Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tough one. He charged that "U.S. imperialism will never abandon its criminal aim of vainly trying to perpetuate its forcible occupation of South Viet Nam." He also condemned the Middle East policies of both the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The two nations, said Li, are trying to "intimidate, bribe, deceive and divide the Arab countries...
Paradise testified that Richard A. Gargiulo, assistant district attorney of Middlesex County, "prepared the statement, and I forcibly put my name to it." The Cambridge police offered him a $10 bribe to testify against the Weathermen, Paradise said...
...Speaker's offices to talk over deals on five separate occasions between April 1963 and October 1966. "Voloshen would sit there, with his feet on the desk, making telephone calls all over the country," Itkin told Smith. These transactions, said Itkin, involved everything from schemes to bribe several Congressmen to purchasing land for gas stations in Florida on the advance knowledge of Army plans to build nearby...
Lifetime Income. In the end, practically no one could be found to speak up to excuse conduct that was, at very best, grossly improper. "He has not committed the ultimate evil of taking a bribe," said Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther. "But that misses the point. There is a question about the appearance of virtue on the court." In fact, Fortas' action had been even more ill-judged than was at first realized. Not only had he received $20,000 from Louis Wolfson's foundation in 1966-not giving it back until eleven months later, after Wolfson...
...Mafia friends would pay at least $250,000 for his release. In announcing the commutation, Rhodes took pains to observe that an investigation he ordered found "no evidence of such payment or promises." But LIFE quotes former officials, including ex-Governor DiSalle, as saying that they were aware of bribe offers from Columbus Mafia Leader Mike DeAngelo, among others. LIFE does not contend that Governor Rhodes accepted a bribe...