Word: backroom
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...better place to demonstrate the reach of his "shock and awe" money campaign. Headlining a luncheon at the Airport Marriott in the liberal Democratic bastion of San Francisco last Friday, the President politely thanked his supporters for their "hard-earned dollars" and walked away $1.6 million richer. But the backroom brigadier of Bush's financial blitz was quietly working the velvet rope at the ballroom's VIP section. Jack Oliver, a little-known 34-year-old from Missouri, is the man largely responsible for what is being heralded as the most formidable money machine in modern political history...
...first shot at the premiership ended after only seven months, when his coalition unraveled following a judicial probe into his business dealings. Then Berlusconi made his stunning comeback - and, in the process, gave a thorough makeover to an Italian political system once run by faceless leaders and cautious backroom pols...
...Mondadori, Italy's largest publishing house. Opposition leader Francesco Rutelli last week cited what he says is another glaring conflict: a Feb. 11 lunch Berlusconi had with Rupert Murdoch in the midst of the Australian tycoon's bid to expand his Italian cable TV holdings. Rutelli smells a backroom deal and vowed to begin a parliamentary battle to force the ruling center-right majority to put some teeth into its proposed conflict advisory board. Berlusconi's running of the state-owned RAI network has drawn the harshest criticism. The Feb. 15 antiwar march in Rome, which drew more than...
...WHITE MAN WINS AGAIN. While most Indians continue to live in poverty, many non-Indian investors are extracting hundreds of millions of dollars--sometimes in violation of legal limits--from casinos they helped establish, either by taking advantage of regulatory loopholes or cutting backroom deals. More than 90% of the contracts between tribes and outside gaming-management companies operate with no oversight. That means investors' identities are often secret, as are their financial arrangements and their share of the revenue. Whatever else Congress had in mind when it passed the regulatory act, presumably the idea was not to line...
...investigation of Bayoumi and attracted the attention of investigators with the Joint Intelligence Committee, and, according to knowledgeable sources, some of these investigators came to suspect that there was more to the story than the FBI had found. The backroom dispute over the vigor of the FBI's investigation, and Congressional displeasure at being denied access to an FBI informant in the San Diego Arab community, has now spilled into public view. The leaks have thrown the FBI and Justice Department on the defensive. Now the spill-over from this long running dispute has put additional pressure on the already...