Word: corruptable
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CINEMA The Big City in new films: corrupt, corrosive, captivating...
Metal musicians play to the alienated fantasies of a mostly white, young and male audience by portraying themselves as disillusioned outsiders who have turned their backs on a corrupt civilization. Dressed like renegade bikers, they sing anthems to the rebellious and the wild, or wild at heart. Outrageous behavior is more than a pose for many of them, notably Skid Row's lead singer, Sebastian Bach (ne Bierk), whose on-the-road antics have included tearing up hotel rooms and striking a concert spectator with a bottle that he hurled into the audience...
With a flutter of contrition, House members voted 390-8 to shut down their private bank, which by this time had been dubbed B.C.C.I., the Bank of Corrupt Congressional Incumbents. Dozens of lawmakers came forward and admitted writing bad checks, offering up the occasional absentminded staffer as a sacrificial lamb. Refusing to release names of all the deadbeats, Foley referred the issue to the House ethics committee. But that move also invited derision at the idea of the ethically blind leading the ethically blind. It turns out at least some committee members, including the chairman, have been named...
None of these things is necessarily morally corrupt--but all of it involves bad judgment for a potential presidential candidate...
...institutions had a symbiotic relationship, according to sources inside B.C.C.I. The corrupt organization used Bank of America as an important resource in a global Ponzi scheme to collect deposits, funneling most of its cash in the U.S. into Bank of America accounts. At the same time, the flow of deposits helped prop up the struggling California bank during its hard times in the mid-1980s. "The B.C.C.I. headquarters money always flowed through Bank of America," says a former B.C.C.I. executive...