Sentences with phrase «taking kickbacks»

This is just one example of professionals taking kickbacks in the CA real estate industry.

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«Probably the greatest scandal in the state this year happened in the comptroller's office with the pension fund manager who was taking kickbacks where a background check was even conducted.»

FBI agents arrested Seabrook at his Morris Park home and charged with taking kickbacks — including $ 60,000 passed hand - to - hand in a Ferragamo bag — in a corruption case that could have dramatic effects in NYC politics and on Rikers Island itself

Bloomberg executives defrauded the mega media company by rigging bids and taking kickbacks from contractors, according to reports and court records.

By the Bronx D.A.'s office which was in the process of investigating Bernie Kerik for taking kickbacks from contractor friends in Jersey, while he was NYC Police Commissioner.

Papers allegedly show the head of the Brazilian FA, Ricardo Teixeira, was one of the FIFA members accused of taking kickbacks from a former FIFA marketing partner in the 1990s.

Instead, brokers routinely take kickbacks, euphemistically referred to as «rebates,» for routing orders to a particular exchange.

But he was later caught up in a scheme in which his top adviser, Hank Morris had taken kickbacks through «placement agents» or intermediaries between the fund and investments.

He allegedly took kickbacks involving the union's pension fund investments, investigators said, sources said.

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.

Your banker is (probably) a bag man for funds of that nature being pushed by the bank; your banker will (probably) take a kickback on some expensive fund they pick out for you.

«The people running the prisons and jails... know all this, and they just make the decision to take the kickback money and run with it — and public safety and sound public policy be damned,» says Wright, a former jailhouse lawyer.

Blumenthal is already investigating Hunt Liebert and Bendett & McHugh for complaints related to improper service, illegal practices and allocating work to process servers who fail to serve papers or take kickbacks.

Keeping a ton of unnecessary apps on your phone, especially from the kind of unscrupulous developers who'd take a kickback for putting extra advertising software in their ad, is a good way to kill its performance.

Ethical inspectors don't take kickbacks from contractors who repair problems an inspection uncovers, or receive money from real estate agents who refer their clients.

Real Estate Brokers and Mortgage Servicer That Took Kickbacks from Prospect Also Ordered to Pay $ 495,000

Not exact matches

This would mean brokers could take undisclosed kickbacks to push certain products, and place their interests ahead of their customers — recommending mutual funds and other products that earned them the highest fees, rather than served the interests of clients.

Bump stocks are devices that harness a gun's kickback energy, making semiautomatic gun (which fires one bullet with each trigger - pull) mimic a fully automatic one (which can fire off multiple rounds until the shooter takes their finger off the trigger).

The harsh kickback of reviling and defaming goes with the territory; saints are tough - skinned and can't be taken completely off guard.

Slumlord and Cuomo campaign finance chairman Andrew Farkas was caught red - handed taking nearly $ 8 million in illegal kickbacks using tax money earmarked for the maintenance of federal housing projects.

This does not take into account corrupt practices, inflated contracts and kickbacks that are commonplace among some office holders.

She recently sued Zimbabwean newspaper, The Standard, after it published Wikileaks cables, which claimed she took huge kickbacks from diamond mines in Zimbabwe.

Telling tenant advocates he was in their corner while winking and nodding to developers as he literally concocted elaborate schemes to take their illegal kickbacks.

Prosecutors took the first full day of testimony in the corruption trial of Sheldon Silver to lay out one of two bribery and kickback schemes they allege the former Assembly speaker undertook.

Former Sen. Vincent Leibell, R - Patterson, pleaded guilty in federal court in December to evading taxes on kickbacks he took in connection with state money he directed to two nonprofits he set up.

One legislator is about to be sentenced to jail time in connection with kickbacks he took on contracts that involved state grants he funneled to his own nonprofits.

On Thursday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the corruption conviction of former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — who was facing 12 years in prison after being convicted of taking $ 4 million in kickbacks.

Federal officials say Mangano and Venditto received bribes and kickbacks from a businessman who gave Mangano's wife a lucrative no - show job the year her husband first took office.

Mangano is accused of taking bribes and kickbacks from indicted restaurateur Harendra Singh.

According to the New York Times, Percoco is charged with taking more than $ 320,000 in kickbacks from two companies that had business before the state.

The new call for changes comes after Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, was convicted by a jury in federal court of taking $ 4 million in kickbacks.

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.

The governor's speech comes shortly after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested by federal law enforcement officials and accused of taking millions in bribes and kickbacks as part of his work with two outside law firms.

Prosecutors accuse Silver specifically of taking millions of income from the firm, including a salary that was premised on his official position, not his legal work, along with kickbacks from an attorney - referral scheme.

«I hope the sentence I'm going to impose on you will make the next politician hesitate just long enough before taking a bribe or a kickback, for his better angels to take over,» Manhattan U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni told the ashen - faced former Albany power broker.

Prosecutors accuse him of taking bribes and kickbacks from a local businessman in return for favors including a county contract.

Silver, a Manhattan Democrat who led the Assembly for 20 years, is accused of taking more than $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks.

Silver, who stepped down from his longtime position as Assembly speaker in the wake of the corruption case, was indicted on federal fraud and extortion charges in February related to claims that he took more than $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks.

The appeals court ruled Bruno could be retried on different charges, and in May 2012 he was indicted for taking bribes and kickbacks.

He took a $ 2000 kickback for himself.

Prosecutors say Silver took nearly $ 4 million in payoffs and kickbacks before he was arrested in January in the bribery case.

Silver, who ruled the Legislature with an iron fist for the past two decades, was charged with taking bribes and kickbacks, using his office to obtain nearly $ 4 million in corrupt payments from two law firms over the past 15 years.

Silver, 72, was convicted of taking millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks in exchange for various favors, including directing state grants to a particular doctor who passed on leads to him about potential law clients.

Three weeks after the Moreland Commission — which Governor Cuomo founded in 2013 — was due to release its report on public corruption in New York State, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested by federal authorities on charges of taking millions in bribes and kickbacks.

Prosecutors allege he used his position to take more than $ 6 million in bribes and kickbacks, which he masked as legitimate income earned as a lawyer over 15 years.

The 70 - year - old Democrat was taken into custody by the FBI on federal charges that he took nearly $ 4 million in payoffs and kickbacks, crimes that carry up to 100 years in prison and could cost him his political seat.

In January, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was charged with exploiting his power to take $ 4 million in kickbacks.

on charges of extortion, fraud and bribery, barely four months after former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver resigned over federal charges that he had taken millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks.