Sentence examples for as a kickback from inspiring English sources

In November, 2008, Saban sued Krane in Austria to recover the thirty-six million dollars, which both Saban and the government have characterized as a "kickback".

A former Congressional employee testified that Mr. Traficant had demanded half his salary, $2,500 a month, as a kickback for being hired.

Mr. Lefkowitz also indicted Mr. Goldman for making $1 million in payments to a painting contractor and accepting the return of half the money as a kickback.

Indeed, the arena encouraged its contractors and patrons to advertise in the magazine, which an independent newspaper might well have questioned as a kickback scheme.

Mr. Williams agreed to pay the agent 25percentt of the price of the transaction as a kickback, the prosecutors said.

Mr. Street, 69, of Moorestown, N.J., was convicted in February of three tax-evasion charges and acquitted of four fraud counts over what prosecutors had described as a kickback scheme at the city-owned Philadelphia airport.

A8 Halliburton Turns In Kickbacks The Halliburton Company said it has paid the government $6.3 million that its employees had improperly received as part of a kickback deal with a Kuwaiti company.

Last year the country's ministry of defence reportedly paid an excess of $200m to fuel contractors as part of a kickback scheme using money destined for reconstruction, resulting in a number of senior ministry officials being fired.

A man whom prosecutors described as part of a kickback scheme benefiting Joseph P. Ganim, the former mayor of Bridgeport, was sentenced yesterday in Federal District Court here to three years of probation.

Each game begins with a bribe (keeping a casino open in exchange for free chips; arranging a government contract "for the mobile phone company that just hired your 16-year-old daughter as a 'consultant' "; a kickback on a contract to deliver defibrillators to Army hospitals).

Mr. Wilson received a kickback from B & B Construction, as well as other companies, in exchange for awarding them contracts, prosecutors said.