Word: bribe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poverty is relative, so too are many other experiences. A woman in Brownsville, so recent an arrival in the U.S. that she needs a Spanish interpreter in court, is convicted of trying to influence the result of a local election with a $20 bribe. In Matamoros, where posters from last summer's presidential campaign still crowd the walls, elections are invested with fewer moral, if not legal, expectations. Perhaps the single most striking statement to emerge during the campaign was the call by Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party and the eventual victor...
Demonstrators outside Bush campaign headquarters in Boston yesterday accused Vice-President Bush of giving a $40 million bribe to Iranian officials during the 1980 election campaign in exchange for an Iranian promise not to release the American hostages until after the election...
Troops who earned just $100 a month bitterly resented having to bribe senior officers up to $300 for a promotion. Others complained of secondhand shoes and uniforms. At the same time, junior officers were cut out of the lucrative drug profits that commanders received from cocaine dealers, who in recent years have made Haiti a key transshipment point between South America...
...Representatives concluded that the behavior of one of those jurists, U.S. District Judge Alcee Hastings of Miami, was not good enough. By a lopsided vote of 413 to 3, the chamber approved 17 articles of impeachment against him. The main accusation: Hastings conspired to obtain a $150,000 bribe in exchange for granting leniency to two convicted racketeers. The House action puts Hastings, 51, in a very select circle. He becomes only the twelfth judge, and the first black, in U.S. history to be impeached. He is also the first judge to be subjected to the procedure after acquittal...
Hastings' problems stem from his longtime friendship with William Borders, a prominent Washington attorney, who was convicted in a separate trial in 1982. After learning from an informant that Borders claimed to be a conduit for bribes to Hastings, the FBI commissioned a retired agent to pose as one of two brothers convicted of racketeering in the judge's courtroom. The impersonator struck a deal with Borders. In exchange for $150,000, Borders would get Hastings to reduce the brothers' punishment. Two meetings and a cryptic wiretapped phone conversation ensued between Hastings and Borders, followed by an order from...