Sentences with phrase «feds charged»

NEW YORK CITY — Kristin Davis, the long - shot city comptroller candidate and former madam who claimed to have provided escorts for Eliot Spitzer, was arrested Monday for selling prescription pills, the feds charged Tuesday.

The feds charged him in 2006 for doling out state slush - fund money to Bronx charities and using the cash for his rent, credit card bills and Yankees tickets.

Eight months later, the feds charged him with steering $ 109,000 in government funds to a nonprofit and then using the money for his campaigns.

The feds charged Sampson with embezzlement for allegedly stealing $ 400,000 from a housing fund when he served as a court - appointed referee.

Alain Kaloyeros lost his job as president of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute (and as head of the boards of the two nonprofits) after the feds charged him in a bid - rigging scheme benefiting a major Cuomo donor.

Not exact matches

A political operative who wore a wire to help the feds bust Assemblyman Eric Stevenson on public corruption charges admitted he turned off the device at least once to receive oral sex from a prostitute.

The feds might be close to indicting Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. on mail fraud and other charges.

Because the men were not warned they were targets of the investigation, Aiello and Gerardi spent a combined 10 hours being interrogated and ended up charged with lying to the feds, their lawyers said.

The feds have argued he can be charged with bribery because he was a Cuomo campaign manager at the time and «continued to exercise State - related power and influence throughout the campaign period, even though he had no official State position.»

The feds last week arrested Liu fund - raiser Xing Wu «Oliver» Pan on fraud charges for allegedly using straw donors to hide a $ 16,000 contribution from an undercover agent that violated campaign - finance laws.

In fact, federal agencies were in charge of nuclear plants, so this vote was not technically binding on the feds.

«The feds, generally speaking, don't bother to charge you unless they are 110 percent sure of their proof.»

Correction Officers» union chief Norman Seabrook was busted by the feds Wednesday morning on corruption charges.

They also are charged with lying to the feds by denying they paid Percoco.

In exchange, the feds agreed not to prosecute Castro on perjury charges from 2009 stemming from statements he made under oath in an election fraud case.

Silver made more than $ 3.3 million from the scheme, the feds say, while Taub turned rat to avoid getting charged as a co-defendant and spent two days on the witness stand last week.

The state also paid out $ 7.9 million to pay a company whose leaders were charged by the feds with bid - rigging and corruption in the tainted Buffalo Billion, one of the projects.

The feds arrested Peralta last month, charging him with one count of wire fraud.

He never did get one, however, which might have had something to do with the fact that David Giffiths, his onetime law partner and campaign treasurer, was charged with perjury by the feds.

Although Bruno is fighting an attempt by the feds to re-try him on corruption charges, he still has a close relationship with a number of senators — particularly his hand - picked replacement, Sen. Roy McDonald, who switched his 2009 «no» vote to a «yes» this time around.

Last week, two police officials — Deputy Chief Michael Harrington and Deputy Inspector James Grant — were charged by the feds with taking tens of thousands of dollars from two businessmen with ties to Mayor Bill de Blasio in exchange for favors, according to Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.

Two other officers who worked in the License Division have also been charged by the feds with taking bribes to hand out gun permits to unqualified applicants.

The FBI probe began in 2008 and led to the indictment of Brooklyn lawyer and restaurant owner Michael Levites, who was charged on June 24 with lying to the feds.

Singh told jurors said he also pleaded guilty to bribing Mangano, John Venditto and former Oyster Bay deputy town attorney Fred Mei, who secretly pleaded guilty to corruption charges in 2015 as part of a cooperation deal with the feds.

ALBANY — Just as important as Monday's charges against Senate Majority leader Dean Skelos and his son was the revelation, in the newly unsealed complaint, that an executive with the state's top campaign donor is now cooperating with the feds.

The feds also intend to repeat their entire case at a new trial against Espada's son, Pedro Gautier Espada, who is charged with a total of eight counts of theft, embezzlement, conspiracy and other charges connected to his work at Soundview and the operation of related firms that provided contractual janitorial services to the health care chain, a source confirmed.

Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano seen leaving home; feds expected to charge him in corruption probe

Percoco's wife, Lisa Toscano - Percoco, and the governor's former director of state operations, Howard Glaser, both feature prominently in the feds» latest corruption case — even though neither has been charged.

Ciminelli executives Louis Ciminelli, Michael Laipple and Kevin Schuler, and COR execs Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi were also charged by the feds, as was Peter Galbraith Kelly Jr. of Competitive Power Ventures.

he feds» Albany corruption probe inched closer to Gov. Cuomo Thursday with the unsealing of charges against two of his most trusted former aides — who imitated «Sopranos» mobsters by using «ziti» a...

The feds» investigation of the then - Brooklyn assemblyman and Democratic power broker stretched for more than five years from 2007, but resulted in no charges.

Pedro Espada is already facing federal theft and embezzlement charges over his use of funds meant for his Soundview Health Clinics in the Bronx, but the feds didn't stop there.

Correction Officers» union chief Norman Seabrook was busted by the feds Wednesday morning on corruption charges in connection with a sweeping corruption probe focusing on the NYPD and City Hall, law enforcement sources said.

One of the donors being probed is Harendra Singh, a restaurant owner who has been cooperating with the feds after being slapped with bribery and tax - evasion charges.

Investigators have also been probing his relationship with restaurant owner Harendra Singh, who is facing bribery and tax - evasion charges and has been cooperating with the feds.

Speaking (again) of getting charged with a crime, the feds came down on Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto just a few weeks out from Election Day.

Molo suggested that Taub could also have been charged for initially denying to the feds that he had steered patients to Silver for legal representation.

The wife of a longtime Cuomo family confidant and the governor's former director of state operations both feature prominently in the feds» latest corruption case — even though neither has been charged.

Brooklyn Democrats have endorsed Assemblywoman Roxanne Persaud as their choice to replace Sampson, who had to forfeit his senate seat after a jury convicted him in July on charges of obstruction of justice and lying to the feds.

He was indicted in November 2016 after Howe confessed to his own corruption charges before going to work for the feds.

The feds are considering a hefty child pornography charge against disgraced ex-pol Anthony Weiner that could send him to prison for at least 15 years, law enforcement sources told The Post on Tuesday.

Good riddance to Brooklyn's Pamela Harris, who resigned Monday from the state Assembly three months after the feds indicted her on fraud charges.

But de Blasio must be truthful at the sit - down, which doesn't come with any protection of immunity, or he could face criminal charges for fibbing to the feds.

As agents took Smith and Halloran into custody, the feds raided the homes of Savino and Tabone, who were arrested on charges of wire fraud and bribery.

The feds also are getting help from restaurant owner Harendra Singh, who is facing bribery and tax - evasion charges.

The feds have also committed $ 2.4 billion for research and development into improving EV batteries, and another $ 115 million for the installation of EV charging infrastructure in 16 different metro areas around the country — not to mention some $ 300 million in clean cities grants to dozens of American communities working to reduce petroleum use, and the $ 25 billion being doled out to help U.S. automakers retool.

Health providers can not charge uninsured patients differently from insured patients, otherwise health insurances may complain to the feds, which in turn may charge the health providers with fraud for artificially inflating the medical bills.

States, feds target debt settlement legal firms over upfront fees — When the Federal Trade Commission banned upfront fees for debt settlement firms, a funny thing happened: More law firms suddenly began offering debt settlement services — and charging upfront fees... (See Debt settlement legal firms)

Earlier this month (five days before Freedman spoke those words), the feds spelled out the details of the long - running scheme in a follow - up indictment, charging that Rosales had never, as she claimed, represented the son of a mysterious anonymous collector.

The feds haven't charged Gibson with criminal circumvention of the Lacey Act and in the civil arena the legal wrangling continues regarding Gibson's attempt to prove the woods legal.