Word: kickback
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...Airways purchasing agent knew a good deal when he saw it. Offered some generous cash incentives for steering a few Pan Am orders to a Miami-based electronics supplier, he grabbed. Then his bosses became suspicious, arranged a legal wire tap and recorded him in the act of negotiating kickbacks. That is when the second good deal came along for the agent-a union-contract clause stipulating that an employee fired for cause must be notified within 30 days of committing the offense. Pan Am did not want to confront the employee until it had prepared an airtight case...
Some banks, too, have to cope with kickback artists on their own payrolls. At a federal hearing last week on a bankruptcy petition he has filed, Joel Kline, a Maryland land speculator, testified that he had paid $25,000 to a loan officer at New York City's Bankers Trust Corp. in exchange for securing lines of credit. The following day the bank revealed that last November it had asked an officer, Stephen Benjamin, to resign for dealings with Kline. The land speculator, who bribed a number of Maryland state officials while Spiro Agnew was Governor, reportedly gave testimony...
...case against Boyle, Sprague questioned more than 50 witnesses, including tobacco-chewing Kentucky pensioners who were entrusted with $500 checks for union services never performed, which they then returned to the union; they knew only that the money was part of an elaborate kickback scheme, not that it would be used for the murders. Sprague also placed on the stand FBI agents who had investigated the Dec. 31, 1969 killings. Each witness helped buttress Sprague's contention...
...County grand jury under the direction of State Attorney General Vern Miller, a Democrat himself. The indictments charged that Richard L. Malloy, Docking's former appointments secretary, and George R. (Dick) Docking, the Governor's brother and a prominent Kansas City attorney, had participated in a 1972 kickback deal. The architectural firm of Marshall & Brown-Sidorowicz was said to have received a fat $500,000 contract in return for handing over $30,000 to help cover Docking's television advertising expenses during his 1972 campaign...
...Veniste has acted as head of the task force. Self-confident to the point of being cocky, he graduated from Columbia Law School and then took an advanced degree in law at Northwestern University before becoming an Assistant U.S. Attorney in his native New York. He prosecuted several union kickback cases and also the perjury, bribery and conspiracy charges resulting in the conviction of Martin Sweig, onetime aide to former House Speaker John W. McCormack...