Sentences with phrase «say bribed»

The single - source contract began in May 2016, after NYPA was served with a grand jury subpoena related to Competitive Power Ventures, the energy company that employed Peter Galbraith Kelly, Jr., who prosecutors say bribed ex-Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco in exchange for official actions.

Prosecutors say the bribes funded a luxury shopping spree over a two - month period on two continents.

The search warrant document, which was later resealed, said the bribes were paid to Saadi Gadhafi by former SNC vice-president Riadh Ben Aissa, who is now jailed in Switzerland.

He offers (maybe we should say bribes?)

The commission's deputy chairman, Bambang Widjojanto, said the bribe was an attempt by Indoguna Utama to get access to a larger import allowance.

Bedoya said the bribe for himself and Chiriboga later was increased to $ 600,000.

Many moms shared this frustration — in fact, one third of moms said they bribe their kids to get them to eat healthy food.

Singh, who testified in the first four weeks of the trial, said his bribes to Mangano and Venditto included free vacations for the Mangano family, a no - show job for Linda Mangano that paid $ 450,000 and free limousine services for Venditto and his inner circle.

Singh secretly pleaded guilty in 2016 to bribing those officials, and also said he bribed a city official whose description matches de Blasio.

Capers says the bribes were in exchange for loans and lucrative contracts to provide food services to the county.

But prosecutors say bribes, kickbacks and extortion are just as illegal in New York as any other state.

Even worse, a federal felon, Harendra Singh, says he bribed the mayor and received City Hall favors in return.

Singh said he bribed Venditto with free meals, use of a conference room and free limousine services for the then - town supervisor, his aides, his family members and their guests.

The remaining 10 people — 13 % of those who had contact — said the bribe was to get a cheaper or faster service or, in one case, simply to get a service.

Five of these people said the bribe was a thank you gift.

Not exact matches

Bureaucracy is «pretty transparent» as well, meaning «there are no bribes to get things done,» says Skinner, and policies remain fairly consistent.

But I've talked to sales managers overseas who say it's just not realistic to avoid everything that could be construed as a bribe.

Prosecutors say Napout collected millions of dollars in bribes as well as gifts — such as $ 10,175.88 worth of tickets to a Paul McCartney concert in Buenos Aires.

Jurors have been shown thousands of pages of records that include two secret ledgers kept by sports - marketing officials documenting what prosecutors say were bribes paid out to soccer officials.

The U.S. says the money originated from a Swiss account controlled by Burzaco, part of what the businessman testified were the millions of dollars in bribes he paid to officials, including Marin, for the broadcasting rights to the Centennial tournament and another in Brazil.

They say he also participated in bribing Gross to gain control over the credit union to facilitate the virtual currency business.

To do so, they and others paid $ 150,000 in bribes via the church to Gross, its pastor, in exchange for facilitating Murgio's takeover and arranging for Lebedev and others to be put on the credit union's board, prosecutors said.

But tipping is actually perceived as rude in some countries like Japan, where the gesture is interpreted to mean that you're saying a worker can't be expected to provide good service without a bribe.

According to the complaint, Dawkins said that a «rival athletic apparel company» was «coming in with a higher number,» or bigger bribe.

«We're bribing them, but it's a relatively inexpensive way to accomplish a lot of things,» says Cino, whose stores gross almost $ 30 million annually.

In the end, deGrasse Tyson held firm to his belief that Pluto deserves to be a dwarf planet, saying that Pluto is «only awesome, minus 10 percent», despite Colbert bribing him with a Klondike bar to change his mind and reinstate Pluto as a planet.

Otherwise, says Tena Crock, Step2's online marketing director, they might see it as a bribe.

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.

«These contributions are nothing but bribes and payoffs,» Celente says.

State news service Xinhua said he embezzled $ 6 million, took $ 1 million in bribes from a Taiwanese business partner and purchased 37 apartments in Beijing, Tianjin and Qingdao with his ill - gotten earnings.

