Sentences with phrase «kickback charges»

The arrests came just months after federal bribery and kickback charges led Assemblyman Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, to step down from his position as speaker.

Former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in July also saw his 2015 conviction on bribery and kickback charges rescinded.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in July saw his 2015 conviction on bribery and kickback charges rescinded.

Foster declined to say Monday evening if she was reconsidering getting back in the race to oppose the comeback of Ganim, who was forced from office in 2003 after a conviction on bribery and kickback charges.

Venditto resigned in January after he was indicted on bribery and kickback charges along with Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in July also saw his 2015 conviction on bribery and kickback charges rescinded.

Not exact matches

Kwame Kilpatrick, who was mayor from 2002 until 2008, was convicted this week of two dozen federal charges of corruption and bribery for a scheme to collect kickbacks on city contracts for himself and associates.

On Thursday, U.S. attorneys charged Valeant Pharmaceuticals exec Gary Tanner and the former CEO of the now - defunct specialty pharmacy Philidor Rx (with whom Valeant had an exclusive relationship) with running a multi-million dollar fraud and kickback scheme.

«As alleged, top executives of Insys Therapeutics, Inc. paid kickbacks and committed fraud to sell a highly potent and addictive opioid that can lead to abuse and life threatening respiratory depression,» said Harold Shaw, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Boston field division, in a statement.

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.

Although the senior Jordan wasn't without a shadow in his past — he pleaded guilty in 1985 to having accepted a $ 7,000 kickback from a contractor while he was in charge of inventory control at a General Electric plant — as of Monday it appeared his death was the result of a random robbery.

Last month, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested on charges of bribery and kickbacks.

Percoco is facing charges related to alleged kickbacks received in exchange for official support for economic development projects.

Authorities charge that Edward Mangano — whose eight years in office came to a close at the end of the year — and Venditto received «bribes and kickbacks» from Singh, including a lucrative no - show job to Linda Mangano, in exchange for benefits including county contracts and town loan guarantees.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto were arrested Thursday and charged with receiving «bribes and kickbacks» from a businessman who also gave Mangano's wife a lucrative no - show job, federal authorities said.

Mei, who was charged with accepting $ 50,000 and cash payments for a luxury car lease from Singh, secretly pleaded guilty in September 2015 to receiving «bribes and kickbacks» for helping Singh secure the loan guarantees, according to an indictment unsealed last week.

The charges come just months after Mr. Bharara charged former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver with accepting what he described as kickbacks and bribes disguised as legitimate work done for law firms.

Mangano and Venditto were originally indicted in October, 2016 on charges of receiving «bribes and kickbacks» from a businessman who also gave Linda Mangano a lucrative no - show job, federal authorities charge.

Bharara in January made his most high - profile arrest, charging now former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver with accepting bribes and kickbacks.

Silvers lawyers two weeks ago claimed that statements Bharara made about the charges — which allege Silver lined his pockets with nearly $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks in a stunning abuse of power dating to at least 2000 — «caused irreparable harm by tainting» the grand jury that indicted him on Feb. 19.

According to the New York Times, Percoco is charged with taking more than $ 320,000 in kickbacks from two companies that had business before the state.

DO N'T put the arm on major real estate developer Glenwood Management — in the midst of negotiations affecting the company's profits — to hire a law firm that's secretly paying you kickbacks (which is one of Bharara's charges against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver).

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.

The Commission, in the charge sheet, accused Alanamu, who was also the Chairman of the Kwara State Polytechnic Tenders Board, of collecting N5 million bribe from a contractor, Salman Sulaiman as kickback for the award of a contract.

Silver is charged with subverting his employment at two private law firms to gain nearly $ 6 million dollars in kickbacks and bribes.

Jan. 22: Silver is arrested and charged on five counts of fraud and corruption in a 35 - page complaint alleging the lawmaker made millions of dollars on the side through illegal kickbacks.

The Democrat automatically lost his Assembly seat Monday when he was convicted on charges of corruption, extortion, money laundering and collecting nearly $ 4 million in kickbacks and bribes.

Mangano has pleaded not guilty to federal charges of receiving bribes and kickbacks from indicted restaurateur Harendra Singh in return for county work.

Silver was convicted last year of corruption and bribery charges for scamming nearly $ 4 million in kickbacks by peddling his influence in the state Capitol.

The charges against Mr. Silver are focused on his outside income — which U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has argued amounted to «bribes and kickbacks» disguised as legitimate earnings — and today's agreement calls for new disclosure requirements for any income in excess of $ 1,000.

Silver, who stepped down from his longtime position as Assembly speaker in the wake of the corruption case, was indicted on federal fraud and extortion charges in February related to claims that he took more than $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks.

The commission, in the charge sheet, accused Alanamu, who was also the Chairman of the Kwara State Polytechnic Tenders Board, of collecting N5m bribe from a contractor, Salman Sulaiman, as a kickback for the award of a contract.

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.

The appeals court ruled Bruno could be retried on different charges, and in May 2012 he was indicted for taking bribes and kickbacks.

Silver was arrested on bribery charges after prosecutors concluded he exploited his power to reap $ 4 million in kickbacks over a decade.

New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested Thursday on public corruption charges and accused of using his position as one of the most powerful men in Albany to obtain millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income.

Silver, 74, is on trial for the second time in three years on charges that he sold the influence of his office in exchange for the kickbacks.

The lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the charges — which allege Silver lined his pockets with nearly $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks in a stunning abuse of power dating to at least 2000 — claiming public statements that Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara made about the case «caused irreparable harm by tainting» the grand jury that indicted him on Feb. 19.

After Andrew Cuomo unceremoniously shuttered the Commission, the subpoenas were withdrawn — until U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara's office incorporated the work into its own investigation, resulting in charges of «using the power and influence of his official position to obtain for himself millions of dollars of bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income.»

The once - powerful Democrat was indicted two weeks ago on charges that he received $ 4 million in kickbacks from law firms for doing political favors since 2002, disguising the income as legitimate income.

In October, Mangano was arrested on federal corruption charges for allegedly accepting bribes and kickbacks from a local restaurateur who received benefits including a county contract.

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.

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.

One day after charging one of New York's leading lawmakers with exploiting his office to obtain millions of dollars in kickbacks and bribes, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York delivered a stinging condemnation of the culture of corruption in Albany and said the system was set up to breed misdeeds.

Silver, 71, was indicted in January on corruption charges alleging that he abused his political power in order to line his pockets with more than $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks dating back to 2000.

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.

Silver, who ruled the Legislature with an iron fist for the past two decades, was charged with taking bribes and kickbacks, using his office to obtain nearly $ 4 million in corrupt payments from two law firms over the past 15 years.

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.

Silver, 74, is on trial for the second time in three years on charges that he sold his office as one of the three most powerful politicians in the state — along with the Senate majority leader and governor — in exchange for $ 4 million in illegal kickbacks.

Three weeks after the Moreland Commission — which Governor Cuomo founded in 2013 — was due to release its report on public corruption in New York State, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested by federal authorities on charges of taking millions in bribes and kickbacks.