Sentences with phrase «with alleged bribery»

Professor Mike Oquaye on Friday, directed the leadership of the House, to within one week come up with approach towards dealing with alleged bribery claims against Parliament Committees» sittings outside the...

Federal authorities plan to unseal charges against Joe Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, as early as today in connection with an alleged bribery and kickback scheme involving the governor's signature economic - development program, according to people familiar with the matter.

NEW YORK (CBSewYork)-- Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano appeared in court Wednesday for a pre-trial hearing in connection with an alleged bribery scheme.

Federal authorities plan to unseal charges against a former top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as early as Thursday in connection with an alleged bribery and kickback scheme involving the governor's signature economic - development program, according to people familiar with the matter.

The seven counts all dealt with alleged bribery involving political donations to the New Jersey Democrat by Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen.

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«In view of the facts alleged in this report, which include bribery allegations, Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke, in compliance with article 16 of the Fifa code of ethics, yesterday requested the Fifa ethics committee to open ethics proceedings.»

The head of the state's Republican Party has filed a formal complaint with the state's public ethics commission, alleging that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his former top aide — Percoco, now on trial for bribery — broke the state's public officers law.

October 2016: Mangano and Venditto, along with Linda Mangano, were arrested and named in the 13 - count indictment alleging extortion, bribery, fraud and obstruction charges.

Howe has already pleaded guilty to eight felonies, several of which pertain to the alleged bribery scheme that he testified this week he was a part of with Percoco and executives with two companies.

Former Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos, 67, and Adam Skelos, 32, both of Rockville Centre, are to go on trial Nov. 16 on conspiracy, bribery and extortion charges alleging schemes to use the lawmaker's clout to get his son work with a developer, a malpractice insurer and an environmental company.

The head of the state's Republican Party has filed a formal complaint with the state's public ethics commission, alleging that Governor Cuomo and his top aide, Joe Percoco, now on trial for bribery, broke the state's public officers law.

The lawyer, Daniel Gitner, represents a former energy company executive who is on trial with Percoco and two others in an alleged bribery scheme.

The grand jury alleged two overlapping schemes with common threads of «bribery, corruption and fraud.»

October 2016: Mangano and Venditto, along with Linda Mangano, are arrested and named in the 13 - count federal indictment alleging extortion, bribery, fraud and obstruction charges.

First up on Jan. 22 is the trial of Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to the governor, and others related to alleged corruption and bribery in connection with Cuomo's economic development efforts.

The complaint alleges that Aiello and Gerardi, COR's president and general counsel, «entered into a bribery scheme whereby the Syracuse developer would make tens of thousands of dollars in payments to Percoco, using Howe as a pass - through to help conceal that the payments to Percoco came from the Syracuse developer, and in exchange, Percoco agreed to use, and did in fact use, his official position and influence to assist the Syracuse developer with a number of issues as the opportunities arose.»

The genesis of the bribery scandal stemmed from a Minority member of the Committee, Mahama Ayariga, who alleged that Mr. Agyarko, attempted to bribe the ten minority members on parliament's Appointments Committee with GHc3000 each to ensure the approval of his nomination as the Energy Minister.

Mangano, 56, of Bethpage, and Venditto, 68, of North Massapequa, have been charged with conspiracy to commit federal program bribery and honest - services fraud, among other alleged crimes.

Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos has been charged with six counts of corruption in an alleged extortion and bribery scheme, but so far is remaining as Senate Leader.

Mr. Ulrich further said he was shocked that his colleague, Republican Councilman Dan Halloran, was charged with participating in an alleged bribery scheme to land Democratic State Sen. Malcolm Smith in the Republican primary, but was not surprised Vince Tabone, the executive vice president of the Queens GOP, was arrested as well.

Howe signed the agreement after pleading guilty in 2016 to an alleged bribery scheme with Percoco, but his bail was revoked Thursday night after he reluctantly conceded on cross examination that a few weeks later he tried to scam Capital One out of $ 604 for a stay at the Waldorf Astoria.

The endorsement comes as Democrats hope Brooks's race in the 8th Senate district is newly competitive after Venditto's father, Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, along with Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, were charged in an alleged bribery plot.

