Word: bribes
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...hidden camera recorded seven hours of sessions at which an FBI agent posing as the representative of an Arab sheik tried to bribe Murphy and Thompson with $50,000 each in return for helping the sheik to immigrate to the U.S. The money was carried away in a briefcase by Howard Criden, a Philadelphia lawyer and an alleged conspirator, who is to be tried later. Thompson and Murphy insisted they had never received any funds and had met with the fake sheik's emissary only to encourage the Arabs to make investments in their districts. Not only...
...trial of Florida's Congressman Richard Kelly, indicted for receiving $25,000, continues this week in Washington. Still to come: the cases of Congressman Raymond Lederer of Philadelphia and New Jersey Senator Harrison Williams, accused of taking mining stock as a bribe...
...accused of sharing two $50,000 payoffs with various coconspirators. Still to come: the trials of Congressmen Raymond Lederer of Philadelphia, accused of accepting $50,000; Florida's Richard Kelly, indicted for receiving $25,000; and New Jersey Senator Harrison Williams, accused of taking mining stock as a bribe...
...taxes in Italy are graduated; the tax on gasoline, for instance, is 30 times higher than that on heating oil. By forging the identifying document of a shipment -or, in some cases, switching the oil-refiners and distributors could pocket the illegal tax benefits. Then, said investigators, they would bribe Guardia officers, politicians, inspectors and truckers to keep quiet...
...Hanoi did not break the market economy. Small merchants gradually returned to Saigon to sell their wares, even though they had to do so on the streets and bribe local officials for the privilege. By last year the regime had abandoned its aim of completely crushing Saigon's entrepreneurial spirit...