Sentences with phrase «of alleged payments»

MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) Select Committee want to ask Mrs Brooks about her knowledge of alleged payments to police, Labour politician Tom Watson said.

Guldi states in those papers that he learned of the alleged payments from a witness who is expected to testify against him in the trial.

Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, says he'd first like to hear an explanation from Speaker Sheldon Silver about the details of alleged payments from a law firm specializing in real estate taxes.

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The dossier further alleges that Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, became concerned when Yanukovych informed him on August 16 — two days after the Times report was published — of «kickback payments» being funneled to Manafort.

The complaint alleges the defendants take deposits and payments from collectors while continually delaying the delivery of purchased works.

The EC alleges that IKEA used an intercompany loan to offset tax, saying: «As a result of the interest payments, a significant part of Inter IKEA Systems» franchise profits after 2011 was shifted to its parent in Liechtenstein.»

The suit alleges that the health insurer received excess Medicare payments by providing misleading and inaccurate information about the health status and associated costs of plan holders.

The lawsuits arose from alleged payments made by SNC - Lavalin to members, associates and agents of the Gadhafi regime to secure contracts for infrastructure projects in Libya.

Federal investigators wiretapped the phone lines of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer who is under investigation for a payment he made to Stormy Daniels, the adult - film actress who alleged she had an affair with Trump, NBC News reported Thursday.

Delta took an especially aggressive tack, suing three of its regional partners for what it alleged were performance issues, in each case withholding millions of dollars in payments it would have ordinarily owed.

«He was repaying the favor,» Rodriguez said of Zambada's alleged payment.

The Enquirer never published a story about the alleged affair, and Common Cause asserts that if the payment was intended to keep Ms. McDougal quiet, it would be an illegal coordinated expenditure by a company on behalf of the Trump campaign.

Internet security expert Joseph Steinberg told CNBC that the criminals typically do not demand a big sum of money, instead preferring to get the payment right away and insisting that the person from whom the ransom is demanded stay on the phone with them for fear that if connection is established with the alleged victim, the scam will be exposed.

Cohen, Trump's personal attorney, is in the midst of a legal firestorm over the payment to Daniels, which was made in exchange for Daniels» silence about an alleged affair with Trump.

That payment is the subject of criticism from the watchdog group Common Cause, which filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice alleging it violated campaign finance rules.

But «despite (Strawberry's) repeated assurances of payment, he continues to breach his agreement with (Shapiro),» the Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit alleges.

1983): «whether the alleged employer (1) had the power to hire and fire the employees, (2) supervised and controlled employee work schedules or conditions of employment, (3) determined the rate and method of payment, and (4) maintained employment records.»

President Donald Trump on Thursday said his longtime lawyer had paid a former adult film star in October 2016 to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with him «through reimbursement,» the president's first acknowledgment of any involvement in the payment.

Chase Paymentech Solutions, LLC in the settlement of a lawsuit (D.N.J.) brought by Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. in connection with alleged violations of the Sherman Act.

Trump is already facing a complaint from the watchdog group Common Cause, which argues that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's payment of $ 130,000 to Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump may have been an illegal campaign contribution.

Apple on Jan. 20 filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm, alleging the firm withheld $ 1 billion of rebates and payments it owed.

It was Cohen who made the $ 130,000 «hush money» payment to Stormy Daniels in October of 2016, to keep her quiet about the alleged sexual encounter that she had with Trump in 2006.

In the second set of proceedings, the ACCC alleged that in 2011 Coles pursued some suppliers for a variety of payments, including payments for «profit gaps», waste and fines or penalties for alleged short or late deliveries by suppliers.

The alleged conduct, first revealed by Fairfax Media, included Woolworths seeking to reduce its expected profit shortfall by seeking about $ 60 million in payments from hundreds of suppliers.

America had come to the merciful end of an off - season filled with grim headlines: from the epic corruption of ex — Fiesta Bowl chairman John Junker to the serial lies of ex — Ohio State coach Jim Tressel to the firing of coach Butch Davis at North Carolina (for presiding, albeit unknowingly, over academic fraud, among other sins) to Oregon's $ 25,000 payment to an alleged «street agent.»

According to Samuel Poole, vice-chairman of the system's board of governors and head of the investigative commission, all current N.C. State players either refused to speak with investigators or claimed not to know anything about alleged wrongdoing in the Wolfpack program, which according to the dust jacket included payments to players.

In the ongoing corruption scandal embroiling college basketball for months, federal prosecutors in New York added charges on Tuesday against a former Adidas rep, Jim Gatto, which allege payments to families of players at four universities.

«On the basis that, in the report submitted by Fifa ExCo member Chuck Blazer earlier this week, Fifa vice-president Jack Warner would have informed the Fifa president in advance about alleged cash payments to delegations attending a special meeting of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU).

