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Former Goldman Sachs banker Asante Berko has been extradited from the UK to New York to face charges of orchestrating bribes to Ghanaian officials while working at the investment bank. Berko pleaded not guilty in federal court and was released on $600,000 bond under house arrest. The charges stem from a 2020 indictment that accused Berko of conspiring with Ghanaian officials and others in a bribery scheme that benefited Goldman and a Turkish energy company. Goldman, which was not accused of wrongdoing, has previously been involved in foreign bribery cases, including the 1MDB scandal. Berko had previously been sued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission over similar allegations. [Extracted from the article]

Law enforcement arrested superintendents and other managers who allegedly took bribes from contractors for basic housing repairs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is informed that New York City's corruption scandals are now in their second year. A borough president has committed suicide. A city official has been convicted of taking bribes next to the urinals of the best yuppie restaurants. A failed quack sex therapist has admitted to being a bagman. A Democratic Party leader has been revealed to be an intimate friend of a mobster who murdered a police officer. Since the age of television and , the rise of media consultants like David Garth, political scientists have been composing the epitaph for big-city political machines. But at least in New York the machine has proved to be durable and, adaptable. It elected Edward Koch as Mayor in 1977, and its alliance with City Hall is the principal cause of the present scandals.

(Bloomberg) -- New York City's former buildings commissioner Eric Ulrich was charged with accepting or soliciting more than $150,000 in bribes, as the Manhattan district attorney unveiled a sweeping set of indictments. Ulrich, 38, was charged along with six others in five separate indictments filed by District Attorney Alvin Bragg and unsealed Wednesday. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on corruption, housing scandals in the slums of the New York City and fight against it by clergyman. A family of twelve lived in two rooms in slum apartment and took in six boarders to help pay the rent. The clergyman help the people of his parish and neighborhood to get the minimum standards of decent housing to which they were entitled by law. When building inspectors were called to investigate complaints, they would often merely file complaints of illegal occupancy of small rooms by large families. Routine bribes were paid to city officials by the landlords. Having tried every other recourse, more neighborhood leaders are finning to newspapers to fight the housing battle.

Hochul selected Benjamin to be her lieutenant governor shortly after taking over as governor in the wake of Andrew Cuomo's resignation in August 2021. (Bloomberg) -- Former New York Lieutenant Governor Brian Benjamin won dismissal of bribery charges in a case where he was accused of taking corrupt campaign donations from a real estate developer. [Extracted from the article]

Benjamin on the Ballot The indictment comes less than three months before Hochul and Benjamin face their first primary election, on June 28, to retain their offices. (Bloomberg) -- New York Lieutenant Governor Brian Benjamin resigned from office, after being charged with funneling illicit donations to one of his past campaigns. According to the indictment, Benjamin participated in a scheme from at least 2019 to 2021 to obtain corrupt campaign donations from a real estate developer. [Extracted from the article]

According to the indictment, unsealed Tuesday, Benjamin participated in a scheme from at least 2019 to 2021 to obtain corrupt campaign donations from a real estate developer. Benjamin on the Ballot The indictment comes less than three months before Hochul and Benjamin face their first primary election, on June 28, to retain their offices. (Bloomberg) -- New York Lieutenant Governor Brian Benjamin resigned from office, after being charged with funneling illicit donations to one of his past campaigns. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Governor Kathy Hochul said Brian Benjamin, the state's lieutenant governor, has resigned effective immediately. New York Governor Kathy Hochul's second-in-command pleaded not guilty to bribery charges Tuesday after being indicted for allegedly funneling illicit donations to one of his past campaigns. [Extracted from the article]

Benjamin on the Ballot The indictment comes less than three months before Hochul and Benjamin face their first primary election, on June 28, to retain their offices. (Bloomberg) -- New York Governor Kathy Hochul's second-in-command pleaded not guilty to bribery charges after being indicted for allegedly funneling illicit donations to one of his past campaigns. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- New York Governor Kathy Hochul's second-in-command was indicted on federal bribery charges for allegedly funneling illicit donations to one of his past campaigns. Indicted Developer Benjamin's case number is the same as that of Gerald Migdol, a prominent Harlem-based developer indicted in November. [Extracted from the article]

The article profiles the New York City Department of Investigation (DOI), the undercover team that investigates city employees. It notes that they are little known and therefore do not get much credit for what they do. It also means people who should call them to report irregular activities do not for lack of awareness. Various situations resulting in arrests are chronicled, including attempts to bribe city officials, stealing city property, and misuse of city funds.

