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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Health Care Condition: Critical | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Saddam Skim Billions? | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

...lucky firm would tell the others to bid above a certain figure. In exchange the other companies would get a share of subcontracting work, a direct kickback or first dibs on future contracts. If the firms could not agree, they would call in an officer of the association to mediate. Unfortunately for them, this officer turned out to be the Navy informant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Penetrating The World of Dango | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

CLOSE to nothing can stop Nassau County Republicans. Several years ago Nassau's own Boss Tweed, Joseph Margiotta, was convicted and sent to jail. It didn't stop the Republicans. A federal judge recently found that, for years, the party had been forcing government workers to "kickback" 1 percent of their wages to the party. The Republicans have to pay damages, but that hasn't stopped them from completely dominating local government...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Fear and Loathing on Long Island | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

...case did not seem to add up to a big-league corporate scandal. For more than three years, the IRS and the FBI investigated kickback schemes at Gulf Power, an electric utility based in Pensacola, Fla., and all they produced were the convictions of two former managers. But last month the affair took a sudden, dramatic turn. Moments after taking off from Pensacola, a company plane caught fire and crashed, killing its two-man crew and the only passenger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fatal Subtraction | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

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