Sentences with phrase «for alleged bribes»

Todd Howe, a fixture in Cuomo's life since the mid-1980s, said he funneled «ziti» — a code name they used for alleged bribes — to Joseph Percoco as part of an alleged plan to use Percoco's influence with the Cuomo administration help a firm building a downstate energy plant and a Syracuse development company.

NEW YORK CITY — Two Syracuse developers facing charges in a six - week long corruption trial say they have innocent explanations for their alleged bribes.

Boone also signaled that the government in its case will highlight Percoco and Howe's use of the word «ziti» as code for alleged bribes, a term he says they took from the TV series about the mob «The Sopranos».

In regard to an arrangement to pay Percoco through a shell company for alleged bribes from Cor Development, he said, «In retrospect I never should have.»

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She settled one lawsuit brought by a fashion designer for a reported $ 430,000, and has since been sued by a former lawyer after alleging the attorney had accepted a bribe.

March 15 — Having bowed to global pressure and finally banned former Brazilian FA boss Marco Polo Del Nero for 90 days, FIFA's ethics committee has extended the suspension for a further 45 days while it continues to investigate his alleged role in taking bribes.

On Oman Fm's Boiling Point on Thursday, he alleged that a number of appointees at the seat of government are making filthy money indicating that some persons are demanding bribes in return for jobs.

Ricardo Morales, a former top New York City official, sued Mayor Bill de Blasio for more than $ 5 million, saying he was illegally fired for blowing the whistle on alleged City Hall corruption and refusing to help restaurateur Harendra Singh, who admitted to bribing the mayor.

Prosecutors allege developers paid «bribes» to Howe that «were purported to be consultancy payments and bonuses but which were in fact payments for Howe's actions in his capacity as an agent» of SUNY Poly, who had «substantial control» over its projects.

They also vacationed together — trips authorities allege Singh paid for as some of the «bribes and kickbacks.»

Prosecutors allege that Venditto and Mangano conspired with Singh to have the town back Singh loans in return for kickbacks and bribes.

Yesterday, we wrote about Shafran's role in excuse - making for the corrupt and dysfunctional legislature up in Albany, but what wasn't discussed is that Shafran also worked as the goto political spinmaster for Senator Malcolm Smith — the same Senator that was arrested in a statewide FBI corruption probe that alleges he attempted to rig the Mayoral election through fraud and bribes early this morning.

The «Venditto's Bribes» slide alleged that Venditto received $ 11,370.38 in limo rides for himself and his family and friends; free use of Singh's conference room and free meals for himself and his family; free or discounted political events at Singh's restaurants for himself and his son, Michael Venditto; and $ 30,000 annually for the supervisor's golf event, which was financed by Singh.

Percoco, Aiello and Gerardi and are on trial in U.S. District Court in Manhattan along with energy company executive Peter Galbraith Kelly, who is alleged to have bribed Percoco by securing what prosecutors have termed a «low - show» corporate education job for his wife, a former schoolteacher.

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

Agnifilo of Manhattan contrasted the bribes that Mei pleaded guilty to accepting from Singh — multiple overseas vacations to South Korea and India and $ 1,000 monthly lease payments for a convertible BMW — with Venditto's alleged benefits, which included «discounted» limo rides and the use of a conference room in the basement of one of Singh's restaurants.

Howe has already pleaded guilty to several felonies related to his alleged role as a conduit for bribes and is cooperating with prosecutors.

Prosecutors allege Percoco got the energy company to allegedly hire his wife, Lisa Percoco, for a job as a consultant for $ 90,000 a year and that the Cor officials allegedly bribed him with $ 35,000 in payments in 2014 during a period when he stepped down for eight months from his state job to run Cuomo's re-election campaign.

Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York allege that Percoco took bribes from CPV officials for help in seeking a price guarantee for the 680 megawatts of power the plant is expected to generate.

In the phone call that day in 2016, Percoco talked about a job his wife had gotten with an energy company — a post prosecutors have called a job in return for nearly $ 300,000 in what they allege amounted to alleged bribe payments to Percoco, allegedly in return for official government favors.

Afeez Hanafi Some suspects arrested for engaging in cult activities at Jakande, Lagos State, have accused the police of collecting bribes to release their alleged accomplices.

Prosecutors alleged Percoco turned to bribes as a way to pay for rising personal costs, driven in part by a move from a modest Staten Island neighborhood to a larger home in an upscale town in Westchester County near where Cuomo lives in the house of his girlfriend, Sandra Lee.

With ethics troubles of his own (he's been accused of taking bribes to pay his legal bills for another alleged scandal), William Boyland Jr. is being forced to fend off a gaggle of challengers, including Roy Antoine, Anthony Herbert, Anthony Jones, David Miller, Nathan Bradley and Christopher Durosinmi.

