Sentences with phrase «in bribe payments»

Developer Aaron Malinsky came under fire in 2011 and was indicted for allegedly making $ 500,000 in bribe payments to state Sen. Carl Kruger, who stepped in to push forward several major developments, one of which was Canarsie Plaza, but was cleared.

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.

According to the complaint, in exchange for $ 35,000 in bribe payments to Percoco from COR executives Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi (through an LLC set up by Howe), Percoco took official actions that benefitted COR Development, including helping to resolve an issue with the state's top economic development agency relating to a potentially costly labor agreement.

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To top off its challenges, the company announced in September that it was looking into certain eyebrow - raising payments made by its employees to various foreign government officials as they could have constituted illegal bribes.

In April 2006, executives from Cryptometrics and its American parent met with Mr. Karigar and his associates to openly discuss the payment of bribes, and Mr. Karigar shortly thereafter provided Cryptometrics with a spreadsheet listing Air India officials and how much each official would be bribed with money and in Cryptometrics shareIn April 2006, executives from Cryptometrics and its American parent met with Mr. Karigar and his associates to openly discuss the payment of bribes, and Mr. Karigar shortly thereafter provided Cryptometrics with a spreadsheet listing Air India officials and how much each official would be bribed with money and in Cryptometrics sharein Cryptometrics shares.

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.

In 2008, former Democratic congressional candidate Jack Davis apologized for $ 10,000 in payments he made to the wives of Western New York's most influential Independence Party leaders that critics called «bribes.&raquIn 2008, former Democratic congressional candidate Jack Davis apologized for $ 10,000 in payments he made to the wives of Western New York's most influential Independence Party leaders that critics called «bribes.&raquin payments he made to the wives of Western New York's most influential Independence Party leaders that critics called «bribes.»

Mei, who was charged with accepting $ 50,000 and cash payments for a luxury car lease from Singh, secretly pleaded guilty in September 2015 to receiving «bribes and kickbacks» for helping Singh secure the loan guarantees, according to an indictment unsealed last week.

NEW YORK, NY — Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that former New York State Senate Majority Leader DEAN SKELOS was sentenced today to five years in prison after having been found guilty by a federal jury of using his official position to obtain more than $ 300,000 in bribes and extortion payments that were paid to his son, ADAM SKELOS, in exchange for DEAN SKELOS's official acts.

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.

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.

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 favorIn 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 favorin 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 favorin return for nearly $ 300,000 in what they allege amounted to alleged bribe payments to Percoco, allegedly in return for official government favorin what they allege amounted to alleged bribe payments to Percoco, allegedly in return for official government favorin return for official government favors.

An official from an energy company linked to alleged bribes of nearly $ 300,000 paid to former Andrew Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco through his wife testified in Manhattan federal court Thursday that the payments were suspicious from the start.

The complaint accuses Kelly of distributing more than $ 750,000 in bribes — $ 474,000 to a lobbyist who acted essentially as a conduit for illegal payments and another $ 287,000 to Joseph Percoco, who is described as Cuomo's «right - hand man.»

Mei, 58, of Bayville, is cooperating with prosecutors after pleading guilty to accepting bribes from Singh, including $ 50,000 in checks made out to cash, a trip to South Korea and cash payments to cover a $ 36,000 BMW lease.

Halloran negotiated for $ 110,000 in bribes to be paid out to three city GOP leaders through the mayoral - race - fixing scheme, and he sought another $ 75,000 in payments for himself, the feds say.

The other defendants are Steve Aiello and Joseph Gerardi, executives with the Syracuse - based COR real estate development company, who are accused of bribing Percoco with $ 35,000 in payments to his wife through former lobbyist Todd Howe, the government's star witness.

Silver, who ruled the Legislature with an iron fist for the past two decades, was charged with taking bribes and kickbacks, using his office to obtain nearly $ 4 million in corrupt payments from two law firms over the past 15 years.

However, if that approval was preceded by payments from Russian interests to high US government officials who directed or influenced that approval, or payments to the spouses of those officials, or payments to that official's private charity, then it becomes a case of those officials accepting bribes and using their considerable power in their own financial and political interests instead of the interests of the US citizens.

«Taking into account the fact that nine out of every 10 bribes paid into public officials in Nigeria are paid in cash and the size of the payment made, it is estimated that the total amount of bribes paid to public officials in Nigeria in the 12 months prior to the survey was around N400 billion, the equivalent of $ 4.6 billion in purchasing power parity (PPP).

Prosecutors tried to show that millions of dollars Silver received in legal fees and other payments were bribes and kickbacks for favors he did for a cancer researcher and real estate developers.

Prosecutors say the payments were a bribe because Percoco, at the same time, was using his top position with Cuomo to assist Kelly's firm, Competitive Power Ventures, weave its way through the state bureaucracy to build a power plant in the lower Hudson Valley.

He's accused of accepting more than $ 315,000 in bribes, including payments from a «low - show,» $ 7,500 - a-month job for his wife at Competitive Power Ventures, which was pursuing a plan to build a $ 900 million power plant in Orange County, as well as the New Jersey energy plant.

