Sentences with phrase «paying bribes»

discovered that his employer was paying bribes to win new sales.

Anti-corruption agencies engage with and encourage large numbers of citizens who are willing to refuse paying bribes and report corruption.

That would translate to 13 % of 3.78 million people using the civil and criminal courts and judiciary last year, or 490,000 people paying bribes, which would be «astonishing», he said.

Advising a large international ship owning company in relation to allegations that it had obtained preferential charter rates from a company based in the CIS by paying bribes.

These deferred prosecution agreements were with two companies (Kaeffer Wanner and Set Environnement), which had been alleged to have engaged in «passive» corruption for allegedly paying bribes.

Cowen says that, «You can't do business in Haiti without paying bribes,» and recent events would seem to lend some credence to that opinion.

[2] Furthermore, the Charney Research Institute's 2015 white paper says that 35 % of companies in China have admitted to paying bribes or giving gifts to officials in order to conduct business.

(The Consumerist, 7 TSA Agents Fired For Paying Bribes To Pass Proficiency Tests)

Most alarmingly for investors, when the OPL 245 deal was being negotiated Shell had already been charged in a U.S. case for paying bribes in Nigeria.

Syracuse - based Cor Development Co. executives Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi are accused of obtaining favors from aide Joseph Percoco, by paying bribes through a «shell company» set up by Howe.

In a criminal complaint filed Sept. 22, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara accused eight men, including Aiello and Gerardi, of paying bribes and / or rigging bids in connection with state - controlled development projects.

Silver was accused of pressuring two real estate companies doing business with the state to hire a law firm that was regularly paying him bribes, the 35 - page complaint charged.

Aiello and Gerardi are accused of paying bribes to Percoco in exchange for Percoco promoting COR Development's projects with the state.

The donations at issue, according to the Journal, came from Steve Aiello, president of COR Development, charged last month with allegedly paying bribes to Joe Percoco, Cuomo's former executive deputy secretary, and Howe in exchange for official favors.

The jury also convicted one of the businessmen charged with paying the bribes, Steven Aiello, an executive at a Syracuse - area development company, Cor Development.

He said that far from working alongside the realtors, the developers «didn't even think they were paying bribes.»

Aiello and Gerardi are accused of paying bribes to Joseph Percoco, who was a high - ranking aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in exchange for unspecified favors from Percoco.

May 25 in Syracuse, denying he had anything to do with state contracts being awarded to COR Development, his biggest Central New York contributor and a company who had two executives, Steve Aiello and Joseph Girardi, charged Thursday with paying bribes to get contracts:

Former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco once made an «R rated» phone call that resulted in the rearranging of a 2015 public event to include a Syracuse developer who is accused of paying him bribes.

But Feldberg told jurors that there was no understanding that the doctor and the developers were paying bribes.

Percoco is being tried alongside the three executives charged with paying him bribes.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

Ciminelli, Laipple and Schuler have pleaded not guilty to wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and paying bribes.

Ciminelli and the others are accused of paying bribes in order to rig bids and win hundreds of millions of dollars in state development contracts.

There has been no issue of awardees paying bribes to win their awards and the scheme can not be manipulated by any individual.

Peter Galbraith Kelly, an executive at Competitive Power Ventures, is accused in the complaint of conspiracy and paying bribes to Percoco.

A prosecutor was noncommittal when asked by Manhattan U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni if the government plans to retry Peter Kelly Jr., an energy executive accused of paying bribes to Joe Percoco, a convicted former aide to Cuomo.

The jury also convicted one of the businessmen charged with paying the bribes, Steven Aiello, an executive at a Syracuse area development company, Cor Development.

Baba Gado, who on Wednesday confessed to paying bribes to match officials to force results of matches his way, has been attacked by fans on social media and asked to name the referees he has bribed.

A similar proportion (92 per cent) feel that when Canadian companies and executives are involved in unethical or corrupt practices — such as paying bribes — they should face tough consequences.

The undercover agent said that former sports agent Christian Dawkins bluntly explained the benefits of paying bribes to Lamont Evans, associate head coach of Oklahoma State's basketball team, to other defendants.

And Avon has experienced different struggles: Its sales have slumped and it has announced a tentative agreement to pay $ 135 million to the U.S. Department of Justice for allegedly paying bribes in China and other countries.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) BRF employees paid bribes to regulators and politicians to subvert inspections in order to conceal unsanitary practices at the Company's meatpacking plants; (ii) the foregoing conduct, when it came to light, would foreseeably subject the Company and its officers to heightened regulatory enforcement and / or prosecution; and (iii) as a result of the foregoing, BRF's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

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.

The meaning of «agree» in the CFPOA was not limited to an agreement between two parties, one to pay a bribe and one to receive a bribe (as Mr. Karigar had argued), but included an agreement between two parties to offer a bribe to a third individual, the foreign official, who was not a party to the agreement.

Evidence that the funds were actually used to offer or pay bribes was not necessary for a conviction of agreeing to bribe.

Or even worse, competing against high - frequency traders who have paid bribed the exchanges so that their own servers can be co-located in the same building as the exchanges» servers.

In the United States, which has a history of aggressively pursuing companies whose staff pay bribes, DPA agreements are standard and overseen by the U.S. Department of Justice.

On Tuesday an indictment in U.S. District Court alleged that several of those officers had paid bribes of up to $ 2,500 each to join the police force so they could lawfully carry concealed guns and display police badges.

Under the scheme, dozens of people, some with serious criminal records, paid bribes of up to $ 2,500 to obtain a badge and the authority to carry a gun, Assistant U.S. Atty. Theodore Chung said.

DIXMOOR — A founding member of the Chi - Lites soul group was sentenced to a year and a day in prison Wednesday for helping several people pay bribes to obtain Dixmoor Park District Police Department badges.

The «officers» allegedly paid bribes to win badges and the right to carry concealed weapons.

«For instance, foreign companies could be listed on the London Stock Exchange, pay bribes and get away with it.

Over one in four people across the world had paid a bribe in the last 12 months.

But applicants have also accused passport officials of deliberately making the process cumbersome, a situation that compels applicants to pay bribes.

One of the indictments alleges Carlo Lizza and Lizza family members paid bribes to former and now deceased planning and development commissioner Frederick Ippolito to secure contracts, the rezoning of land and the sale of property at 50 Engel St. in Hicksville.

Halloran is also facing charges of allegedly pocketing $ 18,300 in cash bribes and $ 6,500 in straw - donor campaign donations for agreeing to steer $ 80,000 of council discretionary funding for his district to a company he believed was controlled by those who paid him the bribes.

because he had refused to pay the bribes demanded by Seminerio.

The U.S. Attorney's Office in New York City alleged in a criminal complaint Thursday that Aiello and Gerardi, both founders of Fayetteville - based Cor, paid bribes to Howe and Joseph Percoco, a former Cuomo aide, to use their influence to obtain state - funded construction contracts.

In one scheme, according to the indictment, the restaurateur allegedly paid bribes and kickbacks to Ed Mangano and Venditto in exchange tor their assistance in obtaining the Town of Oyster Bar's guarantee of four loans totaling roughly $ 20 million to two of Singh's businesses.