Sentences with phrase «through bribes»

Things progressed through bribes and threats until the time his brother climbed on top of him, pushing his face into the pillow -LSB-...]

In addition, the complaint says, the former head of SUNY Poly, Alain Kaloyeros, and long time Cuomo associate and lobbyist Todd Howe personally profited through bribes and kickbacks.

Update: The New York Post is calling the charges a massive bribery scheme whereby Smith and Halloran plotted to rig the Mayoral election through bribes and fraud.

State officials were quick to condemn Stevenson, particularly after Tuesday's arrests of state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D - Queens) and City Councilman Dan Halloran (R - Queens) in a scheme to buy Smith's entry into the Republican primary for mayor through bribes.

Prosecutors said Dean Skelos arranged for his son to receive more than $ 300,000 through bribes, gratuities and extortion payments from a major real estate developer, an environmental technology company and PRI.

Prosecutors say Dean Skelos arranged for his son to receive more than $ 300,000 through bribes, gratuities and extortion payments from a major real estate developer, an environmental technology company and a medical malpractice insurer.

In doing so, says a 79 - page criminal complaint unsealed on Thursday, Mr. Percoco and Mr. Howe sought to enrich themselves through bribes, using their positions to help particular companies receive «hundreds of millions of dollars in state contracts and other official state benefits.»

In addition, the complaint says, the former head of SUNY Poly, Alain Kaloyeros, and long - time Cuomo associate and lobbyist Todd Howe personally profited through bribes and kickbacks.

The Bronx Democrat rose to power over the last several days following Silver's arrest on charges that he has used his office to enrich himself through bribes masked as referrals.

If you want to get your Visa extended beyond 1 - month, you have to pay for it through a bribe or leave the country and fly back for the Visa renewal Singapore is the best pace to do a quick hop in and out.

Not exact matches

Think through issues such as what you can offer, how to avoid effectively bribing customers, and the logistics of tracking customer activity and tallying what they receive as a result.

Therefore a scheme developed by two or more persons to bribe a foreign public official that is later not followed through can still result in the violation of the CFPOA.

They turned their eyes from injustices, committing them through robberies, extortions, loving bribes and honor in public places, yet making up for themselves laws that protect their interests, disregarding the poor, and needy who struggle to survive.

Beginning in or around 2004 and continuing through 2011, I and others on the FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with the selection of South Africa as the host nation for the 2010 World Cup... Beginning in or about 1993 and continuing through the early 2000s, I and others agreed to accept bribes and kickbacks in conjunction with the broadcast and other rights to the 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2003 Gold Cups.

Also he was bribed by Winchester who gave him gold for all the trouble he had gone through.

Although I first started flying as an itty bitty baby and feel entirely comfortable walking through airports all by myself, I still enjoy a good reward (okay, okay — more of a bribe) for traveling solo.

Here on the continent, we have problems, institutions are not properly developed, the bad guys have a lot of money, they want to bribe their way through many processes.

The call for repeal comes after Sen. Malcolm Smith allegedly sought to bribe his way onto the GOP ballot line for New York City mayor through the Wilson - Pakula waiver.

Yesterday, Lancman took to Twitter to decry Wal - Mart, writing: «Whether it's through politically motivated «philanthropy,» campaign contributions or outright bribes, NYC is not for sale.»

Cuomo actually does come up in the allegations, very tangentially: At one point in the U.S. attorney's complaint, Smith is quoted as having said to an undercover F.B.I. agent, as part of an explanation for why the Republican county chairmen were unlikely to go back on a bribe - based bargain with him, «I got them already asking me about judgeships, because judgeships now come through here, it comes through the governor.»

His company paid $ 35,000 in bribes to Percoco through former lobbyist Todd Howe, according to the complaint.

The trial, expected to last four to six weeks, will have plenty of seamy detail about backroom dealings, court filings suggest — from jokes about wanting more «zitti» in alleged coded references to bribes taken from «The Sopranos,» to using clout to influence state agencies and routing more than $ 300,000 in alleged payoffs to Percoco through his wife.

Yesterday, we wrote about Shafran's role in excuse - making for the corrupt and dysfunctional legislature up in Albany, but what wasn't discussed is that Shafran also worked as the goto political spinmaster for Senator Malcolm Smith — the same Senator that was arrested in a statewide FBI corruption probe that alleges he attempted to rig the Mayoral election through fraud and bribes early this morning.

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.

Percoco is accused of accepting bribe money from an energy company executive, through a «low - show» job for his wife in the company's education outreach program.

