Sentences with phrase «pro quo»

New studies find that banks abused nonpublic information during the financial crisis and that brokers and clients often engage in quid pro quo for insider knowledge.

Prosecutors argued that this amounted to an illegal quid pro quo for Silver, who the government said steered hundreds of thousands of dollars in state research grants to Taub to keep the patients coming — something the prosecution noted Silver never publicized, allegedly because he wanted to keep attention away from the illicit arrangement.

The alleged quid pro quo arrangement with Taub is one of two secret corruption schemes federal prosecutors say Silver orchestrated.

Prosecutors claim Silver engaged in a game of quid pro quo with Glenwood, raking in campaign donations in exchange for fighting a methadone clinic that could have moved to Liberty Plaza, next to one of Glenwood's buildings.

East Hampton had taken federal money in 2001 for airport infrastructure and other expenses, but the federal dollars came with quid pro quos in the form of «grant assurances.»

The appeals court said Caproni's instructions to the 2015 jury did not comply with a later U.S. Supreme Court decision that narrowed the acts required to convict public officials in a quid pro quo bribery scheme to formal exercises of government power, not just meetings or telephone calls.

He and his wife were recently indicted as part of an alleged quid pro quo scheme in which the couple is charged with granting county contracts to donors.

Writing of life in Amarillo, Texas, A. G. Mojtabai says in Blessed Assurance (pp. 100 - 101), «The notion of some sort of quid pro quo between prosperity and piety as an index --- an outward and visible sign of righteousness — is widespread and long preexistent in Amarillo and the nation.

Mirabile said that the other 59 witnesses and evidence that included phone records, emails and credit card statements corroborated what Singh described of his alleged quid pro quo relationship with Mangano and Venditto.

Simply as an empirical matter, the quid pro quo premise seems to rest on some relatively shaky foundations.

Unlawful treatment also comes in the form of sexual harassment by the employer — whether it is direct sexual harassment aimed at the employee which is known as quid pro quo harassment, or in the form of general sexual conduct by other employees which alters the conditions of employment and renders the work environment hostile or abusive.

Moreover, the Jews understood from the start that there was a quid pro quo involved in the covenant.

That is, couples who engage in a quid pro quo exchange of positive behaviors also report less satisfying relationships.

New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed suit Sunday against Harvey Weinstein, his brother Bob Weinstein and the film production company over which they once lorded seeking «to remedy a years - long gender - based hostile work environment, a pattern of quid pro quo sexual harassment, and routine misuse of corporate resources for unlawful ends.»

In the case of local and state level politics, a quid pro quo exists between a handful of party leaders, patronage the only order of the day.

They don't want blind quid pro quo on their site.

Bingler v. Johnson clearly established that fellowships are «relatively disinterested, no - strings educational grants, with no requirement of any substantial clear quid pro quo from the recipients.»

Bohrer wrote the information in these interviews «directly undermine crucial elements of the crime charged: that Percoco was a State official at the time he performed an official act, and that he was a State official, held himself out as a future State official, at the time he entered into a quid pro quo agreement with the Syracuse defendants.»

Prosecutors in U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office have argued that precedent in other cases — particularly in those involving circumstantial evidence — have established a quid pro quo by proving that one side of the relationship had corrupt intent.

But democracy itself encourages quid pro quo deals — many that are perfectly legal, and others that may not be, but that are hard to prove otherwise.

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, or FINMA, announced in a press release today that it has liquidated E-Coin issuer QUID PRO QUO Association as well as two entities, DIGITAL TRADING AG and Marcelo Group AG, which cumulatively collected at least 4 million Swiss francs through the sale of E-Coin to «several hundred users.»

With the connection to the leader of a major nation, Norman is awash in the respect he has always craved, and attempts to leverage Eshel's name on his biggest deal ever: a series of pro quo transactions linking the Prime Minister to Norman's nephew (Michael Sheen), a rabbi (Steve Buscemi), a mogul (Harris Yulin), his assistant (Dan Stevens) and a treasury official from the Ivory Coast.

Quid pro quo endorsements among lawyers is rampant (See LinkedIn Endorsements).

«I am not suggesting a spoke quid pro quo here,» McMahon said.

Is there some secret quid pro quo going on in the back rooms of Sacramento?

I think they all hang together in a coherent way, but there is not a quid pro quo about one aspect as opposed to another.

Is everything in business a quid pro quo when it comes to politics and the Legislature?

This deal, of course, will require quid pro quo at some stage in the future.

Consequently, it may be superfluous to note that the collateral benefit provisions at the heart of this decision were, in fact, quid pro quo elements of an historic bargain struck between insurers and the Alberta government in 2004.

«We have to show that he intended to have an exchange; that's what quid pro quo means,» Mr. McDonald said.

Ultimately, NCLB allowed the Obama administration to dictate K - 12 policy via quid pro quo waivers granted to states desperate to escape NCLB's «100 %» mandate.

Regardless of not being able to prove a quid pro quo without getting DiNapoli under oath, Grandeau says it's important for JCOPE or his own organization to look at campaign contributions and the effect those have on public policy.

«While I had no particular affection for the IRD,» writes Higgins, «I also had no desire to enter into a coalition on the basis of quid pro quo demands.

Its unofficial legislative body is the floating quid pro quo Favor Bank that has always made New York tick at its highest levels, however corruptly, since Tammany Hall.

Are we faced with a risk / return quid pro quo if we invest all of our equity allocation in non-U.S. equities?

But the criminal complaint doesn't really support that quid pro quo regarding the contributions.

There was no quid pro quo proven.

Trad Pub is rife with quid pro quo reviews, pockets lined behind the scenes, paid for blurbs by big name authors who neither write the blurbs nor read the books.

While I don't advocate quid pro quo link buying, sponsoring an event, lecture, or offering to provide some form of web content to those sites can be very effective in terms of acquiring visibility, as well as, links back to your website or blog.

Whether individuals are better off for this quid pro quo depends on how carbon taxes affect fuel consumption.

As a result, no quid pro quo reduction of the federal charitable contribution is required.

Germany today maintains a quid pro quo policy toward the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah that is similar to its posture toward Black September, according to German journalists and intelligence officers.

The apparent quid pro quo request came after a U.S. court released on probation Rene Gonzalez, a Cuban national who spent 13 years behind bars for spying on U.S. military installations and Cuban exile groups.

Quid pro quo electoral exchanges, in which votes are bartered for particular services rendered, are considered «bad» democratic practice.

Russia has so far declined to introduce a quid pro quo expulsion of British diplomats.

Kinderhook, NY... October 13, 2016 — Zephyr Teachout, the liberal New York City professor who moved Upstate this year to run for Congress, muted her support for fellow Vermonter and socialist Bernie Sanders ahead of New York's presidential primary in a quid pro quo orchestrated by the Clinton campaign team, leaked emails show.

«It's completely dismaying — it's a huge incentive to play fast and loose with state law as a way of engaging potentially in bribery and quid pro quo under federal law, but as a private citizen.»

But the specific goals of the proposal, especially regarding the allocation of discretionary funding, are clear reactions to the kind of quid pro quo atmosphere that many say existed under the eight - year tenure of Speaker Christine Quinn.