Sentences with phrase «into contracts awarded»

Bharara whose spokesman had no comment Friday, is said to be looking into the contracts awarded for projects to build high - tech businesses in economically struggling Buffalo to see if any bid - rigging or other shenanigans took place, sources have said.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's investigation into contracts awarded under the Buffalo Billion program can't help but scrutinize the actions of Alain Kaloyeros, who is quarterbacking the program, Jim Heaney has told Maryalice Demler of WGRZ.

Not exact matches

May's government also faced questions from the opposition Labour Party about why it awarded the company 1.3 billion pounds of state contracts after Carillion fell into financial difficulty in July last year.

Around this time, federal investigators reportedly began looking into questionable practices of how the Cuomo administration awarded third - party developer contracts, which some insiders suggest also delayed the project.)

It's impossible to spend wisely on every player, the difference being that Defoe was being awarded an eye - watering contract despite nothing in his career to suggest he warranted it, especially taking his age into consideration.

The Village Board this week awarded a South Holland construction company the $ 272,600 contract to turn a field at Olmsted Street and Blackhawk Drive into a park offering a walking path, basketball courts and atletic fields.

An investigation into the processes for award of the contract and a value for money assessment would be welcome as it would be based on law and policies and not motivated by ill will and pettiness.

The pair surrendered to face charges including extortion and soliciting bribes amid a federal investigation into the awarding of a $ 12 million contract to a company that hired his son.

The State Department of Transportation wants to start awarding construction contracts late this year to turn the Scajaquada Expressway into Scajaquada Boulevard.

The investigations into the state's contracting also identified allegations of a «pay - to - play» system in which government contracts were allegedly awarded to big campaign donors.

Skelos and his son were arraigned on charges including extortion and soliciting bribes amid a federal investigation into the awarding of a $ 12 million contract to a company that hired his son.

«[But] after 15 months into the government of NPP, I dare them [to] show one contract under the cocoa road [project] that has been inflated or that has wrongly been awarded.»

Fuller Road Management has been subpoenaed by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as part of an investigation into a contract it planned to award last fall to Columbia Development to build a new dormitory for SUNY Poly students in Albany.

CHRAJ's report follows a petition by the youth wing of the Convention People's Party, which demanded a probe into the conduct of the President, for accepting the gift worth GHc100, 000 from the contractor who was subsequently awarded some government contracts.

How can we expect a president who admits to accepting a $ 100,000 gift from a foreign contractor who was awarded a government contract through the efforts of the President, to have the courage and desire to stop his Ministers and other officials from dipping their hands into the state coffers?»

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

Skelos, 67, and his son, Adam, 32, surrendered Monday to face charges that include extortion and soliciting bribes amid a federal investigation into the awarding of a $ 12 million contract to a company that hired his son.

Skelos, 67, and his son, Adam, 32, surrendered last week to face charges that include extortion and soliciting bribes amid a federal investigation into the awarding of a $ 12 million contract to a company that hired his son.

let the governor look into the award of several road contracts as, contractors are collecting money and not doing there work.

Nassau County is rolling out its first digital system for tracking and approving contracts, part of a larger overhaul of procurement policies that follows nearly two years of criminal investigations into how agreements were awarded.

A declaration that the statements that Plaintiff «has constituted herself into the Commission's Tender Review Committee contrary to the Procurement Act», «unilaterally awarded a contract of about $ 25,000 to a South African company... to change and re-develop the Commission's logo under the guise of rebranding...» set out at paragraphs 6, 18, 23, 27 of the petition attached to Defendant's letter conveying the petition to His Excellency the President of the Republic of Ghana are defamatory of Plaintiff.

The new contract awarded consultants a 27 per cent pay rise, bringing their annual income to # 110,000 before private earnings were taken into account.

The representative of President - elect Nana Akufo - Addo, on the Transition team, Yaw Osafo Marfo, had asked for clarity on alleged fresh recruitments into the public sector, and the awarding of fresh contracts days after the National Democratic Congress government lost the elections.

«That you, Olisa Metuh and Destra Investment Limited on or about the 24th November, 2014 in Abuja converted the sum of N400m paid into the account of Destra Investment Limited with Diamond Bank Plc, Account No: 0040437573 from the account of the office of the National Security Adviser with the Central Bank of Nigeria without contract award when you reasonably ought to have known that the said fund formed part of the proceeds of an unlawful activity of Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (Rtd) the then National Security Adviser (To Wit: criminal breach of trust and corruption) and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 15 (2), (d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 as amended in 2012 and punishable under Section 15 (3) of the same Act.

Enough to persuade U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to launch a federal investigation into the awarding of contracts and for members of the city's African - American community to demand more diversity in the hiring of construction workers at the SolarCity plant at Riverbend.

Looking for lead (in all the wrong places) edged out an investigation by Charlotte Keith into the awarding of a Buffalo Billion contract whose dynamics that bore a striking resemblance to the -LSB-...]

