Word: illicit
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Hoover's presidential snooping included efforts to pin an illicit liaison on Eleanor Roosevelt and culminated, most famously, with eavesdropping on J.F.K. frolicking with Mafia moll Judith Campbell and Marilyn Monroe...
From the early 1980s on, the Justice Department received hundreds of tips and complaints about the criminal dealings of this multinational bank, but apparently took no action because it knew B.C.C.I. had strong links to CIA covert operations and to the illicit transfer of funds for the Nicaraguan contras and arms purchases for Iran. The Justice Department investigation of the criminal banking empire was so dilatory that Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's own probe went far beyond the federal effort...
...drugs, I thought. Then what the hell are you doing here? Isn't alcohol a drug? Hasn't it wrecked more families in more ways than any other drug? Doesn't it kill more Americans every year than all of the illicit drugs combined...
...TIMING COULD NOT HAVE BEEN WORSE FOR THE Bush campaign. The Senate Intelligence Committee is burrowing into the possibility that the CIA and the Justice Department collaborated to mislead prosecutors looking into the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro's illicit loans to Iraq. Blaming an "honest mistake," CIA officials have conceded responsibility for a Sept. 17 letter that failed to advise prosecutors and a federal judge that the agency possessed a cache of classified cables relating to the case. Late last week, according to the New York Times and the Washington Post, CIA officials testified in closed hearings that a senior...
...diamond rush may be a dream come true for the garimpeiros, but it has turned into a nightmare for De Beers. The South African group, through its London-based cartel, the Central Selling Organization, controls 80% of the world's rough-diamond trade. In the past 17 months, largely illicit diamonds from Angola and elsewhere have been flooding the market, threatening to provoke a price collapse and forcing De Beers to spend so far upwards of $200 million to keep the gems out of circulation by buying them...