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LeFevour became the fourth Chicago-area judge convicted as a result of a federal probe called Greylord. Last week was bad all over for the judiciary: in Mississippi, U.S. District Judge Walter L. Nixon Jr., charged with taking oil-well royalties as a bribe and with perjury, became the third sitting U.S. judge ever indicted for activity related to judicial duty...
Presser's immediate predecessor as Teamsters leader, Roy L. Williams, has not been as successful in eluding prosecution. Williams, who served as president of the union from 1981 to 1983, was convicted three years ago of attempting to bribe former Nevada Senator Howard Cannon in 1979 in return for the politician's help in opposing a trucking deregulation bill. Washington sources say that Presser was the Teamsters informant who first tipped the FBI to Williams' bribe offer. Last week Williams, 70, had his original prison sentence of 55 years reduced to ten years. He had pleaded for leniency because...
...what if you find yourself unwise, with no way out of the Yard late at night? If you bribe one of the security guards to let you out, maybe the phrase should read "To Depart, Serve Better Thy Country and Thy Kind." But this phrase would assume that the cop is your kind...
...instance, a lot of money was used to bribe some German technicians in order to acquire a (West German) Leopard tank. The question was how to get the engine to the U.S.S.R. The solution was for the Soviet consul in the area to buy a yacht and have its engine taken out and replaced with the Leopard's engine. The yacht then rendezvoused several miles out to sea with a Soviet merchant ship, to which the engine was transferred...
...Caro Quintero were angry with the agent over a police and army raid on a plantation in Chihuahua, owned by the two drug dealers, in which 8,000 tons of marijuana were burned. Fonseca added that the intention had been to question Camarena and offer him a bribe. He also claimed that he was too drunk to talk to Camarena until the next day, when Caro Quintero allegedly told him, "Well, see if you can still reach him, because he is no longer speaking." The agent, Fonseca explained, had been brutally beaten, but was still alive. "Now you have done...