Word: fixer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...payoffs, gave Donovan information about low bids on Government construction contracts, which he learned of through Government contacts, so that Donovan could underbid. At his confirmation hearings, Donovan three times denied ever meeting Briguglio, the victim of a Mob execution in 1978. Another FBI source said that a labor fixer, Jack McCarthy, worked for the Schiavone Co. McCarthy has been convicted of racketeering...
...fact, these distinguished titles all appear on some current list or other of banned books: Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, Bernard Malamud's The Fixer, J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Ralph Ellison's Invisible. Man, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, P.L Travers' Mary Poppins and The American Heritage Dictionary. Last week a collection of literary luminaries from PEN, the writers' association, dramatized their opposition...
While the President fiddled, a number of his appointees diddled, in a truly baroque spree of systematic stealing. Attorney General Harry Daugherty was perhaps the most clever and rapacious. Daugherty shared a Washington house with one Jess Smith, a fellow Ohioan and a proven fixer and bribe taker. Smith granted favors and made promises that only the Attorney General could deliver, kept up to half a million dollars buried in a friend's backyard and walked around wearing a money belt filled with 75 $1,000 bills. When the jig was nearly up, Smith committed suicide. To thwart...
...York State for alleged connections with the Mafia. Stewards for the New York Racing Association ruled that Campo had misrepresented the horse's ownership, and the trainer was suspended from racing for 30 days. Seven years later, Campo was subpoenaed by a Detroit grand jury when confessed Race Fixer Tony Ciulla named him as an associate. Campo said he sold Ciulla horses that were later used in fixed races in other states, but authorities were unable to prove that he was involved in any wrongdoing...
...Boston College basketball fixer. It was a day's pay, it was interesting and it gave me a nice feeling...