Sentences with word «kickback»

The hospital administrator even says that a handful of doctors have demanded hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks in exchange for admitting patients to his hospital.

«There are four million reasons why you know that money played a part,» he said, noting the amount of money the government says Silver earned from kickbacks from a cancer researcher and real estate developers.

Silver doesn't even deny this fact, which is at the heart of the government's case that Silver engaged in illegal kickback schemes for personal gain.

Runes, a lawyer, testified Monday during the third week of the federal corruption trial against Silver, in which U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara accused the Lower East Side lawmaker of receiving kickbacks for steering real estate clients to the tax certiorari law firm of Goldberg & Iryami.

In the 43 - page complaint — which details phone wiretaps, intercepted emails and interviews with cooperating witnesses — prosecutors charged Skelos with trying to «monetize» his office through the solicitation of kickbacks from real estate developers, and the use of his official office to influence the awarding of a contract for storm - water treatment by Nassau County.

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.

Looks like Brad Linder is an Amazon Associates who gets kickbacks for each sales.

His then - firm, Quadrangle, won $ 100 million in pension business in 2005 with the help of Hank Morris, Hevesi's top political adviser, who collected $ 1 million in kickbacks as part of the deal.

An example is following the triceps kickback with triceps pushdown — the idea being to push the muscle far enough so that it recruits additional motor units.

Represented a non-U.S. contractor in a DOJ investigation of alleged kickbacks on contracts awarded by the U.S. Department of Defense for reconstruction work in Iraq.

Silver was found guilty last month of receiving kickbacks through secret arrangements with two law firms.

Some dealerships get paid kickback by the bank for getting you locked into a higher interest rate, he said.

You can do tricep kickbacks with both arms at the same time while standing to increase the challenge on the lower back muscles.

Several people charged in alleged kickback scheme with Venezuelan financial official [/ a], Reuters

But he was later caught up in a scheme in which his top adviser, Hank Morris had taken kickbacks through «placement agents» or intermediaries between the fund and investments.

By the Bronx D.A.'s office which was in the process of investigating Bernie Kerik for taking kickbacks from contractor friends in Jersey, while he was NYC Police Commissioner.

Cable glute kickback on a bench (4 x 25 each leg).»

Dr Felix Roque was charged in a massive indictment that alleged that he was being paid kickbacks by the owner and family members of an MRI facility.

That argument — that the conduct might be ugly but it isn't against the law, and everybody else does it — might sound familiar: it was what former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's lawyers said when U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara indicted him on accepting kickbacks disguised as outside income.

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.

Silver, who has been speaker for 21 years, faces five federal charges including conspiracy and bribery and is accused of using his position to obtain millions of dollars in kickbacks masked as legitimate income from two law firms.

Some Capitol insiders are still shaking their heads that former state Republican chairman George Gallo is going to prison for accepting kickbacks in political campaigns.

You feel little surface ripples shudder up through the structure and there's a bit of steering kickback over bigger lumps and bumps, too.

The CFPB has not publicly detailed its specific reasons for pursuing Zillow, but the company says the allegations involve the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act — which prohibits kickbacks in exchange for business referrals — and a section of the Consumer Financial Protection Act that prohibits «unfair, deceptive or abusive» practices.

Unfortunately for de Blasio, Silver is embroiled in a bribery and kickback scandal as he now faces five counts of corruption and fraud.

(I will get a little kickback if you buy using that link within 24 hours of clicking.

Cable kickbacks machines also come in a different style where you can lay down on the machine and use it for the buildup pf your triceps.

The break came a day after deliberations began in the trial of the 71 - year - old once - powerful Democrat on charges that he traded his influence to earn $ 5 million through kickbacks over more than a decade.

Vets and their staff are also given kickbacks, free food for their own pets and other perks for pushing their products in their office.

Too many agents engage in abuses — charging upfront fees, participating in kickback referral schemes, urging writers to pay for expensive adjunct services, even steering clients into the clutches of vanity publishers — for you to assume that every agent you encounter is equally reputable.

Prosecutors allege Silver steered real estate developers to a law firm run by Silver's former counsel in the Assembly, which handled complicated real estate tax cases, and that Silver received kickbacks at his own firm, Weitz & Luxenberg, from referrals of asbestos cases that were sent by a doctor who received state research funds.

If you're like most people, your «go to» triceps exercise is likely triceps kickbacks using dumbbells.

Legislative leaders and Cuomo failed to find a compromise on how to better review state contracts and job - creation programs amid the arrests last fall of Cuomo's former top aide Joseph Percoco on kickback charges and SUNY Polytechnic Institute president Alain Kaloyeros on bid - rigging charges.

It will work as a one - legged cable kickback for low pulley glute extensions same as cable glute exercise.

It's an Amazon affiliate link that won't cost you any more money, but I'll get a little kickback if you use the link and that helps me run this little blog.

Also, I can't argue with Joe DeMatio's comments about the car's steering, and I felt quite a bit of steering kickback when cornering aggressively over roads that were moderately bumpy.

3b Cable kickbacks Stand facing a low cable pulley.

By its terms the bulletin «provides an overview of RESPA's prohibitions against kickback and unearned fees and general information on MSAs, describes examples of market behavior gleaned from CFPB's enforcement experience in this area, and describes the legal and compliance risks (it has) observed from such arrangements.»

I am an Amazon affiliate which means if you buy anything through my site, I get a very small kickback at no cost to you.

Borrowers alleged that title companies made illegal kickback payments by splitting a fee with attorneys who referred business.

Make your head and torso straight and raise your knee back as high as you can but keeping the knee parallel to the ground for straight leg kickbacks.

Occasionally, power - ups will appear which give you such kickbacks as additional weapon upgrades, bonus rewards, as well as the temporarily being able to travel off the edge of the shape you're supposed to be in.

Roughly $ 700,000 of the alleged $ 4 million in illegal kickbacks Silver is charged with receiving came from his arrangement with Goldberg, who gave Silver a cut of any earnings Goldberg's firm made from two real - estate companies referred to Goldberg by Silver.

The Community Kickback program was started in 2009 to showcase and support local charities in western Michigan.

If you want to work your triceps, try doing double kickbacks while lying on a bench.

Prosecutors said Silver had earned kickbacks through work he professed to do for personal injury law firm Weitz & Luxenberg.

I can offer kickbacks to certain vendors, but unless I'm ethically challenged, I may not.