Sentences with phrase «kickback scheme»

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

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.

Some vanity publishers also engage in kickback schemes, offering agents a bonus for each client they persuade to accept a pay - to - publish contract.

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.

Sherman Oaks lender Prospect Mortgage will pay the federal government $ 3.5 million to settle charges that it operated illegal kickback schemes with real estate brokers to gain business.

NEW YORK CITY — State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son conducted a brazen bribery and kickback scheme for years, bilking money from an environmental company while making bungling attempts to try to evade authorities, according to officials and court documents.

On Thursday, the mayor said «I've got nothing for you» when asked to comment on the ruling by the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals that tossed Silver's conviction in a pair of kickback schemes that netted him around $ 4 million.

With approval rating in the low teens just five months into her second term, Rousseff's also struggling to win back the public trust amid Brazil's biggest corruption investigation, an inquiry into a massive kickback scheme at state - run oil company Petrobras.

Silver also received another $ 700,000 in referral fees from a real estate law firm in an alleged kickback scheme as he directed tax breaks to two developers, including Glenwood Management, the largest political donor in the state.

Harding pleaded guilty Oct. 6 to one count of felony securities fraud for his involvement in pay - to - play kickback schemes at the state Office of the Comptroller and the state Common Retirement Fund, Cuomo said.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Rattner was the «senior executive» of the Securities and Exchange Commission complaint in the probe of the pension fund kickback scheme.

A federal jury convicted Skelos and his son on a slate of charges linked to a years - long kickback scheme in which they took money from an environmental company while hiding it from authorities, in exchange for legislative favors from the majority leader.

Former top Cuomo aide and campaign manager Joe Percoco is accused of participating in a widespread kickback scheme that allowed him to pocket $ 315,000 in bribes from two companies looking to do business with the state.

Federal regulators probing real estate kickback schemes (click here to read).

MIDTOWN — Former State Comptroller Alan Hevesi has been sentenced to one to four years in prison for his involvement in a pension fund pay - to - play kickback scheme.

«The fact that the payments Silver allegedly received as «bribes» or «kickbacks» were funneled through entities in which he had an undisclosed interest does not transform the bribery or kickback schemes into «undisclosed conflict - of - interest» schemes,» the judge wrote.

New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver denies knowing about an alleged kickback scheme by William Rapfogel, the husband of his chief of staff.

We believe that CBA's and kickback schemes together comprise far more transactions than the industry would admit.

But they shouldn't expect much leniency, says one legal expert who has paid close attention to Detroit's numerous bribery and kickback schemes over the years.

They don't require contractors to report potential kickback schemes, and they don't have to meet certain labor and safety standards.

Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase would pay $ 35.7 million for participating in a mortgage kickback scheme with a now - defunct Owings Mills - based title company under a federal consent order filed Thursday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and...

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.

A former chief executive of the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan has been charged with receiving about $ 1.4 million in illegal payments in an extortion and kickback scheme carried out between 1996 and 2007.

For example, the «fuse» wore out it seems in the ongoing debacle of the Health Alliance, which is sort of funny since this is all benefitting government and politicians in an enrichment kickback scheme and an Okie from Muscogee that sold the money that could have kept the fragile alliance afloat and having an ounce of credibility down the Rondout Creek to the Indian Reservation in Oklahoma.

Non-profits such as the Fuller Road and Fort Schuyler management corporations have emerged as a focus in U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's allegations that these groups served as vehicles for bid rigging and kickback schemes relating to large construction projects that are part of Cuomo's efforts to use the State University system as a platform for upstate economic development.

At the heart of the charges are payments Percoco and his wife received while the governor's aide was on sabbatical from the state to manage Cuomo's 2014 re-election campaign, though the complaint purports that the alleged kickback schemes date back as far as 2010 — the year then - Attorney General Cuomo successfully sought the state's top office.

William Rapfogel began stealing from the Met Council shortly after becoming its CEO in 1992, and continued taking money for more than 20 years, as part of an eleborate kickback scheme, investigators said.

A 52 - year - old Miami owner of multiple home health agencies was sentenced to 20 years in prison for $ 66 million in Medicare fraud that used his network of 20 home health agencies to host an elaborate kickback scheme.

As this story from the San Jose Mercury News and multiple others report, class action lawyer William Lerach, formerly a partner in the indicted class action law firm Milberg Weiss, struck a plea agreement to pay $ 7.75 million for his involvement in a class action kickback scheme by which Lerach made undisclosed payments to class action plaintiffs in exchange for signing them up for representation.

If you are a prospective home buyer, you must be aware of closing fee kickback schemes and know how to avoid them.

No illegal kickback scheme existed where attorneys performed some services for the fees earned.

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.

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.

Herbert Friedman, the former chief financial officer for the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, was sentenced to four months in jail for his role in a massive kickback scheme.

Back in 2007, Alan Hevesi had to quit as comptroller — because he was headed to prison for a different pension - fund kickback scheme.

A Columbia University official fraudulently pocketed $ 350,000 in financial aid funds in a years - long kickback scheme with three students, prosecutors charged.

In 2003, Ganim was convicted by a federal jury on 16 felony counts of racketeering, bribery, conspiracy, mail fraud and tax evasion for accepting more than $ 500,000 in cash, diamonds, expensive wine, tailored clothing, high - priced meals, and home renovations in a widespread kickback scheme that led to the convictions of 10 of his associates.

Prosecutors in the Sheldon Silver corruption case called two key players, including an official with Glenwood Management, to the stand today to answer questions about the former Assembly speaker's alleged involvement in a real - estate kickback scheme.

«The fact that the payments Silver allegedly received as «bribes» or «kickbacks» were funneled through entities in which he had an undisclosed interest does not transform the bribery or kickback schemes into «undisclosed conflict - of - interest» schemes,» she wrote.

There have been cases in the past in which providers paid the U.S. government due to allegations of participating in kickback schemes.

Silver received $ 700,000 in referral fees from a real estate law firm doing tax appeal work for Glenwood in an alleged kickback scheme as he directed tax breaks to Glenwood, the indictment claims.

Two former film executives agree to settle lawsuit over alleged kickback schemes, The National Post

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.

Furthermore, the consent order explained that Prospect Mortgage had designated a specific loan officer (who worked directly out of the Keller Williams Mid-Willamette office but was paid by Prospect) to maintain the illegal kickback scheme.

In what will had more grist for the mill when it comes to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's call for ethics reform in the state Legislature, Leibell was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for his role in a bribery and kickback scheme.