Word: kickback
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Repeated bribery, corruption and kickback scandals have soured Italians on authority in general and politicians in particular. Suspected affiliation with the Mob, once dismissed as unprovable, has increasingly become a political kiss of death. Italian authorities believe that the Mob, with less of its money coming from state funds, will now be forced to turn to higher-risk crime...
...thousands are putting on shirts -- black ones -- to demonstrate their disgust with a Collor regime that is haunted by scandal and economic failure. An inflation rate of 20% a month and record unemployment had already eroded support for the once popular Collor even before congressional investigators recently uncovered a kickback and bid-rigging racket engineered by top presidential aides. The embattled President made the mistake of asking followers to dress in green and yellow, the national colors, to show support. Instead, thousands of demonstrators draped themselves in black and paraded through major cities chanting, "Collor out!" The demonstrations persuaded many...
...understand your concerns with the council's $20 allocation to bring the Spin Doctors to Harvard Square, but I can assure you that there was no grand conspiracy to give a kickback to one of our own members. The $20 was granted to a UC-sponsored event, approved by the full council at our public meeting on February 2. This resolution was treated as any other, with the Executive Board having no role whatsoever in its passage...
...committed daily in labs, hospitals and doctors' offices to inflate the costs of care, often under the guise of doing patients a favor by circumventing cumbersome insurance regulations. Some doctors and dentists give patients inflated bills in exchange for slightly higher than normal fees. The patient collects his own kickback in the form of a bigger insurance refund. Some hospitals and doctors bill for treatment they did not provide. In a survey of Aetna Life & Casualty customers, 4 out of 10 consumers said their doctors had cheated insurance companies...
...United Nations in Geneva, and Saddam's son-in-law Hussein Kamel, Iraq's Minister for Oil and Industry. Probers say the conspirators siphoned off 5% of the $200 billion that Iraq accumulated in oil revenues during the past decade. The group also reportedly demanded a 2.5% kickback from Japanese firms that did business in Iraq, and even skimmed off money from contracts between the Baghdad government and Saddam's own front companies...