Sentences with phrase «rigging bids»

Kaloyeros is accused of rigging the bids for high - tech facilities that SUNY Poly built in Buffalo and Syracuse.

There isn't too much positive news to talk about when it comes to nine people with ties to the Cuomo administration are arrested, accused of rigging the bid process for major state contracts.

Kaloyeros, who is facing federal and state charges of rigging bids on facilities the high - tech school built in Albany, Buffalo and Syracuse, was relieved of his position at the school on Thursday.

Now, as Cuomo's closest friend and former top advisor, Joseph Percoco, is about to be indicted for rigging bids on state contracts, the governor proposed a raft of ethics reforms on Wednesday that stand little chance of ever getting made into law.

Six years ago 14 individuals and seven computer companies were charged with rigging bids in connection with $ 60 million worth of contracts with the federal government.

The four were arrested in Nov. 2013 and charged with rigging the bidding process on two county projects totaling more than $ 300 million.

On Tuesday, in the Westchester County Court in White Plains, Judge Alberto Lorenzo unsealed a 66 count grand jury indictment against Fevang covering 22 specific instances of fraud involving rigged bids going back to 2006.

From 2013 through 2015, Aiello, Gerardi and others are accused of conspiring to defraud Fort Schuyler Management Corp. by rigging the bidding process for taxpayer - funded development projects.

Kaloyeros has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from allegedly rigging bidding processes for SUNY Poly's facilities.

In their case, the issue is whether government officials rigged bids so these companies would win — which is not legal.

Stevenson, a former legislative researcher for City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, was trying to help his co-defendants rig their bid to open and run adult day - care centers in the Bronx.

The university formed the foundation in Sept. 2016, days after federal and state corruption charges were brought against then - president of SUNY Polytechnic Institute Alain Kaloyeros, alleging the nanotechnology whiz rigged bidding processes for large economic development projects controlled by two university - affiliated nonprofits.

Federal prosecutors allege they conspired to «secretly rig the bidding process for state contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars» in favor of LPCiminelli and other companies.

He's been among the most vocal critics of Cuomo's economic development initiatives, some of which are now part of a federal indictment that focuses on Joseph Percoco, a former close aide of the governor who is accused of essentially rigging bids for kickbacks and campaign contributions.

Pedro G. then rigged the bids to make sure it won the Soundview contract — a contract worth almost $ 400,000 annually.

«Through rigged bids, state contracts worth billions of dollars in public development monies, meant to revitalize and renew upstate New York, were instead just another way to corruptly award cronies who were willing to pay to play.»

The Competition Bureau recently decided not to recommend charges against an autoparts maker who rigged bids, because the cars containing their parts were mostly sold in the US.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced earlier this week that a group of Mississippi real estate investors plead guilty for their roles in a conspiracy to rig bids at public real estate foreclosure auctions.

The former head of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute is accused of rigging bids in Cuomo's Buffalo Billion development program to help companies that contributed to the governor's campaign coffers.

The men were charged with rigging the bids on high - tech facilities that SUNY Poly built in Buffalo and Syracuse, and Percoco was charged with extorting companies for official favors.

Prosecutors charged executives at three development companies, as well as SUNY Polytechnic Institute president Alain Kaloyeros and lobbyist Todd Howe, with rigging the bids on facilities that SUNY Poly built in Albany, Buffalo and Syracuse.

In the cartel at hand this worked out to the extent that the Court notes that more than half of the projects concerned involved rigged bids, meaning that at least one third of the market volume was covered by the cartel.

Kaloyeros has pleaded not guilty to federal and state charges stemming from allegedly rigging bidding processes for SUNY Poly's facilities.

In the second, Kaloyeros allegedly worked with Howe to rig bids so that two real - estate developers got lucrative deals, the complaint says.

But Hyde said that during the same visit the CEO pulled his aside and asked him to tell him what «really happened» with the SUNY Poly scandal, in which Kaloyeros and the other defendants were accused of rigging bids on projects for large Cuomo donors.

