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Reporters on Murdoch's three News International titles, the Sun, the Times and the Sunday Times are furious that News Corporation's management standards committee (MSC) assisted police with information which led to the arrest of nine journalists associated with the Sun in connection with alleged payments to police and other public officials.
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Federal investigators wiretapped the phone lines of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer who is under investigation for a payment he made to Stormy Daniels, the adult - film actress who alleged she had an affair with Trump, NBC News reported Thursday.
Last month, Trump denied knowing about the payment to Daniels to stay silent about an alleged affair with him.
The Journal in January reported that Cohen, Trump's long - time lawyer, arranged a $ 130,000 payment to Daniels a month before the 2016 election to keep her from publicly discussing an alleged sexual encounter with Trump.
Internet security expert Joseph Steinberg told CNBC that the criminals typically do not demand a big sum of money, instead preferring to get the payment right away and insisting that the person from whom the ransom is demanded stay on the phone with them for fear that if connection is established with the alleged victim, the scam will be exposed.
Cohen, Trump's personal attorney, is in the midst of a legal firestorm over the payment to Daniels, which was made in exchange for Daniels» silence about an alleged affair with Trump.
That payment is the subject of criticism from the watchdog group Common Cause, which filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice alleging it violated campaign finance rules.
But «despite (Strawberry's) repeated assurances of payment, he continues to breach his agreement with (Shapiro),» the Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit alleges.
Campaign finance watchdog groups have filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department alleging that the payment amounted to an illegal campaign expenditure.
Campaign finance watchdog groups have filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission and Justice Department alleging that the then - secret payment amounted to an illegal campaign expenditure.
He also may be involved with a $ 150,000 payment from the National Enquirer to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, to bury another story about an alleged affair with Trump.
President Donald Trump on Thursday said his longtime lawyer had paid a former adult film star in October 2016 to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with him «through reimbursement,» the president's first acknowledgment of any involvement in the payment.
Campaign finance watchdog groups have filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department alleging that the then - secret payment amounted to an illegal campaign expenditure.
In January, The Wall Street Journal reported that Cohen arranged the payment with Daniels to keep her from publicly discussing the alleged sexual encounter during the presidential campaign.
Among the materials they sought were communications between the two men about efforts to tamp down negative publicity about Trump during the campaign and details about a payment Cohen made to an adult - film star who alleged she had a sexual relationship with Trump years earlier.
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Trump is already facing a complaint from the watchdog group Common Cause, which argues that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's payment of $ 130,000 to Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump may have been an illegal campaign contribution.
Now, the Common Cause watchdog group wants the Justice Department, the Federal Election Commission and Congress to investigate a $ 130,000 payment that President Trump's lawyer is alleged to have arranged weeks before the 2016 election for a former porn actress in an attempt to cover up her purported affair with Trump.
It was Cohen who made the $ 130,000 «hush money» payment to Stormy Daniels in October of 2016, to keep her quiet about the alleged sexual encounter that she had with Trump in 2006.
America had come to the merciful end of an off - season filled with grim headlines: from the epic corruption of ex — Fiesta Bowl chairman John Junker to the serial lies of ex — Ohio State coach Jim Tressel to the firing of coach Butch Davis at North Carolina (for presiding, albeit unknowingly, over academic fraud, among other sins) to Oregon's $ 25,000 payment to an alleged «street agent.»
According to Samuel Poole, vice-chairman of the system's board of governors and head of the investigative commission, all current N.C. State players either refused to speak with investigators or claimed not to know anything about alleged wrongdoing in the Wolfpack program, which according to the dust jacket included payments to players.
I also had occasion to condemn his uncouth and uncultured manners and character of insulting and undermining elders and his superiors when he attempted to corruptly induce me to approve the payment of a US$ 1.3 million alleged judgment debt to Isofoton SA in 2011 — see «People Are fed Up With Ablakwa's «Lies»», Modern Ghana 13th July 2012.
At the time of the meeting, Cohen was under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in New York, who still are probing a $ 130,000 payment Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump.»
Cohen has also come under legal scrutiny for large payments he received for consulting services after Trump's inauguration, as well as for a payment he made to Stormy Daniels, an adult - film star alleging an affair with Trump, as part of a nondisclosure agreement.
Federal prosecutors investigating President Trump's personal attorney, Michael D. Cohen, are seeking records related to two women who received payments in 2016 after alleging affairs with Trump years before — adult - film star Stormy Daniels and ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal — according to two people familiar with the matter.
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.»
