Word: kickbacker
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...Dorfman was convicted of accepting a kickback of $55,000 on a pension-fund loan and served nine months in jail. Last December, as a result of an FBI probe dubbed "Operation Pendorf' (for penetrate Dorfman), he and Teamsters President Roy Williams were convicted of conspiring to bribe former Democratic Senator Howard Cannon of Nevada in return for his putative help in blocking a trucking deregulation bill. Scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 10, Dorfman, 60, faced up to 55 years in prison...
Obeying a court order to return kickback money he had accepted for lucrative state contracts while Governor of Maryland, former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, 64, paid up last week. The check was made out to the state for $268,482 (the $142,500 he pocketed plus interest). Said the ex-Veep, now a foreign trade consultant, from his luxurious desert home in Rancho Mirage, Calif.: "This just doesn't seem to add up to the kind of justice the framers of the Constitution had in mind...
...first phase of Silverman's investigation, the elder Masselli provided evidence that, he claimed, showed a Schiavone official had arranged for Masselli to receive a $200,000 loan from the firm in return for a $20,000 kickback. But the special prosecutor did not find the evidence clear-cut, and the Schiavone official denied the charge. Masselli's son Nat also consented to telephone taps of his conversations with a Schiavone lawyer. Silverman told TIME: "Those conversations, although they may have been illadvised, were not criminal...
...wiretaps also show that Masselli claimed he got an interest-free $200,000 loan from Schiavone. The check, according to the Silverman report, was cosigned by Donovan. Masselli complained that he had to pay $20,000 to Schiavone as a kickback to get the loan. An FBI report showed that Schiavone officials contend this accusation was an attempt by Masselli to extort money from the company...
Agnew's most serious legal problems had seemed at an end in 1973, when he agreed to resign the vice presidency and pay a $10,000 fine on pleading no contest to tax evasion charges. The unpaid taxes were traced to his failure to report as income the kickbacks that he supposedly received between 1967 and 1972 for the awarding of certain engineering contracts. But as part of the 1973 agreement, the Justice Department refrained from forcing him to admit any guilt in the alleged kickback scheme. Ever since 1976, however, Agnew has been fighting off a suit brought...