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West Virginia (7): With kickback and tax-evasion scandals erupting in the Democratic state administration, Nixon holds a slim lead...
...bottom of a washed soup bowl, but the Lindsay Administration was murky with implications of corruption. In the first major scandal to besmirch Lindsay's two-year-old (out of four) administration, Marcus was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of accepting a $16,000 kickback on the $835,669.39 reservoir cleaning contract...
...number of times with Tony Ducks and Bakery Union Official Daniel J. Motto, 57, who has close connections with politicians and the Mafia. These two men apparently advised Marcus to award the "emergency" reservoir-cleaning contract to S. T. Grand, and both served as negotiators with Grand. The kickback-5% of the total contract fee-was divided as follows: Marcus, $16,000; Itkin, Motto and Corallo, $8,000 each. Grand President Fried got the contract-payment enough. Corallo also got what he doubt less hoped would be a continuing grip on a high city official...
...admani (income from above). Every Oriental language has its own phrase for corruption-and in every tongue the words are unpleasantly familiar. All around the rim of mainland China, many Asian nations are making notable progress, but the greatest obstacle remains the furtive hand in the till, the kickback artist, the bagman, the specialist in "squeeze." Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, who has more than his share of corruption to bog him down at home, is convinced that "we must change a whole way of life. We must do it or fail to survive...
Operating behind front men, UDBA owned several ocean-going cargo ships, and engineered its own trade deals with foreign merchants. UDBA also maneuvered managers into top positions in state-owned industries and then demanded a kickback from their salaries...