Word: corrupter
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...trial date has been set for Thieu. As for his brother, he's been questioned and released without being charged. Thieu's family insists that both are innocent. Meanwhile, some sympathizers wonder if Dong Nam is being targeted not because it was unusually corrupt but because its owners lost the support of patrons within the government who had previously looked away. After all, tax evasion is so pervasive in Vietnam, says Thai, that he's been called a "sucker" for bothering to pay them. In Thieu's neighborhood, people don't much care whether he's guilty...
...postponements and promises aren't enough, complains Ade Rostina, a spokeswoman for Voices of Mothers Who Care, especially after a recent executive decision that nixed criminal charges for bank owners who had fraudulently misused massive federal loans. "The President doesn't mind giving breaks to corrupt bankers. Why should we have to sacrifice so that they can get off? Megawati would prefer to side with the corrupters than?]with) the people...
CHILE Graft Scandal Grows Former Public Works Minister Carlos Cruz, a longtime friend of President Ricardo Lagos, was charged with bribe taking in a growing scandal that has undermined the image of the country as Latin America's least corrupt. Five current ruling-party lawmakers are also facing graft charges, but Lagos denied the scandal constituted a crisis for his center-left government...
...before today," Dell'Utri said, referring to previous closed-door depositions. "What mutual interests are going on here?" Should turncoat informants like Giuffrè be believed? Since changes in the law in the 1980s, Italian magistrates have used Mafia collaborators to convict hundreds of fellow mobsters and dozens of corrupt politicians. But the pool of credible turncoats has largely dried up. Antonio Ingroia, lead prosecutor against Dell'Utri, said the case is just the latest chapter in the Mob's storied links with elected officials. "Cosa Nostra is an organization that can't live without a close relationship with...
...host Sharon's Foreign Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, while granting an audience to Mitzna. But it also helped Sharon score a few tough-guy points in the days after the Tel Aviv bombings. Sharon would be looking at a landslide victory if his Likud Party hadn't tarnished itself with corruption scandals (see box), which have boosted the protest vote and offered opposition parties a chance to increase their seats in the Knesset. Polls show Green Leaf, whose platform calls for the legalization of marijuana and which got only 34,000 votes in the last election, netting at least two seats...