Word: collections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Middle East, no one rates higher than Adnan Khashoggi, a fabulously wealthy Saudi Arabian who jets about his business in a plushly furnished private Boeing 727. He has at one time or another represented, among others, Lockheed, Northrop, Raytheon and Chrysler. As Northrop's agent, he stands to collect a fee of $45 million for a single deal to sell fighter planes to Saudi Arabia. Northrop once reported that it had given $450,000 to Khashoggi to pass on to two Saudi air force generals; Khashoggi says he pocketed the money to "punish" Northrop for thinking it could bribe...
...citizens' watchdog agency, the subcommittee last December set up a clinic near ghetto areas on the city's North Side. To all appearances, the operation was indistinguishable from other "Medicaid mills" that have been hastily assembled to provide treatment for Chicago's poor and to collect payments from the federal and state governments. Posing as a doctor's representative and his assistant, the investigators sent out word to major medical laboratories that they were opening a business. With feverish haste, 13 labs approached the clinic, eleven with lucrative offers. If the doctor referred patients to them...
...clinic owners, many of them nonphysicians. The favorite ploy was to disguise the kickbacks as rent; that is, the clinic owners would sublease their office space to the labs-which often did not use it. The more patients the doctor sent to the labs, the more rent he would collect. One lab representative told a disguised investigator: "If the volume goes up ten times, rent could go up ten times." A clinic could collect $1,000 a month by renting a cubbyhole containing only a chair. TIME Correspondent Richard Woodbury visited a physician who paid $300 a month rent...
...trail from kidnap to capture. Says Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, who is helping with the Hearst legal strategy: "Bailey is virtually the only criminal lawyer I've met who has mastered the art of pretrial investigation." Once an investigator himself, Bailey has his team visit witnesses, get photographs, collect documents, visit locales of key events?all so they can "stuff my head with enough facts for when the action starts...
Supporting Strength. There is no such danger; the system is exactly as sound as the U.S. Government itself. Its ability to keep the benefit checks flowing rests not on the amount of money in the trust fund, but on the Government's unquestioned power to collect taxes-and on Social Security's overwhelming political support among the people who pay those taxes. The system does need more money, from somewhere. But no lucid analysis of its requirements is possible so long as the idea that Social Security is insurance, rather than a federal tax, dominates debate...