It was gathered that further investigation into the fraud had necessitated a need to amend the 24 - count charge initially brought against Oronsaye, on July 13, 2015, in which along with his co-accused, Osarenkhoe Afe, and Fredrick Hamilton Global Services Limited, he is alleged to have been complicit in several biometric contract awards during his tenure as HoS.

Having said that, and in light of the investigation into the awarding of contracts at the Solar City facility in Buffalo, we hope that New York State and relevant agencies do everything in their power to provide a transparent bidding process,» said Joshua Reap, a government affairs director for the group.

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Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari recently suspended the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Mr David Babachir Lawal and ordered an investigation into the allegations of violations of law and due process made against him in the award of contracts under the Presidential Initiative on the North East (PINE).

Its reporting on the Buffalo Billion prompted U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to launch a federal investigation into the awarding of developer contracts and for members of the community to demand more diversity in the employment of construction workers at Solar City.

ALBANY — State officials have been formally banned from speaking with Todd Howe, a lobbyist at the center of a federal criminal probe into how SUNY Polytechnic Institute awarded several development contracts.

Like other contracts for professional services, these developer contracts aren't simply awarded to the lowest bidder; a company's past experience, qualifications and track record are also taken into account.

Nassau auditors found questionable financial management and oversight in the awarding of a $ 12.5 million superstorm Sandy cleanup contract, but sparse county cooperation hampered their probe into the deal, according to a report by Comptroller George Maragos.

Cuomo's Buffalo Billion Under Federal Investigation: Federal investigators are looking into how contracts were awarded in Governor Cuomo's Buffalo economic development program.

Why does it take the Nassau County District Attorney's Office — responding to a federal investigation into political corruption — to uncover the gross deficiencies in how the county awards contracts?

He said such contracts were awarded without proper value for money analysis, bringing into question the motive behind them.

The investigation into the AbTech contract has prompted an inquiry into Nassau County's contracts awarding process by the county's acting district attorney Madeline Singas, Newsday reported.

He did not wait for the outcome of three big challenges to Blair's leadership; the inquest into the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, a race discrimination case from assistant commissioner Tarique Ghaffur and an inquiry by HM chief inspector of constabulary into # 3m of Met contracts awarded to Blair's best friend.

Giordano threw his weight behind Worth being awarded public contracts in Waterbury and flew into rages when denied.

The U.S. attorney first started looking into the awarding of the SolarCity development contract to LPCiminelli and has recently expanded the probe to include payments to Joseph Percoco, one of Cuomo's closest aides, by two companies who received work from the development corporations.

This week NASA put the latest piece of hardware into place, awarding a preliminary six - year, $ 183.8 - million contract to Oceaneering International, Inc., of Houston to design and build a basic spacesuit (for launches, landings and emergencies) as well as a suit for astronauts to wear during their stays on the moon.

Looming over all this is the uncertain status of school CEO Barbara Byrd - Bennett, who is on leave pending a federal investigation into a no - bid contract awarded to her former employer.

MWAMWA's Official Decision: That because Harlequin's for pay publishing business violates MWA's rules for approved publishers, MWA takes the following action: First, Harlequin shall be removed from MWA's list of approved publishers upon the adoption of this motion; Second, that all current active status members of MWA whose status is based upon books published by Harlequin shall remain active status members; Third, that MWA decline applications for active membership based upon books published by Harlequin pursuant to contracts entered into after the effective date of this motion; Fourth, that books published by Harlequin pursuant to contracts entered into prior to the adoption of this motion shall be eligible for the Edgar ® Awards, except that books published by DellArte Press shall not be eligible for the Edgar ® Awards regardless of when such contract was entered into; and Fifth that books published by Harlequin pursuant to contracts entered into after the adoption of this motion shall not be eligible for the Edgar ® Awards.

Helping Heroes Award presented by Natural Balance to Mission K9: A Houston - based non-profit serving retiring and retired Military Working Dogs, Contract Working Dogs, and other Dogs Who Serve, was recognized this year for their work to reunite these heroes with their former handlers or adopt them into new loving homes.

Separately, China Recycling Energy Corp. (CREG) has been awarded a contract to recycle waste gas and waste heat into electricity (7MW capacity) for China Zhonggang Binhai Enterprise Ltd., a nickel - iron manufacturing joint venture between China Zhonggang Group and Boasteel Group at a facility in Cangzhou City, China, reports Renewable Energy World.

The OECD's major criticism is reserved for the UK government's decision to discontinue its foreign bribery investigation into alleged large - scale payments made in connection with the award to UK firm BAE Systems plc of the Al Yamamah defence contracts with the government of Saudi Arabia.

On 22 July it announced that it had terminated its criminal investigation into Macmillan Publishers Ltd in connection with suspected corruption of government officials in African countries in relation to the award of contracts.

When she took over in 2009, the role was only five years old, having grown out of Ontario Superior Court Justice Denise Bellamy's investigation into allegations of conflict of interest and bribery in the awarding of computer leasing contracts by the city.

Under the act, an enterprise must now obtain authorization from Quebec's Autorité des marchés financiers before competing in a public call for tenders or in an award process for contracts over a certain monetary threshold entered into with the government, its agencies or Quebec municipalities.