Sentences with phrase «in payments to his son»

The complaint, by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, alleges Skelos used his influence in Albany to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to his son from a real estate developer and a related environmental company.

The Skelos case also featured a cameo by Glenwood; the company's chief lobbyist, Charles Dorego, testified that Dean Skelos used his political clout to pressure Glenwood into funneling tens of thousands of dollars in payments to his son.

Not exact matches

In just a few months, we have learned that Flynn lied to Mike Pence, Vice President - elect, about obtaining a security clearance for Flynn's son during the presidential transition; that during the same period, as President Obama was imposing sanctions on Russia for election meddling, Flynn communicated with the Russian ambassador about those sanctions, hinting that President Trump would take a softer line, and then lied to Pence about it (and stood by while Pence publicly repeated that lie); that Flynn was not truthful when questioned by the FBI about the same topic; and that Flynn spoke at a gala for RT, the Kremlin - backed propaganda network and received payments from RT, but dissembled about the source of the payments and seems to have failed to follow U.S. regulations about reporting them.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

So were first - born lambs, kids, and calves, following the Lord's instruction that the firsts of all birth belong especially to Him (first - born human sons are redeemed with monetary payment to priests, in a ritual still practiced today).

According to the Globe, after the attack the student bookie's father stepped in and made four weekly payments of $ 1,000 to get his son out of trouble.

He wants Arsenal to include him in the deal payment for his 21 year old son so that he'll get paid too before he'll give his blessing to his son to accept Arsenal proposal to hire his services.

ISL collapsed in 2001 with debts of # 153 million, amid allegations of making off - the - book payments totaling tens of millions of dollars to various FIFA executives, including Havelange and his son - in - law, Ricardo Texeira.

you might also want to see what payment plans are available (some practitioners let you do it like layaway), try to avoid the lactation nurses (useless in my experiance, as ours just told me I couldn't do it and pushed formula — my son nursed till just shy of his 1st birthday when * HE * decided to stop).

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.

A federal indictment handed down on Thursday alleged former state Senate Majority Leader Skelos strong - armed a medical malpractice insurance firm to provide his son, Adam, with more than $ 100,000 in payments and health benefits through a no - show job while the firm lobbied Skelos on legislative matters.

ESD last year tried to direct $ 15 million from the «transformative investment fund,» a $ 400 million pot created in the 2015 - 16 budget by former Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos, who left office after he was convicted of several federal felonies for trading official actions for payments to his son.

According to the complaint, they sought Mr. Percoco's help in reversing a decision by the state's economic development agency that would have forced COR — Mr. Cuomo's largest donor in central New York — to make an expensive labor peace agreement; pushing the state to release payments that it owed to COR; and getting a $ 5,000 raise for Mr. Aiello's son, who worked for Mr. Percoco at the governor's office.

In the Skelos trial beginning Nov. 16, prosecutors alleged that father and son squeezed payments to Adam out of Glenwood Management of New Hyde Park, Roslyn malpractice firm Physicians» Reciprocal Insurers, and AbTech, a Glenwood - tied Arizona firm that got a $ 12 million stormwater treatment contract with Nassau.

Prosecutors allege that Skelos did political favors for AbTech Industries, an Arizona environmental company, and Glenwood Management, a large New York developer, in exchange for payments to himself and his son.

In 2013, as Skelos was pushing Cuomo to authorize natural gas fracking, the senator's son, Adam, was angling to get payments from a wastewater treatment company seeking a piece of the hydrofracking windfall, the documents claim.

In her opening statements at the corruption trial of Sen. Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, prosecutor Tatiana Martins said Skelos started trying to cash in on his role as Senate majority leader even before he officially had the job — and continued brazenly «strong - arming» companies to make payments to his family after he formally got the giIn her opening statements at the corruption trial of Sen. Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, prosecutor Tatiana Martins said Skelos started trying to cash in on his role as Senate majority leader even before he officially had the job — and continued brazenly «strong - arming» companies to make payments to his family after he formally got the giin on his role as Senate majority leader even before he officially had the job — and continued brazenly «strong - arming» companies to make payments to his family after he formally got the gig.

