Sentences with phrase «with bid rigging»

Joe Percoco, who the current governor's father Mario Cuomo regarded as a «third son», is charged with extortion and bribery, while the former head of SUNY Polytechnic Alain Kaloyeros is charged with bid rigging in connection with major upstate economic development projects, including the Buffalo Billion.

The statement comes as Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has raised concerns with the proposal, made in the wake of the arrests and indictments of eight people charged with bid rigging in economic development programs, including a former close aide to Cuomo, Joe Percoco.

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While Glass Lewis, along with the Company's shareholders, will not know the extent of the bid - rigging and its effect on the Company, we anticipate that concerns will be raised regarding the Company's corporate governance structure and internal controls.

Still pending against Abbott are FTC bid - rigging charges in connection with a 1990 program to provide formula for more than 40,000 infants in Puerto Rico through a federally subsidized nutrition program for poor families.

This is in line with the governor's public comments last year after Percoco was charged in a bribery and bid - rigging case that includes prominent upstate developers and former SUNY Polytechnic President Alain Kaloyeros.

Next year, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Joe Percoco, will go on trial along with the former president of SUNY Nanotech and upstate developers, who are accused of being involved in a bribery and bid - rigging scheme for economic development projects.

The latter issue is potentially a tricky one of the Assembly: Lawmakers in the wake of charges in a bid rigging and bribery case that has ensnared a former close aide to the governor, Joe Percoco, sought changes to procurement that would restore some of the power of the state comptroller, who has been at odds with Cuomo.

A former LPCiminelli executive has accepted a plea deal with the United States Attorney Southern District of New York and will serve as a cooperating witness in a trial this June connected to alleged bid - rigging for state - led development projects.

A Buffalo business executive who is a defendant in a federal case alleging the bid - rigging of massive upstate development projects was scheduled to plead guilty this afternoon and begin cooperating with the government.

Several former Cuomo associates, including a former top aide, face federal corruption trials on charges of bribery and bid - rigging in connection with the contracts for some of the governor's signature economic development projects, including the Buffalo Billion.

Cuomo has been talking about reforming economic development contract awards in his administration, following federal criminal charges against nine people — one a former top aide — on bribery and bid - rigging charges in connection with the Buffalo Billion and other projects.

That includes the former head of SUNY Polytechnic, Alain Kaloyeros, who is accused of bid - rigging in connection with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development program known as the Buffalo Billion.

In the second, Kaloyeros allegedly worked with Howe to rig bids so that two real - estate developers got lucrative deals, the complaint says.

The governor said he's met with federal prosecutors since former top aide Joe Percoco, a former lobbyist who was a close Cuomo associate, the head of SUNY Polytechnic and six others were charged with bribery, bid - rigging and other corruption charges in connection with the governor's upstate economic development programs.

Nine people have pleaded guilty or been indicted in connection with alleged bid - rigging and other corruption charges involving some of Cuomo's economic development programs.

Several former close associates go on trial later this year on bribery and bid - rigging charges in connection with a corruption scandal involving the governor's signature economic development projects.

Kaloyeros and developer Joseph Nicolla were charged in September 2016 with rigging the bids of multi-million-dollar development projects.

Federal prosecutors charged nine former associates of Cuomo, including a former top aide, with corruption, including bribery and bid - rigging, in connection with the procurement of contracts for some of the governor's largest economic development projects.

Nine former Cuomo associates have either admitted to crimes or are facing trial on charges including bribery and bid rigging in connection with the governor's economic development projects.

A Buffalo business executive who is a defendant in a federal case involving the alleged bid - rigging of massive upstate development projects pled guilty Friday afternoon and agreed to cooperate with the government.

A federal judge has officially «severed» the corruption trials against eight individuals in a case that began with an alleged bid - rigging probe of the Cuomo administration's Buffalo Billion program — setting one of the trial dates in the midst of the governor's expected re-election bid.

Last year, three of the company's top executives and key state officials were charged with rigging the bids to build the factory to ensure that LPCiminelli would be awarded the contract.

They are accused of «bid rigging» in connection with state development projects.

Those dealings led to nine former Cuomo associates, including the governor's former closest aide and a highly paid former State University of New York official, being charged with felonies ranging from bribery to bid - rigging.

