Sentences with phrase «more in bribes»

Who in their right mind would lend $ 2.5 billion for a century to an emerging markets company that in April wrote off $ 17 billion in overvalued assets and billions more in bribes?

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Her company applied for a permit to operate in the building more than two years ago but still hasn't received an answer, so now she pays a bribe.

Disgraced top Communist cadre Sun Zhengcai has admitted taking bribes of more than $ 27m in a video confession televised on state broadcaster CCTV this week.

Recently, the squad raided two more companies: in July, they visited the offices of Calgary - based Blackfire Exploration, a privately owned mining firm, pursuing allegations that the company had bribed a Mexican mayor.

This is unlikely to change, no matter how many more billions Canadian governments throw at carmakers in the form of bribes — * cough * — I mean, subsidies.

Therefore a scheme developed by two or more persons to bribe a foreign public official that is later not followed through can still result in the violation of the CFPOA.

In such a way, the giving of the first portion becomes less of an offering and sacrifice, and more like a bribe.

Elections in the age of low - intensity conflict are generally managed more efficiently than in the past when ballot boxes were stuffed and opposition candidates killed, bribed, or exiled.

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In the long run, food rewards or bribes usually create more problems than they solve.

I had to bribe my son with money in his piggy bank to get a few of the pictures I took of him, though, as he is becoming more self - aware these days.

Constantly offering your child foods that are high in sugar and saturated fat (which most bribing foods are) will not only displace healthier more nutrient - dense foods in their diet, but also contribute to poor dental health, overweight / obesity, and a whole host of long term health problems.

Ironically, 4 out of 5 bribing moms promise dessert or sweets to get their children to eat healthy food, as in «finish three more bites of your chicken and you can have a treat!»

But don't bribe your child with «If you stop crying I'll give you a cookie» which may only reinforce more crying the next time he rides in the car with the sole aim of getting a cookie.

Halloran, a Republican, was charged with taking more than $ 20,000 in payoffs from two undercover FBI operatives posing as corrupt developers in exchange for agreeing to funnel public cash to them and to help bribe Republican NYC county leaders to allow Democratic Sen. Malcolm Smith, also of Queens, to run Row B in the party's mayoral primary.

In a split verdict, Percoco was convicted of soliciting and accepting more than $ 300,000 in bribes from executives working for two companies with state business, but not guilty of extortion and conspiracy to commit extortioIn a split verdict, Percoco was convicted of soliciting and accepting more than $ 300,000 in bribes from executives working for two companies with state business, but not guilty of extortion and conspiracy to commit extortioin bribes from executives working for two companies with state business, but not guilty of extortion and conspiracy to commit extortion.

In Long Island's Eastern District, Singh faces more than 10 years in prison if convicted on a September 2015 indictment charging him with fraud and with bribing a former Oyster Bay Town employeIn Long Island's Eastern District, Singh faces more than 10 years in prison if convicted on a September 2015 indictment charging him with fraud and with bribing a former Oyster Bay Town employein prison if convicted on a September 2015 indictment charging him with fraud and with bribing a former Oyster Bay Town employee.

The trial, expected to last four to six weeks, will have plenty of seamy detail about backroom dealings, court filings suggest — from jokes about wanting more «zitti» in alleged coded references to bribes taken from «The Sopranos,» to using clout to influence state agencies and routing more than $ 300,000 in alleged payoffs to Percoco through his wife.

Percoco stands accused of accepting more than $ 300,000 worth of personal bribes in exchange for favorable action on behalf of two of Howe's clients — Steve Aiello and Joe Gerardi, executives at Syracuse real estate firm COR Development, and Peter «Braith» Kelly, a government relations executive at energy company Competitive Power ventures.

Jurors had informed the court twice that they were deadlocked in the case against Percoco and three businessmen accused of paying his family more than $ 300,000 in bribes, but U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni ordered them to keep deliberating and on Tuesday said she would accept a partial verdict.

They are tasked with deciding whether the aide, Joseph Percoco, is guilty of taking more than $ 300,000 in bribes from three executives with business before the state.

An anti-Democrat political action committee on Tuesday unveiled a Web site attacking Cuomo over the «pay - to - play» allegations against Joseph Percoco, who's accused of pocketing more than $ 300,000 in bribes from companies doing business with the state.

The ethics commission's first meeting comes on the same day that State Senator Carl Kruger pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn to felony charges, for accepting more than a million dollars in bribes to maintain what prosecutors called a lavish lifestyle, including a large house owned by a former mafia boss and a Bentley automobile.

They checked off more than a dozen potential witnesses, including Lisa Percoco — who prosecutors allege was the direct recipient of more than $ 300,000 in alleged bribe money intended to influence her husband.

A jury of seven women and five men was chosen Monday to hear the evidence against Joseph Percoco, who's accused of shaking down more than $ 300,000 in «pay - to - play» bribes from companies seeking to do business with the state.

