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...their pockets. Beyond that, Ciello -whose story is based on that of New York Detective Robert Leuci a decade ago-knows much, much more, mostly about who in law enforcement is on the take. By his own code, Ciello sees himself as honorable: he has never taken a bribe to let a criminal go free or betrayed his detective partners. But his sins of commission and omission nag at him, and when an insinuating investigator from what eventually becomes a special commission on police corruption begins working, on his guilts, he agrees to become an undercover operative. His only condition...
While the President fiddled, a number of his appointees diddled, in a truly baroque spree of systematic stealing. Attorney General Harry Daugherty was perhaps the most clever and rapacious. Daugherty shared a Washington house with one Jess Smith, a fellow Ohioan and a proven fixer and bribe taker. Smith granted favors and made promises that only the Attorney General could deliver, kept up to half a million dollars buried in a friend's backyard and walked around wearing a money belt filled with 75 $1,000 bills. When the jig was nearly up, Smith committed suicide. To thwart...
...union did so in a rousing voice vote of acclamation even though Williams, who has beaten prison despite three federal indictments, now faces a fourth. He is accused of attempting to bribe Nevada Senator Howard Cannon in 1979 to delay deregulation of the trucking industry...
...charges of embezzlement and records falsification, but was never convicted. In 1977 Williams was forced under Government pressure to resign as a trustee of the union's Central States Pension Fund, now worth $2.8 billion. Last week he was indicted again, this time on charges of trying to bribe Senator Howard Cannon of Nevada, ranking Democrat on the Commerce Committee...
...full disclosure was the sword to cut it, Congress between 1974 and 1977 created the Federal Election Commission, broadened the Freedom of Information Act and toughened the ethics and disclosure laws for federal appointees. Corporations were compelled to record and disclose anything that might be construed as a bribe. The FBI and CIA were restricted, especially with respect to wiretaps. The only move toward greater secrecy was a restriction on Government access to taxpayer records, because President Nixon had used IRS audits and prosecutions to punish dissent...