Word: ill-gotten
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...Waste Your Breath" [DIVIDING LINE, April 2], we need to take care of a previous debt. Native Americans had an entire hemisphere stolen from them, and they suffered under a virtual "open hunting season" from the time Columbus appeared on the horizon. To repay Native Americans for our ill-gotten gains would mean we would have to give them--well, everything. JIM OSBORNE Indianapolis...
...Russian thieves have been siphoning billions abroad in order to enjoy civilized life far from their plundered country. But what can they do with their foreign villas and bank accounts if they lose access? Might their nevyezdnoi status compel them to reinvest their ill-gotten gains in their own national economy? A major oligarch is said to be looking into the development of ski resorts in the Caucasus Mountains. Might the lure of potential profits force Russian tycoons to pacify Chechnya more effectively-and less barbarously-than the government has been trying to? Will they, indeed, find ways to make...
...troubles are expanding into the legal sphere: Saturday, five Holocaust survivors filed a class action suit against the company, demanding that IBM open its archives and pay for any "ill-gotten gains... from its conduct during World War II." Lawyers for the plaintiffs estimate those gains to be about $10 million in 1940 dollars, or roughly $120 million today...
...then ran the crude through a series of complex transactions that obscured its origin before selling it back to a Rich subsidiary at a markup as high as 400%. Much of the profit went to a Rich company in Switzerland, which paid no U.S. taxes on the allegedly ill-gotten gains...
...just 48 hours removed from celebrating what had seemed like a crucial victory in his impeachment trial. By a vote of 11 Senators to 10, he had managed to suppress the opening of an envelope containing the potentially damaging evidence that Estrada controlled bank accounts containing 3.3 billion ill-gotten pesos ($71 million). Briefly, it looked as if Estrada had, through pluck, political muscle and presidential power, survived the impeachment ordeal and won the opportunity to serve out his term. But by the time the military men called on him three days later, the 63-year-old ex-actor would...