Word: kickbacks
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Zardari always had a reputation for wheeling and dealing. When he was Investment Minister during Bhutto's second term, his alleged involvement in kickback scandals earned him the sobriquet "Mr. 10%." He spent 11 years in prison on charges of corruption, extortion and the murder of Bhutto's brother (a political rival), although he has never been convicted. In April he was finally acquitted of the murder charge. Pakistani governments led by both Bhutto's rival, Sharif, and Musharraf pursued money-laundering and corruption cases against Zardari in Britain, Spain and Switzerland. All charges were dropped last fall after...
...discovered the "relationships" that so many orthopedic companies have established with orthopedic surgeons. Companies give money to doctors to test products, to help design or tout products and sometimes just to use a particular product (as in kickback). Orthopedists are hardly the only doctors paid by medical companies, but when the sheer amount of money being given to orthopedists came out of the shade into the sharp San Francisco sunshine last week, it did make quite a few of us blink...
...This case is one of a number of ongoing inquiries into allegedly illegal party financing during his tenure as mayor. The purported scams involved kickback schemes, bogus job arrangements, and even a spectacular 2000 video confession by a conservative fund-raiser who, before he died, recounted the illegal means by which cash was generated, and recalled delivering a suitcase full of slush money in Chirac's presence. Chirac has denied all such allegations as "lies, calumny, and manipulation," and dismissed the posthumous video confession as "abracadabrantesque...
...companies were accused of conspiring to violate federal anti-kickback laws that prohibit payments to physicians that might encourage them to use a product...
Akula said the Grille will partner with party organizers, offering them a kickback for all Grille goods sold at the party, and also for any students who buy food at the Grille afterwards...