In another aspect of the alleged schemes, officials at COR Development paid tens of thousands of dollars to Percoco — using Howe as a pass - through to conceal the payments — in exchange for official favors that included reversing a state decision that would have forced the company to enter into a costly «labor peace agreement»; freeing up a backlog of state funds that had been promised to the developer; and securing a $ 5,000 raise for Steven L. Aiello, the son of COR president Steven F. AiellIn another aspect of the alleged schemes, officials at COR Development paid tens of thousands of dollars to Percoco — using Howe as a pass - through to conceal the payments — in exchange for official favors that included reversing a state decision that would have forced the company to enter into a costly «labor peace agreement»; freeing up a backlog of state funds that had been promised to the developer; and securing a $ 5,000 raise for Steven L. Aiello, the son of COR president Steven F. Aiellin exchange for official favors that included reversing a state decision that would have forced the company to enter into a costly «labor peace agreement»; freeing up a backlog of state funds that had been promised to the developer; and securing a $ 5,000 raise for Steven L. Aiello, the son of COR president Steven F. Aiello.

An eight - count indictment accuses the two men of «a corrupt scheme to monetize Dean Skelos's official position,» in which the senator used his power to obtain for his son jobs and payments from companies with business before the state.

In the trial, prosecutors persuaded the jury that Mr. Skelos and his son had used the father's official position to pressure a Manhattan developer, an environmental technology company and a medical malpractice insurer to provide Adam Skelos with roughly $ 300,000 via consulting work, a no - show job and a direct payment of $ 20,000.

But in the end, it wasn't enough to avoid prison sentences: six - and - a-half years for Adam; five years plus a $ 500,000 fine for Dean, who, as senate majority leader, strong - armed companies into giving payments and largely no - show jobs to his son.

After Newsday's report, she reopened the case and rescinded her approval of a $ 90,000 payment to Richard Bellando, the Nassau Independence Party leader and Melius» former son - in - law.

In exchange for payments to his son, Dean Skelos voted in favor of the Rent Act of 2011 which extended the controversial 421 - a tax abatement, according to the documentIn exchange for payments to his son, Dean Skelos voted in favor of the Rent Act of 2011 which extended the controversial 421 - a tax abatement, according to the documentin favor of the Rent Act of 2011 which extended the controversial 421 - a tax abatement, according to the documents.

When the environmental technology company was up for a multi-million contract from Nassau County in 2013, Skelos, a Republican, and his son threatened to block the contract unless monthly payments jumped to $ 10,000 per month from $ 4,000 per month.

In a phone call from the wake, he told his son in coded language that payments to the firm, which sources identified as AbTech Industries, would be cominIn a phone call from the wake, he told his son in coded language that payments to the firm, which sources identified as AbTech Industries, would be cominin coded language that payments to the firm, which sources identified as AbTech Industries, would be coming.

Dean Skelos helped Glenwood on tax and rent - control legislation in Albany in exchange for payments to his son, prosecutors said.

In exchange for the payments to his son from the real estate firm and environmental firm, Dean Skelos introduced legislation to extend the controversial 421 - a program which provides tax abatements to developers and voted for legislation that allows landlords to increase rent on rent stabilized apartments.

Democrat Todd Kaminsky faces Republican Chris McGrath in the April 19 Senate election for the seat long held by ex-Senate Leader Dean Skelos, a Republican convicted last year of using his position to obtain payments and jobs for his son.

Dean Skelos is charged with prodding several people, including Bonomo, into making payments to his son in exchange for government favors.

A prosecutor in the case, Jason A. Masimore, then questioned him about legislation that the government has alleged was part of three schemes under which Senator Skelos used his position to obtain more than $ 300,000 in payments for his son.

