Sentence examples for for taking kickbacks from inspiring English sources

In April a court sentenced the dismissed former mayor of Nanjing to 15 years for taking kickbacks from developers.

Paul J. Silvester, the former state treasurer who is in prison for taking kickbacks, won't be receiving a pension.

The Fatah chieftains are known in the territories for skimming aid money and for taking kickbacks on businesses like oil, gas, and concrete.

A year later, it was Ben F. Andrews Jr., who ran for secretary of state in 1998, indicted for taking kickbacks from Mr. Silvester.

It involves Ho Chih-hui, an ex-lawmaker with the ruling Kuomintang (now expelled from the party), who was convicted in 2006 by a lower court for taking kickbacks over the building of a science park.

Quote of the day: Interim president Issa Hayatou – Sepp's vice-president since 1992, disciplined for taking kickbacks in 2011 while denying unrelated links to alleged Qatari bribes – setting the week's tone: "Let us embrace this new dawn.

Officials accused him of taking kickbacks for purchases of jet fighters, among other corruption charges.

Another involves charges of taking kickbacks for contracts to build low-income housing.

One of two former judges accused of taking kickbacks to send youths to for-profit detention facilities has agreed to plead guilty to a federal racketeering charge.

Mr Nazaruddin, who is also a member of Indonesia's parliament, had been sacked as treasurer last month after being accused of taking kickbacks from the winning bid to build athletes' dormitories for the upcoming South-East Asia Games.

The former chief of the Iraq oil-for-food program resigned just a day before investigators release a report that is expected to accuse him of taking kickbacks under the $64 billion humanitarian operation.