Sentences with phrase «prosecutors allege the payment»

US prosecutors allege the payment was a bribe to help secure the 2010 World Cup for South Africa.

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In the ongoing corruption scandal embroiling college basketball for months, federal prosecutors in New York added charges on Tuesday against a former Adidas rep, Jim Gatto, which allege payments to families of players at four universities.

Prosecutors allege developers paid «bribes» to Howe that «were purported to be consultancy payments and bonuses but which were in fact payments for Howe's actions in his capacity as an agent» of SUNY Poly, who had «substantial control» over its projects.

At the time of the meeting, Cohen was under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in New York, who still are probing a $ 130,000 payment Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump.»

Federal prosecutors investigating President Trump's personal attorney, Michael D. Cohen, are seeking records related to two women who received payments in 2016 after alleging affairs with Trump years before — adult - film star Stormy Daniels and ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal — according to two people familiar with the matter.

In the summer of 2014, when Percoco resigned from state government and worked as Cuomo's campaign manager, prosecutors allege he took $ 35,000 in payments from Syracuse - based commercial real estate firm COR Development, in exchange for helping COR Development avoid red tape with its projects in Syracuse and its surrounding suburbs.

Prosecutors allege Percoco got the energy company to allegedly hire his wife, Lisa Percoco, for a job as a consultant for $ 90,000 a year and that the Cor officials allegedly bribed him with $ 35,000 in payments in 2014 during a period when he stepped down for eight months from his state job to run Cuomo's re-election campaign.

In the phone call that day in 2016, Percoco talked about a job his wife had gotten with an energy company — a post prosecutors have called a job in return for nearly $ 300,000 in what they allege amounted to alleged bribe payments to Percoco, allegedly in return for official government favors.

In return, prosecutors alleged, Adam Skelos received more than $ 200,000 in payments and Dean Skelos and his Republicans earned hefty political donations from Glenwood.

Prosecutors allege that Silver had an «undisclosed interest» in helping Glenwood Management and that Silver was receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal payments.

In the Skelos trial beginning Nov. 16, prosecutors alleged that father and son squeezed payments to Adam out of Glenwood Management of New Hyde Park, Roslyn malpractice firm Physicians» Reciprocal Insurers, and AbTech, a Glenwood - tied Arizona firm that got a $ 12 million stormwater treatment contract with Nassau.

Prosecutors allege that Skelos did political favors for AbTech Industries, an Arizona environmental company, and Glenwood Management, a large New York developer, in exchange for payments to himself and his son.

Prosecutors alleged that the elder Skelos traded his influence for payments from a real estate firm and environmental technology company that went to his son, Adam Skelos.

Naturally, the word «ziti» — the euphemism borrowed from The Sopranos to describe the alleged bribes to Percoco as payments to his wife for what prosecutors say was a «low - show» job — was tossed around in court on Tuesday.

A prosecutor in the case, Jason A. Masimore, then questioned him about legislation that the government has alleged was part of three schemes under which Senator Skelos used his position to obtain more than $ 300,000 in payments for his son.

Bharara alleges the payments were masked through the LLC in order to obscure the fact that they were coming from the Maryland firm Competitive Power Ventures, which the prosecutor says also bribed Percoco for government favors.

In this case, prosecutors allege the men «disguised a $ 20,000 payment to Adam Skelos both to falsely make it appear that the payment was in return for work by Adam Skelos and so that it could not be traced back to Developer - 1.»