Agnifilo of Manhattan contrasted the bribes that Mei pleaded guilty to accepting from Singh — multiple overseas vacations to South Korea and India and $ 1,000 monthly lease payments for a convertible BMW — with Venditto's alleged benefits, which included «discounted» limo rides and the use of a conference room in the basement of one of Singh's restaurants.
A federal indictment handed down on Thursday alleged former state Senate Majority Leader Skelos strong - armed a medical malpractice insurance firm to provide his son, Adam, with more than $ 100,000 in payments and health benefits through a no - show job while the firm lobbied Skelos on legislative matters.
The Wall Street Journal on January 12 detailed an alleged $ 130,000 payment made just before the 2016 election to adult film star Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, to keep her quiet about a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006.
Cohen is under federal criminal investigation for, among other things, a $ 130,000 payment to the porn star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with President Trump in 2006.
In the summer of 2014, when Percoco resigned from state government and worked as Cuomo's campaign manager, prosecutors allege he took $ 35,000 in payments from Syracuse - based commercial real estate firm COR Development, in exchange for helping COR Development avoid red tape with its projects in Syracuse and its surrounding suburbs.
Prosecutors allege Percoco got the energy company to allegedly hire his wife, Lisa Percoco, for a job as a consultant for $ 90,000 a year and that the Cor officials allegedly bribed him with $ 35,000 in payments in 2014 during a period when he stepped down for eight months from his state job to run Cuomo's re-election campaign.
In the phone call that day in 2016, Percoco talked about a job his wife had gotten with an energy company — a post prosecutors have called a job in return for nearly $ 300,000 in what they allege amounted to alleged bribe payments to Percoco, allegedly in return for official government favors.
Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, says he'd first like to hear an explanation from Speaker Sheldon Silver about the details of alleged payments from a law firm specializing in real estate taxes.
In the Skelos trial beginning Nov. 16, prosecutors alleged that father and son squeezed payments to Adam out of Glenwood Management of New Hyde Park, Roslyn malpractice firm Physicians» Reciprocal Insurers, and AbTech, a Glenwood - tied Arizona firm that got a $ 12 million stormwater treatment contract with Nassau.
It noted that the alleged financial crisis of Osun upon which the said rally was to be held is diminishing gradually with the payment of salaries of the state workers and implementation of projects; like road construction, building of schools and other infrastructural projects.
Michael Cohen, a lawyer for the president, reportedly arranged a $ 130,000 payment to a former adult - film star a month before the 2016 election as part of an agreement that precluded her from publicly discussing an alleged sexual encounter with Trump.
The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, had arranged a $ 130,000 payment to Clifford for her to remain quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump.
In addition to eliciting testimony from two current teachers with the education program who «have always been paid substantially less than what Percoco's wife was paid for performing similar work,» the government will likely seek to undercut the notion that the payments were bonafide by citing alleged efforts at concealment.
(EFCC Press Release) The trial of a cousin to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Azibaola Robert, his wife, Stella and their company, One Plus Holdings, continued before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 with a prosecution witness, David Nkpe, telling the court how some individuals and companies were alleged to have received payment from the Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA, without contract or approvals.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that his lawyer Michael Cohen was reimbursed for a payment Mr. Cohen made to former porn actress Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump.
The prosecution alleges that Mr. Silver steered state grants to mesothelioma research to Columbia University and New York Presbyterian Hospital in exchange for a doctor there, Dr. Robert Taub, referring patients to a law firm that sues on behalf of such patients, Weitz & Luxenberg, where Mr. Silver was of counsel and received lucrative payments for referring clients with asbestos cases.
According to the New York Times, FBI agents sought information on payments made relating to Mr Trump's alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels and other tax and business dealings.
It was alleged that the GOP officials arranged a no - show job for Ortt's wife, Meghan, with payments from the Niagara County Republican Committee, totaling $ 21,500, being made through Buffalo - area public relations firm Synor Marketing, for which Meghan Ortt was on advance retainer for graphic design work.
President Donald Trump said his lawyer Michael Cohen was reimbursed for a payment Mr. Cohen made to Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that his lawyer Michael Cohen was reimbursed for a payment Mr. Cohen made to Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump.
They also asked to see more information about payments alleged to be bribes, Lisa Percoco's alleged «low - show» job with a Hudson Valley energy company and testimony from Linda Lacewell, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's chief - of - staff.
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.»
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.
Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), says he'd like to hear from Speaker Sheldon Silver about the details of the speaker's alleged payments from a law firm specializing in real estate taxes.