In the letter with a Reference No EFCC / EC / SGF / 03/56 (dated March 5, 2015) and personally signed by the immediate past Executive Chairman of EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, the complainant in the bribery saga, Mr. Rasheed Taiwo, a retired Deputy Comptroller General of Customs was said to have failed to produce the alleged telephone conversations and text messages exchanged by him and Justice Umar.

Klein, interestingly enough, ran on no fewer than four ballot lines in 2012, gaining access to the GOP line thanks to some peace making with erstwhile opponent Bronx County Chairman Jay Savino, who is now facing federal corruption charges for an alleged scheme to put fellow IDC Sen. Malcolm Smith on the Republican mayoral ballot through bribery.

During cross-examination of Taub, defense lawyer Steven Molo sought to portray Silver as a caring friend whose relationship with the doctor was based on goodwill, instead of the bribery scheme alleged by prosecutors.

He is a defendant, along with Joseph Percoco, in a case of alleged bid - rigging and bribery that reached some of the highest levels of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration.

Company founder and former CEO Louis P. Ciminelli is under federal indictment, along with two of his executives, for alleged bid - rigging and bribery in a public corruption case that stemmed from the state's Buffalo Billion project at RiverBend.

With the greatest respect once again, we of the Public Interest Advocacy Group (PIAG) call on the leadership of our august house to facilitate with adequate speed, all processes leading to making the Joe Ghartey Committee Report on the bribery scandal that was alleged to have hit Ghana's Parliamentary HoWith the greatest respect once again, we of the Public Interest Advocacy Group (PIAG) call on the leadership of our august house to facilitate with adequate speed, all processes leading to making the Joe Ghartey Committee Report on the bribery scandal that was alleged to have hit Ghana's Parliamentary Howith adequate speed, all processes leading to making the Joe Ghartey Committee Report on the bribery scandal that was alleged to have hit Ghana's Parliamentary House.

The leader of the New York State Senate, Dean Skelos, surrendered to federal authorities Monday morning and was charged with six counts of corruption, including bribery and extortion, in connection with an alleged scheme that used his political position to enrich himself and his son.

This week, his takedowns included Queens State Sen. Malcolm Smith, City Councilman Daniel Halloran and Bronx Assemblyman Eric Stevenson in connection with two elaborate alleged bribery schemes, including one that tried to get Smith on the ballot for New York City mayor.

The Town of Oyster Bay's government was awash with «unscrupulous public officials» whose alleged crimes included involvement in «bribery, money laundering and a crooked multi-million dollar property deal,» Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas said Thursday as authorities unsealed indictments against eight people with ties to the municipality.

NEW YORK CITY — While federal prosecutors have not charged Lisa Percoco with a crime, they are alleging that the job she was given was part of a bribery scheme.

NEW YORK — A former government and campaign adviser to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo testified Monday he participated in an alleged bribery scheme with one of Cuomo's closest associates to help his private sector clients get favorable attention in the governor's administration.

Two Cor executives — along with a former vice president at an energy company — are on trial with Percoco over whether they engaged in an alleged bribery scheme in which payments allegedly flowed to Percoco and his wife in return for the former senior Cuomo adviser helping them.

The new charges are in addition to bribery and extortion charges connected to two other alleged corruption schemes, dealing with a real estate developer and an environmental technology company.

The jury found Percoco not guilty of two extortion charges and a bribery charge in connection with the alleged Syracuse scheme.

While the couple has not been charged with any wrongdoing, their cash has been linked to an alleged plot hatched by City Councilman Daniel Halloran to funnel illegal cash into his campaign coffers using straw donors, which was revealed as part of a larger bribery investigation Tuesday.

DiNapoli said he assisted the feds in their probe, but learned the extent of Kang's alleged bribery scheme with two brokers only when the indictment was unsealed on Wednesday.

On Friday, prosecutors disclosed that Shirley L. Huntley, when she was a Democratic state senator from Queens, had secretly recorded conversations with seven elected officials and two other people after she was confronted by the F.B.I. and asked about her alleged participation in criminal schemes involving embezzlement and bribery.

