Word: kickback
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...When his wife was arrested for speeding in Pennsylvania recently, Amateur Lawyer Hamilton argued that the fine was illegal because the Justice of the Peace admitted he was getting a kickback in fees. "Who says it's illegal?" demanded the magistrate. "The U.S. Supreme Court? I knew it was one of those courts that has no jurisdiction up here in Pennsylvania. That...
...Bureau of Internal Revenue. Net annual income after taxes, or "keep-home pay, would increase under HRI from $1715 to $1772. The net effect for the $200-a-year man is therefore an income boost of slightly more than two and a half percent. As gross income rises, the kickback under HRI rises not only in absolute terms, but percentage-wise as well. At $5000 a year, the net gain in income would be somewhat less than four percent. At $10,000 it becomes almost six percent...
...Kickback. In Chicago, Leo Zientek, eviction bailiff for 20 years, received a court order to boot himself out of his own apartment...
...crooked dealing this year passed the 1,000 mark. (The figure might be even higher if 890 accused doctors now in uniform had not been excused from answering charges.) The suspensions were the result of a State drive against one of the nation's richest rackets: the "kickback" racket that has netted unscrupulous New York insurance men, lawyers, physicians and X-ray laboratories as much as $5,000,000 a year...
...racket works: an injured workman is told by a "steerer" (usually a lawyer or insurance man) which doctor to go to; the doctor then pads his fees to double the normal amount (or, more often, by prolonging treatment unnecessarily) and sends a kickback to the steerer. If the doctor refers the patient to a specialist or an X-ray laboratory, he gets a second piece of dirty money when the specialist or laboratory pads fees in turn and kicks some back...