Sentences with phrase «kickbacks masked»
The perennial question of how some people practice law while they make laws arises anew as U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's high - octane criminal complaint against Silver alleging «millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income earned as a private lawyer.»
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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.
He is accused of using his position to obtain millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income.
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.»
He 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.
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.
Silver, who retains his seat in the Assembly, is accused of receiving bribes and kickbacks masked as legal referrals.
The 35 - page criminal complaint alleges that Silver, a lawyer, used «the power and influence of his official position to obtain for himself millions of dollars of bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income.»
Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested last month on public corruption charges and is accused of using his position to obtain millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income.
New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, 70, was arrested on public corruption charges and accused of using his position to obtain millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income.
Silver, 70, was arrested and is accused of using his position to obtain millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income.
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.»
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.
Not exact matches
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver used his office to mask millions of dollars in «bribes and kickbacks» as legitimate outside income from two private law firms over more than a decade, according to a bombshell 35 - page criminal complaint filed by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara today.
Silver was convicted of receiving millions in kickbacks from companies with business before the state by masking the income as money earned from legitimate employment.
The grand jury indictment said he used that position to mask bribes and kickbacks, including more than $ 3 million earned for referring asbestos sufferers to the firm from a doctor whose medical research secretly received $ 500,000 in state funds at Silver's direction, as well as other benefits.
Prosecutors allege he used his position to take more than $ 6 million in bribes and kickbacks, which he masked as legitimate income earned as a lawyer over 15 years.
But discontent with Silver grew over the weekend following his arrest on charges that he masked bribes and kickbacks as legal referrals.
Silver, a Manhattan Democrat who is accused of masking legal referrals as bribes and kickbacks, resigned from the speakership after his arrest.
Prosecutors charged Silver «betrayed» his office through allegedly masking bribes and kickbacks as legitimate legal referrals.
Silver was arrested Thursday and accused of receiving a total of $ 6 million in bribes and kickbacks from two law firms masked as legitimate income, prosecutors said.
Dean Skelos» arrest marks the second major indictment of a leader of a legislative body following the case against Silver in January for using his powers as an elected official to elicit millions «in bribes and kickbacks» that he masked as legitimate income.
Mr. Silver has been charged by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara with masking millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks as income from two law firms, while essentially performing no work for the companies.