Sentences with phrase «for alleged payments»

The immediate past Managing Director (MD) of the Bulk Oil Storage Transportation (BOST), Kingsley Kwame Awuah - Darko, has rubbished media reports that, the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO), is on his heels for alleged payments and withdrawal of money from government's account.

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The lawsuits arose from alleged payments made by SNC - Lavalin to members, associates and agents of the Gadhafi regime to secure contracts for infrastructure projects in Libya.

Federal investigators wiretapped the phone lines of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer who is under investigation for a payment he made to Stormy Daniels, the adult - film actress who alleged she had an affair with Trump, NBC News reported Thursday.

Delta took an especially aggressive tack, suing three of its regional partners for what it alleged were performance issues, in each case withholding millions of dollars in payments it would have ordinarily owed.

Internet security expert Joseph Steinberg told CNBC that the criminals typically do not demand a big sum of money, instead preferring to get the payment right away and insisting that the person from whom the ransom is demanded stay on the phone with them for fear that if connection is established with the alleged victim, the scam will be exposed.

Cohen, Trump's personal attorney, is in the midst of a legal firestorm over the payment to Daniels, which was made in exchange for Daniels» silence about an alleged affair with Trump.

The secret payment to the porn actress to keep an alleged affair quiet was already a potential legal problem for Trump because it may have violated campaign finance laws.

But experts have long warned the greatest potential legal jeopardy for Donald Trump and his allies surrounds the $ 130,000 payment she received from Trump's longtime lawyer Michael Cohen 11 days before the election to keep silent about the alleged affair.

WASHINGTON — The lawsuit filed by adult film actress Stormy Daniels against President Trump bolsters claims that the $ 130,000 payment for her silence about an alleged affair likely violated federal election laws, campaign - finance watchdogs said Wednesday.

Trump is already facing a complaint from the watchdog group Common Cause, which argues that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's payment of $ 130,000 to Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump may have been an illegal campaign contribution.

Now, the Common Cause watchdog group wants the Justice Department, the Federal Election Commission and Congress to investigate a $ 130,000 payment that President Trump's lawyer is alleged to have arranged weeks before the 2016 election for a former porn actress in an attempt to cover up her purported affair with Trump.

Rudy Giuliani's revelation that President Donald Trump reimbursed his personal attorney for a $ 130,000 payment to a porn star to keep her quiet about an alleged affair is raising new legal questions, including...

In the second set of proceedings, the ACCC alleged that in 2011 Coles pursued some suppliers for a variety of payments, including payments for «profit gaps», waste and fines or penalties for alleged short or late deliveries by suppliers.

The ACCC alleges Coles ran an «orchestrated and organised» campaign to boost its earnings by demanding payments from tier 3 suppliers as a rebate for the supermarket group improving its supply chain.

America had come to the merciful end of an off - season filled with grim headlines: from the epic corruption of ex — Fiesta Bowl chairman John Junker to the serial lies of ex — Ohio State coach Jim Tressel to the firing of coach Butch Davis at North Carolina (for presiding, albeit unknowingly, over academic fraud, among other sins) to Oregon's $ 25,000 payment to an alleged «street agent.»

Pitino was first placed on administrative leave, then fired by Louisville on Oct. 16 amid an FBI investigation involving corruption and alleged illegal payments to recruit Brian Bowen, who was cleared by the FBI but will not play for the Cardinals this season.

In the ongoing corruption scandal embroiling college basketball for months, federal prosecutors in New York added charges on Tuesday against a former Adidas rep, Jim Gatto, which allege payments to families of players at four universities.

It is alleged that she failed to complete interest payments accrued on the purchase price in the acquisition of the cannery and for that matter they caused financial loss to the state.

Attorneys general for the District of Columbia and the state of Maryland say they will sue President Trump today, alleging that he has violated anti-corruption clauses in the Constitution by accepting millions in payments and benefits from foreign governments since moving into the White House.

They had sued the Auditor General over audit reports alleging corruption cover up, taken the Smarttys re-spraying and branding of 116 new buses for the Ministry of Transport crying corruption in the payment to the private company owned by Selassie Ibrahim for the work done and paid for by the state.

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.

At the time of the meeting, Cohen was under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in New York, who still are probing a $ 130,000 payment Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump.»

Cohen has also come under legal scrutiny for large payments he received for consulting services after Trump's inauguration, as well as for a payment he made to Stormy Daniels, an adult - film star alleging an affair with Trump, as part of a nondisclosure agreement.