It came after a report in Spiegel magazine last month alleged that a 6.7 m Euro (# 4.8 m) payment was made by the DFB to Fifa to buy votes in order to secure the hosting of the 2006 World Cup.

In 2016 and 2017 Casillas would earn an alleged $ 8m and $ 7.5 m respectively — apart from the $ 8.5 m he will receive this season — and the television channel believes, reports El Economista, that the club must also take charge of the player's tax payments.

Our source also alleged the audit was purposely based on a small sample of payments and invoices.

It is alleged that she failed to complete interest payments accrued on the purchase price in the acquisition of the cannery and for that matter they caused financial loss to the state.

Attorneys general for the District of Columbia and the state of Maryland say they will sue President Trump today, alleging that he has violated anti-corruption clauses in the Constitution by accepting millions in payments and benefits from foreign governments since moving into the White House.

The immediate past Managing Director (MD) of the Bulk Oil Storage Transportation (BOST), Kingsley Kwame Awuah - Darko, has rubbished media reports that, the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO), is on his heels for alleged payments and withdrawal of money from government's account.

They had sued the Auditor General over audit reports alleging corruption cover up, taken the Smarttys re-spraying and branding of 116 new buses for the Ministry of Transport crying corruption in the payment to the private company owned by Selassie Ibrahim for the work done and paid for by the state.

I also had occasion to condemn his uncouth and uncultured manners and character of insulting and undermining elders and his superiors when he attempted to corruptly induce me to approve the payment of a US$ 1.3 million alleged judgment debt to Isofoton SA in 2011 — see «People Are fed Up With Ablakwa's «Lies»», Modern Ghana 13th July 2012.

Prosecutors allege developers paid «bribes» to Howe that «were purported to be consultancy payments and bonuses but which were in fact payments for Howe's actions in his capacity as an agent» of SUNY Poly, who had «substantial control» over its projects.

At the time of the meeting, Cohen was under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in New York, who still are probing a $ 130,000 payment Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump.»

Cohen has also come under legal scrutiny for large payments he received for consulting services after Trump's inauguration, as well as for a payment he made to Stormy Daniels, an adult - film star alleging an affair with Trump, as part of a nondisclosure agreement.

The complaint alleges that Aiello and Gerardi, COR's president and general counsel, «entered into a bribery scheme whereby the Syracuse developer would make tens of thousands of dollars in payments to Percoco, using Howe as a pass - through to help conceal that the payments to Percoco came from the Syracuse developer, and in exchange, Percoco agreed to use, and did in fact use, his official position and influence to assist the Syracuse developer with a number of issues as the opportunities arose.»

The payment Cohen made to her is now the subject of complaints to the Justice Department and the Federal Election Commission, alleging that it was an illegal campaign contribution.

Agnifilo of Manhattan contrasted the bribes that Mei pleaded guilty to accepting from Singh — multiple overseas vacations to South Korea and India and $ 1,000 monthly lease payments for a convertible BMW — with Venditto's alleged benefits, which included «discounted» limo rides and the use of a conference room in the basement of one of Singh's restaurants.

According to a PEF ethics hearing panel, Kent and Garcia tried to stall and block a full accounting of Lee's alleged misuse of a union debit card to make undocumented payments at stores such as Bed Bath & Beyond and Dunkin Donuts, plus a liquor store, pharmacy and local supermarket.

But Percoco's defense attorneys have argued that their client can't be guilty of the alleged bribery by COR or «the theft of honest services» from the public in part because he wasn't a state official at the time he took payments from COR, even if he acted like one.

In the summer of 2014, when Percoco resigned from state government and worked as Cuomo's campaign manager, prosecutors allege he took $ 35,000 in payments from Syracuse - based commercial real estate firm COR Development, in exchange for helping COR Development avoid red tape with its projects in Syracuse and its surrounding suburbs.

An official from an energy company linked to alleged bribes of nearly $ 300,000 paid to former Andrew Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco through his wife testified in Manhattan federal court Thursday that the payments were suspicious from the start.

Schneiderman has been probing alleged per diem abuse, and his work has led to the indictment of at least one lawmaker, Assemblyman William Scarborough, who's accused of wrongly receiving $ 40,000 in travel reimbursements and per diem payments that he was not entitled to.

Prosecutors allege that Silver had an «undisclosed interest» in helping Glenwood Management and that Silver was receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal payments.

In the Skelos trial beginning Nov. 16, prosecutors alleged that father and son squeezed payments to Adam out of Glenwood Management of New Hyde Park, Roslyn malpractice firm Physicians» Reciprocal Insurers, and AbTech, a Glenwood - tied Arizona firm that got a $ 12 million stormwater treatment contract with Nassau.

The complaint, by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, alleges Skelos used his influence in Albany to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to his son from a real estate developer and a related environmental company.