It also alleged that Yunusa collected N1.5 million bribe from Tarfa for the purpose of giving favourable rulings and judgments in the cases.

In one of three alleged schemes, prosecutors said that the two men solicited bribes from Charles Dorego, a real estate executive at Glenwood Management, who directed $ 20,000 check for title insurance work to the younger Skelos, at a time when the company was lobbying for housing and rent - related legislation that was crucial to its business.

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.

The charges come just days after state Sen. Malcolm Smith was charged in a wide - ranging corruption scam that alleges he tried to bribe his way on to the Republican ballot for mayor.

Federal prosecutors allege that in return for a bribe Cuomo aide Joe Percoco helped Cor Development avoid a costly state mandate prior to construction of a parking lot near the Aloft hotel at the Inner Harbor.

Last week, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced his office, working with the FBI, had brought charges against state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D - Hollis), City Councilman Dan Halloran (R - Whitestone) and Queens Republican Party Vice Chairman Vince Tabone, alleging they had orchestrated a plot to bribe Smith's way onto the GOP ticket in the race for mayor.

The first corruption trial, likely to begin later this month, involves former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco and three business executives, and will focus on alleged bribes paid to Percoco in exchange for government favors.

Let the NPP continue to make noise about the alleged bribe, the people who are benefiting from the road will act accordingly by voting for the NDC come December 7.»

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Records show Stevenson was due $ 8,986 in non-session travel, around the same time a federal criminal complaint alleges he was accepting bribes in exchange for introducing a bill that would have allowed developers to corner the market on an adult day care center.

The call for the hearings, of course, comes in the wake of the arrest of erstwhile IDC member Sen. Malcolm Smith, D - Queens, in an alleged scheme to bribe his way onto the New York City mayoral ballot on the GOP line.

The complaint alleges that Howe arranged for more than $ 315,000 in bribe payments to go to Percoco and his wife, Lisa Toscano - Percoco, who is not named in the complaint.

Percoco was charged with the following felonies: conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right; extortion under color of official right; two counts of conspiracy to commit honest - services wire fraud related to alleged bribes from two companies; and solicitation of bribes or gratuities from the two companies that allegedly paid him more than $ 300,000 between 2012 and early 2015, when he last left Cuomo's office for good.

Prosecutors want to present evidence of Smith's alleged payoffs at his upcoming corruption trial, where he's accused of trying to bribe city Republican leaders to get on the GOP line for mayor last year.

Howe and Percoco repeatedly referred to the alleged bribe money as «ziti,» the complaint says — a code word for money apparently lifted from an episode of HBO's mafia drama «The Sopranos,» Bharara said.

The 35 - page criminal complaint alleges that Silver, a lawyer, used «the power and influence of his official position to obtain for himself millions of dollars of bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income.»

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.

The indictment alleged that they plotted to solicit bribes for state assistance and to rig economic development contracts for companies that contributed to Cuomo's campaigns in a pair of interlinked schemes.

Prosecutors allege that Venditto and Mangano, who have pleaded not guilty, conspired with Singh to have Oyster Bay back Singh loans in return for kickbacks and bribes.

State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son were arrested Monday by federal authorities, who alleged the state's top Republican extorted bribes and campaign contributions from companies in exchange for steering key real estate legislation and rigging a lucrative Nassau County environmental contract to his son's benefit.

His record, however, includes the indictment of former State Senator Malcolm Smith and the conviction of former Councilman Dan Halloran for an alleged scheme to bribe Mr. Smith's way onto the 2013 ballot for mayor.

Naturally, the word «ziti» — the euphemism borrowed from The Sopranos to describe the alleged bribes to Percoco as payments to his wife for what prosecutors say was a «low - show» job — was tossed around in court on Tuesday.

Savino and Tabone were both part of a criminal complaint that alleged that accepted thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for endorsing Smith's run on the Republican line by signing the waiver known as a Wilson - Pakula.

An array of figures from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's inner circle — including a confidante so close the governor called him «my father's third son» — got slapped with a sweeping 14 - count federal indictment today, which alleges they colluded in a pair of schemes to solicit bribes for state assistance and to rig economic development contracts for companies that gave to Cuomo's campaigns.

Defense lawyers for hedge funder Murray Huberfeld — accused of paying ex-NYC prison guards» union head Norman Seabrook illegal bribes — demanded an «evidentiary hearing» to suss out Rechnitz's role in Nissen's alleged Ponzi scheme.

Percoco, who left state government in Jan. 2016, is alleged to have taken bribes from an energy company and real - estate developer in exchange for state actions benefitting them.

A 35 - page criminal complaint filed by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office lays out his alleged scheme where Silver «used the power and influence of his official position to obtain for himself millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income earned by Silver as a private lawyer.»