Word: bribes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grand jury charged former housing-department aide Deborah Gore Dean with accepting a $4,000 bribe during her Reagan-era tenure at the beleaguered agency. The onetime bartender admitted there were some "bad apples" at hud but denied personal wrongdoing...
...Gotti's success with juries in the past, Gravano suggested that there may have been more to it than luck. The Bull claims to have personally handled a $60,000 bribe for one of the jurors who acquitted Gotti in 1987. The juror was charged last month with obstruction of justice in the alleged bribe-taking incident. At the present trial, jurors are identified only by number and are sequestered in an undisclosed location guarded by federal marshals. Even so, Judge I. Leo Glasser replaced two of them last week with alternates after they asked to be excused...
Chris D. Wanjeck--the only Harvard student to make the final round of comedy competition--lost in his bid to out-joke eight other local students, despite an attempt to bribe the judges with homemade brownies...
...P.D.F. tip led to the capture of the cartel's top money launderer, Ramon Milian Rodriguez, when he was in Florida to ship $5.5 million in drug proceeds to Panama. His arrest occurred at about the same time that the prosecution claims Noriega was accepting a $500,000 bribe from the cartel to protect money laundering in Panama...
...member of the OBKhSS showed him with his family in a beautiful Moscow apartment, decrying the terrible "profiteers" he has to bust every day. (Who would otherwise make about 100 rubles a month, enough to buy about 50 pounds of potatoes.) Nobody except government officials who can afford to bribe other government officials with money they've gotten from bribes of their own can afford to live in such apartments...