Word: bribe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hanoi did not break the market economy. Small merchants gradually returned to Saigon to sell their wares, even though they had to do so on the streets and bribe local officials for the privilege. By last year the regime had abandoned its aim of completely crushing Saigon's entrepreneurial spirit...
Miguel Cortez, a middle-aged Cuban refugee, recalls the early days of Castro. When Terkel asks him if he could bribe a policeman after the revolution, Cortez encapsulates an entire mind of state: "No, because everybody a cop." Cortez's dream is simply to rise upon his failures-a vision not substantially different from Ted Turner's: "I never was valedictorian. I couldn't make the football team, I couldn't make the baseball team . . . That's kinda how I got into sailing...
...last Friday, Judge George Pratt put the question to the twelve men and women who had been deliberating for eleven hours on the guilt or innocence of the four defendants in the first trial stemming from ABSCAM, the investigation in which FBI agents, posing as Arabs, tried to bribe Congressmen and other public officials. Back from the jury room came the answer: "No, give us another hour...
...four defendants were guilty of bribery, conspiracy and interstate travel in aid of racketeering. In addition to Errichetti, the defendants were Democratic Congressman Michael ("Ozzie") Myers, City Councilman Louis C. Johanson and Lawyer Harry Criden, all from Philadelphia. The four were accused of sharing in a $50,000 bribe from FBI agents posing as representatives of an Arab sheik in return for help on an immigration bill. The defendants face up to 25 years in prison...
According to testimony at the trial, Errichetti, Johanson and Criden tried unsuccessfully to squeeze even more money from the pseudo Arabs. The trio arranged for a Philadelphia lawyer, Ellis Cook, to impersonate Mario Noto, then deputy commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, and demand a bribe for himself. But Cook's memory apparently failed him at the critical moment. Weinberg asked his name. "Nopo," replied Cook. "Nopo?" asked Weinberg in disbelief. "Yeah, Nopo," said Cook. "N-o-p-o. "Suspecting an impostor, Weinberg ordered Cook to leave. As the tape was shown, laughter rippled through the courtroom...