Word: bribes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...violations, he repaired problems and was paid by the mining company for the work. In February 1990 federal agents pressured Nelson to wear a concealed microphone during a conversation with Massey, in which the inspector asked for monthly payments. The following September he pleaded guilty to accepting a bribe...
...FAMILY had problems with their neighbors, it would let its dog walk all over the flower garden or blast music at 3 a.m. And if parents really wanted their children to be chosen for a team or get elected to an office, they would bake dozens of cookies to bribe the other students...
...into Soviet bloc countries. The East bloc trade was so lucrative that Abedi traveled to Moscow in 1985 to promote more weapons deals and to lobby for permission to open B.C.C.I. branch offices in the Soviet Union. Former employees have told TIME that B.C.C.I. associates found it easy to bribe arms-factory managers and officials within the Soviet Union because of low pay, but that perestroika had cut into B.C.C.I. profits there. Reason: some government officials who favored the bank because of payoffs had been removed from their positions...
...from arms transactions with Libyans and North Koreans to intelligence-sharing with the Cubans. But none of his former high-ranking officers say Noriega ever moved drugs or even formed a partnership with the Colombian drug lords. Former Major Felipe Camargo did confirm that Noriega received a multimillion-dollar bribe from Colombian drug lords in 1984 in exchange for safe haven in Panama. But Camargo also said the only bid by the general's men to get into the drug business in a major way was an unsuccessful attempt by Colonel Julian Melo to process cocaine at Darien in Panama...
ESSAY Michael Kinsley wants to bribe the U.S. to do the right thing...