Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Throughout the primary season, the Democratic contenders have railed against Brown's assertion that they are part of a corrupt system that is rigged in favor of "big-money interests." Yes, it's the stuff of stump speeches, but corporations, political action committees (PACs) and wealthy individuals do have an unparalleled impact on the way the public chooses its leaders...
...army of investigators probing the corrupt Bank of Credit & Commerce has known for months that the CIA kept some accounts in First American Bank, B.C.C.I.'s Washington arm. It turns out that the CIA and First American were a lot closer than that. Government investigators now have proof that First American had long been the CIA's principal banker. Some of the more than 50 agency accounts uncovered at the bank date back to the 1950s. B.C.C.I. owned the CIA's bank for a decade. But since Reagan CIA Director William Casey ran a vast back-door operation during...
...reacts to a busted marriage and a Florida income tax problem by turning to a trio of cliche badass pursuits: cross-country wandering (the show's sole set is a highway), crime (involving, naturally, suitcases of white powder) and moviemaking. Of these, Korder presents the cinema as the most corrupt; it takes an impromptu murder to get the antihero really launched as a mogul...
...story begins with the murder of the Captain-General of Bahia, a corrupt politician and the Governor's flunky. The Governor orders an investigation and detains suspects who are members of the aristocratic Ravasco family, his archrivals...
...Rhode Island know what it's like to live with a corrupt state government," says Robert Arelliano, head of Brown's effort in the state. "People are aware of the fears, [the] dangers of government...