Word: kickbacker
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...government of the neighboring Dominican Republic paid the President $2 million a year to provide Haitian laborers for the annual sugarcane harvest. The first post-Duvalier government vowed to confiscate the dictator's fortune, but did nothing. It also promised to return the $2 million kickback received this year to Santo Domingo...
...named Georgian minister for maintenance of public order--head of the republic's police force. In this role he launched a crackdown on the freelance corruption that had plagued the region, although some in the Soviet Union say that he personally benefited from the well-organized kickback schemes, which remained intact. When he became Georgia's Communist Party first secretary in 1972, he was credited with revitalizing the region's economy and allowing a breath of fresh air for its cultural establishment...
...suit alleges that Baum maliciously told other Harvard employees that Johnson accepted a $100,000 kickback to award a building contract on the Med School's 'D Annex,' a Longwood Avenue office building...
...Veliotis left for Greece, stopping only to pack corporate documents and tape recordings of business conversations from his years as a General Dynamics executive. Most of the records have now been turned over to the Justice Department. Veliotis denies offering them to federal prosecutors in exchange for dropping the kickback charges, but no doubt he hopes his cooperation will improve chances for a future bargain. Another motive for releasing the records: a combination of personal revenge and belated remorse. "I was part of a team convinced that the way we did business was just fine," confesses Veliotis. "We were...
...investigations have produced such minor victories as the 1980 conviction of Joseph Bonanno for trying to thwart a grand jury investigation, the 1980 conviction of Crime Family Boss Frank Tieri for racketeering, and the 1981 conviction of New Orleans Crime Chief Carlos Marcello for conspiracy in a bribery and kickback scheme...