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.

His son, Charles Scarlata, who succeeded him as supervisor, received $ 421,353 in unauthorized deferred payments from 2012 through 2013, according to the audit, while also earning a $ 255,000 annual salary before retiring in 2013.

Among other things, this executive «disguised a $ 20,000 payment to [Skelos» son]... to falsely make it appear that the payment was in return for work by» him.

A 2009 review by the Nassau County comptroller's office found that the father and son collected a combined $ 1 million in salaries, benefits and deferred payments from 2006 to 2008.

The case against State Sen. Dean Skelos, 67, former majority leader, contends that Glenwood funneled a $ 20,000 payment to the senator's son and helped him get work as a consultant at an environmental technology company, a field in which he had no experience.

Senator Skelos, the prosecutors charged, arranged to meet Long Island politicians at the wake of Wenjian Liu, a New York City police officer shot dead in December, to press for payments to the company employing his son.

His opposition included the Duke of Clarence, George III's third son, depicted in the film trying to offer Wilberforce a slave in payment of a gambling debt.

Nothing was explained to my son about when his first payment will be due, if he will be receiving a payment book in the mail etc., I had to actually ask who the lienholder was.

In the last month has been able to help my son, my daughter in law and myself to get the car we want, and also helping us to get the car payment that fit our budgeIn the last month has been able to help my son, my daughter in law and myself to get the car we want, and also helping us to get the car payment that fit our budgein law and myself to get the car we want, and also helping us to get the car payment that fit our budget.

Shortly after our son was born 11 years ago, I made several bleary - eyed trips to the drugstore in which I paid for diapers and baby formula with a credit card because I wasn't sure we had enough money in our bank account to cover both those necessities and the mortgage payment going out the next morning.

In 2017, you give your son $ 15,000 to help him afford the down payment on his first house.

My financial goals are a little odd in that I'm referring to my own PERSONAL debt, not including that of my husband who is covering the mortgage, son's car payment (finishes in August / September), and the travel trailer.

How is my son and I supposed to pay $ 140K in student loans with a monthly payment of well over $ 1000!!!! Can't be done and until we invest in our own, we are never going to win or compete globally - this is sinful and I am SO ANGRY that my government hasn't done something about it OR RESPONDED TO MY NUMEROUS EMAILS AND REQUESTS!!!to pay $ 140K in student loans with a monthly payment of well over $ 1000!!!! Can't be done and until we invest in our own, we are never going to win or compete globally - this is sinful and I am SO ANGRY that my government hasn't done something about it OR RESPONDED TO MY NUMEROUS EMAILS AND REQUESTS!!!to win or compete globally - this is sinful and I am SO ANGRY that my government hasn't done something about it OR RESPONDED TO MY NUMEROUS EMAILS AND REQUESTS!!!TO MY NUMEROUS EMAILS AND REQUESTS!!!!!

-- A mom wants to know if if her son's credit will be in jeopardy if she can not make the payments on a Parent PLUS college loan... (See Student loans)

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When a child's other parent fails to make child support payments that their daughter or son is entitled to, it is important to have a Manassas child support lawyer with experience in enforcing child support orders for payments that were overdue or that were not made in full.

With respect to (2), the ONCA accepted the trial judges» determination of the parties» incomes but engaged in a thorough review of the case history, concluding that spousal support should terminate as of January 2012 (not 2006) and child support for the son should cease as of December 2010 when he began receiving ODSP payments.

I presume that at some point in your son's adult phase, you are going to assign ownership of the policy (and probably the remaining premium payments) to him.

Now as I said REPUTABLE BC my sons are in the insurance business and if they just take my $ without payment... my sons would know how to go after them... I just want to be more covered than what they have on me thru Nationwide... without their knowledge until I literally die

I'm wondering how hard would it be to find life insurance for me because if I die while my son is in college I don't want to leave my family in debt and my disability check pays our house payment and car insurance.