Word: elfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to Nike, Columbia/HCA and Occidental Petroleum, Harvard invests in Elf Aquitaine, TRW, Tyson Foods and American Electric Power, companies which the Multinational Monitor alleges are involved in improprieties including bribery, international coups or maintaining substandard working conditions...
...fifth highest-ranking official. But that charmed life seemed on the verge of imploding last week when two French judges drove to his sumptuous home near Bordeaux and formally placed the 75-year-old Dumas under investigation for corruption in connection with a wide-ranging probe of France's Elf Aquitaine oil company...
Dumas, if eventually found guilty, will have been brought down by his two lifelong passions: money and women. The trail that led investigators to his doorstep began with a femme fatale, Christine Deviers-Joncour, 51, a sultry, high-living brunet who sluiced millions out of Elf's coffers to buy a palatial Paris apartment, designer clothes, fancy restaurant meals, exotic vacations--and a $2,000 pair of handmade boots for her protector Roland Dumas. Whether Deviers-Joncour and Elf were also the source of the millions of dollars that Dumas deposited in his personal bank accounts from...
Dumas's troubles started a year ago when Paris-based judges Eva Joly and Laurence Vichnievsky began looking into the exorbitant commissions paid by Elf in conjunction with the $2.7 billion sale of six French frigates to Taiwan in 1991. Elf, then state owned, had no official involvement in the sale of the vessels. But an investigation into complaints of unjustified commissions soon led to Elf lobbyist Deviers-Joncour, who admitted that the oil company had paid her some $10 million to promote the sale. Her mission was to persuade Dumas to reverse his opposition to the deal...
...claims were potentially devastating for Dumas, who had allegedly intervened to get her a $120,000-a-year sinecure at Elf in 1989 and had taken her along with him on numerous official, and unofficial, trips abroad. It did not help matters that Dumas had also allowed his lady friend to wine and dine him--and buy him the now infamous hand-made boots--on an Elf credit card that she used to the tune of $40,000 a month...