Word: bribe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After ten minutes of waiting for them to determine if Petya had permission to live in Leningrad, I left him to his fate. The officer demanded a bribe to prevent the police from notifying University officials of his suspicious involvement with an alien, but Petya got off without paying. He left the station about three hours later. I went straight home...
...hidden camera recorded seven hours of sessions at which an FBI agent posing as the representative of an Arab sheik tried to bribe Murphy and Thompson with $50,000 each in return for helping the sheik to immigrate to the U.S. The money was carried away in a briefcase by Howard Criden, a Philadelphia lawyer and an alleged conspirator, who is to be tried later. Thompson and Murphy insisted they had never received any funds and had met with the fake sheik's emissary only to encourage the Arabs to make investments in their districts. Not only...
...trial of Florida's Congressman Richard Kelly, indicted for receiving $25,000, continues this week in Washington. Still to come: the cases of Congressman Raymond Lederer of Philadelphia and New Jersey Senator Harrison Williams, accused of taking mining stock as a bribe...
...accused of sharing two $50,000 payoffs with various coconspirators. Still to come: the trials of Congressmen Raymond Lederer of Philadelphia, accused of accepting $50,000; Florida's Richard Kelly, indicted for receiving $25,000; and New Jersey Senator Harrison Williams, accused of taking mining stock as a bribe...
...taxes in Italy are graduated; the tax on gasoline, for instance, is 30 times higher than that on heating oil. By forging the identifying document of a shipment -or, in some cases, switching the oil-refiners and distributors could pocket the illegal tax benefits. Then, said investigators, they would bribe Guardia officers, politicians, inspectors and truckers to keep quiet...