From 2013 through last year, Aiello, Gerardi and others are accused of conspiring to defraud Fort Schuyler Management Corp. by rigging the bidding process for taxpayer - funded development projects.

They were accused, along with several others, of rigging the bidding process in which LPCiminelli won the $ 750 million state contract to build the SolarCity plant at RiverBend in South Buffalo.

SUNY Polytechnic Institute Founding President and CEO Alain Kaloyeros was arrested in September 2016 and accused of taking part in rigging bids for multi-million-dollar projects.

Aubrey McClendon died one day after the U.S. Department of Justice indicted him for allegedly violating antitrust laws by colluding to rig bids for oil and gas acreage.

The crash occurred less than 24 hours after the U.S. Department of Justice announced that McClendon had been indicted for allegedly colluding to rig bids for oil and gas acreage while he was at Chesapeake.

The push for procurement oversight reform began last year following the arrests of ex-SUNY Polytechnic President Alain Kaloyeros and a former close aide to the governor, Joe Percoco as well as prominent upstate developers, accused of rigging bids for economic development contracts.

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.

Prosecutors say Percoco, Kaloyeros, the companies and Todd Howe — a former lobbyist with longtime ties to Cuomo and his father, the late Gov. Mario Cuomo — conspired to rig bids involving mega SUNY building projects in upstate New York in exchange for kickbacks and campaign contributions.

The 35 - page indictment, which largely tracked a criminal complaint filed in September, accused Percoco of taking over $ 300,000 in payoffs to wield influence in Cuomo's executive chamber, while former SUNY Polytechnic Institute President Alain Kaloyeros worked to rig bids on $ 850 million in development projects in Syracuse and Buffalo.

Today, three CEOs were indicted by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and NYS Attorney General Eric Schneiderman for bribing state officials and successfully conspiring to rig bids.

In the other, he allegedly worked as a consultant to Kaloyeros and rigged bids on nearly $ 1 billion in projects for his clients.

Kaloyeros and developer Joseph Nicolla were charged in September 2016 with rigging the bids of multi-million-dollar development projects.

Over the next months, the former speaker of the state Assembly, former leader of the state Senate, the former president of the State University of New York's newest college campus and a longtime and influential political operative in Western New York will stand accused of wrongdoing ranging from bribery to extortion to fraud to illegal campaign contributions to rigged bids.

Authorities accused Percoco of conspiring with Kaloyeros and Howe to rig bidding in the Buffalo Billion upstate revitalization project and deceive Fort Schuyler, the state - funded entity awarding the lucrative contracts, so they would go to Syracuse - based COR Development and Buffalo contractor LPCiminelli.

The procurement changes — including a «database of deals» backed by good - government groups and independent oversight of contracting — had been sought following the arrests of Joe Percocco, a longtime confidant of the governor's, as well as former SUNY Polytechnic president Alain Kaloyeros and prominent upstate developers, accused of bribery and rigging bids.

Percoco, 47, of South Salem in Westchester County, is charged in two interlocking schemes with taking more than $ 300,000 to wield influence in Cuomo's executive chamber and working with former SUNY Polytechnic Institute President Alain Kaloyeros to rig bids on upstate development projects.

Last year, three of the company's top executives and key state officials were charged with rigging the bids to build the factory to ensure that LPCiminelli would be awarded the contract.

The defendants in that case include Alain Kaloyeros, former president and CEO of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute, who's accused of rigging bids for a $ 750,000 contract tied to that project and $ 105 million in contracts for a film studio and manufacturing plant near Syracuse.

The Department of Justice alleges the nano - tech expert conspired with Cuomo donors to rig the bidding process for state contracts.

The resulting investigation yielded a rich narrative of three trusted counselors to Mr. Cuomo conspiring to help the favored contractors, rigging bids and doling out other favorable treatment.

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.

According to a recent filing in the federal case, prosecutors have sought records from more than a dozen individuals, companies and campaign accounts that were not named in a 2016 indictment that alleged key officials and developers were involved in rigging bids for some of the state's biggest projects.

They were all charged with a scheme to rig the bidding process for public works contracts for two LDCs, or Local Development Corporations.