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.

Cohen is under federal criminal investigation for, among other things, a $ 130,000 payment to the porn star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with President Trump in 2006.

In the summer of 2014, when Percoco resigned from state government and worked as Cuomo's campaign manager, prosecutors allege he took $ 35,000 in payments from Syracuse - based commercial real estate firm COR Development, in exchange for helping COR Development avoid red tape with its projects in Syracuse and its surrounding suburbs.

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.

The 14 - count indictment largely re-established what was already alleged in September's complaint; primarily that Kaloyeros and lobbyist Todd Howe, now a key witness, conspired to rig coveted state contracts for LPCiminelli and COR development companies in exchange for payments.

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.

Prosecutors allege that Skelos did political favors for AbTech Industries, an Arizona environmental company, and Glenwood Management, a large New York developer, in exchange for payments to himself and his son.

Prosecutors alleged that the elder Skelos traded his influence for payments from a real estate firm and environmental technology company that went to his son, Adam Skelos.

Ohakim who was arraigned on Wednesday, July 8, 2015 on a three - count charge bordering on money laundering is alleged to have made a cash payment of $ 2, 290,000.00 (Two Million, Two Hundred and Ninety Thousand Dollars), for a piece of land at Plot No. 1098 Cadastral Zone A04, Asokoro District, otherwise known as No. 60, Kwame Nkurumah Street, Asokoro, Abuja.

Michael Cohen, a lawyer for the president, reportedly arranged a $ 130,000 payment to a former adult - film star a month before the 2016 election as part of an agreement that precluded her from publicly discussing an alleged sexual encounter with Trump.

The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, had arranged a $ 130,000 payment to Clifford for her to remain quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump.

In another aspect of the alleged schemes, officials at COR Development paid tens of thousands of dollars to Percoco — using Howe as a pass - through to conceal the payments — in exchange for official favors that included reversing a state decision that would have forced the company to enter into a costly «labor peace agreement»; freeing up a backlog of state funds that had been promised to the developer; and securing a $ 5,000 raise for Steven L. Aiello, the son of COR president Steven F. Aiello.

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.

In addition to eliciting testimony from two current teachers with the education program who «have always been paid substantially less than what Percoco's wife was paid for performing similar work,» the government will likely seek to undercut the notion that the payments were bonafide by citing alleged efforts at concealment.

The audit alleges that the City of Kingston made $ 23,000 in improper payments to employees for unearned leave time.

The former deputy prime minister, who condemned the global investment bank in 2010 for alleged «recklessness and greed», listed the payment in the latest entry for the Commons register of members» interests.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that his lawyer Michael Cohen was reimbursed for a payment Mr. Cohen made to former porn actress Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump.

The prosecution alleges that Mr. Silver steered state grants to mesothelioma research to Columbia University and New York Presbyterian Hospital in exchange for a doctor there, Dr. Robert Taub, referring patients to a law firm that sues on behalf of such patients, Weitz & Luxenberg, where Mr. Silver was of counsel and received lucrative payments for referring clients with asbestos cases.

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.

For example, my article alleged that the Akwa Ibom State Government was wasting resources on irrelevances instead of handling basic issues such as payment of salaries of doctors in the state.

This month alone, she mocked de Blasio's unfulfilled pledge to ban horse carriages and his national travel before a jeering audience at a Manhattan Institute dinner, called out chancellor Carmen Fariña for declining her invitations to visit a Success school and criticized the administration for alleged late payments to her schools.

NUPENG had alleged that the N224 million was for payment for the supply of diesel and kerosene to the State Government for execution of direct labour projects in Ojodu between October 2014 and May 2015.

It was alleged that the GOP officials arranged a no - show job for Ortt's wife, Meghan, with payments from the Niagara County Republican Committee, totaling $ 21,500, being made through Buffalo - area public relations firm Synor Marketing, for which Meghan Ortt was on advance retainer for graphic design work.

President Donald Trump said his lawyer Michael Cohen was reimbursed for a payment Mr. Cohen made to Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that his lawyer Michael Cohen was reimbursed for a payment Mr. Cohen made to Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump.

The payment came to light after Silver had disclosed that Lopez had been censured by the Assembly Ethics Committee for two more instances of alleged sexual harassment.

A prosecutor in the case, Jason A. Masimore, then questioned him about legislation that the government has alleged was part of three schemes under which Senator Skelos used his position to obtain more than $ 300,000 in payments for his son.