Sentences with phrase «term ziti»

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And there were a lot of pop culture references: the defendants regularly used the term «ziti» in emails in reference to The Sopranos, where it was a code word for money.

The judge Thursday will have to decide whether to let that agent discuss — as the prosecution wants — how Percoco came up with ziti as the term he used to describe what the government calls alleged bribe money.

Caproni made no mention of «ziti» — the term prosecutors say Percoco used to describe the bribes he received — or Cuomo, whose name came up often since the trial began on Jan. 22.

Prosecutors said Percoco referred to the payoffs using the code word ziti, a term borrowed from «The Sopranos,» in emails with his close friend, lobbyist Todd Howe, who allegedly facilitated the bribes.

NEW YORK — In the end, prosecutors in the Joseph Percoco trial wanted to talk about ziti — the code term the longtime confidant of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo used to allegedly describe the bribe money he got over the years.

That Percoco and Howe, in emails, allegedly sometimes referred to cash payments as «ziti,» a term borrowed from The Sopranos, also may not help the defense's cause.

The trial's most famous term — «ziti» — was uttered often over the past six weeks by both sides.

That Percoco and Howe, in emails, allegedly sometimes referred to cash payments as «ziti,» a term borrowed from

During the course of the bribery scheme, Percoco and Howe allegedly referred to bribe money to be paid to Percoco's wife as ziti, borrowing a term from «The Sopranos,» Bharara said.

Boone also signaled that the government in its case will highlight Percoco and Howe's use of the word «ziti» as code for alleged bribes, a term he says they took from the TV series about the mob «The Sopranos».

Parts of the 80 - page federal complaint unsealed yesterday read like a James Bond novel — with code names («Herb» for Percoco, «Dr. K» for Kaloyeros) and code words («ziti» — a term allegedly caged from the hit HBO show «The Sporano» for the bribes Percoco took).

Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara said the «colorful, coded term» was «apparently lifted from an episode of «The Sopranos»» in which a character lost 45 «boxes of ziti» — or $ 45,000 — during an all - night poker game with players including the real - life Frank Sinatra Jr..

Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is on trial accused of accepting more than $ 300,000 in bribes from upstate business developers — payments referred to as «ziti» in communications between Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe, the prosecution's a star witness who testified that the term was borrowed from the former HBO mob drama.

On Tuesday, federal prosecutors in Manhattan told U.S. District Court Valerie Caproni they want to call a summary witness who would explain why Percoco and Howe used «ziti» as a term for money.

Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is accused of accepting more than $ 300,000 in bribes from upstate developers — payments referred to as «ziti» in communications between Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe, the prosecution's star witness who testified that the term was borrowed from the former HBO mob drama.

Coffey also suggested that Howe and Percoco's use of «ziti» as a euphemism for the allegedly illicit payments — a term that Percoco picked up from the HBO crime drama «The Sopranos,» according to Howe — could have referred to the campaign contributions the men sought to benefit Cuomo's re-election efforts.

Ziti is the term Percoco allegedly devised, Howe said, to describe alleged bribe payments Howe arranged for him.