Sentences with phrase «of alleged scheming»

Fayose said Sheriff once flew into Port Harcourt from Abuja to meet him and Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State over the party's leadership matter when he realised they were withdrawing their support for him because of his alleged scheming.

In early March, they were recorded complaining that Cuomo's push for an ethics reform deal, was getting in the way of their alleged scheming.

In early March, they were recorded complaining that Governor Cuomo's push for an ethics reform deal was getting in the way of their alleged scheming.

Many of these alleged schemes would have benefited MSMB Capital Management.

Russian nationals identified in a Justice Department indictment released Friday used cryptocurrency exchanges as part of an alleged scheme to mislead U.S. citizens leading up to the 2016 presidential election.

As part of the alleged scheme, vendors also billed the Park District for landscape work at the homes of Parrott and Patterson as well as work on both their autos, authorities said.

The trial is expected to last four to six weeks, and with jury selection already largely completed, prosecutors say when they kick off their case this week their third witness will be Taub — the one - time Columbia University researcher who was pivotal to one of the alleged schemes.

Though the trial is about Percoco — and Cuomo has not been implicated in any of the alleged schemes — the governor's name was invoked during a day of questions and answers in court a total of 37 times, according to court transcripts.

Federal charges are being levied against top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco, the influential head of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Alain Kaloyeros, and others for a series of alleged schemes that include fraud, bid - rigging and bribery; Kaloyeros is also facing felony corruption charges from the state.

The events are part of an alleged scheme laid out in detail in a pretrial motion filed late Tuesday in the government's corruption case against Mangano, his wife, Linda, and former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto.

In another aspect of the alleged schemes, officials at COR Development paid tens of thousands of dollars to Percoco — using Howe as a pass - through to conceal the payments — in exchange for official favors that included reversing a state decision that would have forced the company to enter into a costly «labor peace agreement»; freeing up a backlog of state funds that had been promised to the developer; and securing a $ 5,000 raise for Steven L. Aiello, the son of COR president Steven F. Aiello.

In another of the alleged schemes, Antetomaso and Cecere face official misconduct and theft of services charges — all misdemeanors.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara lashed out at the state's executive branch and the «show - the - money - culture in Albany» today as he unveiled a massive criminal complaint implicating some of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's closest associates — but he refused to say what the governor's knowledge of the alleged scheme might be.

Silver's lawyers argue each of the alleged schemes represents a «routine financial relationship with the entity to which he is allegedly steering business» and does constitute «the sort of «side payment... from a third party» that Skilling requires for a payment to be deemed an illegal bribe or kickback.»

Howe, 57, a cooperating witness on his first day on the stand in Manhattan federal court, laid out how he came to be the linchpin of an alleged scheme by two clients to pay more than $ 300,000 in bribes to Percoco — referred to by them in code as «zitti» — to buy influence for an energy company and a Syracuse developer.

It's one of a handful of outings the men enjoyed on the CPV company dime as part of the alleged scheme.

Each of the alleged schemes involved the use of provider kickbacks, a popular activity in healthcare, to entice healthcare professionals to inappropriately redirect clients and beneficiaries to specific healthcare businesses.

The complaint also cites former chief technology officer, Ulrich Kranz, as being part of the allege scheme.

The suit also cites former chief former chief technology officer, Ulrich Kranz, as being part of the allege scheme.

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Riza Aziz, Najib's stepson, is a friend of Low Taek Jho, also known as Jho Low, the Malaysian financier whom the U.S. alleges orchestrated the scheme to loot $ 4.5 billion from the Malaysian fund going back to 2009.

Regulators alleged that divisional managers at investment firm Credit Suisse First Boston participated in a «pervasive» scheme to siphon tens of millions of dollars of their customers» trading profits during the Internet boom of 1999 and early 2000 by demanding excessive trading fees.

As Vancouver Sun investigative reporter David Baines revealed in a series of articles, Eker has invited the likes of Milowe Brost, who is currently in prison awaiting trial over an alleged $ 400 - million Ponzi scheme in Alberta, convicted white - collar criminal Nick Thill, Michael Ruge, who was banned for life from dealing in securities by the BCSC, and Nick Lathigee, head of the failed Freedom Investment Club, to present at his «Millionaire School» events and received commissions for steering investors in their direction.

The state of Washington's attorney general is seeking $ 14 million from the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), alleging the GMA created an «elaborate scheme» to secretly fund a multimillion dollar campaign to kill a food labeling initiative.

