Sentences with phrase «kickback scheme for»

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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.

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...

Keller Williams Realty Mid-Willamette, a real estate brokerage located in Corvallis, Oregon, has been penalized and fined by a federal financial watchdog for participating in what has been called an 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.

Approximately $ 700,000 came in «undisclosed bribes and kickbacks» from a scheme in which Mr. Silver used his influence as speaker to induce real estate developers with «business for the state» to use a real estate law firm run by an attorney who previously worked as Mr. Silver's counsel in the Assembly, and which paid Mr. Silver for the referrals.

In May, the former head of SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Alain Kaloyeros, and the prior leader of Cuomo's high - tech economic development efforts, will be tried for allegedly conducting kickback and bid - rigging schemes related to economic development contracts between SUNY Poly and state contractors.

Approximately $ 700,000 came in «undisclosed bribes and kickbacks» from a scheme in which Mr. Silver used his influence as Assembly Speaker to «induce real estate developers with business before the State» to use a real estate law firm run by an attorney who previously worked as Mr. Silver's counsel in the Assembly, and which paid Mr. Silver for the referrals.

Venditto, Mangano and Mangano's wife, Linda, all have pleaded not guilty in an alleged bribery scheme in which the former elected officials are accused of illegally helping Singh get $ 20 million in indirect loan guarantees and government contracts in exchange for kickbacks and a $ 450,000 no - show job for Linda Mangano.

Norman Seabrook, president of the Correction Officers» Benevolent Association, personally got tens of thousands of dollars in kickbacks for steering about $ 20 million in union money to the Platinum Partners hedge fund in a scheme dating back to December 2013, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.

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 new subsidies include $ 16.5 million from a criticized $ 400 million fund created by former State Sen. Minority Leader Dean Skelos, who resigned from his post after he was arrested for a bribery and kickback scheme, Politico reported.

The bottom line for some in the Assembly is that A) Silver has been in the speaker's chair for far too long and B) The alleged bribery and kickback scheme that ensnared Rapfogel, the husband of Silver aide Judy Rapfogel, entered a new phase when the scope of the scandal was revealed.

And on Friday, DiNapoli in a radio interview on WCNY suggested he would support more controls for the state's procurement process after nine people — including a former top aide to the governor — were arrested in connection to an alleged bribery and kickback scheme.

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.

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.

Silver, 72, a once - beloved Lower Manhattan assemblyman and one of the most powerful men in the state, was convicted by a federal jury in November on charges of money laundering and extortion related to two bribery schemes where he earned millions in kickbacks by trading political favors for money.

The disgraced ex-assemblyman was convicted in November of charges of extortion and money laundering related to two bribery schemes in which he received millions in kickbacks by trading political favors for money.

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.

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.

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.

«What we have learned so far in this trial is that the Governor is unequivocally responsible for the environment that allowed his closest aide and confidante to engage in these massive bribery and kickback schemes,» said Chairman Ed Cox.

In March, the scheduled trial of a former Nassau County Executive begins for an alleged kickback scheme to help a restaurant owner receive over $ 20 million in grants and loans.

And in May, the former head of SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Alain Kaloyeros, will be tried for allegedly conducting kickback and bid rigging schemes related to economic development contracts between SUNY Poly and state contractor.

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.

The councilman was charged in a bribery scheme to get state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D - Hollis) onto the Republican ticket in the race for mayor and both were nabbed amid revelations of alleged kickbacks centering around the senator's desire for the mayor's office.

An attorney for Sheldon Silver argued Thursday that the former New York state Assembly speaker's conviction on public - corruption charges should be reversed in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that narrowed the circumstances under which certain government acts could be considered evidence of a kickback scheme.

A 35 - page criminal complaint filed by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office lays out his alleged scheme where Silver «used the power and influence of his official position to obtain for himself millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income earned by Silver as a private lawyer.»

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.

Prosecutors have accused him of running two separate schemes, steering real estate developers to a law firm that paid him kickbacks, and funneling state grants to a doctor who referred asbestos claims to a second law firm that employed Mr. Silver and paid him fees for referring clients.

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.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and FBI officials charged that for more than a decade Silver, a lawyer, received kickbacks disguised as «attorney referral fees» through schemes that hinged on his power as one of the three most influential men in state government.

Prosecutors charge that Mr. Silver, a Democrat from the Lower East Side, traded official actions for $ 3 million in an illegal kickback scheme.

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.

Silver's lawyers argue each of the alleged schemes represents a «routine financial relationship with the entity to which he is allegedly steering business» and does constitute «the sort of «side payment... from a third party» that Skilling requires for a payment to be deemed an illegal bribe or kickback.»

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

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.

Silver's conviction had rested on the premise that he had performed «official acts» in exchange for kickbacks in two bribery schemes, according to the decision.

The federal complaint against Silver accuses him of mail fraud and the federal crime of theft of honest services, saying he engaged in a scheme since 2000 to use the power and influence of his official position to obtain for himself over $ 6 million, including $ 700,000 in bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income he earned as a private lawyer.

Venditto, Mangano and Mangano's wife, Linda, have pleaded not guilty in an alleged bribery scheme in which the elected officials are accused of illegally helping Singh get $ 20 million in indirect loan guarantees and government contracts in exchange for kickbacks, and a $ 450,000 no - show job for Linda Mangano.

The Manganos and Venditto have pleaded not guilty and assert they are victims of a plot by Long Island restaurateur Harendra Singh to get leniency for his own crimes by falsely claiming they engaged in a bribery - and - kickback scheme.

The information will be considered by Manhattan federal Judge Valerie Caproni when Silver is sentenced May 3 for his $ 5 million kickback scheme.

Silver directed payments from a discretionary fund as part of a bribery scheme that netted him millions in kickbacks, and good - government advocates say they provide a smiliar risk for corruption.

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.

Then in May, the former head of SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Alain Kaloyeros, will be tried for allegedly conducting kickback and bid rigging schemes related to economic development contracts between SUNY Poly and state contractors.

The two pleaded guilty in a kickback scheme in which dealers in 30 states gave executives of American Honda up to $ 15 million in cash and gifts in exchange for hot - selling cars and franchises.

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.

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 honest and skilled.

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 Detroit provider was sentenced to six years in prison for $ 10.4 kickback scheme.

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