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...witness, Richard Flynn, a lawyer for Cablevision Systems Corp., did testify that Zaccaro told him in 1981, "It's going to cost you money" to get the contract. Flynn said he interpreted the statement not as an extortion attempt, however, but as a warning "about a process that was corrupt...
...mass grave on the capital's outskirts. Members of the murdered President's family watched the burial in tears. A populist who religiously consulted with village leaders before embarking on new policies, Sankara made personal probity a point of honor in a country that has had more than one corrupt leader since winning independence in 1960. He boasted that he was the world's lowest-paid chief of state, with a salary of just $450 a month...
Those class lines, however, are not so easy to cross. Pacot, a run-down but still chic neighborhood, is three miles and another world away from La Saline's slums. In a corner here and there, the brittle, corrupt surface of Papa Doc's Haiti still glitters. Guard dogs run along the tops of security walls, and chauffeured Mercedes Benz slip in and out of driveways leading to Gothic gingerbread houses...
...Federal Court next spring when he and 28 other alleged co-conspirators will go on trial for racketeering, drug-running, and terrorism. Contragate's "Secret Team" of Secord, Singlaub, Shackley, Rodriguez, Hakim, Owen and Clines et al. are joined with Calero as defendants charged under RICO, the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations...
...said the Christic Institute, a small,interfaith public interest law firm, is chargingthe 29 with violating the 1970 Racketeer Influenceand Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act, which wasdesigned to combat organized crime...