Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...corrupt bank pleads guilty and forfeits $550 million...
...been incomplete without a case of acne or a subscription to Mad magazine. This bright chronicle explains why the latter, at least, is true. While Alfred E. ("What -- Me Worry?") Neuman has watched two generations age, the sophomoric magazine has made the best of what its creator considered "a corrupt society...
While the surprising guilty plea last week settled many issues, it may have been only a curtain raiser for new disclosures on how the corrupt bank really operated...
...Salesman of 1967, Skinner attended law school at night and gave up his $50,000-a-year corporate job to be a $9,000-a- year prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office. He rose to U.S. Attorney, earning the nickname "Sam the Hammer" for his aggressive prosecution of corrupt officials in the state Democratic machine...
Talk about missing an opportunity. Almost three years before the collapse of the corrupt Bank of Credit & Commerce International, the Justice Department failed to pursue evidence that the institution was involved in a whole network of nefarious activities. That was the Senate testimony last week of Robert Mazur, a federal undercover agent who said prosecutors ignored "hundreds of leads" and failed to exploit 100,000 documents seized in a 1988 money- laundering crackdown on B.C.C.I.'s Florida branch. The investigation, in which five B.C.C.I. officers were arrested at a phony "bachelor party" for Mazur, led to prison sentences...