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...suddenly dashed to their corporate headquarters for an emergency board meeting. Then, at a hastily called news conference, the two executives resigned. That surprise gesture of contrition came less than a day after the Senate voted 92 to 5 to prohibit Toshiba and Kongsberg Vapenfabrikk, Norway's largest defense contractor, from selling any products in the U.S. for two to five years...
...glare of harsh headlines. But now even her friend New York City Mayor Ed Koch concedes that Myerson has % "fallen from grace." Her slide began earlier this year, when she stepped down from her post as the city's commissioner of cultural affairs after her boyfriend, Building Contractor Carl Capasso, was indicted on federal tax- evasion charges. Myerson hit bottom last week when Koch released classified details of an official investigation charging that she had improperly influenced Judge Hortense Gabel, who was handling Capasso's divorce case. The inquiry sharply criticized Myerson's decision to employ Gabel's daughter Sukhreet...
...dollars in contracts are being awarded free from the pressures of competitive bidding. Corruption has dogged the two primary federal set-aside programs: a Government-wide $3 billion effort run by the Small Business Administration, and the requirement that 10% of all highway funds ($1.2 billion) go to minority contractors. The most frequent problems are false-front companies, which are purportedly controlled by minorities but actually owned by whites. A federally funded 1986 study of highway set-aside programs in nine states by Abt Associates, a consulting firm, estimates that about 20% of minority contractors engage in fraudulent activities...
...federal funds to fraud. Two weeks ago, as U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova wound up a 17-month undercover probe into the awarding of city contracts, a subpoena was served on the mayor ordering him to hand over two pairs of alligator shoes supposedly given to him by a contractor. Investigators also disclosed that they are seeking evidence that former City Employee Karen Johnson, who went to prison for refusing to testify about allegations of drug use in the city government, had received hush money from two city contractors...
...auction artifact better symbolized the excesses of Bakkerdom than the air-conditioned doghouse that Tammy had built at their lakeside home. Among the 1,000 bargain-hunting fans on hand at Fort Mill was a California contractor who bought the doghouse for $4,500, and then donated it back to PTL so it could be resold for $600, this time to a Pennsylvania railroad worker. Other notable transactions: $27,000 for a restored 1927 Franklin automobile, $10,500 for a 25-ft. boat. So mountainous is the miscellany that a second auction will be held on July...