Nixed: Cambridge Analytica, a data firm with ties to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, said it suspended CEO Alexander Nix after undercover videos showed Nix saying he could entrap politicians with bribes and women.

He said that his company could have an operative try to videotape a politician they want to discredit accepting a bribe.

- revfeed promotes binarytilt - «Scam or not» review websites promote it, It would be fair to say some are written by binarytilt authors and some authors are just simply bribed (I mean they're human) and binarytilt seems to have lots of money.

I certainly agree with those who say that no government policy — from the bully pulpit to various kinds of bribes — can reliably promise to spike the birth rate.

Meanwhile, the guards relate their story to the elders and the chief priests who bribe them to lie and say that the disciples took Jesus» body away.

Any other doing or saying otherwise is either a hypocrite or a bribed one or is under pressure... so no one will accept their remarks or fatwas about that... at least not from any one's living in the west..

After the Resurrection had happened, the guard reported to the authorities, who bribed them to say that while they were asleep the disciples stole the body.

'' The police wouldn't help me because they get bribes from the brothel owners,» Srey Neth said, adding that senior police officials had come to the guesthouse for sex with her.

Mark, perhaps I should have said the right - wing politicians are being bribed to gut education funding and that the religious right is behind most of it for their own reasons.

When God identifies something as sin, such as taking a bribe (See: Deuteronomy), I am not judging when I say that a leader is wrong for taking a bribe.

One part of the article said they «feted» the Karen Buddist Army & the next part said that army shared part of the «bribe» with the Burmese army.

The leaders of Israel bribe the guards to lie and to say that the disciples had stolen the body of Jesus in the night while the guards slept.

a few of my grandchildren deciced they wanted to spend the weekend and while doing so decided to look for something they themselve could make for themand grandma for lunch while i was out doing things in the garden, so to make a long story short when asked if they could make lunch i said sure but no cooking on the stove.thinking that would save them geyying hurt in any way.i half exoecte beanut butter and jelly or ham and chesse sandwiches and chips or something but what got was This wonderful Taco Pizza., I always keep taco meat made up i the freezer along with all the other things in which to make easy fast dishes for them needless to say i was delighted and surprized., when i askes how they did it I was told thats for us to know and you to enjoy.well I did and i think that if a 14,10 and very very smart 3 yr old can make this its simply wonderful.thank you and it took some work but i bribed the 10 yr old into telling my where he found it thank goodness the computer has history, lol, and bookmarking.its something every mother or grandmother should try to make with their little taco lovers.thank you From a grandmother

I almost wanted to say that I'd have to bribe a butcher's employee (who makes fabulous fennel and black pepper sausages) to make chile sausages just for me, but now I see I can make them on my own and without casings!!!! Wow!!!

The papers say that Jackson was bribed by Rosenhaus with a ton of cash and Louis Vuitton bags and that is why he shouldn't have to repay the money.

Roy Hodgson saying he doesn't know why he is at a managerial press conference, Sam Allardayce saying it's not the manager's job to say where Rooney would play and later being caught in bribe scandals and then Southgate finally got his dream of managing his country and has yet to change anything.

meaning, the overall system itself is exploitative and needlessly punitive and just pretty shitty all around, so gaming that dumb system likely doesn't carry the same sort of stigma as, say, embezzling money from your company or taking bribes to vote on a piece of legislation.

Testifying under immunity, they said Errico gave or offered them bribes ranging from $ 1,500 to $ 7,500 to «hold» their horses.

Wenger is shiit I want him out but this part of referees been human they can make mistake is what I don't like, why do players get punished if they mistakenly tackles a player with red cards are they not humans and prone to mistakes.there should be form of punishment for any ref that cost a club points by his mistakes.just like someone said they can eaaily take bribe and make mistakes knowing fully well they will not be punished.F A is crap.

«And if they can prove [a payoff attempt],» says AIBA general secretary Loring Baker, «AIBA will give them double what the bribe offer was.