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...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...
...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...
House Minority Leader Steven D. Pierce (R-Hampden) called the local aid plan "political blackmail and little more." He said the governor should cut state spending in other areas, rather than raise taxes, to provide funds for local...
Lawyers call threats by defense attorneys to disclose classified information "graymail." To laymen, it looks suspiciously close to blackmail since it forces the prosecution to make a choice: let the secrets be revealed or drop the relevant charges. North has insisted that more than 3,500 classified documents are vital to his defense. Special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh wants to use about 400 secret papers, from which a special interagency group made numerous deletions to protect national security. North's lawyers have objected to nearly all these exclusions. If the judge decides the deleted information is necessary for North's defense...