Sentences with phrase «of bribe money»

Let's say for a while they persuade some hungry agents to pay them their 35 or whatever % of bribe money, I mean referral fees.

«I can not see it because it is buried under stacks of bribe money and propaganda, and the leaflets say bad things will happen to me if I read ze science.»

What does the science say about the amount of bribe money that the climate will demand before it stops changing?

Through Howe, Bharara has obtained countless incriminating emails, in which Percoco and the operative refer to bundles of bribe money as «ziti,» in the style of The Sopranos.

Friday's developments in the Buffalo Billion case follow the March conviction of Joseph Percoco, Cuomo's longtime friend and confidant who was found guilty of three felony counts for his role in a bribery scheme in which corporate interests got special attention in return for a steady flow of bribe money paid into Percoco's personal bank account.

Under questioning from prosecutors, Mr. Howe portrayed Mr. Percoco as a man consumed by the pursuit of bribe money — which the two men referred to as «ziti,» a reference from «The Sopranos» — from the two firms, Competitive Power Ventures and COR Development.

Then they spent part of the bribe money on a candidate's campaign, the one thing that isn't allowed for housekeeping funds.

At one point during the scheme, Meng told the man to bring some of the bribe money hidden inside a fruit basket — but when the delivery arrived, undercover FBI agents were there to witness the transaction.

Joseph Percoco, who served as the insider among insiders to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, was convicted today of three felony counts for his role in a bribery scheme in which corporate interests got special attention before Cuomo's administration in return for more a steady flow of bribe money paid into Percoco's personal bank account.

Meanwhile, Halloran and Tabone pocketed thousands of dollars of the bribe money, prosecutors said.

Not exact matches

The U.S. says the money originated from a Swiss account controlled by Burzaco, part of what the businessman testified were the millions of dollars in bribes he paid to officials, including Marin, for the broadcasting rights to the Centennial tournament and another in Brazil.

A large number of North Koreans resort to bribing officials to have their documents approved, which means a passport can cost up to $ 3,000 — a sum of money most can only dream of in a country where widespread poverty is regularly reported.

In April 2006, executives from Cryptometrics and its American parent met with Mr. Karigar and his associates to openly discuss the payment of bribes, and Mr. Karigar shortly thereafter provided Cryptometrics with a spreadsheet listing Air India officials and how much each official would be bribed with money and in Cryptometrics shares.

David Samson, former chairman of the agency that controls New York City - area bridges, tunnels and airports, pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal charge of soliciting a bribe for pressuring United Airlines to reinstate a money - losing flight offering convenient access to his vacation home.

Samson pleaded guilty to a federal charge of soliciting a bribe for pressuring United Airlines to reinstate a money - losing flight offering convenient access to his vacation home.

- revfeed promotes binarytilt - «Scam or not» review websites promote it, It would be fair to say some are written by binarytilt authors and some authors are just simply bribed (I mean they're human) and binarytilt seems to have lots of money.

Our question is: One man in how many, after receiving a bribe for the betrayal of a friend, had returned the money, had it refused, had thrown it on the floor in the house of the Lord, and then had it used to purchase a field from the potter?

Again we are reminded of the bribe of money Haman used to get what he wanted.

Haman provided the King with a bribe of money, but no evidence of his accusations of the Jews.

The papers say that Jackson was bribed by Rosenhaus with a ton of cash and Louis Vuitton bags and that is why he shouldn't have to repay the money.

meaning, the overall system itself is exploitative and needlessly punitive and just pretty shitty all around, so gaming that dumb system likely doesn't carry the same sort of stigma as, say, embezzling money from your company or taking bribes to vote on a piece of legislation.

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.

Swanberg, who is retired and lives in Panama City, Fla., pleaded guilty to funneling about $ 29,000 in bribes to Pfeiffer from boat owners and keeping $ 6,000 of the money...

The bribe money went to James Parks, who was chief of the Dixmoor park police force.

Here on the continent, we have problems, institutions are not properly developed, the bad guys have a lot of money, they want to bribe their way through many processes.

On Oman Fm's Boiling Point on Thursday, he alleged that a number of appointees at the seat of government are making filthy money indicating that some persons are demanding bribes in return for jobs.

