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Troops who earned just $100 a month bitterly resented having to bribe senior officers up to $300 for a promotion. Others complained of secondhand shoes and uniforms. At the same time, junior officers were cut out of the lucrative drug profits that commanders received from cocaine dealers, who in recent years have made Haiti a key transshipment point between South America...
...Representatives concluded that the behavior of one of those jurists, U.S. District Judge Alcee Hastings of Miami, was not good enough. By a lopsided vote of 413 to 3, the chamber approved 17 articles of impeachment against him. The main accusation: Hastings conspired to obtain a $150,000 bribe in exchange for granting leniency to two convicted racketeers. The House action puts Hastings, 51, in a very select circle. He becomes only the twelfth judge, and the first black, in U.S. history to be impeached. He is also the first judge to be subjected to the procedure after acquittal...
Hastings' problems stem from his longtime friendship with William Borders, a prominent Washington attorney, who was convicted in a separate trial in 1982. After learning from an informant that Borders claimed to be a conduit for bribes to Hastings, the FBI commissioned a retired agent to pose as one of two brothers convicted of racketeering in the judge's courtroom. The impersonator struck a deal with Borders. In exchange for $150,000, Borders would get Hastings to reduce the brothers' punishment. Two meetings and a cryptic wiretapped phone conversation ensued between Hastings and Borders, followed by an order from...
...proposal to pay off Israel's Labor Party so that Israel would not sabotage the project. "If an illegal bribery scheme actually was afoot, Mr. Meese's actions would have furthered the scheme," said McKay. But some participants refused to be questioned, and there was insufficient evidence that a bribe plot existed. Thus McKay did not charge Meese with aiding...
...independent counsel examined the transactions in trying to determine whether Meese had accepted a bribe or a gratuity. But he concluded, "There is no direct evidence that Mr. Meese accepted anything of value from Mr. Wallach with the requisite state of mind for a gratuities violation...