Word: bribe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disgruntled former employees of Tsakos testified that Mrs. Hatfield had performed no broker or decorating services for the financier. But last week the Ethics Committee staff concluded that there was insufficient evidence to determine that the fee paid Mrs. Hatfield, a real estate broker, was meant as a bribe to her husband and urged the Senate committee to drop the matter. The Ethics Committee is expected to agree this week. The Justice Department also seems likely to come to a similar conclusion after a preliminary FBI investigation of Hatfield's activities...
...forefront of the nuclear-freeze movement. But last week, to the dismay of friends and colleagues, Hatfield found himself under investigation by the Senate Ethics Committee and the FBI. The issue: whether four payments totaling $40,000 to Hatfield's wife constituted a bribe to win the Senator's backing for an oil pipeline across Central Africa. And if they were not, what were they...
Neighboring farmers split the purchase price of expensive field machinery. And in Chicago, federal prosecutors claimed last week, at least five lawyers took the cooperative-payment approach to handle a local judge's monthly bribe. The lawyers who came up with the $2,000-a-month retainer between 1981 and 1983, said U.S. Attorney Dan Webb, were members of a "bribery club." In return for the alleged payoffs, the judge made them court-appointed counsel for unrepresented defendants, often drunken drivers-and then granted acquittals...
...Federal Bureau of Investigation code-named it Operation Corkscrew: a four-year, $750,000 Government scam designed to ensnare what were believed to be corrupt judges in the Cleveland Municipal Court. An undercover agent, posing as a car thief, hired Court Bailiff Marvin Bray to offer bribes to judges in exchange for fixing cases. It seemed an effective "sting" when in 1981 six judges were about to be indicted. But it was the FBI that was getting stung. Some of the judges brought to meetings with the undercover agent were impostors, and Bray himself was pocketing the bribe money, totaling...
...From Cho the money may have gone directly to South Korean officials, but the evidence remains circumstantial. Last week Charboneau, whose perusal of business records led him to suspect Cho of using the funds for payoffs, told TIME: "I don't know frankly whether it was used to bribe Korean officials, but the way the money was given to Cho caused suspicion...