Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sullivan, who wrote the script in collaboration with the actors, borrowed the theme from Gogol's masterpiece The Inspector General, about a corrupt town that goes all out trying to bribe a feckless clerk whom it collectively mistakes for a government investigator. The setting and some of the plot, however, came from an episode Sullivan heard about when serving on a National Endowment for the Arts theater panel: a beleaguered troupe, desperate to sustain its grant, offered to bribe an agency inspector who was also a playwright by pledging to produce his plays...
...says, "listening to artillery fire mingled with the sound of crashing waves as I filed a story on a laptop computer." On his way out the next day, three Liberian "security" officials detained Purvis in a small room at the airport and shook him down for a $60 bribe. It was pay or stay. "They each got $20, which was big money to them," he says...
Indicted City Councillor William H. Walsh said yesterday that he plans to sue a former city official who accused him of offering a bribe to ease a police investigation of a Central Square...
...civil and criminal actions suggest one answer: $32 million in cash and stock awarded to Clifford and Altman in a sweetheart transaction engineered by Abedi and concealed by the two from the Fed and even their own board of directors. The prosecutors allege the deal was a bribe, as was part of the $17 million their law firm charged as legal counsel for B.C.C.I. and First American...
...brother Ibrahim al-Tikriti, who directs Iraq's internal security. Arabco, which deals in military equipment, was also identified by Western intelligence as a firm run by Saddam's son-in-law Hussein Kamel. With an estimated $30 billion stashed in foreign banks, Saddam has plenty of funds to bribe Jordanian officials and purchase goods abroad, including luxury items to buy the continued loyalty of military and security officers in Baghdad. His agents forge export licenses, issue phony letters of credit for the front companies, and pay shipment costs to Aqaba's free port. There cargoes supposedly destined for Jordanian...