Boyland, a Democrat, was convicted in 2014 of accepting $ 13,800 in bribes for helping to a carnival promoter get a carnival permit, and of funneling more than $ 84,000 in state funds for a nonprofit in his district to his campaign coffers.

According to the federal complaint, Percoco took more than $ 315,000 in bribes from 2012 through 2016 from Syracuse - based COR Development and Competitive Power Ventures, an energy company looking to build a power plant in the Hudson Valley.

NEW YORK, NY — Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that former New York State Senate Majority Leader DEAN SKELOS was sentenced today to five years in prison after having been found guilty by a federal jury of using his official position to obtain more than $ 300,000 in bribes and extortion payments that were paid to his son, ADAM SKELOS, in exchange for DEAN SKELOS's official acts.

Howe claims to have helped execs at two companies doing business with the state funnel more than $ 300,000 in bribes to then - Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco.

Percoco was accused of taking more than $ 300,000 in bribes from two companies with business before the state, NY1 reported.

A jury concluded he collected more than $ 20,000 in cash bribes for promises that he would help developers of senior centers in the Bronx with custom - tailored legislation.

Percoco, who served as the governor's executive secretary, is accused of taking more than $ 600,000 in bribes from an energy company that needed state approval to build a power plant in the Hudson Valley and an upstate developer that received several state contracts.

Bharara had Cuomo in his crosshairs, after indictments pierced the highest echelons of the governor's world, including his enforcer and right - hand - man, Joe Percoco, who was charged with taking more than $ 300,000 in bribes.

Mr. Percoco, who had served as Mr. Cuomo's executive deputy secretary, is accused of soliciting and taking more than $ 315,000 in bribes from 2012 to 2016 from two companies: Competitive Power Ventures, an energy company that was seeking state approval to build a power plant in the Hudson Valley, and COR Development, a major developer in the Syracuse area that ended up with several large state - funded economic development projects.

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.

Furthermore, our legislators play favorites to some groups by using «member items,» which are nothing more than legalized bribes, to grant money to for specific voter groups in their home districts.

The Skelos trial is expected to showcase a facet of politics that is more bare knuckles than the evidence that has surfaced in the Silver trial, where jurors are being told that the longtime politician disguised bribes as legal fees.

NEW YORK (WBEN / AP)-- A federal prosecutor told a jury Tuesday that a former top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo accepted more than $ 300,000 in bribes, but defense attorneys belittled the claim, saying the bulk of the money was his wife's salary at a legitimate job.

After Lieutenant Gov. Dan Patrick (R) spent $ 17,000 on polling for Fallon's campaign, Estes said in a televised debate, «The donation in kind from Dan Patrick amounts to nothing more than a bribe to hire a yes man in the Texas Senate, a puppet.

In a new filing, Percoco clarified a buddies - not - bribes defense strategy, urging U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni to allow more evidence on a 2010 fishing trip he and Kelly took and their «shared love» of fishing to show that Kelly hired Percoco's wife out of friendship, not as a payoff.

Longtime Cuomo insider Percoco, 48, of South Salem in Westchester County, is accused of taking more than $ 300,000 in bribes set up by ex-lobbyist Howe from clients — co-defendants Peter Galbraith Kelly, an energy executive, and Syracuse developers Steve Aiello and Joe Gerardi — in exchange for official favors.

The complaint accuses Kelly of distributing more than $ 750,000 in bribes — $ 474,000 to a lobbyist who acted essentially as a conduit for illegal payments and another $ 287,000 to Joseph Percoco, who is described as Cuomo's «right - hand man.»

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.

Silver, a Manhattan Democrat who led the Assembly for 20 years, is accused of taking more than $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks.

Percoco, 48, of South Salem, is charged with taking more than $ 300,000 in bribes set up by Howe from three lobbying clients, a power company executive and two Syracuse developers.

Silver, who stepped down from his longtime position as Assembly speaker in the wake of the corruption case, was indicted on federal fraud and extortion charges in February related to claims that he took more than $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks.

THE BRONX — State Assemblyman Eric Stevenson was arrested Thursday morning for taking more than $ 22,000 in bribes just two days after investigators took down his colleagues in the state Senate and City Council for similar activity, the U.S. Attorney's office announced.

Kruger, Turano and Lipsky were among eight men busted Thursday on corruption «pay to play» charges filed in Manhattan federal court, where the senator is accused of collecting more than $ 1 million in bribes.

During four days of testimony this week, Howe — himself a former aide to both Mario and Andrew Cuomo, and a high - powered lobbyist in Washington, D.C., and New York — described how he arranged more than $ 300,000 in bribes from two clients, who are also charged, to old friend Percoco in return for his influence.

Stevenson, whose district covers parts of Morrisania, Claremont and East Tremont, was charged with taking more than $ 22,000 in bribes to help several businessmen open an adult daycare center in his district.