Sentences with phrase «say illicit payments»
Although in recent decades western governments introduced strict anti-bribery laws, PSC employees say illicit payments are endemic in both countries.
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Silk Road 2.0 provided an online bazaar where users across the world could buy and sell drugs, computer hacking tools and other illicit items, using the digital currency Bitcoin as payment, authorities said.
Mr. Silver, 71, is accused of abusing his office to obtain nearly $ 4 million in illicit payments through two law firms, while saying the income had come from bona fide legal work.
«Top aides arrested, signature initiatives plagued by corruption, widening scandals at every turn,» the Republican committee said in a release on its website, which made reference to «ziti,» a code used for illicit payments according to the 2016 criminal charges.
The government's case will focus on how prosecutors say Mr. Silver, who is no longer speaker but is still in the Assembly, carried out two secret schemes through which he collected nearly $ 4 million in illicit payments through two law firms, while maintaining the income came from legitimate legal work.
At Mr. Silver's trial, prosecutors said that he had obtained the illicit payments in return for official actions in two schemes.