Word: ill-gotten
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...Marcos has been barred from her native land by President Corazon Aquino's coup-plagued regime. But last week Manila lifted the ban so it could begin criminal prosecution of Marcos, who under Philippine law must be present at her trial. The aim: to recover $350 million in allegedly ill-gotten wealth now frozen in Swiss bank accounts...
According to Holmquist, the FBI has been overwhelmed by the size of the apparently ill-gotten collection. "It has taken until today to get those items into moving vans and out of the residence," he said...
...when the organization announced its plan to register all tusks as part of an ivory-control system, conservationists hoped the illegal trade would be curbed. But the deals that CITES officials struck with Singapore, Burundi and other nations, under which undocumented ivory could be registered, moved a mountain of ill-gotten ivory into the marketplace...
BOSTON--Massachusetts revenue officials, ever on the watch for a new tax source, are planning to expand their efforts at tapping the ill-gotten gains of drug dealers by levying the state sales tax on their illegal transactions...
...Chun on trial. The mounting pressure seems to have reached the ex-President. He is expected to go on television this week to apologize for the perfidy, which has already landed nine of his relatives in jail. In exchange for a pardon, Chun will reportedly return some of his ill-gotten gains to the government and retire to the country outside Seoul...