Word: kickback
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...fell in love with it. It has the 'it' value," says Anne. That process of constant upgrading has helped make Spain rich - and kept cranes along the Mediterranean coast operating at sometimes reckless speed. Now the trade is slowing down, and there are warning signs of decay. An alleged kickback scheme has led to high-level arrests this year in Marbella, Spain's jet-set and botox capital. Authorities in the Valencia region have been challenged by foreign owners and the European Commission over a 12-year-old law that allows communities to reclassify already developed land and force owners...
...picture was emerging of fees and commissions paid to intermediaries - and then on to Baghdad's monster. When the dust began to settle after the invasion, a June 2003 memo from U.S. military Capt. Blake Puckett reported that every contract in the Oil-for-Food scheme contained a kickback to the regime of between 10-19%. As the Cole Inquiry is now hearing with disquieting regularity, key officials have very short memories; dfat's filing system is wretched; and, after writing to officials in March 2004 that he was worried, the Minister failed to crack the whip. Perhaps Downer wasn...
...Liberals have only themselves to blame for losing the upper hand. For the past two years, they have been dogged by revelations that a federal program was manipulated to create a Liberal-friendly slush fund and kickback scheme in the province of Quebec. A Nov. 1 report by a national commission exonerated Prime Minister Martin, but the scandal has left a lingering stench. "I'm tired of being screwed by the Liberals," says Gerry Gagné, 47, a lifelong Liberal supporter from Low, Que., in a now common refrain...
...impetuous Vargas, who is nicknamed "Loco," quickly found himself in a quarrel with the Defense Minister, General Luis Piñeiros Rivera, and the army chief, General Manuel Maria Albuja. Shots were heard inside the ministry. Piñeiros promptly fired Vargas, who in turn charged Piñeiros with accepting a kickback in the purchase of a plane for the national airline. Vargas also alleged that Albuja had diverted defense funds in order to build a private house...
Life looks simple from the 75th floor, but the Manhattan that sprawls below is a violent, festering jungle of corruption: "Nothing gets built in Gotham without a kickback," Kelly tells us. Briody is haunted by his past as a street fighter for the I.R.A., and he gets in even more trouble for hooking up with Grace, a beautiful bohemian artist who happens to be the kept woman of Johnny Farrell, a top-level Tammany Hall fixer, who in turn is worried about the rising power of the Italian gangsters, whose gift for sick violence freaks out even hardened...