Word: kickback
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...entire heist may take less than an hour. Each load earns the hot oiler at least $900, minus whatever kickback the pumper demands. One energetic trucker has boasted of pocketing $50,000 in just six months of steady stealing...
That is the way all too much of the world's most important business is done these days. From the shrewdly sophisticated kickback schemes of the Middle East and Latin America, to the virtual Mafia-style and shakedowns of sub-Saharan Africa and Indonesia, the universal game of bribery in the pursuit of profit goes...
...Amato is chief of a huge patronage organization, To get a job as a lifeguard, a garbage collector, or a Long Island Railroad conductor in Nassau County one must be a registered Republican. A decade ago D'Amato was implicated in a scheme that required county employees to kickback 1 per cent of their salaries for the party. And just yesterday the Village Voice revealed that for years D'Amato's father had a no-show job on the Hampstead Town payroll...
...article discussing the fraud conviction of Congressman Charles C. Diggs (D., Mich.), which involved a staff salary kickback scheme [Dec. 4], Mayor Coleman Young of Detroit was quoted as saying, "I don't believe he [Diggs] did any thing dishonest, or anything that is not a common practice throughout the Congress." I must take issue with him on this...
...hand-picked successor. But Fitzsimmons had come to enjoy the power and perks and had no intention of stepping down. The mobsters, who had been flourishing during Fitzsimmons' genially relaxed reign-joining various regional Teamster bosses in lucrative loan sharking, pension-fund frauds, sweetheart contracts, management-union kickback deals and other rackets-did not want Hoffa back either. They feared that he would centralize power again and deal out a few racketeers who had rubbed him the wrong...