Word: bribing
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...apparently found that many of the consultants bought inside information from former cronies who still hold Pentagon procurement jobs. Then they sold their secrets to defense contractors at higher prices. Relative to ( the value of the contracts, the cost to the firms was minuscule. "A few bucks for a bribe can mean millions to companies," explained South Carolina Congressman John Spratt, who sits on the House Armed Services Committee...
Next we appeared in a steaming jungle. "The defense contractor then gives your dollar to the leader of a banana republic, as part of a bribe to get him to buy the contractor's armored personnel carriers. The president of the banana republic then gives the dollar as part of a kickback to the local drug king, who gives it to help pay a drug courier, who spends it to buy a Coke when it gets to the United States. But the cashier drops it on the street and you find it." By now we were back in my room...
...Attorney General Edwin Meese told it last week, just "ten words" are the source of the "cascade of misinformation, false headlines, half-truths, innuendo and misunderstanding" about whether he ignored an associate's proposal to bribe Israeli officials. The words, he said, are part of a long document sent to him in 1985 by his former California attorney, E. Robert Wallach, concerning a proposed Iraqi oil pipeline. In a statement to the press, Meese declared that he cannot recall having read the words at the time. But they do not, he said, mention any "bribes or payoffs" to guarantee that...
...reports surfaced last week that such a note had been sent to Edwin Meese in 1985, shortly after he became the nation's top law enforcement officer. The suggestion allegedly came from E. Robert Wallach, a Meese friend and his former personal attorney. The purported proposal: that a bribe be paid to an Israeli official, perhaps Prime Minister Shimon Peres or his Labor Party, to ensure that Israel would not sabotage a proposed pipeline that would carry Iraqi oil through Jordan to the Red Sea, bypassing the perilous Persian Gulf...
Israel denied that any payments were offered to government officials or political parties. Peres, who is now Foreign Minister, called the proposed bribe "nothing but a fantasy. Meese's lawyer, perhaps, wanted to put the money in his own pocket and made up this story...