Conducted an internal investigation of a multi-state electrical contractor with regard to claims that employees were engaged in Hobbs Act and
other federal bribery - related offenses.
Not exact matches
Vincent Tabone informed Queens Republican Chairman Phil Ragusa he was stepping down a day after he and five
others were arrested in a
bribery scheme and now face
federal corruption charges.
A
federal grand jury in Manhattan Tuesday returned a 14 - count indictment of Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, and seven
others on corruption charges in two wide - ranging
bribery schemes to rig bids and wield influence on upstate development projects.
Cuomo has been talking about reforming economic development contract awards in his administration, following
federal criminal charges against nine people — one a former top aide — on
bribery and bid - rigging charges in connection with the Buffalo Billion and
other projects.
The governor said he's met with
federal prosecutors since former top aide Joe Percoco, a former lobbyist who was a close Cuomo associate, the head of SUNY Polytechnic and six
others were charged with
bribery, bid - rigging and
other corruption charges in connection with the governor's upstate economic development programs.
The
other three were Paul Adler, a former Rockland County politico who pleaded guilty to felony fraud and
bribery in 2002; James Capalino, the lobbyist who tried to get a deed restriction lifted on a nonprofit nursing home on the Lower East Side; and Sant Singh Chatwal, a hotelier who pleaded guilty in 2014 to
federal campaign finance donations for making straw donations.
In a dramatic turnaround from the
bribery and fraud charges leveled three years ago, a former high - ranking NYPD police chief pleaded guilty in
federal court to dispatching police resources without permission for the benefit of a mayoral donor and
other residents of Brooklyn's Borough Park neighborhood.
Mangano, 56, of Bethpage, and Venditto, 68, of North Massapequa, have been charged with conspiracy to commit
federal program
bribery and honest - services fraud, among
other alleged crimes.
When Carl Kruger, a Brooklyn senator facing trial on
federal bribery charges, announced at a news conference in June that he would vote in favor of same - sex marriage, Mr. Cuomo stood with him and
other wavering Democrats and publicly congratulated them.
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.
Federal prosecutors charged former Cuomo aide Joe Percoco and seven
others in a sprawling
bribery and bid - rigging scheme in November.
A former Chairman, House of Representatives Ad - hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy, Mr. Farouk Lawan, on Tuesday appeared before a
Federal Capital Territory High Court in Lugbe, as the Independent Corrupt Practices and
other related offences Commission reopened its case of alleged
bribery.
Joseph Percoco, a former top aide and confidant of Cuomo, as well as SUNY Polytechnic Institute's founding President and CEO Alain Kaloyeros and officials at some of upstate New York's most prominent development firms were charged in a
federal complaint with allegedly engaging in two overlapping schemes involving
bribery, corruption and fraud in the award of hundreds of millions of dollars in state contracts and
other official benefits.
The proceedings in the
federal courthouse in lower Manhattan will focus on
bribery and
other charges against Governor Cuomo's former closest aide, Joseph Percoco.
Governor Cuomo has been talking about reforming economic development contract awards in his administration, following
federal criminal charges against nine people, one a former top aide, on
bribery and bid rigging charges in connection with the Buffalo Billion and
other projects.
Federal prosecutors last year brought a wide - ranging case against Percoco, Ciminelli and
others over alleged bid - rigging and
bribery charges connected to economic development projects from Buffalo to Orange County.
As many as 34 state and local officials have been convicted in New York since 2002 on charges including
bribery, conspiracy, falsifying records, racketeering, fraud, extortion,
federal corruption and perjury, among a mix of several
other felonies and misdemeanors.
----------------------------------- U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced Today that former top aide to Governor Cuomo; Joseph Percoco and 8
others are facing a wide array of
federal corruption and
bribery charges.
Governor Cuomo, and one of the Co-Leaders of the State Senate have already taken some preemptive action before the legislature's scheduled return to the Capitol, following
federal bribery charges against a State Senator and an Assemblyman, as well as
other officials.
The governor says he's met with
federal prosecutors since his former top aide Joe Percoco, a former lobbyist who was a close Cuomo associate, the head of SUNY Polytechnic and six
others were charged with
bribery, bid - rigging and
other corruption charges in connection with the governors» upstate economic development programs.
«The defendant tried to bribe his way onto the ballot for New York City mayor,» said Douglas B. Bloom, an assistant United States attorney, as the
bribery and wire fraud trial of Mr. Smith and two
other defendants got underway before a 12 - person jury in a
federal courthouse in White Plains.
Kruger, a powerful Democrat who represented a district comprising Brighton Beach, Sheepshead Bay and surrounding neighborhoods, was indicted in March 2011 — alongside Boyland Jr. and six
other defendants — on
federal bribery charges.
Federal entities are under the statutory obligation, among
other things, to rescind a concluded contract in the case of any fraud, deception or
bribery by the supplier and to put such supplier on the banned list prepared by the UAE Ministry of Finance for at least three years.
Being convicted in a court of competent jurisdiction of this or any
other state, or
federal court, of forgery, embezzlement, obtaining money under false pretenses,
bribery, larceny, extortion, conspiracy to defraud, or any crime or any similar offenses, or pleading guilty or nolo contendere to any such offense or offenses;