singh — including a no - show job for his wife, Linda, who is a co-defendant — in exchange for official favors.

Percoco is accused of helping rig state construction contracts for Cuomo donors in exchange for bribes.

Singh of Syosset pleaded guilty in October 2016 to bribing Mangano and former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto and attempting to bribe de Blasio, to whom Singh said he directed campaign contributions in exchange for efforts to save the struggling Water's Edge.

The records came to light this week as part of an ongoing corruption trial in which Percoco is accused of helping rig state construction contracts for Cuomo donors in exchange for bribes.

Sources and records show Rechnitz became a cooperating witness for the feds after he was snared in yet another bribery case involving Norman Seabrook, the head of the city Correction Officers union, who allegedly received $ 65,000 in bribes in exchange for funneling $ 20 million in union funds into a hedge fund operated by a friend of Rechnitz's, according to sources and court documents.

Percoco is accused of using his state position to try to assist several businesses in exchange for thousands of dollars in bribes.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

He is accused of taking bribes from an energy company and real estate developer in exchange for state actions benefiting them.

Silver, 72, was convicted of taking millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks in exchange for various favors, including directing state grants to a particular doctor who passed on leads to him about potential law clients.

«Mr. Stevenson sold his most important responsibility as a lawmaker in exchange for thousands of dollars in bribes,» Jacobs said.

Silver, accused of using his position to influence real estate legislation and state funding in exchange for millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks, was convicted of corruption in November.

Percoco earlier this year was convicted of federal corruption charges that stemmed from efforts to secure economic development contracts in exchange for bribes and a low - show job for his wife.

A New York City police lieutenant and a detective took bribes from the owners of karaoke bars in Queens in exchange for advance warning of police inspections and raids, according to criminal complaints made public yesterday.

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.

1) Edward DiPrete, Republican of Rhode Island was indicted in 1994, along with his son, accused of taking close to $ 300,000 in bribes from contractors in exchange for state contracts.

Government officials are quickly washing their hands clean of indicted developer Aaron Malinsky, who was accused of bribing Brooklyn State Sen. Carl Kruger earlier this month in exchange for his support on two key projects.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has charged one of his closest confidantes, Joseph Percoco, with taking bribes from companies that contributed to the governor's campaign in exchange for getting state agencies to loosen up with subsidy dollars.

Aiello and Gerardi are accused of paying bribes to Joseph Percoco, who was a high - ranking aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in exchange for unspecified favors from Percoco.

His cooperation ultimately helped lead to the indictment of a fellow assemblyman from the Bronx, Eric Stevenson, who has been accused of accepting bribes in exchange for legislation that gave a competitive advantage to a business in his district.

«I believe he was guilty of taking bribes in exchange for setting up the meetings with the county chairs,» said the juror, a 26 - year - old man from Duchess County who was dismissed because he could no longer serve on the lengthy trial.

Yet when pressed specifically on the interwoven nature of the defendants actions — which include $ 322,000 in alleged bribes for Percoco in exchange for helping companies with business before the state — and those of Cuomo, Bharara refused to opine on what the governor may have known or been involved in.

A Manhattan federal jury found Silver guilty in November of abusing his power for more than a decade in exchange for bribes and kickbacks.

The bribes were in exchange for lucrative county contracts and $ 20 million in indirect loans guaranteed by amendments to his concession agreements with the Town of Oyster Bay, Singh said.

Singh, whose testimony dominated the first four weeks of the trial in Central Islip, said that he bribed Edward Mangano and Venditto in exchange for two county contracts and more than $ 20 million in town - guaranteed loans.

Singh, 59, of Laurel Hollow, pleaded guilty to bribing Mangano and Venditto in exchange for their help in securing hundreds of thousands of dollars in county contracts and more than $ 20 million in town - guaranteed loans.

Singh, 59, of Laurel Hollow, pleaded guilty to bribing Edward Mangano and Venditto in exchange for county contracts totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars and town - guaranteed loans totaling more than $ 20 million.