Word: bribe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protest the manner in which the FBI is being brought to task regarding Abscam. If Harrison Williams had refused the bribe, that would have ended the matter for him. I say the FBI did good work. I hope it will continue to uncover dishonest individuals in our Government...
...blackmail and wiretap U.S. Government employees. For example, Shin Beth, the Israeli counterespionage branch allegedly rigged a fake abortion case against a clerk at the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem in an unsuccessful effort to recruit him, apparently in the early '50s. There are accounts of efforts to bribe Marine guards, and in 1954 a hidden microphone planted by the Israelis was discovered in the U.S. Ambassador's offices in Tel Aviv...
...asking the panel to name a prosecutor, Attorney General William French Smith sought to limit the inquiry to two allegations: that the Labor Secretary was present in 1977 when his former firm, Schiavone Construction Co., paid a $2,000 bribe to a union official; and that Donovan was untruthful at his Senate confirmation hearings. The judges, however, empowered Silverman to investigate "any other allegation or evidence of violation of any federal criminal law by Secretary Donovan." Unlike the Justice Department in its inquiry, Silverman will have authority to grant legal immunity to any key prosecution witnesses. Should the inquiry find...
...Human Resources Committee by the FBI and the Justice Department is turning out to be curiously incomplete. Indeed, the Justice Department last week opened a new investigation into old charges that Donovan was present when officers of the New Jersey construction company that he partly owned allegedly paid a bribe to a union leader. The new probe, launched by Attorney General William French Smith at the urging of Brooklyn Prosecutor Thomas P. Puccio, is the first step required under the 1978 Ethics in Government Act to determine whether the Justice Department must appoint a special prosecutor to examine the evidence...
...easy to obtain. A criminal typically combs newspaper obituary columns for a suitable death and writes to the deceased's home town for a copy of the birth certificate, the most useful document required to get a passport. Some thieves steal valid passports from unwary travelers. Others bribe U.S. consular employees to issue visas, which citizens of all foreign countries except Canada need to enter...