Sentences with phrase «involved kickbacks»

The case apparently involved kickbacks for unnecessary electromyogram (EMG) tests and physical therapy tests.

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.

Advisors do not sell expensive products to their customers, but appear to prefer products that involve kickbacks for advisors.

Another involves kickbacks at Eletrobras, Brazil's largest power utility.

But the borrower successfully appealed the ruling, with the Court of Appeals deciding that an overcharge is not required to bring a RESPA action; a consumer can bring a lawsuit for any charge that allegedly involves a kickback or fee split that violates RESPA.

They've reopened a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) investigation involving kickbacks and captive reinsurance.

Not exact matches

The ruling on Skilling's appeal preserved the statute but narrowed it considerably: henceforth it applies only to fraudulent schemes involving bribes or kickbacks.

Valeant's denouement included a tense Senate hearing; the departure of Pearson, once the highest - paid chief executive in Canada, at $ 182.9 million; criminal charges involving fraud; and kickbacks involving the mail - order pharmacy.

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

One legislator is about to be sentenced to jail time in connection with kickbacks he took on contracts that involved state grants he funneled to his own nonprofits.

He also is a central figure in a case involving Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, who pleaded not guilty in October to federal charges that he got bribes and kickbacks from Singh in return for county work.

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.

The former state Assembly speaker — who was recently convicted on federal corruption charges involving $ 4 million in kickbacks — was one of the three most powerful men in Albany, along with the governor and Senate majority leader.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

Kelly Kramer, a white - collar criminal defense attorney at the Mayer Brown firm, said the Supreme Court has scaled back the «honest services fraud» statute, as it is called, in deciding the case of former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling, limiting such prosecutions to cases involving bribes or kickbacks, rather than mere self - dealing.

Another kickback scheme involved patient referrals and state grants that Silver gave to the mesothelioma practice of Dr. Robert Taub.

Last year, a former close advisor to Cuomo, Joe Percoco, the former SUNY Polytechnic President Alain Kaloyeros, and several upstate developers were arrested and charged in a kickback and bid - rigging case involving economic development projects.

Bharara called on everyone from the public to rank - and - file legislators to get involved in reducing Albany's «crisis of corruption» that has produced a culture of bribery, kickbacks and a «rancid» environment.

The wells of real estate company largesse are drying up for politicians and political organizations, following corruption allegations against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver involving bribery and kickback schemes.

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.

Mr. Silver is accused of two separate bribery and kickback schemes, both involving disguising the money as legitimate attorney referral fees.

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.

The arrests come just months after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested for an alleged kickback scheme involving real estate deals and asbestos cancer patients.

He allegedly took kickbacks involving the union's pension fund investments, investigators said, sources said.

Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano and his wife, Linda, were arrested Thursday morning in a bribery and kickback scheme involving a restaurateur — who paid Linda Mangano $ 450,000 for a no - show job as a «food taster,» authorities said.

Silver was convicted in November for a scheme that involved receiving kickbacks for steering developers — Steve Witkoff and Glenwood — to hire certain firms to perform tax work.

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

The problem is lawmakers that are involved with pay to play schemes and who are receiving kickbacks.

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

For example, the triceps kickback is a bit of an exercise that involves simultaneous shoulder and elbow extension which makes it a great exercise for freestyle swimmers.

Triceps kickbacks are an isolation exercise that involves movement around a single joint.

If you're referred to an outside service — such as a publicist or independent editor — it's possible that a kickback arrangement is involved.

One such announcement involved Sonic Mania, the kickback...

White collar crime is a generic term for crimes involving antitrust violations, computer / internet fraud, credit card fraud, phone / telemarketing fraud, bankruptcy fraud, health care fraud, environmental law violations, insurance fraud, mail fraud, government fraud, tax evasion, financial fraud, securities fraud, insider trading, bribery, kickbacks, counterfeiting, public corruption, money laundering, embezzlement, economic espionage, and trade secret theft, and other forms of dishonest business schemes.

A settlement has been reached in the high profile case involving two former judges who took $ 2.8 million in alleged kickbacks from a commercial builder, an attorney, and a businessman in exchange for giving higher and more frequent sentences to juveniles in order to keep full two new juvenile deten...

Each of the alleged schemes involved the use of provider kickbacks, a popular activity in healthcare, to entice healthcare professionals to inappropriately redirect clients and beneficiaries to specific healthcare businesses.

The criminalization referred to in § 1346 is intended for defrauding schemes involving bribes or kickbacks,

The practice's recent representations include: (i) CONMEBOL in connection with U.S. criminal investigations and prosecutions into allegations of bribery and corruption in the international soccer world; (ii) the Special Committee of Banco BTG Pactual S.A. («BTG Pactual») in an internal investigation of alleged corruption involving its former CEO and other bank executives, in which we found no basis to support the allegations against the Bank and its employees; (iii) two of the largest construction companies in Brazil in potential civil and criminal investigations and litigation involving the Petrobras bribery scandal (Lava Jato), the largest corruption scandal in Latin American history, involving allegations of over $ 2.5 billion in bribes and kickbacks; (iv) the Government of Brazil in a corruption matter involving former senior government officials and multiple jurisdictions; (v) the General Manager of one of the largest energy companies in Central America in connection with allegations of bribery in Guatemala; (vi) a Mexican high - ranking executive for Wal - Mart Stores, Inc. in connection with DOJ and SEC FCPA investigations against Wal - Mart; (vii) a large Argentinean oil company and its owner, one of Argentina's wealthiest individuals, in connection with high - profile DOJ and SEC investigations involving alleged FCPA violations to secure an extension of oil rights in an Argentinean oilfield; (viii) the United State's largest chemical and industrial products companies in an internal investigation of alleged corruption involving its Mexican subsidiary; (ix) the Rosenthal family, one of the most prominent families in Central America, in a number of related criminal matters; and (x) a senior executive of one of Venezuela's largest engineering companies in DOJ investigations into corruption and money laundering involving PdVSA.

Successfully represented a Fortune 200 technology contractor in present responsibility proceedings before the US Army and GSA SDOs relating to a multimillion - dollar FCA settlement involving pricing and kickback issues; no administrative agreement required.

Mortgage fraud can encompass elaborate schemes that involve anything from inflated property values, undisclosed kickbacks, identity theft, and preying on home owners facing foreclosure.

The court observed that «section 8 (a) of RESPA prohibits the payment or receipt of fees, kickbacks, or things of value in exchange for referrals of «business incident to or part of a real estate settlement service involving a federally related mortgage loan.»»

Remember, Section 8 of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) «prohibits anyone from giving or accepting a fee, kickback, or anything of value in exchange for referrals of settlement service business involving a federally related mortgage loan.»