Sentences with phrase «exchange for kickbacks»

You allow each boss to run certain aspects of your territory in exchange for kickbacks in the form of cash, guns, cars, and upgrades.

Silver, who ran the Assembly for 20 years through five different governors, was accused of steering state grants and legislation in exchange for kickbacks disguised as legal referral fees.

U.S. District Attorney Preet Bharara's office claims the veteran lawmaker sold out to real estate interests in exchange for kickbacks from a real estate tax law firm.

Silver's conviction had rested on the premise that he had performed «official acts» in exchange for kickbacks in two bribery schemes, according to the decision.

Prosecutors say Percoco, Kaloyeros, the companies and Todd Howe — a former lobbyist with longtime ties to Cuomo and his father, the late Gov. Mario Cuomo — conspired to rig bids involving mega SUNY building projects in upstate New York in exchange for kickbacks and campaign contributions.

A cooperating witness in the case who had already pleaded guilty is lobbyist Todd Howe, who admitted orchestrating the bid - rigging of «Buffalo Billion» development initiatives in exchange for kickbacks.

Edward Mangano and Venditto are accused of illegally helping restaurateur Harendra Singh get $ 20 million in indirect loan guarantees and government contracts in exchange for kickbacks and a lucrative $ 450,000 no - show job for Linda Mangano.

At issue is whether Silver steered a grant to cancer research in exchange for kickbacks.

Venditto, Mangano and Mangano's wife, Linda, all have pleaded not guilty in an alleged bribery scheme in which the former elected officials are accused of illegally helping Singh get $ 20 million in indirect loan guarantees and government contracts in exchange for kickbacks and a $ 450,000 no - show job for Linda Mangano.

Silver, 74, is on trial for the second time in three years on charges that he sold the influence of his office in exchange for the kickbacks.

Did former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver sell his office in exchange for kickbacks and bribes, or simply make legitimate outside income that prosecutors just don't like?

Smith's lawyer, Marc Fernich, argued in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday that Smith shouldn't have been convicted because he only set up meetings in exchange for kickbacks, which doesn't constitute bribery under the Supreme Court's ruling in ex-Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's case.

You mean to tell me that you were on the school board and on the County Legislature where you were a proxy for many of the racists in Westchester that relocated all of the poor blacks from «Lilly White» areas to Mount Vernon in exchanged for kickbacks, but now that you can no longer trade favors, your «friends» have no more use for you?

Venditto, Mangano and Mangano's wife, Linda, have pleaded not guilty in an alleged bribery scheme in which the elected officials are accused of illegally helping Singh get $ 20 million in indirect loan guarantees and government contracts in exchange for kickbacks, and a $ 450,000 no - show job for Linda Mangano.

The decision is a setback for the New York attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, whose predecessor, Eliot Spitzer, began in 2004 an industrywide insurance investigation into claims that clients had been steered to favored insurers in exchange for kickbacks.

The bureau concluded that PHH referred borrowers to certain mortgage insurers in exchange for kickbacks.

A Boca Raton man has admitted in federal court that in exchange for kickbacks he referred criminal defendants from Miami - Dade state court to a Miami mental health clinic for unnecessary treatment, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Some crypto influencers have started offering «white paper as a service» to companies, and many shill endorsements in exchange for some kickback.