Siddiqui was charged with taking kickbacks from Fry's vendors, pleaded guilty and is now in prison.

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He has also been investigated for allegedly taking kickbacks from a marketing firm that worked closely with Fifa in the 1990s.

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Gougeon, backed by his father-in-law, took over as head of the company and fired Afremov, accusing him of taking kickbacks from vendors.

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The Amplatz family also accused Afremov of taking kickbacks from vendors.

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Meanwhile, the state's former treasurer, Paul Silvester, is serving a four-year jail sentence for taking kickbacks and bribes to steer state pension-fund business, a scandal that has touched the waspish, manicured suburbs of Connecticut's southern Fairfield County.

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In 2009, the El Dorado Task Force, a joint federal and state law enforcement effort focused on money laundering and other financial crimes, built an air-tight case against nearly a dozen Con Edison employees for taking kickbacks from contractors that performed gas line and electrical work for Con Edison on construction projects in New York City and Westchester County.

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In 2011, Ham was convicted for conspiring launder money through his credit union accounts for his brother-in-law, a Con Edison employee, who was taking illegal kickbacks from Con Edison contractors.

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Ginsberg reasoned that Congress meant the pre-1987 understanding of the term, and meant to criminalize only the taking of bribes and kickbacks in the performance of a job, not any sort of scheme that somehow deprived somebody of honest work.

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