Sentences with phrase «in kickback schemes»

The charges against Skelos say that the developer involved in the kickback scheme used the LLC loophole to subvert campaign finance limits.

The two pleaded guilty in a kickback scheme in which dealers in 30 states gave executives of American Honda up to $ 15 million in cash and gifts in exchange for hot - selling cars and franchises.

TWO FORMER American Honda Motor Co. executives, accused in a kickback scheme that allegedly defrauded the company of millions of dollars, pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court Thursday.

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April 23 - A former Insys Therapeutics Inc sales representative was sentenced on Monday to six months of home confinement after admitting that she participated in a scheme to pay kickbacks to two Alabama doctors to prescribe a fentanyl - based medication.

With approval rating in the low teens just five months into her second term, Rousseff's also struggling to win back the public trust amid Brazil's biggest corruption investigation, an inquiry into a massive kickback scheme at state - run oil company Petrobras.

Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase would pay $ 35.7 million for participating in a mortgage kickback scheme with a now - defunct Owings Mills - based title company under a federal consent order filed Thursday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and...

Keller Williams Realty Mid-Willamette, a real estate brokerage located in Corvallis, Oregon, has been penalized and fined by a federal financial watchdog for participating in what has been called an illegal kickback scheme.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Rattner was the «senior executive» of the Securities and Exchange Commission complaint in the probe of the pension fund kickback scheme.

In what will had more grist for the mill when it comes to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's call for ethics reform in the state Legislature, Leibell was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for his role in a bribery and kickback schemIn what will had more grist for the mill when it comes to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's call for ethics reform in the state Legislature, Leibell was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for his role in a bribery and kickback schemin the state Legislature, Leibell was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for his role in a bribery and kickback schemin federal prison for his role in a bribery and kickback schemin a bribery and kickback scheme.

Telling tenant advocates he was in their corner while winking and nodding to developers as he literally concocted elaborate schemes to take their illegal kickbacks.

Despite that, the judge, in addition to the prison time, ordered Silver to pay back $ 5 million he gained from illegal kickback schemes, as well as a $ 1.75 million fine.

Approximately $ 700,000 came in «undisclosed bribes and kickbacks» from a scheme in which Mr. Silver used his influence as speaker to induce real estate developers with «business for the state» to use a real estate law firm run by an attorney who previously worked as Mr. Silver's counsel in the Assembly, and which paid Mr. Silver for the referrals.

A jury found him guilty in a pair of schemes in which he pocketed $ 4 million in kickbacks before investing the funds to make another $ 1 million.

A former Cuomo administration official is among those named in a criminal complaint by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara that alleges kickback and bribery schemes carried out over several years.

Silver is accused of using his political position to gain over $ 4 million in illegal kickbacks and bribery payments in schemes involving cancer patients and two major real estate firms.

In May, the former head of SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Alain Kaloyeros, and the prior leader of Cuomo's high - tech economic development efforts, will be tried for allegedly conducting kickback and bid - rigging schemes related to economic development contracts between SUNY Poly and state contractors.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison and told by a federal judge that he must give back $ 5 million that he gained from illegal kickback schemes, as well a pay another $ 1.75 million in fines.

In proscribing fraudulent deprivations of «the intangible right to honest services,» 1346, Congress intended to at least reach schemes involving BRIBES AND KICKBACKS (emphasis mine).

Former top Cuomo aide and campaign manager Joe Percoco is accused of participating in a widespread kickback scheme that allowed him to pocket $ 315,000 in bribes from two companies looking to do business with the state.

Prosecutors said Silver used his powerful position in Albany to extract at least $ 4 million in kickbacks and schemes.

Prosecutors took the first full day of testimony in the corruption trial of Sheldon Silver to lay out one of two bribery and kickback schemes they allege the former Assembly speaker undertook.

Silver was convicted of pocketing $ 4 million in kickbacks in a pair of schemes, including one in which he directed state grants to a Columbia University researcher who had been referring mesothelioma patients to him.

In one scheme, according to the indictment, the restaurateur allegedly paid bribes and kickbacks to Ed Mangano and Venditto in exchange tor their assistance in obtaining the Town of Oyster Bar's guarantee of four loans totaling roughly $ 20 million to two of Singh's businesseIn one scheme, according to the indictment, the restaurateur allegedly paid bribes and kickbacks to Ed Mangano and Venditto in exchange tor their assistance in obtaining the Town of Oyster Bar's guarantee of four loans totaling roughly $ 20 million to two of Singh's businessein exchange tor their assistance in obtaining the Town of Oyster Bar's guarantee of four loans totaling roughly $ 20 million to two of Singh's businessein obtaining the Town of Oyster Bar's guarantee of four loans totaling roughly $ 20 million to two of Singh's businesses.

Approximately $ 700,000 came in «undisclosed bribes and kickbacks» from a scheme in which Mr. Silver used his influence as Assembly Speaker to «induce real estate developers with business before the State» to use a real estate law firm run by an attorney who previously worked as Mr. Silver's counsel in the Assembly, and which paid Mr. Silver for the referrals.

