Sentences with phrase «kickbacks through»

Bharara filed a criminal complaint alleging Silver used his powerful position to amass millions of dollars in kickbacks through two law firms.

But he was later caught up in a scheme in which his top adviser, Hank Morris had taken kickbacks through «placement agents» or intermediaries between the fund and investments.

Prosecutors accused Silver of obtaining nearly $ 4 million in kickbacks through schemes where he used his position as Assembly Speaker to help benefit two real estate developers and a cancer researcher.

Prosecutors said Silver had earned kickbacks through work he professed to do for personal injury law firm Weitz & Luxenberg.

It's one of those cars that you steer more with your brain than with your hands, yet there's no nasty kickback through the rim either.

On our test drive the Aygo remained largely composed, refusing to transmit any kickback through the flat - bottomed steering wheel.

There's really no kickback through the steering wheel, and even over big bumps the suspension never bangs or punishes occupants, making the outdoor excursion relatively comfy; I even leave the air - conditioned seat running the whole time.

Occasional kickback through the wheel is evident too.

The car's shrunken proportions aren't infallible over a simulated ride and handling course either, with some notable body roll and some vague kickback through the steering wheel.

With the ACC still in Sport mode I did experience some unwelcome kickback through the steering wheel.

However, kickback through steering, limp gearshift and poorer refinement betray the car's nineties mechanical roots.

It fills ruts and potholes more effectively and feeds less kickback through the wheel.

There's some kickback through the steering wheel, too.

Indeed, the kind of mid-corner bumps that often upset tightly sprung performance cars caused very little kickback through the steering wheel and virtually no directional deviation, leaving the driver to keep the throttle nailed and just push the car deeper into corners.

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She said 13 of the 15 responded that they did provide «kickbacks directly to agents, indirectly through third party payments, or both.»

Beginning in or around 2004 and continuing through 2011, I and others on the FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with the selection of South Africa as the host nation for the 2010 World Cup... Beginning in or about 1993 and continuing through the early 2000s, I and others agreed to accept bribes and kickbacks in conjunction with the broadcast and other rights to the 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2003 Gold Cups.

The breezy style is out of an alternate universe where the clothing would equip you just as well for an afternoon stroll through Logan Square as it would for a kickback at an ice house in Houston.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was indicted for alleged kickbacks he received through his secret legal work.

In addition, the complaint says, the former head of SUNY Poly, Alain Kaloyeros, and long - time Cuomo associate and lobbyist Todd Howe personally profited through bribes and kickbacks.

Silver, whose conviction was overturned on appeal based on that Supreme Court ruling, stands accused — for a second time — of selling his office in exchange for $ 4 million in kickbacks that he received through two law firms with which he was affiliated.

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.

Prosecutors charged Silver «betrayed» his office through allegedly masking bribes and kickbacks as legitimate legal referrals.

Jurors will also be asked what they know and feel about Silver, who stands accused of using his powerful position in the New York legislature to dole out favors to Dr. Taub and a real estate company in return for $ 4 million in kickbacks that he received through two law firms he was affiliated with.

Along with a $ 3 million kickback scheme that revolved around mesothelioma lawsuits, Silver is also accused of getting $ 700,000 through his maneuvering with Glenwood Management.

Judge Valerie Caproni also ruled that Silver must pay a $ 1.75 million fine and forfeit $ 5 million, the net amount of money prosecutors said he earned through two kickback schemes.

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.

«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.

Silver through his lawyer has denied five counts in a federal complaint accusing him of using his powerful post to solicit and collect millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks from developers and lawyers.

Mr. Bharara has alleged that what Mr. Silver presented as legitimate outside income from law firms was actually millions of dollars of kickbacks and bribes gained through his official position in Albany.

Mr. Rechnitz began testifying last week in Federal District Court in Manhattan in a government case against Norman Seabrook, the former head of the correction officers» union, who is charged with investing millions of dollars of retirement funds through a hedge fund in exchange for promised kickbacks.

The «sentences punctuate an epic scheme by Mark Mazer, Gerard Denault, Dimitry Aronshtein and others to steal millions of dollars through kickbacks and fraud from the City of New York, and then squirrel away the proceeds,» U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.

In addition, the complaint says, the former head of SUNY Poly, Alain Kaloyeros, and long time Cuomo associate and lobbyist Todd Howe personally profited through bribes and kickbacks.

«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.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara claims that Silver made $ 750,000 through a private investment that was not available to the public, using the money that he obtained through illegal kickbacks, Capital New York reported.

Haptics use varied vibrations to offer tactile feedback, much like the buzzing jolts or kickbacks gamers feel through a handheld controller.

You feel little surface ripples shudder up through the structure and there's a bit of steering kickback over bigger lumps and bumps, too.

I am an Amazon affiliate which means if you buy anything through my site, I get a very small kickback at no cost to you.

But think about it... why would ABC Bad Literary Agents accept your work for representation (and go through all the hard work of trying to sell it), when XYZ Editing Company sends them a check (kickback) every month (for a percentage of the money that writers — like you — pay XYZ Editing Company)?

Through the Booksellers Association, who have organised and orchestrated it, we get a kickback from every ebook sale from a Kobo reader that we sell.»

«These commissions are earned through a combination of charging upfront fees and higher interest rates to earn «kickbacks.

Progress through challenges to unlock special PlayStation Home rewards, such as collectible weapons; complete all 10 challenges to unlock the Kickback Endurance Booster for use in UNCHARTED 3: Drake's Deception multiplayer when the game releases on November 1st.

If you all would allow me to choose which outlet I want to preorder from and Gamestop was on that list, I'd easily preorder through Gamestop via Home, giving me both the Creepy Crawler kickback and Nathan Drake avatar.

Global Witness» new report «All the Presidents» Men» links these two issues: economic and political disorder from the war has been exploited to loot the Angolan state through kickbacks on arms trafficking and a highly over-priced military procurement process.

From 2007 through 2015, the man and his nominees are accused of paying patient recruiters kickbacks to refer Medicare beneficiaries to the man's owned facilities.

Him and eleven other co-conspirators apparently submitted false and fraudulent claims to Medicare through kickbacks that were medically unnecessary, were not eligible for Medicare reimbursement, or were never provided by his clinic.

Kickbacks can harm patients not only through indirect financial exploitation and abuse, but also by giving nursing home staff access to drugs that could be used as chemical restraint, such as Risperdal, which is an antipsychotic medicine that has come under fire recently for being wrongly prescribed to nursing home patients with dementia.

Congress intended RESPA to provide consumers with improved disclosures of settlement costs and to reduce the costs of closing through the elimination of referral fees and kickback.

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