Word: bagmen
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...gives the case its special piquancy, because the defendants were all cogs in the old Paris political machine of Jacques Chirac, who served 18 years as mayor of Paris before being elected President of France in 1995. And the accused are only the latest in a string of alleged bagmen, vote-riggers and ward-heelers charged with wrongdoing during Chirac's city hall tenure - two of Chirac's closest aides are among those already convicted in connection with kickback and party financing charges. As President, Chirac enjoys immunity from prosecution, but new elections are set for May, and there...
...film moves to a robbery on Alcatraz. Mal Reese (John Vernon), an old friend whom Walker is accompanying, shoots two bagmen and takes their cash. This is not “Rififi.” There is none of the traditional stealth. Only bullets and Walker’s memory of the path that led to this point...
...life after death even for politicians, one has to assume that former Louisiana Governors Huey and Earl Long, the first politician-kings of the banana republic of Louisiana, were watching last week. With testimony about cash left in Dumpsters and hidden under frozen ducks, and good old-fashioned bagmen bundling and transporting the loot, it all seemed refreshingly honest compared with the deceit of PACs, soft money and other modern-day shams. Edwards' wife Candy, who at 35 looks young enough to be his granddaughter, took it all in from the front row. His son Stephen had an even better...
...troubling prospect for other NBA franchises is that the Wizards could be rebuilt not only by Jordan but also by bagmen from his corporate sponsor Nike and his agency, SFX Entertainment. With an eye toward parity, the NBA imposes a salary cap on all rosters. Jordan's longtime agent David Falk, who was at the Chicago lunch, is chairman of the SFX Sports Group and presumably will soon be negotiating with the Wizards' top basketball executive. He'll have to; he represents two players on the Wizards as well. If Jordan is in trouble on the salary cap, will Falk...
...Bagmen, thugs, arms deals and B.C.C.I. Common ingredients, it turns out, in the murky world of international arms sales, where experiences like that of the American dealer quoted above are common fare. While prosecutors and auditors from governments and regulatory bodies continue their scramble to unravel the role of the Bank of Credit & Commerce International in the world's first truly global financial scandal, TIME has learned that what looked like a bank was in fact a multipurpose, multinational enterprise. In the past two decades, the organization created by Pakistani financier Agha Hasan Abedi has become, among other things...