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...Bulger's former law partner, Thomas Finnerty, received $500,000 from real-estate developer Harold Brown for help in securing government permits on the State Street project. Two years later, Brown sued Finnerty, claiming the payment was part of an influence-peddling scam involving the Senate President...
Although the case was settled out of court in December, Bulger had received $240,000 out of the payment through a trust fund. Bulger has said that the money was a loan against future legal fees and that he repaid the loan with interest once he knew Brown was the source of funds...
...think we'll maybe stretch out ((payment for programs over several years)), but I'm not going to give up on them. I have to set priorities, though. I'd like to start moving forward on the main ones, even if it's not going to be the total funding that I'd like to bring about...
Merchant of Venice, The: A COMEDY by William SHAKESPEARE. The most memorable CHARACTER is SHYLOCK, a greedy money lender who demands from the title character "a POUND OF FLESH" as payment for a DEBT...
...President Jose Sarney. With nearly a dozen Latin American debtor nations scheduled to hold presidential elections in the next two years, some populist candidates lure voters with promises of radical solutions to break the debt squeeze. Unless the region's scarce capital can be shifted away from foreign- debt payment back into economic growth, the frail bloom of democracy could wither...