In regard to an arrangement to pay Percoco through a shell company for alleged bribes from Cor Development, he said, «In retrospect I never should have.»

According to the federal complaint, Percoco took more than $ 315,000 in bribes from 2012 through 2016 from Syracuse - based COR Development and Competitive Power Ventures, an energy company looking to build a power plant in the Hudson Valley.

Federal prosecutors had contended Seminerio took bribes from numerous city and state agencies through his phony consulting agency, Marc Consultants.

Former CPV exec Peter Galbraith Kelly Jr., who's among three co-defendants standing trial with Joseph, is accused of funneling him nearly $ 280,000 in bribes through his wife in a failed bid to score a contract to sell electricity to the state Power Authority.

Mr Ayariga had alleged that Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko had offered, through committee chair Joe Osei - Owusu and Minority Chief Whip Alhaji Muntaka Mubarak Mohammed, bribe of GHS3000 to each of the Minority MPs on the Appointments Committee to facilitate his (Mr Agyarko's) approval as Minister.

«Gulino paid this bribe in order to get access to Mangano, if and when the need arose, and to enhance his reputation in the town through his «relationship» with the county executive.»

An official from an energy company linked to alleged bribes of nearly $ 300,000 paid to former Andrew Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco through his wife testified in Manhattan federal court Thursday that the payments were suspicious from the start.

According to the conviction, Mr. Percoco got nearly $ 300,000 in bribes through the scheme.

Sulaiman on his part, was accused of bribing a government official when he paid N5 million through a Guarantee Trust Bank account to Alanamu, as a reward for the award of contract to his company, thereby committing an offence contrary to Section 9 (1)(a) and punishable under Section 9 (1)(b) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000.

Counsel for the ICPC, Sunny Ezeana, told the court that Alanamu received the bribe through his First Bank account on February 11, 2015 from Namylas Nigeria Limited, a company owned by Sulaiman, who is also his friend.

The government has accused Percoco, 49, of South Salem, of taking $ 35,000 in bribes from two principals of COR through lobbyist Todd Howe, a cooperating witness.

Halloran negotiated for $ 110,000 in bribes to be paid out to three city GOP leaders through the mayoral - race - fixing scheme, and he sought another $ 75,000 in payments for himself, the feds say.

The other defendants are Steve Aiello and Joseph Gerardi, executives with the Syracuse - based COR real estate development company, who are accused of bribing Percoco with $ 35,000 in payments to his wife through former lobbyist Todd Howe, the government's star witness.

Some of those bribes were allegedly funneled through Percoco's wife Lisa, a former New York City school teacher who in February 2016 submitted a voucher for $ 7,500 for a final month of work for Competitive Power Ventures.

Fusion candidates have come under new scrutiny after Sen. Malcolm Smith was arrested in an alleged scheme to bribe his way onto the New York City mayoral ballot through securing a Wilson - Pakula and run on the GOP line.

The supposed bribe was said to have been channeled through Chairman of the Committee, Joe Osei - Wusu, and Minority Chief Whip, Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka.

Prosecutors charged Silver «betrayed» his office through allegedly masking bribes and kickbacks as legitimate legal referrals.

The NYPD has revoked the gun carry permits of more than two dozen people who got them through a shady middleman indicted for bribing NYPD cops working in the department's Licensing Division, sources tell the NY Post.

A New York economic development official testified that the state made at least six attempts to work through issues with Cor Development's project to develop the Syracuse Inner Harbor, and this issues were only resolved after Cor principals Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi paid bribes to Percoco.

He has already pleaded guilty to eight felonies for his role in the various schemes, which prosecutors said involved the Buffalo Billion case to be heard later this year and arranging the bribes to Percoco through two of his clients: the downstate energy firm and the Syracuse development company.

Percoco got nearly $ 300,000 in bribes through the scheme.

According to the complaint, in exchange for $ 35,000 in bribe payments to Percoco from COR executives Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi (through an LLC set up by Howe), Percoco took official actions that benefitted COR Development, including helping to resolve an issue with the state's top economic development agency relating to a potentially costly labor agreement.

Prosecutors say the Syracuse developers paid Percoco bribes through a «shell company» set up by lobbyist Todd Howe.

Prosecutors say the alleged bribes were funneled to Percoco through a shell company controlled by Howe, the lobbyist.

Prosecutors say the payments were a bribe because Percoco, at the same time, was using his top position with Cuomo to assist Kelly's firm, Competitive Power Ventures, weave its way through the state bureaucracy to build a power plant in the lower Hudson Valley.