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...Ahmad's duties as head of B.C.C.I.'s Washington office included the bribery of certain government officials," an unnamed informant is quoted as saying in an FBI affidavit. This informant identified Ahmad as B.C.C.I.'s coordinator for "certain types of industrial espionage" including the "giving and receiving of commercial bribes." No charges have been filed against Ahmad, but a former bank official told TIME, as well as investigators for two grand juries, that Ahmad was connected to the bank's "black network" of operatives who used bribery, blackmail and sometimes terrorism to further the bank's schemes in 73 countries...
...sexual zeitgeist, Friday maintains that women's erotic fantasies spurn comfortable settings, clean sheets and non-felons in favor of German shepherds, enemas and shackles. The author may have intended to provide an aphrodisiac with her pseudoscientific survey, but it comes off with all the zing of an affidavit -- and one that lacks the ring of truth...
...affidavit, one of the plaintiffs in the case, Dennis M. Cargill, accused Walsh of using his power to aid his personal business interests...
...Cambridge is known to be a difficult place to do real estate development because constituents are basically 'anti-development,'" the affidavit said. "Walsh exuded a cocky self-confidence based on his legal/political clout and believed that he could do most anything [in his business deals...
...affidavit Cargill also stated Walsh's real estate transactions "had serious conflicts of interest...