Sentences with phrase «in bribes»

A former top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo — described in court papers as his «right - hand man» — was charged Thursday with taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from companies looking to score state - funded contracts.

Percoco allegedly accepted hundreds of thousand of dollars in bribes from development executives in Buffalo and Syracuse, who were seeking to do business with the state.

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.

Former United Nations General Assembly President John Ashe accepted $ 1.3 million in bribes from shady Chinese businessmen — and used it to buy Rolex watches, a country - club membership and a...

The two former aides allegedly took hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes for state contracts.

Silver, a Democrat from lower Manhattan, has been accused of exploiting his position as one of the three most powerful people in state government to extort nearly $ 4 million in bribes over about 10 years.

Prosecutors say Napout collected millions of dollars in bribes as well as gifts — such as $ 10,175.88 worth of tickets to a Paul McCartney concert in Buenos Aires.

Silver was accused of taking $ 4 million in bribes disguised as legal fees.

@M18CTID Oh, and by the way, on the subject of being sactimonius and your «bent» comments, don't think for a moment that we are not aware of 1905, Tom Maley, your board of directors and first team squad who were involved in bribes for throwing matches and illegal payments to players.

Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi are accused of paying Percoco more than $ 30,000 in bribes through a «shell company» set up by Howe.

Longtime Cuomo insider Percoco, 48, of South Salem in Westchester County, is accused of taking more than $ 300,000 in bribes set up by ex-lobbyist Howe from clients — co-defendants Peter Galbraith Kelly, an energy executive, and Syracuse developers Steve Aiello and Joe Gerardi — in exchange for official favors.

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.»

Earlier this yr Petrobras disclosed that the company dropped $ 2 billion just in bribes and that it lied about its balance sheet.

Former Fifa president Joao Havelange was paid huge sums in bribes by collapsed marketing company ISL, court documents have revealed.

According to U.S. Attorney Robert Capers» office, between Jan. 2010 and Feb. 2015, Ed Mangano and Venditto engaged in a bribe and kickback scheme involving an unnamed businessman and restaurateur, identified in multiple reports as Harendra Singh, who was arrested in Sept. 2015 on fraud and bribery charges.

Joseph Percoco served as Cuomo's executive deputy secretary and is charged with soliciting $ 315,000 in bribes which Todd Howe, a former aide to the governor who became a lobbyist, helped facilitate.

Shortly after Sung and Yam were arrested, Li — who allegedly paid cops tens of thousands in bribes to protect his clubs — showed up at then - Police Commissioner Bill Bratton's holiday party.

He faces federal charges that he used that relationship to collect a fortune in bribes from companies doing business with the state.

«They have concentrated money in bribing people.

Who in their right mind would lend $ 2.5 billion for a century to an emerging markets company that in April wrote off $ 17 billion in overvalued assets and billions more in bribes?

Tabone was also ordered to forfeit the $ 25,000 he received in bribes.

They say he also participated in bribing Gross to gain control over the credit union to facilitate the virtual currency business.

To do so, they and others paid $ 150,000 in bribes via the church to Gross, its pastor, in exchange for facilitating Murgio's takeover and arranging for Lebedev and others to be put on the credit union's board, prosecutors said.

He was interested in a bribe.

Roy Hodgson saying he doesn't know why he is at a managerial press conference, Sam Allardayce saying it's not the manager's job to say where Rooney would play and later being caught in bribe scandals and then Southgate finally got his dream of managing his country and has yet to change anything.

Evans allegedly accepted $ 22,000 in bribes during his time at South Carolina, as well as Oklahoma State, to influence athletes toward business advisory and investment management services from Munish Sood.

For many parents, dinnertime is negotiation time — which undoubtedly ends in a bribe.

Silver's ouster as speaker came after his arrest last month on five charges of corruption stemming from accusations that he received millions of dollars in bribes masked as referrals.

But her ruling left intact six other charges related to the alleged payoffs from COR Development Co. and about $ 280,000 in bribes Percoco allegedly accepted from an exec with Competitive Power Ventures.

A jury concluded he collected more than $ 20,000 in cash bribes for promises that he would help developers of senior centers in the

Blatter should resign; and if the Justice Dept. has creditable evidence of his involvement in the bribes, he should be indicted.

The complaint accuses Ciminelli's company of paying $ 100,000 a year in bribes to a politically connected lobbyist who they knew could steer government development contracts in western New York.

For those that Anas» investigative team Tiger Eye succeeded in bribing, 22 circuit court judges and magistrates have been suspended.

Howe is expected back in the Manhattan federal courtroom where Percoco is on trial for pocketing some $ 300,000 in bribes on Monday.

Much of the evidence revealed on Tuesday hinged on emails from those allegedly involved in the bribe scheme.

The ex-top aide to Andrew Cuomo accused of pocketing over $ 300,000 in bribes revealed the allegations to the governor as the FBI raided his home, testimony revealed Wednesday.

Percoco, 48, of South Salem in Westchester County, is accused of taking more than $ 300,000 in bribes funneled to him by longtime friend Howe on behalf of two clients, an energy company and a Syracuse developer, in return for using his clout as Cuomo's right - hand man to help them.

It remained an uneasy relationship until he was forced to resign over a Mail on Sunday sting that claimed he had been recorded gossiping that Spain and Russia were involved in bribing referees at the World Cup, which resulted in a complaint by Triesman to the Press Complaints Commission.

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

In Short, sir, there has been a leap in bribes.

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.

But the gold trader's testimony also implicated high - ranking Turkish ministers in bribes of tens of millions of dollars, and he accused Erdogan of personally ordering sanctions - busting trades.

Lee has been under the scanner since last month, when the prosecution group formed to investigate whether a number of companies and conglomerates — including Samsung — were involved in bribing Choi Soon - sil to secure political favors.

With a 3 and almost 2 yr old we're still in the bribing with candy and playing peek a boo stage.

Mr. Silver was accused of disguising millions in bribes and kickbacks as legitimate income from law firms for whom he did no work.

Venditto, other former officials and contractors were also indicted on allegations Carlo Lizza & Sons Paving Inc. paid millions of dollars in bribes in return for town paving work and zoning decisions.

In a split verdict, Percoco was convicted of soliciting and accepting more than $ 300,000 in bribes from executives working for two companies with state business, but not guilty of extortion and conspiracy to commit extortion.

Silver, a Democrat from lower Manhattan, has been accused of exploiting his government position to extort nearly $ 4 million in bribes over about 10 years.