The article focuses on the case of Colonel William d'Alton Mann, the sixty-six-year-old editor and publisher of "Town Topics," a weekly society magazine in New York City. According to the author, his case served as one of the hottest issues in town as he was suspected to engage in a blackmail of regularly extracting money from many of the country's wealthy citizens in exchange for printing socially and domestically embarrassing issues.

The article reports on the accusation of bribery to the supporters of Robert Wagner, the mayor of New York City, by William McKeon, the Democratic State chairman, in New York City. Wagner has verified that J. Raymond Jones, a Wagner supporter, was offered a double-lulu or a tax free allowance by his political opponents. However, McKeon has denied the accusation of Wagner.

The article reports on the numerous expose stories of Eugene Gleason which caused him to be terminated at World Telegram and Sun in New York. It provides an overview of the works of Gleason which reveals exploitation such as the causes of a fatal 1956 explosion on a Brooklyn pier and the revelation of the skulduggery in Manhattan's slum-clearance program. It also presents the testimony of Gleason and Fred Cook regarding an investigation into the bribery charges concerning the fatal explosion.

The article offers information on the exposure of police corruption by the Knapp Commission in New York City. As stated, the commission exposed the links of the police force with narcotics dealers, who offered tips to the policemen. The commission, comprising of a five-man panel, is named after its chairman Whitman Knapp, a Wall Street lawyer who was dismissed from the force for taking a 100 dollar bribe from a narcotics dealer.

This article presents perspective on businesses that profit by endorsing other companies' products. In the context of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo cracking down on college and universities steering financial aid candidates to "preferred" lenders, a chart is shown of other groups engaged in similar practices. Doctors who receive gifts from drug companies and JP Morgan Chase who rewards recommendations to their mutual funds are among those listed.

The article reports that permit bills sent to property owners in New York City include a statement to the effect that giving or being asked to give bribes is not allowed. The notice, printed on a hot pink card from the New York City Fire Department, says that any inspectors asking for gifts should be reported. City investigations head Rose Gill Hearn says the notices are not an admission of widespread corruption, but a preventative measure.

Provides a solution to New York City's real estate problems. View that tax assessors should be retired and that property owners should determine their own assessment; Issues that builders face when buying land for a skyscraper; Bribery that results with underpaid assessors.

Reports on the trial against rapper Sean (Puffy) Combs on charges of weapons possession and attempting to bribe a witness in New York, New York, following a shooting at a night club there. Testimony of Combs' driver, Wardell Fenderson, who claims that Combs tried to bribe him, and mechanic Christopher Chambers; Expectation that felon Matthew (Scar) Allen will testify against him; Speculation as to how Combs' fame and wealth might influence the jury's decision.

The article offers news briefs related to the U.S. The U.S. Democratic Congressional leaders are not ready to drop the idea of loan guarantees, to avoid a New York City default, even after getting veto threats from the U.S. President, Gerald R. Ford. After being pressurized by the U.S. Congress, White House is trying to ascertain the scope of foreign bribes and payoffs by U.S. companies. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is trying to gain power over strip mining on federal lands.

The article focuses on the filing of guilty plea by steel manufacturing firm Bethlehem Steel Corp. at the U.S. Federal District Courthouse in Manhattan, New York City. It mentions that the company has pleaded guilty for a criminal offence it has committed of bribing shipowner during the building and repair of an oil tanker following the Arab oil embargo in 1973-1974. The federal lawyers have claimed that shipyard managers of the company were involved in illegal transactions.

