Sentences with phrase «illegal quid pro quo»

Marketing Arrangements — Most recently, the CFPB published an order against Lighthouse Title (Lighthouse), a Michigan title insurance agency, to pay $ 200,000 for illegal quid pro quo referral agreements.
The same could not be said for the renowned cancer researcher who got $ 500,000 in shady grants that prosecutors said Silver funneled to him in an illegal quid pro quo.
Zhou, using charts on display in the courtroom, went through the government's case that Percoco allegedly engaged in an illegal quid pro quo.
Relatives of an asbestos - cancer victim steered to former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's law firm in what the feds called an «illegal quid pro quo» say the disgraceful deal - making cheated them...
There, the high court said that a politician simply setting up a meeting or taking a call with someone isn't an official act that would amount to an illegal quid pro quo.
And some members of the Legislature took their criticisms further, charging that promises Cuomo's appointees made of a salary bump in exchange for limits on lawmakers» outside income crossed the line into an illegal quid pro quo.
Dick Dadey, head of the watchdog group Citizens Union, said that while it wasn't against the law for de Blasio to assist his bundlers and other supporters — unless he engaged in an illegal quid pro quo — «they shouldn't have any more access to him than the average New Yorker.»
In Assemblyman Sheldon Silver's corruption case, in which no witness testified directly to knowledge of an illegal quid pro quo, how Judge Valerie Caproni tells jurors to interpret the evidence as it relates to the law could sway deliberations.
Relatives of an asbestos - cancer victim steered to former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's law firm in what the feds called an «illegal quid pro quo» say the disgraceful deal - making cheated them out of a rightful settlement.
It rode the Sheldon Silver gravy train for years, reaping a steady stream of asbestos - litigation clients from referrals fed to him in an illegal quid pro quo, but since the former Assembly speaker's January arrest, the law firm of Weitz & Luxenberg has seen a 17 percent drop in new cases, The Post has learned.
The NYPD called in the feds on that case, which eventually led to Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg — who are suspected of giving gifts to high - ranking cops as part of an illegal quid pro quo, according to sources.
«Jurors might think that the underlying proof is suspect» because Taub gave Silver patients as part of an illegal quid pro quo, the second lawyer said.
Prosecutors argued that this amounted to an illegal quid pro quo for Silver, who the government said steered hundreds of thousands of dollars in state research grants to Taub to keep the patients coming — something the prosecution noted Silver never publicized, allegedly because he wanted to keep attention away from the illicit arrangement.
The feds say that arrangement was part of an illegal quid pro quo in which Silver funneled $ 500,000 in taxpayer - funded research grants to Taub, who is avoiding prosecution by agreeing to testify against the Manhattan Democrat.
The testimony from the firm's co-founder, Perry Weitz, came just before the prosecution's star witness, Dr. Robert Taub, took the stand Wednesday to spill the beans on the arrangement he had with Silver — testifying in detail about what prosecutors call the «illegal quid pro quo» and alleged coverup that let Silver line his pockets with $ 3 million from the asbestos - litigation firm.
The feds say Columbia University cancer doctor Robert Taub steered patients to Silver as part of an illegal quid pro quo in which Silver funneled Taub $ 500,000 in taxpayer - funded research grants.
In a case in which no witness testified directly to knowledge of an illegal quid pro quo, how Judge Valerie E. Caproni tells jurors to interpret the evidence as it relates to the law could sway deliberations — a fact certainly not lost on the government or the defense.
One source explained that «police culture» often involved doing favors that don't necessarily involve an illegal quid pro quo.
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