Sentences with phrase «in bribe money»

One wonders how much it cost Aston Martin in bribe money to get this monster sound machine through the tough European Commission approval process.

Smith agreed to steer $ 500,000 in state transportation money to an upstate project in exchange for the bribes paid on his behalf, according to the complaint, and in total Halloran allegedly accepted upward of $ 60,000 in bribe money while Tabone pocketed $ 25,000, prosecutors allege.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office also said the hefty suggestion stemmed from «the many egregious aspects of the defendant's crimes — including Silver's role as a high - level public official, his engagement in multiple corrupt schemes, the millions of dollars in bribe money Silver took in, and his laundering of his crime proceeds.»

Not exact matches

The U.S. says the money originated from a Swiss account controlled by Burzaco, part of what the businessman testified were the millions of dollars in bribes he paid to officials, including Marin, for the broadcasting rights to the Centennial tournament and another in Brazil.

A large number of North Koreans resort to bribing officials to have their documents approved, which means a passport can cost up to $ 3,000 — a sum of money most can only dream of in a country where widespread poverty is regularly reported.

The National recently featured a 17 - minute report by Lang on private security firms in Afghanistan using NATO money to bribe insurgents, a topic with only the most tangential link to her beat.

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Our question is: One man in how many, after receiving a bribe for the betrayal of a friend, had returned the money, had it refused, had thrown it on the floor in the house of the Lord, and then had it used to purchase a field from the potter?

That tactic doesn't resound in a decadent society like ours so you have to bribe young people with money for college.

I had to bribe my son with money in his piggy bank to get a few of the pictures I took of him, though, as he is becoming more self - aware these days.

Swanberg, who is retired and lives in Panama City, Fla., pleaded guilty to funneling about $ 29,000 in bribes to Pfeiffer from boat owners and keeping $ 6,000 of the money...

The money was spent on transporting and entertaining electors and, in some cases, bribing them directly.

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.

As the jury unanimously found, Daniel Halloran played a key role in two distinct political corruption schemes: first, for $ 20,000, Halloran was willing and able to serve as a go - between to deliver bribes to political party officials, and second he also took nearly $ 25,000 in cash and illegal campaign contributions to steer $ 80,000 in City Council money to other bribe payers.»

Whereas, the Cronje affair in cricket was partly because of the relative lack of money in the game - how little he could be bribed for - and of course the sheer pointlessness of even the proper (non-stanford) one day game.

The scandal is a hit parade of corruption issues involving money, politics and bribes in exchange for public spending.

They checked off more than a dozen potential witnesses, including Lisa Percoco — who prosecutors allege was the direct recipient of more than $ 300,000 in alleged bribe money intended to influence her husband.

Percoco is accused of accepting bribe money from an energy company executive, through a «low - show» job for his wife in the company's education outreach program.

The money was used to construct NDC headquarters, bribe some people to become NDC radio phone - in serial callers to throw dust into people's eyes, to purchase the minds and votes of some Ghanaians and to induce Dr Kwadwo Afari Gyan and others to pave the way for NDC to win the election.

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Mr Ayariga, who is a member of the Appointments Committee, told Radio Gold in an interview that the Minority MPs rejected the GHS3000 each which was enveloped for them when they later found out that the money was coming from Mr Agyarko as a bribe.

In exchange for their help and ponying up the bribe money, Smith is accused of promising to use his position in the senate to steer $ 500,000 in state funding to a development project in Spring Valley that the cooperating witness and the undercover agent claimed they were planninIn exchange for their help and ponying up the bribe money, Smith is accused of promising to use his position in the senate to steer $ 500,000 in state funding to a development project in Spring Valley that the cooperating witness and the undercover agent claimed they were planninin the senate to steer $ 500,000 in state funding to a development project in Spring Valley that the cooperating witness and the undercover agent claimed they were planninin state funding to a development project in Spring Valley that the cooperating witness and the undercover agent claimed they were planninin Spring Valley that the cooperating witness and the undercover agent claimed they were planning.

NEW YORK (AP)-- A prosecutor says New York's former assembly speaker took millions of dollars in kickbacks, but his lawyer insists the money wasn't a bribe.

A senior official of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ishaq Salihu, has told a Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt that a former Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Mr. Robert Obuoha, offered him a bribe of N150, 000 and told him to use the money in buying recharge cards.

«As the jury unanimously found, Daniel Halloran played a key role in two distinct political corruption schemes: first, for $ 20,000, Halloran was willing and able to serve as a go - between to deliver bribes to political party officials, and second he also took nearly $ 25,000 in cash and illegal campaign contributions to steer $ 80,000 in City Council money to other bribe payers,» Mr. Bharara said in a statement.

Furthermore, our legislators play favorites to some groups by using «member items,» which are nothing more than legalized bribes, to grant money to for specific voter groups in their home districts.

