Sentences with phrase «pro quo scheme»
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.
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Last week, jurors heard about another alleged quid pro quo scheme centered on cancer patients being referred by Silver to the Weitz & Luxenberg personal injury law firm.
The prosecution alleges the former Assembly speaker engaged in a quid pro quo scheme with a physician that was worth millions in fees.
The patients came to Silver from Dr. Robert Taub, a then - Columbia University physician, who in turn received $ 500,000 in state research grants at Silver's direction in a quid pro quo scheme, according to the federal indictment.
Dean Skelos also badgered Glenwood's lead counsel to get his son Adam a job in 2012, one of three quid pro quo schemes the Skeloses» were convicted of running.
Not exact matches
The appeals court said Judge Valerie E. Caproni's instructions to jurors in 2015 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.
«Silver's case is factually almost nothing like McDonnell; there is no question that Silver took a number of official acts — most obviously, passing legislation and approving state grants and tax - exempt financing — as part of a quid pro quo in the Mesothelioma and Real Estate Schemes,» Judge Caproni wrote.
Ex-state Assembly Speaker Silver faces federal charges for two different alleged «quid pro quo» schemes.
All three cases involved a common issue — a new definition by the Supreme Court requiring a formal exercise of government power rather than just a meeting or phone call to prove a quid pro quo bribery scheme under the federal law prohibiting «honest services fraud.»
To prove the bribery scheme, the government will be tasked with convincing that Mr. Silver was engaged in a quid pro quo with Mr. Taub and the real estate industry, trading the power he wielded over state money and laws that govern real estate for money.
The alleged quid pro quo arrangement with Taub is one of two secret corruption schemes federal prosecutors say Silver orchestrated.
«There is no question that Silver took a number of official acts — most obviously passing legislation and approving state grants and tax - exempt financing — as part of a quid pro quo» in the charged schemes, the judge wrote.
«Today, we allege a classic, quid pro quo bribery scheme at the New York State Common Retirement Fund,» Bharara said.
Prosecutors said this was a «quid pro quo bribery scheme,» but with all sides denying any connection, jurors quickly acquitted Bruno.
Bruno, 85, is facing his second trial for depriving the public of the right to honest services by engaging in what prosecutors described as a «quid pro quo bribery scheme.»
But last year, Joseph Bruno, the former GOP leader of New York's Senate, was acquitted of federal corruption charges after prosecutors failed to convince a jury that the Rensselaer County Republican's payments from a businessman who received state grants amounted to a quid pro quo bribery scheme.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that a «quid pro quo» bribery scheme had to involve a so - called «official act» that was a formal exercise of government power.
To prove the bribery scheme, the government will be tasked with convincing that Mr. Silver was engaged in a quid pro quo with Mr. Taub and the real estate industry, trading the power he wielded over state money and laws that govern real estate for money.