The second, payment of bribes, holds up to 10 years in prison and a $ 250,000 fine.

Mei, 58, of Bayville, pleaded guilty in 2015 to honest - services fraud for accepting bribes from Singh, who gave him $ 50,000 in checks made out to cash, trips to South Korea and Italy and cash payments for a $ 36,000 BMW lease.

Silver turned himself in to federal authorities on Thursday to face charges that he illegally took millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks over the past 12 years, disguised as legitimate payments from two law firms.

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.

Prosecutors say Toledo received the bribes in 18 payments from 2006 to 2010.

Prosecutors argued that the recommendations, which followed federal guidelines, were appropriate considering the volume of wrongdoing, pointing to the three separate schemes for which the pair was convicted, which resulted in $ 334,000 worth of» extortion payments, bribes, and gratuities.»

Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is on trial accused of accepting more than $ 300,000 in bribes from upstate business developers — payments referred to as «ziti» in communications between Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe, the prosecution's a star witness who testified that the term was borrowed from the former HBO mob drama.

The man who is facing federal corruption charges for allegedly accepting payments and bribes for maintenance work he claimed was performed on Rockland County's BOCES buses appeared at federal court in White Plains Friday.

Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is accused of accepting more than $ 300,000 in bribes from upstate developers — payments referred to as «ziti» in communications between Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe, the prosecution's star witness who testified that the term was borrowed from the former HBO mob drama.

A year later, in 2014, Howe testified that it was Aiello who came up with the payment system allegedly used to bribe Percoco.

Silver, charged with five federal counts of theft of honest services, mail fraud, wire fraud, and extortion for improperly using his public position to obtain nearly $ 4 million in illicit payments, and Skelos, charged with six federal counts of conspiracy, extortion, wire fraud, and soliciting bribes in connection with exploiting his public position in order to secure a lucrative no - show job for his son, have both declared their innocence, with Silver's legal team attempting to paint its client's dealing as par for the course in Albany.

«The fact that the payments Silver allegedly received as «bribes» or «kickbacks» were funneled through entities in which he had an undisclosed interest does not transform the bribery or kickback schemes into «undisclosed conflict - of - interest» schemes,» the judge wrote.

Bharara alleges the payments were masked through the LLC in order to obscure the fact that they were coming from the Maryland firm Competitive Power Ventures, which the prosecutor says also bribed Percoco for government favors.

The US Ambassador to Ghana, Robert Jackson, said corruption levels in Ghana are at a point where US companies looking to do business in Ghana, have mostly been frustrated with requests for the payment of «facilitation fee» — which he simply described as another language for bribe.

Two days after a New York state Senator was arrested for trying to bribe his way onto the New York City mayoral ballot, a state Assemblyman has been accused of accepting payments to sponsor legislation that would benefit developers of an adult day care center in the Bronx.

«The fact that the payments Silver allegedly received as «bribes» or «kickbacks» were funneled through entities in which he had an undisclosed interest does not transform the bribery or kickback schemes into «undisclosed conflict - of - interest» schemes,» she wrote.

In November 2000, FPL Energyís attorney refused to discuss the issue of any payment that the Town might receive if the proposed «wind farm» were to be approved, stating that they «do not want it to look like a bribe.»

The alleged bribe payment moved through shell corporations in the Seychelles, the United Kingdom, and the British Virgin Islands, then to bank accounts in Cyprus, Latvia, and Switzerland.

Finally, with regard to facilitation payments, they are bribes and there will be zero - tolerance in relation to them.

With regard to facilitation payments which the Bribery Act 2010 unequivocally classes as bribes (in contrast to the equivalent statute in the US), Alderman drew up a «six - stage solution» the effect of which was to suggest that they might be tolerated.

The alleged bribe payment moved through shell corporations in the Seychelles, the United Kingdom, and the British Vir - gin Islands, then to bank accounts in Cyprus, Latvia, and Switzerland.

They differ from a bribe in that a bribe is used to win influence where facilitating payments are used to «grease» or expedite a routine administrative function.

The territorial ambit of the FCPA was widened to include all foreign people — including agents and employees of US businesses regardless of nationality — who commit an act in furtherance of a foreign bribe while in the US and include the acts of US businesses and nationals in furtherance of unlawful payments that take place wholly outside the US.

• You met a friend / fiancé online • You've never met face to face • Your correspondent professed love at warp speed • Your friend / fiancé is plagued with medical problems requiring loans from you • You are promised repayment upon the inheritance of alluvial gold or gems • You've sent large sums for visas or plane tickets but the person can not seem to make it out of Ghana • When your friend does try to leave the country, h / she is detained by immigration officials demanding payment or bribes • Your correspondent consistently uses lower case «i's» and / or grammar not in - keeping with their supposed life station or education level Cases bearing these and other hallmarks have all proven to be scams intended to separate sympathetic people from their money.We advise Americans not to send money to people they have never actually met.