Word: blackmailed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accusations come from runners who say they placed his bets and from a former bookie who insists he took them, but Rose declares it is all part of a conspiracy to blackmail him. He admits having bet on horse races, football and college- and pro-basketball games since 1975. But he vociferously denies the central charge: that in 1985, 1986 and 1987 he bet anywhere from $2,000 to $5,000 on baseball games, including those played by his own team, the Cincinnati Reds. He played both infield and outfield for the Reds for more than 18 years and since...
...Jordache affair, among many other cases, will be aired next month by the House Commerce, Consumer and Monetary Affairs subcommittee in what could be the most extensive and embarrassing examination of the IRS since Watergate. While the subcommittee has not discovered the widespread bribes, kickbacks and blackmail that led to an overhaul of the IRS in the 1950s, its yearlong probe has unearthed evidence of disturbing misconduct: several instances of alleged wrongdoing by high-level IRS officials in the past five years and an attempted cover-up by the agency's image-conscious leaders...
Hammadi, who is linked to the radical pro-Iranian group Hizballah, was arrested in January 1987 while trying to smuggle explosives through Frankfurt airport. West Germany denied a U.S. extradition request after Hammadi backers kidnaped two German businessmen in Lebanon, prompting criticism that Bonn was knuckling under to blackmail. Hammadi could have faced the death penalty in the U.S., not an option in Germany. Said Stethem's father Richard: Hammadi "deserves punishment more severe than allowable under German...
...companion case, Kennedy said waging a war on drugs demands that Customs workers in key jobs be fit and immune to bribes or blackmail...
...Prime Minister stressed, and PASOK needed 5 billion drachmas ($33 million). Thereupon, says Koskotas, Papandreou bluntly described a much expanded plan for kicking back interest payments. Koskotas, he directed, should work out the details with Deputy Prime Minister Koutsogiorgas. Says Koskotas, sounding surprisingly disingenuous: "I realized it was outright blackmail." Until then he had rationalized that the stolen interest payments to PASOK were simply the political cost of doing business in Greece...