Desmaret, 55, is charged with fraud, accused of accepting money for approving a real estate project.
He talks about getting a 25% to 30% annual return on this real estate project.
Jasmin, 49, is charged with fraud, accused of accepting a share of a real estate project in return for approving it.
Hale also said he couldn't recall precisely when he, McDougal and Tucker drove in McDougal's Jaguar to the Whitewater real estate project, now being investigated.
Other upcoming deals include banks in Ghana and Mozambique, hotels in South Africa and Eritrea, a real estate project in Zimbabwe and an agriculture project in Uganda.
This trend is sure to continue, since the new Aman hotel is the centerpiece of a real estate project being developed by London Stock Exchange-listed Dolphin Capital Investors.
In another bribery scheme tangential to the Smith case, Spring Valley Mayor Noramie Jasmin and Deputy Mayor Joseph Desmaret were accused of taking money and property to approve a real estate project.
Coming in early 2014 is the 154-room Alt Griffin hotel, which will be part of the largest multi-use real estate project in town (expected to combine residential, shopping and dining outlets in the blossoming Griffin district).
The sale allowed him to buy the New Jersey Nets in 2009, and he has a 45% stake in the team's real estate project to build a new arena in Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards in 2012.
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While at Morgan Stanley, Campbell, now 30, worked on a community real estate development project in his hometown of St.
So far three "alleygates" have been erected but Wrexham Council plan to roll the project out throughout the estate.
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The Dundonnell project was instigated by the estate's owner, the lyricist, Sir Tim Rice.
Few developments were hit harder in the real estate crash than this mixed-use project in the desert 20 miles southeast of Las Vegas.
There were some big winners--a hydroelectric project in Vermont and a real estate deal in New Hampshire--followed by a spectacular bust.
The Greater London Authority, which is being advised by Deloitte Real Estate, said on its website the regeneration project will "make use of the docks' main feature - the water - in a floating commercial and leisure development".
In case you think WNYC is spending your hard-earned contributions on a subject that flirts with frivolity and you're considering unincluding them in your estate planning, they assured me that this project was pushed into the New Year by more important data-mining efforts, on subjects such as superstorm Sandy and the recent presidential election.
Although billionaires disagree about the federal estate tax, a number have signed a Responsible Wealth project statement calling for the tax to be preserved.
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There were some big winners--a hydroelectric project in the state of Vermont and a real estate deal in New Hampshire--followed by a spectacular bust.
The plans for the Northern Gateway project have been drawn up by developer Praxis Real Estate Management (PREM) which says the site will "attract major inward investment" to the area over the next 10 years.
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According to the project's website, 93% of the real estate for sale, or 444 of 475 properties on the market, had been sold as of Feb 1.
The company added the initial size awarded by the Crown Estate was 367 sq miles (950 sq km) and its revised project would be 77 sq miles (200 sq km).
According to media reports, around 30 real estate projects in Beijing have failed to get sales licenses as planned because their project pricing was deemed much higher than previous projects, and higher than average home prices of similar size in the city.
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Sark Estate Management Director Kevin Delaney said the natural habitat would be improved by the planting project.
John Njoko, the founder of Kwelia, a real estate analysis company, has also reaped the benefits of the Start-Up Chile Project.
Critics disagree, arguing that the project is a way for making profit from the sale of valuable real estate in Istanbul's main commercial district.
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Lennar is joining with Wilson Meany, a San Francisco developer, along with Stockbridge Capital Group, Hillwood, Scala, Estein and Kenwood Investments, a real-estate fund founded by former Democratic lobbyist Darius Anderson, to build the Treasure Island project, which includes up to 8, 000 homes, a 500-room hotel and about 300, 000 square feet of commercial space.
Robert Wytchard, estate manager of the site, said there was a "great need" for the project.
Several domestic real estate funds that have also listed on AIM say they target 20% returns on each project.
Crown Estate spokesman Nick Harper said the firm had "continuing and extensive engagement" with local people about the project.
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