Word: bribe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even more serious, the SEC charges reopened-but did not answer-an old question: Did Miller also know about Textron's foreign bribery? Stories about such bribes began to circulate in 1978, just as Miller came before the Senate Banking Committee for confirmation hearings on his nomination to be chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Committee Chairman William Proxmire questioned Miller closely. "My company did not bribe anybody," said Miller. If it had, he implied, he should have known Said Miller: "I have insisted that I be fully informed about any question of ethics that comes...
Carol M. Petillo, a Boston College assistant professor of history who discovered the long secret financial transaction while doing research for her doctorate, suggested last week that there were "many layers" to the story. "To call the money a bribe would be simplistic," she said. "President Quezon could have believed that he was acting in the best interests of his countrymen, as perhaps...