Sentences with phrase «taking bribe money»

Dan Halloran, who is accused of taking bribe money...

Not exact matches

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.

I had to bribe my son with money in his piggy bank to get a few of the pictures I took of him, though, as he is becoming more self - aware these days.

As the jury unanimously found, Daniel Halloran played a key role in two distinct political corruption schemes: first, for $ 20,000, Halloran was willing and able to serve as a go - between to deliver bribes to political party officials, and second he also took nearly $ 25,000 in cash and illegal campaign contributions to steer $ 80,000 in City Council money to other bribe payers.»

Ed Mangno's attorney, Kevin Keating, to fence contractor Anthony Gulino on whether he bribed his client: «On your oath, Mr. Gulino, on your oath — Mr. Mangano didn't take that money, did he?»

NEW YORK (AP)-- A prosecutor says New York's former assembly speaker took millions of dollars in kickbacks, but his lawyer insists the money wasn't a bribe.

«As the jury unanimously found, Daniel Halloran played a key role in two distinct political corruption schemes: first, for $ 20,000, Halloran was willing and able to serve as a go - between to deliver bribes to political party officials, and second he also took nearly $ 25,000 in cash and illegal campaign contributions to steer $ 80,000 in City Council money to other bribe payers,» Mr. Bharara said in a statement.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office also said the hefty suggestion stemmed from «the many egregious aspects of the defendant's crimes — including Silver's role as a high - level public official, his engagement in multiple corrupt schemes, the millions of dollars in bribe money Silver took in, and his laundering of his crime proceeds.»

Misau, in a series of interviews with newsmen, accused the Inspector General of Police of taking bribe to post police officers as well as diverting for personal use money paid by private companies for police duties.

And I will take a hard line, too, against any attempts to replicate the mistake of skewing the market against public sector providers, effectively bribing private companies by offering them more money to do exactly the same job as you.

According to these applicants, the goro boys established some relation with officials at the office, and use that connection to take money from prospective applicants to allegedly bribe the officials.

Earlier in the day, former State Assemblyman William Boyland was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for taking bribes and stealing public money, the latest state legislator sent to prison.

In the last two weeks we've seen him take credit for Cabrera saving the senior centers, bribe people with food to get signatures, and now waste member item money that could have helped the community he so vehemently professes to serve.

A little more than three months ago the defendant in question was a Democrat, Shelly Silver, accused of taking bribes and kickbacks of $ 4 million, some of the money being listed as «referral fees» for steering asbestos cases and real - estate developers to Silver - connected law firms.

Those were the two narratives presented to jurors today in the Manhattan federal courthouse where Mr. Silver, still an assemblyman and once among the three most powerful men in the state, is standing trial on charges of honest services fraud, extortion and money laundering for allegedly taking more than $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks.

Your parents betrayed us (Ghanaians) by taking cheap bribes to overthrow our first president, stall our development and wasted our monies to educate you (Nana Addo) in Oxford only to go & smoke weed to get yourself dismissed.

Referee Thomas Jones (not his real name), who was caught on tape taking money to influence the outcome of a tough match said he was innocent if he was captured receiving bribe from Anas in particular but conceded he received...

After all, it was the money Sheldon Silver received from his work for law firms that led to the allegations he took kickbacks and bribes.

He didn't find any police station to take that money that he considers as a bribe.

The governor had promised to form the investigatory commission in accordance with the state's Moreland Act after he and lawmakers failed to agree on a package of ethics and elections law reforms that ranged from increasing punishment for taking bribes to making it easier to register to vote to using taxpayer money to finance political campaigns.

Given that the federal role in education has rewarded a lot of cronies and entrenched a lot of anti-freedom bureaucrats but produced no student achievement gains, and can constitutionally exist only because the feds bribe states with their own money, it's about time someone with power and cojones took a stand.

Common Core is the latest attempt to bribe states, with money taken from the American people, into adopting a curriculum developed by federal bureaucrats and education «experts.»

Oh, I remembered the third rule of journalism: 3) If the Times only pays attention to the Big Five on their tout sheets, and they do it to gain advert money on their pages, then they are in effect taking bribes.

Since Duffy clearly took the money, and his actions after the fact are not really being disputed, the only question I can see for the judge is whether paying back his disputed expenses, in a way that seemed to benefit the PMO, constitutes the type of action that is sufficient to make his receipt of the $ 90,000 «a bribe».