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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.
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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).
Prosecutors said Silver used his powerful position in Albany to extract at least $ 4 million in kickbacks and schemes.
The scheme provided SILVER with two different streams of unlawful income: (i) approximately $ 700,000 in kickbacks SILVER received by steering two real estate developers with business before the state legislature to a law firm with which he was associated, and (ii) more than $ 3 million in asbestos client referral fees SILVER received by, among other official acts, awarding $ 500,000 in state grants to a university research center of a physician who referred patients made ill by asbestos to SILVER at Weitz & Luxenberg.
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.
The presiding judge, Valerie E. Caproni of Federal District Court, told jurors at the outset of the trial that the government must prove that Mr. Silver knowingly participated in a scheme to defraud and «received things of value in the form of bribes or kickbacks, and that he knew when he accepted those things he was expected, in exchange, to take official action as the opportunity arose.»
Since September 2016, Jameson has worked at the Michigan's Department of Attorney General in the Health Care Fraud Division, where he has assisted the state of Michigan in recovering funds related to Medicaid & Medicare fraud, as well as elder abuse, Stark, and kickback schemes.