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...fact, has become the chief corridor for narcotics entering the U.S. now that Mexico has replaced Turkey as the leading source of heroin. The mobsters have gone unmolested, says the report, because "until recently the prosecutorial system has been marked by incompetence, fuzzy or nonexistent law and brazen bribe taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Putting Heat on the Sunbelt Mafia | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

...second development is ongoing and seems almost to be contagious. All shades of opinion on Dukakis concede one point: he has impeccable integrity. He is probably the last politician in the state who could be accused of taking a bribe or tolerating a conflict of interest. Last August, State Sens. Ronald C. MacKenzie, the assistant minority leader, and Joseph J.C. DiCarlo, the Senate whip and Harrington's appointed heir, were indicted for extortion. Ways and Means Chairman Kelly was named an unindicted co-conspirator but cleared by the trial's judge. Other officials were implicated. Whatever the jury's findings...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: Duke and the Drivers | 2/18/1977 | See Source »

...operatives, including an estimated one third of the personnel of the South Korean embassy in Washington. We have only lately been told, though our government has known it since 1973, that large sums of money are distributed by Korean operatives in this country to subvert and bribe members of Congress (New York Times...

Author: By George Wald, | Title: The Sins of President Park's Police State | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...seven weeks after Rabin appointed him to the job that is roughly equivalent to Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Yadlin was arrested for fraud and bribery, and is currently awaiting trial. The most serious charge against him is that three years ago he allegedly accepted a $30,000 bribe in return for an engineering contract; at that time he was head of the nation's largest medical-insurance organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Other Scandals: All in the Family | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...Yitzhak Rubin, 40, a middle-level Defense Ministry official, was sentenced to a two-year prison term for accepting bribes from businessmen dealing with the ministry. Four lesser employees received one-or two-year sentences on the same charges. Three of the bribe-givers were also convicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Other Scandals: All in the Family | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

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