NEW YORK (WBEN / AP)-- A federal prosecutor told a jury Tuesday that a former top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo accepted more than $ 300,000 in bribes, but defense attorneys belittled the claim, saying the bulk of the money was his wife's salary at a legitimate job.

In emails, Howe and Percoco refered to the alleged bribe money as «ziti,» just like the characters on the «The Sopranos» did.

The Democrat automatically lost his Assembly seat Monday when he was convicted on charges of corruption, extortion, money laundering and collecting nearly $ 4 million in kickbacks and bribes.

So in your eyes it is perfectly acceptable for Flanagan to give away public money for no work — as long as he only gives it away to his Republican friends and those other Senators he wants to bribe to support the Republican conference positions?

Misau, in a series of interviews with newsmen, accused the Inspector General of Police of taking bribe to post police officers as well as diverting for personal use money paid by private companies for police duties.

Some of the money was referred to as «bribes and kickbacks» in a criminal complaint filed on Thursday.

Earlier in the day, former State Assemblyman William Boyland was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for taking bribes and stealing public money, the latest state legislator sent to prison.

Joseph Percoco, who served as the insider among insiders to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, was convicted today of three felony counts for his role in a bribery scheme in which corporate interests got special attention before Cuomo's administration in return for more a steady flow of bribe money paid into Percoco's personal bank account.

As his money problems mounted, Singh allegedly bribed Oyster Bay officials to guarantee millions of dollars in loans that prosecutors said were used for operating expenses of other businesses rather than the capital expenses at town facilities for which they were intended.

In the last two weeks we've seen him take credit for Cabrera saving the senior centers, bribe people with food to get signatures, and now waste member item money that could have helped the community he so vehemently professes to serve.

A little more than three months ago the defendant in question was a Democrat, Shelly Silver, accused of taking bribes and kickbacks of $ 4 million, some of the money being listed as «referral fees» for steering asbestos cases and real - estate developers to Silver - connected law firms.

Those were the two narratives presented to jurors today in the Manhattan federal courthouse where Mr. Silver, still an assemblyman and once among the three most powerful men in the state, is standing trial on charges of honest services fraud, extortion and money laundering for allegedly taking more than $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks.

Your parents betrayed us (Ghanaians) by taking cheap bribes to overthrow our first president, stall our development and wasted our monies to educate you (Nana Addo) in Oxford only to go & smoke weed to get yourself dismissed.

Seabrook was arrested on fraud charges last week, accused of accepting a $ 60,000 bribe — reportedly delivered by Jona Rechnitz, a de Blasio donor at the center of a gift - for - favors scandal in the NYPD — in exchange for investing COBA money into a risky hedge fund.

Mahama Ayariga in an interview on the Big Issue insisted that an attempt was made to bribe the members of the committee but he returned the money after gathering the source of the money was Mr Agyarko.

Referee Thomas Jones (not his real name), who was caught on tape taking money to influence the outcome of a tough match said he was innocent if he was captured receiving bribe from Anas in particular but conceded he received...

Outside, 16 protesters stood in the rain at the edge of the hotel parking lot holding signs and banners that said: «Felon Joe Fundraiser,» «Bribes Accepted,» and «Money Out Of Politics.»

A former top manager for the state retirement fund accepted bribes ranging from money to pay for drugs, prostitutes, exotic watches, Paul McCartney concert tickets and a Utah ski trip in exchange for steering $ 2 billion in investments to a pair of Wall Street broker - dealers, federal officials said Wednesday.

A national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has accused president Goodluck Jonathan of using money meant to insure the lives of security men, especially those fighting Boko Haram in the North Eastern part of the country to bribe Nigerians for his reelection.

In an interview, Ms. Meng appeared crestfallen by the charges against her father, who is accused of soliciting $ 80,000 from a friend facing criminal charges and of claiming he could use the money to bribe prosecutors.

Friday's developments in the Buffalo Billion case follow the March conviction of Joseph Percoco, Cuomo's longtime friend and confidant who was found guilty of three felony counts for his role in a bribery scheme in which corporate interests got special attention in return for a steady flow of bribe money paid into Percoco's personal bank account.

And there are the 2018 trials: the corruption re-trials of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos; the pay - to - play trial in June involving Buffalo Billion and other Cuomo administration economic development programs in upstate, and the recently concluded trial in which Joseph Percoco, a longtime confidante of Cuomo, was found guilty in a scheme of trading bribes for state action for those business executives giving him money.

Through Howe, Bharara has obtained countless incriminating emails, in which Percoco and the operative refer to bundles of bribe money as «ziti,» in the style of The Sopranos.

Yesterday, the F.B.I. arrested Councilman Dan Halloran and State Senator Malcolm Smith for allegedly attempting to bribe Republican party officials and also, in the case of Halloran, planning to redirect City Council member items to an undercover agent posing as a real estate developer in exchange for money.