Gerald, 70, a State Supreme Court judge, has been indicted on charges that he accepted cash and other gifts as payment for preferential treatment.
Asked about those recent reports Bing is offering the likes of Times proprietor News Corp payments for preferential crawling conditions, MSN UK executive producer Peter Bale wouldn't elaborate beyond last week's Microsoft statements from online services VP Satya Nadella and online audience VP Yusuf Mehdi..
Can it be proved that a payment of €7.9m (£6.5m) for preferential rights on three Santos players or the €9m (£7.4m) for two friendlies were not separate from the transfer?
There had been stories of alleged financial corruption, involving the £500m-plus renovation of the theatre building between 2005 and 2011; illegal conspiracies with ticket touts; even rumours of preferential payments to certain dancers.
For corporate bonds, such a clause does not protect the bondholders against preferential payment of other unsecured creditors.
Moreover, in the case of transfers to the creditor in conformity with an obligation, the trustee must prove the preferential intent of the debtor and knowledge thereof by the creditor, whereas, in the case of payments made or security interests granted not in conformity with an existing obligation, the only defense is lack of preferential effect.
SA: I would be entitled to no preferential tax cuts or any other type of preferential treatment whatsoever.
"We are likely to bend over backwards to avoid the appearance of preferential treatment," she said.
The duration of preferential rents can be important when a building is being converted.
A referendum on introducing a form of preferential voting to Britain was defeated in 2011.
Barack Obama, Angela Merkel and Margaret Thatcher had all been elected without the benefit of preferential shortlists, he pointed out.
