Sentences with phrase «took bribes and kickbacks»

Specifically the question of outside income was at the heart of the case against Silver, who took bribes and kickbacks disguised as outside income.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Another juror was dismissed from the jury pool after writing on her questionnaire, «I despise people, especially elected officials who take bribes and kickbacks,» Wood said

Edward Mangano, who is not seeking re-election next month, has pleaded not guilty to federal charges of taking bribes and kickbacks from a local businessman in return for favors, including a county contract.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This has become almost routine in the state Legislature: In early 2015, state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was arrested 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.

Assemblyman Michael Cusick (D - Mid-Island) and Assemblyman Matthew Titone (D - North Shore) spoke briefly Monday afternoon before entering a Democrat conference to discuss appointing Majority Leader Joseph Morelle (D - Rochester), Herman «Denny» Farrell (D - Manhattan), Joseph Lentol (D - Brooklyn), Cathy Nolan (D - Queens) and Carl Heastie (D - Bronx) to take on certain responsibilities of Silver's as the Manhattan Democrat fights federal charges that he collected millions in bribes and kickbacks and tried to disguise it as legitimate income.

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.

By Thursday morning, Silver was handcuffed and under arrest for allegedly taking almost $ 6 million in bribes and kickbacks over the last decade based solely on his power as a legislator.

Singh agreed to cooperate with the government and secretly pleaded guilty in October 2016 to doling out «bribes and kickbacks» to Mangano and Venditto «in exchange for them taking official action in my favor on an as - needed basis.»

Silver turned himself in to federal authorities on Thursday to face charges that he illegally took millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks over the past 12 years, disguised as legitimate payments from two law firms.

Shelly Silver hasn't even gone to trial yet on charges that he took millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks, and his replacement as speaker of the State Assembly, Carl Heastie, is already in the headlines for a dubious real - estate deal.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was charged with fraud and conspiracy in federal court in Manhattan on Jan. 22, 2105, accused of taking $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks disguised as legal fees from people and firms with business before the state.

One of those three men — Sheldon Silver, speaker since 1994 — was charged on Thursday in federal court with taking millions of dollars in kickbacks and bribes to influence laws and government funding.

The presiding judge, Valerie E. Caproni of Federal District Court, told jurors at the outset of the trial that the government must prove that Mr. Silver knowingly participated in a scheme to defraud and «received things of value in the form of bribes or kickbacks, and that he knew when he accepted those things he was expected, in exchange, to take official action as the opportunity arose.»

Silver, 72, was convicted last year in a corruption case in which he had been accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks in exchange for various official favors.

Silver, 72, was convicted last year of taking millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks in exchange for various official favors.

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.

Federal prosecutors successfully proved to a jury that former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of Manhattan took millions in bribes and kickbacks disguised as legal fees.

Silver, 73, was convicted of taking millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks in exchange for various favors and sentenced to 12 years in prison - though he was allowed to remain free with his appeal pending.