Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Federal Court next spring when he and 28 other alleged co-conspirators will go on trial for racketeering, drug-running, and terrorism. Contragate's "Secret Team" of Secord, Singlaub, Shackley, Rodriguez, Hakim, Owen and Clines et al. are joined with Calero as defendants charged under RICO, the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations...
...said the Christic Institute, a small,interfaith public interest law firm, is chargingthe 29 with violating the 1970 Racketeer Influenceand Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act, which wasdesigned to combat organized crime...
...will combat inflation with a greater supply of consumer goods to meet demand. It will be a balanced development that should result in a surplus of such exports as coal, oil, timber, tea and frozen seafoods. We are firing those not qualified, prosecuting those who abuse privilege and are corrupt. Our newly appointed younger managers will make decisions with brains in their heads, integrity in their hearts...
...early 1986, Aquino has survived five coups and rumors of countless others. She has endured confrontations with the left and the right, with Communist rebels and prickly colonels. She has moved too quickly for some Filipinos, too slowly for others, as she tries to undo two decades of corrupt rule by her predecessor, Ferdinand Marcos. But along the way she has captured the imagination of both her country and the world with her gentle words and indomitable spirit...
...apparently had no difficulty distributing $40,000 in bribes to various officials. Only one of the 106 payoffs proffered was rejected, and that was because the amount was deemed too paltry. Said U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani: "Compared to other states, New York is a much friendlier place to corrupt politicians, crooked businessmen and organized criminals...