B Read more b : Principal Bought Pizza For 400 Students When Cafeteria Staff Didn't Show Up Student worker shortage, background check delays hamper IU Dining Staffing issues and a record-breaking freshman class are causing long wait times and closed locations at dining outlets on the Indiana University campus. B Read more: b Eskenazi expands food market to meet patient, staff, community needs B Bonus: b Take a tour of Providence College's hands-on new dining hall Contact Mike Buzalka at mike.buzalka@informa.com. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses a court case wherein New York City Mayor Robert Wagner charges Democratic State Chairman William McKeon with bribery. It presents the sworn statements of the witnesses, including Mayor Wagner and J. Raymond Jones. It highlights Chairman McKeon's rebuttal of the allegations, claiming that he never offered a bribe in any form, and that there was nothing illegal, immoral or unethical in his conduct at the meeting.

The article reports on the scandals surrounding the Board of Education of New York City, which was reportedly awash in corruption and politics. It states that among other things, investigators charged board employees with taking bribes from contractors amounting to 1 million a year. It discusses the board's responsibilities and notes that New York's 836 schools enroll almost 1 million students with a system smothered in bureaucracy.

The article reports on the issues faced by disc jockeys in Manhattan, New York regarding payola. It states that Superjock Alan Freed has been fired by WABC radio because of his acceptance of payola from record distributors in thanks for his services. It also mentions that during the radical housecleaning of President George B. Storer in his Storer Broadcasting Co. he founds out that there were three other deejays that accept payola and decided to fire them.

The article reports on the racketeering activities of Johnny Dioguardi, who was sentenced for two years in prison for conspiracy and bribery. It states that Dioguardi was charged with extortion of protection money from garment truckers in 1937. It says that Dioguardi has prospered in 1950s by threatening businessmen of picketing and labor violence. It adds that Dioguardi will be called by the Senate on how he helped teamster Jimmy Hoffa gain control of the drivers in New York City.

The article reports on the punishment faced by William Marcy Tweed, leader of the Democratic Party political machine Tammany Hall, that played a major role in controlling politics in New York City. It also reports on the charges of bribery conspiracy faced by his successor Carmine De Sapio. It mentions various good works of De Sapio who helped in nominating good candidates like Robert Wagner for mayor and Averell Harriman for Governor, and broke the Irish monopoly that ruled Tammany.

The article reports on the reorganization of the New York City police force by the city's new police commissioner Thomas Murphy. He has ordered the city's 336 plainclothesmen back into uniform following the discovery that Brooklyn cops had been taking bribes from bookies. The reorganization received positive feedback from regular Democrats, who depicted acting Mayor Vincent Impellitteri as an amateur statesman.

The article discusses crackdown by federal and local prosecutors of a $15-million bribery scheme related to interiors work for Bloomberg, the media giant's former director of global construction has sentenced to 38 months in prison for evading federal taxes on $1.45 million in illegal payments.

The article reports that James Delayo, the acting chief inspector of cranes and derricks in New York City, has been charged with accepting bribes in exchange for crane permits and the answer sheets to the city's operator examinations. The charges came as a result of the New York Department of Investigation's look into the fatal crane collapses in Manhattan in March and May 2008. Delayo allegedly took a $500 bribe from a crane company for passing someone who did not take an exam, as well as giving a copy of an exam to a crane company for $3,000.

The article reports that Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, head of Mosdot Shuva Israel nonprofit organization in New York City, who has been placed in house arrest for an alleged bribery. It says that Pinto's lawyer Arthur Aidala has denied the allegations against his client and noted the permission of Israeli legal system to allow suspects be held without formal charges. It adds that Pinto's wife named Debora Riveka has attempted to commit suicide after the arrest of his husband in October 2011.

The article reports that securities regulators and federal prosecutors are investigating Wall Street's entertainment practices in New York City, believing that some gifts and parties have crossed the line from camaraderie-building to bribery. Renowned investment bank Lazard Ltd. admits its gift and gratuity practices are under investigation by the Justice Department. Wall Street firms are also under pressure from shareholders to avoid the excesses seen the last time business was so good.

The article reports on the indictment of Frederic Bourke Jr., the chairman and chief executive officer of Dooney & Bourke, on federal charges of bribing foreign officials. His lawyers said that he is a victim of fraud and will clear his name in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, New York City.