Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tarry too long in Sugar Loaf's shadow. To see the world of frontier adventure you must go inland to the heart of South America, the Amazon basin. There, in a climate only somewhat wetter than Dodge City, is the familiar world of shootouts, corrupt lawmen and hardy pioneers...
...Federal Bureau of Investigation code-named it Operation Corkscrew: a four-year, $750,000 Government scam designed to ensnare what were believed to be corrupt judges in the Cleveland Municipal Court. An undercover agent, posing as a car thief, hired Court Bailiff Marvin Bray to offer bribes to judges in exchange for fixing cases. It seemed an effective "sting" when in 1981 six judges were about to be indicted. But it was the FBI that was getting stung. Some of the judges brought to meetings with the undercover agent were impostors, and Bray himself was pocketing the bribe money, totaling...
...Bechtel Power, a subsidiary, funneled an estimated $72,000 in cash and duty-free golf clubs and appliances to key South Korean officials in order to help win four nuclear-power-plant contracts worth more than $400 million. If that is true, the payments violate the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits U.S. businessmen from making payments to foreign officials in order to win contracts. Moreover, the articles say that Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Bechtel's general counsel at the time, and Secretary of State George Shultz, then Bechtel's vice chairman, were in a position...
Charboneau has made sure that Washington knows about the case. After being fired from Bechtel following a disagreement with Cho in November 1980, he suggested to IRS agents that Cho may have underreported his income and possibly violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. IRS investigators subsequently found that in 1979 Cho had not reported at least $34,000 in consultant's fees and had $146,000 in insufficiently documented business expenses. Cho, through his attorney, has said that he can account for all his income and expenses and has denied that he made any improper gifts or payments...
...Bechtel case nonetheless puts the Reagan Administration in an awkward position. Since it took power, it has been trying to weaken the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which was passed in the wake of the scandal concerning Lockheed's alleged payments to top government officials around the world. The Administration has argued that the law, which states that a corporation is guilty if it has "reason to know" that its agents are making illegal payments, is too vague...