Loblaw Companies Ltd. has attempted to mitigate potential damage from an investigation into an alleged industry - wide bread price - fixing scheme through its admission of guilt and offering the gift card.

The CFTC alleges that the company and its employees created an elaborate hoax, paying customers with funds obtained from other customers — the classic indicators of a Ponzi scheme.

In a filing in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Winterkorn was one of six defendants charged in an alleged scheme where they knew VW vehicles did not meet U.S. emissions standards and used software to cheat the U.S. testing process.

Prosecutors in that high - profile probe allege that Scott Walker is at the center of a «criminal scheme» to illegally coordinate fundraising with Wisconsin Club for Growth and other nonprofit «dark money» groups during the 2011 and 2012 recall elections.»

On May 3, 2013, the lead plaintiff filed a consolidated complaint alleging that, during that same period, all of the defendants violated Sections 10 (b) and 20 (a) of the Exchange Act and SEC Rule 10b - 5 (b) by concealing material information and making false statements related to Parent's acquisition of Autonomy and that certain defendants violated SEC Rule 10b - 5 (a) and (c) by engaging in a «scheme» to defraud investors.

But Apple alleges Qualcomm overcharged it billions of dollars with its «illegal scheme.»

There has been an interesting turn of events in the case of the alleged India - based Ponzi scheme known as GainBitcoin.

This article details the alleged trading scheme; the relevant laws and regulations; the alleged violations; and the results of the settlements.

The cliches were used to generate guilt among Lutherans for their alleged complicity with Hitler and to open the way for their accepting the utopian schemes of the Communists (something to which Lutherans are typically averse).

In the letter, the attorneys write that» when constitutionally - protected contributions are trotted out as evidence of a bribery scheme — particularly when they have scant relevance to the alleged scheme — jurors are unlikely to consider them merely on the convoluted signaling theories the Government relies on for its assertion of probative value.»

Howe has already pleaded guilty to eight felonies, several of which pertain to the alleged bribery scheme that he testified this week he was a part of with Percoco and executives with two companies.

Former Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos, 67, and Adam Skelos, 32, both of Rockville Centre, are to go on trial Nov. 16 on conspiracy, bribery and extortion charges alleging schemes to use the lawmaker's clout to get his son work with a developer, a malpractice insurer and an environmental company.

Howe, like Percoco a former aide to both Cuomo and his father Mario Cuomo, was the alleged linchpin of two interlocking criminal schemes.

The outlines of the scheme alleged on Thursday emerged said after the governor's Executive Chamber was subpoenaed on April 29.

A longtime aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, Percoco was one of nine men charged in connection with the alleged schemes.

Mr. Silver stands accused of two schemes in which Mr. Bharara alleges he used his position as Assembly speaker to rake in more than $ 6 million, which he presented as legitimately earned income for representing or referring clients in real estate or asbestos legal dealings.

Percoco, the key figure in the first of the two alleged schemes, was described in the complaint as a close confidant of the Cuomo family, sometimes referred to as Mario Cuomo's «third son,» who controlled access to Andrew as his executive deputy secretary.

«This self - serving scheme alleged in the complaint was particularly egregious because it was aimed at enriching powerful people at the expense of the state's public university system,» Schneiderman said.

The grand jury alleged two overlapping schemes with common threads of «bribery, corruption and fraud.»

«The President also noted that at a time his administration is preoccupied with governance issues, rumours of divisions and alleged scheming within the party are counterproductive to internal unity and cohesion in APC.

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.»

But if he can't, the governor didn't sound like he's in a forgiving mood, even if some of the legislative skepticism stems from the corruption charges that have been filed over an alleged pay - to - play scheme at key Buffalo Billion projects.

Kaloyeros, a longtime ally of Gov. Andrew Cuomo who was suspended without pay from SUNY in September, resigned Monday after being charged last month by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as part of an alleged corruption scheme.

Jurors asked to hear read - backs of transcripts pertaining to the alleged Competitive Power Ventures bribery scheme.

The Manganos and Venditto are also accused of obstructing justice in an attempt to cover up the alleged scheme, Capers said.

Joe Percoco, once among the most powerful New York political figures, appeared in federal court today to face criminal charges stemming from a pair of alleged bribery schemes.

The trial of New York State Senator Malcolm Smith has brought to light new evidence concerning his alleged scheme to become mayor of New York City.