But the Conservatives unmistakably feel the danger receding of an early election and total defeat since she shook the magic money tree for a juicy # 1 - billion bribe to fall into the laps of Northern Ireland's 10 Democratic Unionist votes.

Whereas, the Cronje affair in cricket was partly because of the relative lack of money in the game - how little he could be bribed for - and of course the sheer pointlessness of even the proper (non-stanford) one day game.

The scandal is a hit parade of corruption issues involving money, politics and bribes in exchange for public spending.

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.

Percoco is accused of accepting bribe money from an energy company executive, through a «low - show» job for his wife in the company's education outreach program.

The money was used to construct NDC headquarters, bribe some people to become NDC radio phone - in serial callers to throw dust into people's eyes, to purchase the minds and votes of some Ghanaians and to induce Dr Kwadwo Afari Gyan and others to pave the way for NDC to win the election.

The Joe Ghartey committee arrived at its conclusion because «Mr. Mahama Ayariga failed to prove that indeed Hon. Boakye Agyarko gave money to Hon. Joseph Osei - Owusu to be distributed to Members of the Appointments Committee with a view to bribe them.»

NEW YORK — In the end, prosecutors in the Joseph Percoco trial wanted to talk about ziti — the code term the longtime confidant of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo used to allegedly describe the bribe money he got over the years.

Mr Ayariga, who is a member of the Appointments Committee, told Radio Gold in an interview that the Minority MPs rejected the GHS3000 each which was enveloped for them when they later found out that the money was coming from Mr Agyarko as a bribe.

They are specifically looking into the allegation against the Chairman of the Appointments Committee, Joe Osei - Owusu, who Mahama Ayariga had mentioned as being the conduit for the bribing and Minority Chief Whip, Alhaji Muntaka Mohammed Mubarak, who Mahama Ayariga claimed had brought the money.

He said the money was given to the Minority Chief Whip Muntaka Mubarak for onward distribution to the members of the Minority, adding the Minority MPs initially accepted the monies thinking it was payment of their sitting allowance, but when they got to know it was monies from the Minister designate to bribe them, they returned the money.

In exchange for their help and ponying up the bribe money, Smith is accused of promising to use his position in the senate to steer $ 500,000 in state funding to a development project in Spring Valley that the cooperating witness and the undercover agent claimed they were planning.

NEW YORK (AP)-- A prosecutor says New York's former assembly speaker took millions of dollars in kickbacks, but his lawyer insists the money wasn't a bribe.

A senior official of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ishaq Salihu, has told a Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt that a former Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Mr. Robert Obuoha, offered him a bribe of N150, 000 and told him to use the money in buying recharge cards.

The government reform groups say the latest scandal involving Senator Smith's alleged bribes to GOP officials to try to obtain permission to run on the Republican Mayoral ballot once again emphasizes the need to get money out of politics.

The whistle blower is being rubbished while those she blew whistle on have bribed all the «bribe - ables» with part of the stolen money, walking free and being rewarded with government appointments.

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.

Donald Trump and Paul Ryan's proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act would have ripped out a big chunk of money from Medicaid and also transferred more of those costs to New York State and New York City taxpayers with the so - called «Buffalo Bribe».

The Democrat automatically lost his Assembly seat Monday when he was convicted on charges of corruption, extortion, money laundering and collecting nearly $ 4 million in kickbacks and bribes.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office also said the hefty suggestion stemmed from «the many egregious aspects of the defendant's crimes — including Silver's role as a high - level public official, his engagement in multiple corrupt schemes, the millions of dollars in bribe money Silver took in, and his laundering of his crime proceeds.»

Halloran, a Republican, is running for Congress against Grace Meng, whose father was arrested Tuesday on charges of fraud after allegedly stealing money from a man who wanted to bribe federal prosecutors to reduce tax evasion charges aginst him.

«What does a responsible leader of the Church do when somebody attempts to bribe you with that quantum of money?

More than a dozen of them were convicted of charges including authorizing bribes to get on a ballot, diverting money meant for community programs into a campaign and skimming funds from contributions to a Little League baseball program.

Instead, Osborne today pledged to put that money towards deficit reduction, trading weaponised electoral bribes for a reinforcement of the Tories» image.