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ALEXANDRIA, Va--A Navy official and a major defense contractor pleaded guilty yesterday to charges in the "Ill Wind" Pentagon procurement case, with the Navy man admitting he took a bribe to provide inside information on a contract...
Berlin, indicted in the investigation dubbed "Ill Wind," pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery, receiving a bribe, wire fraud and making false statements. Teledyne Industries pleaded guilty to conspiracy and two counts of making false statements in connection with a contract with one of its divisions--Teledyne Electronics of Newbury Park, Calif.--worth about $24 million...
Gardner says he arranged for the purchase at an inflated price of a vacation condominium that Paisley owned in Sun Valley, Idaho. Prosecutors say the payment -- about $149,000 for a condo later sold for $100,000 -- constituted a bribe. The money came from a secret $5 million fund that Gardner set up with Unisys money and devoted to bribery and illegal campaign contributions, as well as his personal use. He allegedly replenished the fund by charging the military for consulting work that was never performed -- which would mean that the Pentagon unknowingly supplied the money to corrupt...
...MacDollar" for nothing. Testifying under immunity before the Senate committee, MacDonald's son Peter Jr. said that when his father needed cash, he would call a benefactor and ask for "golf balls," MacDonald Sr.'s code word for $1,000 cash payments. MacDonald Jr. would then collect the bribe...
...someone the newspapers have said is on the lam definitely has a touch of magic to it." The young apprentice also learns that "I had caught on with the great Dutch Schultz in his decline of empire, he was losing control." The mobster's legal problems are mounting, his bribe money is no longer good in New York City, and gentlemen competitors of Italian ancestry -- Schultz calls them "dago scungili" -- are moving in on his operations. Dreadful events threaten; all of them occur, and then some...