Word: bribing
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...order, but only to comply with two recent appeals court rulings requiring that action. Hastings also offered a parade of 50 witnesses, including three judges who testified to his integrity. Borders, concluded the defense, was simply engaged in the time-honored legal scam of "rainmaking," in which bribe money is smoothly returned if the judge fails to do what the con man guessed he would...
...Dorfman was convicted of accepting a kickback of $55,000 on a pension-fund loan and served nine months in jail. Last December, as a result of an FBI probe dubbed "Operation Pendorf' (for penetrate Dorfman), he and Teamsters President Roy Williams were convicted of conspiring to bribe former Democratic Senator Howard Cannon of Nevada in return for his putative help in blocking a trucking deregulation bill. Scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 10, Dorfman, 60, faced up to 55 years in prison...
...bill. Such members are only happy to receive a check in exchange for a vote that won't hurt their chances for reelection. In the words of Sen. Russell Long (D-La.): "When you talking in terms of large campaign contributions...the distinction between a campaign contribution and a bribe is almost hair's difference...
When Roy L. Williams, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, was convicted last week in Chicago's U.S. District Court of conspiring to bribe Senator Howard W. Cannon of Nevada, he was not exactly breaking with Teamster tradition. In 1957 the union's president, David Beck, was found guilty of embezzlement, larceny and income tax evasion. Beck's successor, Jimmy Hoffa, got 13 years in 1964 for jury tampering, fraud and conspiracy. Williams, 67, had thrice before escaped federal conviction. Said Chief Government Prosecutor Douglas R. Roller after the verdict, "The message of the jury...
...fair chance" to bid on the land, and said the Jan. 10 meeting was arranged simply to lobby the Senator. Cannon, who lost a bid for a fifth Senate term in November and was not charged in the case, testified he had neither been offered nor had accepted a bribe. The mostly blue-collar jury of six men and six women deliberated 27 hours over four days before reaching a unanimous guilty verdict...