Word: bribe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Knowledgeable lawyers note other potential dangers. Once the names of the Government's witnesses are made known, the defense may attempt to bribe them, or the Government may try to cow defense witnesses. Many defense lawyers also lambaste the reciprocity requirement. As Houston Criminal Lawyer William F. Walsh puts it: "Why should the defense have to disclose anything in advance when the burden of proof is on the prosecution...
...addition, it ran farms, dealt in antiques and trafficked in drugs. But perhaps its biggest racket was protection. If the bribe was right, UDBA could hush up crimes or fix sentences for defendants facing stiff penalties. In fact, UDBA was not above framing...
...Bribe Squeezers. Mobutu realizes that the first necessity for the northeast is the re-establishment of fundamental order. The Simbas killed or carried off almost all the trained civil servants, leaving vast areas of the north east governed by second-rate profiteers who squeeze bribes and extortion mon ey out of the population at every chance. They are in for trouble: Mobutu has opened an interprovincial police training school in Kisangani that has already sent 250 cops throughout the northeast...
...degree of reason underlies the apparent fare madness. Explains Tillinghast: "We're trying to bribe the public to go at non-peak times. If you had a single fare system, you would get an unwholesome peaking of traffic and an unhealthy number of empty seats...
...iron hold on the Teamsters. After all, Hoffa was convicted in 1964 for conspiracy and fraud in the handling of Teamster pension funds. That year he was also found guilty of attempting to suborn a jury in a 1962 trial in which he was accused of accepting a bribe from trucking operators. Hoffa was sentenced to 13 years in prison, remains free while the cases are under appeal.* He has been ostracized by the A.F.L.-C.I.O., been hit by Government investigations and prosecutions and by numerous revelations of abuses of the rank and file's rights...