Word: blackmail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...Assassination of President Kennedy. The author, Texas attorney Mark North, accuses Hoover of deliberately withholding knowledge of a Mafia assassination plot against J.F.K. because he hated the Kennedy brothers and had enough dirt on L.B.J. to control him. But North's accumulation of documentary evidence of the ugly blackmail intrigues Hoover was weaving in the cellars of Camelot is perhaps even more damning than the allegations of treason...
...Arthur's Camelot than Capone's Chicago. J.F.K. himself, we know, was almost literally in bed with the Chicago Mob, sleeping with the godfather's mistress, for God's sake; his minions used Chicago mobsters as hit men against a rival head of state. He was enmeshed in sordid blackmail intrigues with Hoover; he was implicated in bugging King's bedrooms. Far from a noble peacemaker, he was a hawkish enthusiast for dirty tricks and covert ops, so Machiavellian that -- according to Michael Beschloss's new book, The Crisis Years -- he may even have given his blessing to Khrushchev...
Though the Pentagon's own studies raise doubts about the policy, the armed forces have long banned homosexuals, arguing that they undermine morale and could be vulnerable to blackmail. Last week U.S. District Judge Oliver Gasch came up with a new reason for excluding them in a ruling upholding the U.S. Naval Academy's treatment of Joseph Steffan, who was forced to resign in 1987 after his commanders heard he was gay. It was the need to protect soldiers and sailors from AIDS...
...Then Dole twisted the knife by describing Sununu's phone call to a television interviewer. Some White House officials and G.O.P. political strategists were miffed that Sununu was trying to end run the President. Bush himself was reported to be "chapped" by what seemed to be an attempt to blackmail him into retaining Sununu...