Word: ill-gotten
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...should bomb, bomb, bomb until the Serbs agree to give up all their ill-gotten territorial gains to save their life." TRUMAN HUNTER Oxford, Ohio IT'S ABOUT TIME THE WEST FINALLY acquired a conscience and used force in order to stop the Serb campaign of genocide in Bosnia [COVER STORIES, Sept. 11]. But the Serbs have every reason to believe that the resolve of the West will quickly dissipate. The only chance of bringing them to the bargaining table in earnest is for nato forces to continue air strikes until the Serbs have lost significant military assets. Only then...
...this week, but Clinton issued today's broadside after a top NRA official boasted of the letter's impact on contributions. "If the NRA's apology is sincere," Clinton said, "what they ought to do is put their money where their mouth is. They ought to give up the ill-gotten gains from the bogus fund-raising letter. . . . They ought to turn that money over to the organization that helps the families of police officers who died in the line of duty." Leaders of major law enforcement grous who were meeting with Clinton at the White House agreed with...
...Kansas City, Missouri, households receiving food stamps, one- third were found to be not entitled. Aid workers were forced to close down the program and later announced an amnesty to persuade impostors to turn in their ill-gotten stamps. Other abuses: a 600% price hike for towing mobile homes to higher ground; flood-damaged, though perfunctorily spruced-up autos pouring into used-car lots...
MILAN: Milanese magistrates have given Italian taxpayers cause to cheer: by pressuring detainees in the country's widespread corruption scandal to yield their ill-gotten gains, they have recovered $63 million so far, most of it from Swiss bank accounts. This amount is clearly just the beginning. Duilio Poggiolini, a former Health Ministry official, for example, is accused of having taken $125 million in gold and silver ingots, gold rubles from the Czarist era, Krugerrands, diamonds and ancient Roman coins. Poggiolini is in jail in Naples; under questioning, his wife referred to the stash as "the savings of a lifetime...
...from the U.S. and seven other nations coordinated an assault of unprecedented depth and scope on Cali's network of money managers and distributors. At week's end, more than 165 people had been arrested, including seven of the cartel's most important money launderers, seizing $50.3 million in ill-gotten assets and uncovering mountains of cartel financial records...