1. The Mayor is accused of accepting bribe money. 2. Brown allegedly used his company, Lousiana Consultants, to receive bribe money meant for the official. 3. Consad has been linked to a ghost company allegedly created to wash bribe money paid for the Banco de la Nacion contract. 4. Nova testified that he began giving Arena half of the bribe money, which he was receiving once, twice and sometimes three times a week. 5. The bribe money disappeared while the order for the cars never materialized, forcing Mercedes to write-off the payment. 6. The money, he said in a telephone interview last Friday, was campaign money, not bribe money. 7. Police also arrested an alleged accomplice, a former policeman who was fired for receiving bribe money in connection with a theft case. 8. Ahead of the hearing, prosecutors said they have new evidence that the son still has most of the bribe money. 9. Authorities contend several defendants turned a blind eye toward the theft and sale of cars in exchange for bribe money that ran to tens of thousands of dollars. 10. Bribe money was deposited in the Equitable PCI bank account, prosecutors say. |