Sentences with phrase «shell companies set»

The politician, Maltese prime minister Joseph Muscat, was implicated in a scandal as a result of those leaked documents, which referred to shell companies set up by him and two other senior politicians in his administration.
In other words, Waymo is now alleging that Otto was only ever a shell company set up by Levandowski and acquired by Uber as a vehicle for gaining intellectual property stolen from Waymo.
In the other, Percoco is charged with taking $ 35,000 in bribes from the Syracuse based COR development company, paid through a shell company set up by another former Cuomo associate, lobbyist Todd Howe, who has already pled guilty to eight felonies and is expected to be a star witness in the trial.
Those bribes at times came through an intermediary, bank accounts and a shell company set up by Howe, a lawyer and lobbyist who first met Percoco and Cuomo while working for the future governor's father, the late Gov. Mario Cuomo.
He is also accused of getting COR Development to funnel $ 35,000 in payoffs to him through a shell company set up by Howe, then performing official favors that included securing the release of $ 14 million in previously awarded state funds and scoring a «substantial raise» for Aiello's son, who worked in the Executive Chamber.
He testified that Aiello and Cor executive Joseph Gerardi funneled bribes to Percoco through a shell company he set up.
The bribes at times came through an intermediary, bank accounts and a shell company set up by Todd Howe, a lobbyist who first met Percoco and Cuomo while working for the future governor's father, Gov. Mario Cuomo.
Joseph Percoco - Cuomo's campaign manager and closest staff aide, Percoco was paid by Cor Development via a shell company set up by Todd Howe to use his position to get several favors, including a raise for Steven Aiello's son who was working in the Governor's office and removing a project labor agreement from an Inner Harbor parking lot project.
Brewster's role is to explain how money flowed from the executives to Percoco through a shell company set up by disgraced lobbyist Todd Howe.

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Jake Bernstein: Setting up a shell company is really quite easy.
Often patent trolls set up shell companies whose only assets are the patents, which means they have no real revenues or assets.
The press descended, and competitors started issuing statements that they were open for business, all while the company's 400 - plus ZAs, still shell - shocked, started support groups on Facebook to process what had happened and to coach each other on how to set up on their own.
Well, if you're looking for something both small and over-the-top, here's some news that will get your blood sugar spiking: Cinnabon is set to release what the company is calling «Cookie BonBites» — miniature cinnamon rolls with a chocolate chip cookie shell.
Like paper - only shells, which enable the secrecy - minded to hide real ownership of assets, shelf companies are set up by firms like Wyoming Corporate Services, then left «on the shelf» to season for years.
Technically it was a thing called PS Fund 1, LLC, a shell company that they set up together with a little money from Valeant and a lot of money from Pershing Square.
In July 2010, Rothschild set up a shell company, Vallar, and — with the Bakries — bought 25 % of PT Bumi Resources and 75 % of Berau Coal Energy, two major Indonesian coal miners, in a $ 3 billion deal.
Prosecutors said Howe set up bank accounts and a shell company to funnel bribes, including payments to Percoco's wife.
Prosecutors say the Syracuse developers paid Percoco bribes through a «shell company» set up by lobbyist Todd Howe.
Of that, $ 250,000 was paid to Howe and $ 135,000 went to a shell company that Howe had set up allegedly to hide bribe money funneled to another state official, prosecutors said.
The Syracuse developers are accused of paying Percoco bribes, through a «shell company» set up by disgraced lobbyist Todd Howe, in three alleged schemes.
Percoco and Aiello were found guilty of using a «shell company» set up by disgraced lobbyist Todd Howe to funnel payments from Cor to Percoco in exchange for Percoco's influence in state government.
Prosecutors said Cor paid bribes to Percoco through a «shell company» set up by lobbyist Todd Howe, in exchange for favors in state government.
Former top governor's aide Joseph Percoco is accused of accepting bribes from three business executives through a «shell company» set up by Howe.
Aiello and Gerardi, Cor Development executives, were accused of funneling $ 35,000 in bribes to Percoco through a «shell company» set up by Howe.
Among other things, Future Tech set up shell companies and then vastly inflated its claims of how much those companies charged.
Syracuse - based Cor Development Co. executives Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi are accused of obtaining favors from aide Joseph Percoco, by paying bribes through a «shell company» set up by Howe.
If 50 % of the leaseholders agree, they can choose to set up a shell company to manage the building (do repairs and maintenance, buy insurance, etc.).
There are no elaborate schemes of shares being exchanged and shell companies being set up, and no sharing of equity or IP from the developer.
Set up by billionaires Nat Simons and his wife, Sea Change has been exposed by multiple investigators as a shell corporation that funnels huge sums to radical anti-fracking and anti-fossil fuel activists from Vladimir Putin pals, giant Russian oil companies and investment groups, and more reputable sources like the Gates and Walmart Foundations.
To support miners and families when the coal company can't be identified or is no longer in business, in 1977 Congress set up the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund, which has so far shelled out $ 45 billion in compensation to miners and their families.
The way MedCo was set up made this much worse as shell companies popped up like rabbits, although that has now been stopped.
Setting up shell entities to receive otherwise prohibited referral fees cost one real estate company and some of its associates $ 325,000.
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