He slams the governor's oversight of the MTA, blames him for Albany corruption and the upcoming state contract bidding rigging trial that includes former top aide Joe Percoco, and for aligning with Republicans in the state Senate.

Last Thursday, the prominent developer was named in a state - level indictment and accused of colluding with SUNY Polytechnic leader Alain Kaloyeros to rig a lucrative construction bid on a new UAlbany apartment complex.

The defendant, from in or around March 2008 to in or around October 2013, in the County of Monroe, acting in concert with others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, knowingly and intentionally entered into and engaged in and continued to engage in a contract, agreement, arrangement, and combination in unreasonable restraint of combination and the free exercise of activity in the conduct of business, trade, and commerce, specifically, to restrain competition in the bidding process of Monroe County for the Public Safety Contract, by means of bid rigging.

«I welcome the grand jury's decision to re-indict Robert Wiesner on a felony charge stemming from the joint investigation my office conducted with Comptroller DiNapoli into allegations of bid rigging in Monroe County.

The governor's office hired Schwartz, a former prosecutor, a little more than a year ago after learning about an investigation into potential bid - rigging with several state contracts.

Kaloyeros and eight others, including a former top aide to Cuomo, have been charged with bribery and bid rigging, among other things.

The Department of Justice alleges the nano - tech expert conspired with Cuomo donors to rig the bidding process for state contracts.

They were accused, along with several others, of rigging the bidding process in which LPCiminelli won the $ 750 million state contract to build the SolarCity plant at RiverBend in South Buffalo.

Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who brought corruption cases against both former legislative leaders, and charged nine of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former associates with offenses including bribery and bid - rigging, weighed in on Twitter with a one - word tweet: «huzzah.»

Nine former associates of Cuomo have been charged with crimes ranging from bribery to bid - rigging, and trials begin as early as the fall.

Nine former associates of Cuomo, including his former closest aide, face federal corruption charges of bribery and bid rigging in connection with hundreds of millions of dollars of the governor's signature economic development projects.

The former president of SUNY Poly Alain Kaloyeros was indicted earlier this year on corruption charges along with several other people associated with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's upstate development projects over an alleged bid - rigging scheme.

They were all charged with a scheme to rig the bidding process for public works contracts for two LDCs, or Local Development Corporations.

Nine former associates of Gov. Andrew Cuomo also have been charged with crimes, including bribery and bid - rigging.

A second trial begins in June to address allegations of bid rigging in connection with state development projects in Syracuse and Buffalo.

Friday, attorneys for Percoco said he's not charged with anything in connection with the Buffalo Billion or a Syracuse bid - rigging scheme, and they wanted him tried separately from the defendants in those matters.

Aiello was one of two COR executives arrested along with Kaloyeros a year ago and charged in the federal bid - rigging scheme alleged against SUNY Poly.

The four were arrested in Nov. 2013 and charged with rigging the bidding process on two county projects totaling more than $ 300 million.

The governor's former top aide, a lobbyist close to the Cuomo family, the former head of SUNY Polytechnic and several others have been charged with or pleaded guilty to bribery and bid - rigging in connection with an economic development contract scandal that includes Buffalo Billion projects.

The indictment alleges Howe took the bribes and worked with then - SUNY Polytechnic chief Alain Kaloyeros, who also was indicted, to rig the bids on the solar panel plant in LPCiminelli's favor, after the Buffalo company made contributions to the Cuomo campaign.

The state also paid out $ 7.9 million to pay a company whose leaders were charged by the feds with bid - rigging and corruption in the tainted Buffalo Billion, one of the projects.

The reference, of course, is to former aide Joseph Percoco who was one of eight men indicted in connection with a bid - rigging and bribery scheme involving state contracts.

What will happen to the complicated cases Bharara has built — especially against the eight men facing charges of bid rigging, bribery and extortion in connection with the governor's signature upstate economic development program, the Buffalo Billion?

«These officials laundered more than $ 2 million in taxpayer money through a complex bid - rigging scheme and thought they could get away with it.

The grants, rents and business he brought in to SUNY Polytechnic «all benefited him personally through his compensation package, and also added to his status as a kingmaker and an important person in state government,» said the New York attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, who charged Dr. Kaloyeros with three felony counts of bid - rigging at a news conference.

Nine former associates of Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo also have been charged with crimes including bribery and bid rigging.