Sentences with phrase «third alleged scheme»

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Percoco, the key figure in the first of the two alleged schemes, was described in the complaint as a close confidant of the Cuomo family, sometimes referred to as Mario Cuomo's «third son,» who controlled access to Andrew as his executive deputy secretary.

The trial is expected to last four to six weeks, and with jury selection already largely completed, prosecutors say when they kick off their case this week their third witness will be Taub — the one - time Columbia University researcher who was pivotal to one of the alleged schemes.

He took questions from Mirabile on the third day of the trial examining an alleged corruption scheme that prosecutors say involved Mangano, his wife, Linda, and Venditto accepting a «stream of benefits» in exchange for county contracts and town - linked loans to Singh.

An array of figures from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's inner circle — including a confidante so close the governor called him «my father's third son» — got slapped with a sweeping 14 - count federal indictment today, which alleges they colluded in a pair of schemes to solicit bribes for state assistance and to rig economic development contracts for companies that gave to Cuomo's campaigns.

Silver's lawyers argue each of the alleged schemes represents a «routine financial relationship with the entity to which he is allegedly steering business» and does constitute «the sort of «side payment... from a third party» that Skilling requires for a payment to be deemed an illegal bribe or kickback.»

A third lawyer, Dustin J. Dente of Roslyn, is also alleged to have participated in the scheme.

Already in January of this year, the Texas State Securities Board has sent two other cease and desist notices to crypto - related organizations: one to alleged Ponzi - scheme Bitconnect for selling unlicensed securities, and another to «cryptocurrency bank» AriseBank for not actually being a bank, making this Feb. 26 notice the third order of this year.