The effort comes after bribery charges were filed against the mayor and deputy mayor of the Rockland County Village of Spring Valley in an alleged real - estate development scheme with ties to state Senator Malcolm Smith, who along with three others, was charged in connection with an alleged plot to rig the New York City mayoral race.

New York University (NYU) associate professor of radiology Yudong Zhu and NYU graduate student Xing Yang, both Chinese citizens, were arrested on 19 May on federal bribery charges in connection with an alleged conspiracy to pass nonpublic information from research funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to a Chinese company with ties to the Chinese government.

One Wisconsin Now has filed a complaint with the state Election Commission, alleging a deal between Holtz and former candidate John Humphries in which one of the two would drop out of the race in exchange for a $ 150,000 - per - year job at the DPI should one beat Evers amounted to election bribery.

The class action alleged violation of U.S. securities law by Brazil's state - controlled oil company in connection with a multi-billion dollar bribery and kickback scheme.

The UK press reported that the SFO was investigating alleged foreign bribery in connection with the payment irregularities, though Balfour Beatty has denied the bribery allegations.

The OECD's major criticism is reserved for the UK government's decision to discontinue its foreign bribery investigation into alleged large - scale payments made in connection with the award to UK firm BAE Systems plc of the Al Yamamah defence contracts with the government of Saudi Arabia.

Second, on 6 October 2008, the UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO), in a case the SFO was investigating for evidence of foreign bribery, announced that it had reached a # 2.25 m (US$ 3.9 m) settlement with major construction firm Balfour Beatty plc for alleged unlawful accounting in connection with certain «payment irregularities» which it self - reported.

Notable work included representing Sweett Group in a corporate prosecution brought by the SFO in connection with the Bribery Act and alleged failure to prevent bribery, where the client entered a guiltBribery Act and alleged failure to prevent bribery, where the client entered a guiltbribery, where the client entered a guilty plea.

Her representations, prior to joining Skadden, include advising a large multinational company that provides services to the government in relation to alleged improper distribution of profits, advising on SFO and City of London Police investigations into the company, and advising its subsidiary on the UK Bribery Act; compliance advice for a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund in connection with anti-money laundering and anti-corruption policies; compliance advice for a Canadian - listed mining business operating in Europe relating to whistleblowing, data protection and anti-corruption procedures; and advising media organisations in connection with the «Diana» inquiry and the Leveson Inquiry into the Media, Culture and Ethics.

The practice's recent representations include: (i) CONMEBOL in connection with U.S. criminal investigations and prosecutions into allegations of bribery and corruption in the international soccer world; (ii) the Special Committee of Banco BTG Pactual S.A. («BTG Pactual») in an internal investigation of alleged corruption involving its former CEO and other bank executives, in which we found no basis to support the allegations against the Bank and its employees; (iii) two of the largest construction companies in Brazil in potential civil and criminal investigations and litigation involving the Petrobras bribery scandal (Lava Jato), the largest corruption scandal in Latin American history, involving allegations of over $ 2.5 billion in bribes and kickbacks; (iv) the Government of Brazil in a corruption matter involving former senior government officials and multiple jurisdictions; (v) the General Manager of one of the largest energy companies in Central America in connection with allegations of bribery in Guatemala; (vi) a Mexican high - ranking executive for Wal - Mart Stores, Inc. in connection with DOJ and SEC FCPA investigations against Wal - Mart; (vii) a large Argentinean oil company and its owner, one of Argentina's wealthiest individuals, in connection with high - profile DOJ and SEC investigations involving alleged FCPA violations to secure an extension of oil rights in an Argentinean oilfield; (viii) the United State's largest chemical and industrial products companies in an internal investigation of alleged corruption involving its Mexican subsidiary; (ix) the Rosenthal family, one of the most prominent families in Central America, in a number of related criminal matters; and (x) a senior executive of one of Venezuela's largest engineering companies in DOJ investigations into corruption and money laundering involving PdVSA.

Advised UK manufacturing company in connection with US aspects of alleged involvement in an «Oil for Food» scandal and an unrelated investigation of alleged bribery involving contracts in the Caribbean