The indictment refers to the arrangement as a «scheme» that resulted in «undisclosed bribes and kickbacks.»

Other schemes involved kickbacks from a legal firm specializing in tax law, and favors to the real estate industry in the form of favorable tax laws.

His company was a key player in an alleged kickback scheme involving former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, as well as a figure in a corruption case against former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Venditto, Mangano and Mangano's wife, Linda, all have pleaded not guilty in an alleged bribery scheme in which the former elected officials are accused of illegally helping Singh get $ 20 million in indirect loan guarantees and government contracts in exchange for kickbacks and a $ 450,000 no - show job for Linda Mangano.

Norman Seabrook, president of the Correction Officers» Benevolent Association, personally got tens of thousands of dollars in kickbacks for steering about $ 20 million in union money to the Platinum Partners hedge fund in a scheme dating back to December 2013, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.

Silver, once one of New York's most powerful politicians, was sentenced in May to 12 years in prison, along with a fine and forfeiture of more than $ 6 million, after a federal jury found him guilty of a host of corruption charges related to two bribery schemes in which he received millions in kickbacks by trading political favors for money.

Silver was convicted of engaging in a two - track corruption scheme that padded his bank account with an estimated $ 4 million that prosecutors characterized as bribes and kickbacks disguised as legal fees.

Silver was found to have engaged in a two - track corruption scheme that netted him an estimated $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks disguised as legal fees.

William Rapfogel, the now - former CEO of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty and a close friend of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, was charged in a $ 5 million, two - decade kickback scheme.

That contract was a key piece of evidence in the corruption trial, in which federal prosecutors accused Silver of orchestrating a kickback scheme with Goldberg & Iryami, Glenwood and developer Steve Witkoff.

The bottom line for some in the Assembly is that A) Silver has been in the speaker's chair for far too long and B) The alleged bribery and kickback scheme that ensnared Rapfogel, the husband of Silver aide Judy Rapfogel, entered a new phase when the scope of the scandal was revealed.

And on Friday, DiNapoli in a radio interview on WCNY suggested he would support more controls for the state's procurement process after nine people — including a former top aide to the governor — were arrested in connection to an alleged bribery and kickback scheme.

Four of the Democrats running in Long Island races — Jim Gaughran, Ryan Cronin, Adam Haber and John Brooks — released statements blasting the corruption scandal and alleged kickback scheme that has also engulfed Mangano's wife.

Herbert Friedman, the former chief financial officer for the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, was sentenced to four months in jail for his role in a massive kickback scheme.

Prosecutors in the Sheldon Silver corruption case called two key players, including an official with Glenwood Management, to the stand today to answer questions about the former Assembly speaker's alleged involvement in a real - estate kickback scheme.

Federal authorities plan to unseal charges against a former top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as early as Thursday in connection with an alleged bribery and kickback scheme involving the governor's signature economic - development program, according to people familiar with the matter.

The scheme provided SILVER with two different streams of unlawful income: (i) approximately $ 700,000 in kickbacks SILVER received by steering two real estate developers with business before the state legislature to a law firm with which he was associated, and (ii) more than $ 3 million in asbestos client referral fees SILVER received by, among other official acts, awarding $ 500,000 in state grants to a university research center of a physician who referred patients made ill by asbestos to SILVER at Weitz & Luxenberg.

NEW YORK CITY — Sheldon Silver is out as speaker of the Assembly just days after his arrest on federal corruption charges in an alleged bribery and kickback scheme.

Silver, 72, a once - beloved Lower Manhattan assemblyman and one of the most powerful men in the state, was convicted by a federal jury in November on charges of money laundering and extortion related to two bribery schemes where he earned millions in kickbacks by trading political favors for money.

NEW YORK CITY — Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver could lose his apartment and pension if he's convicted of fraud charges in an extensive kickback and bribery scheme, prosecutors said in a stinging federal indictment.

The disgraced ex-assemblyman was convicted in November of charges of extortion and money laundering related to two bribery schemes in which he received millions in kickbacks by trading political favors for money.

Silver received $ 700,000 in referral fees from a real estate law firm doing tax appeal work for Glenwood in an alleged kickback scheme as he directed tax breaks to Glenwood, the indictment claims.

Silver also received another $ 700,000 in referral fees from a real estate law firm in an alleged kickback scheme as he directed tax breaks to two developers, including Glenwood Management, the largest political donor in the state.

Since roughly 2000, Silver received approximately $ 6 million in kickbacks and bribes from two law firms — Weitz & Luxenberg and, according to sources, Goldberg & Iryami — in a «secret and corrupt scheme» above and beyond his $ 121,000 official salary, prosecutors said.

MIDTOWN — Former State Comptroller Alan Hevesi has been sentenced to one to four years in prison for his involvement in a pension fund pay - to - play kickback scheme.

Federal authorities plan to unseal charges against Joe Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, as early as today in connection with an alleged bribery and kickback scheme involving the governor's signature economic - development program, according to people familiar with the matter.