Word: localism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal courtroom in Manhattan where he was tried on 44 counts of accepting illegal payoffs, evading income taxes and racketeering. Last week, after deliberating for five days, the jury found Scotto guilty on 33 of the charges. Convicted with him was Anthony Anastasio, executive vice president of Local...
...trial also produced evidence that Scotto, who is paid a salary of $120,000 a year by Local 1814, operated in a style far removed from the grimy docks. Montella testified, for example, that he had built Scotto a swimming pool cabana for free at his Catskills summer home. Scotto answered that he had paid $10,200 for this work but that he had paid in cash. Scotto also acknowledged that he acquired a 13% interest in a multimillion-dollar East Side apartment building for only $26. He dealt mainly in cash, he said, to thwart the continuous harassment...
...general, the law permits payoffs to customs officers or other local officials to enable routine business to be conducted smoothly. But bribes to obtain new business deals are illegal. Because distinguishing between the two kinds of bribery is difficult, the department will urge firms to submit details of a questionable transaction to Government lawyers for analysis. The Justice Department promises that the information will be kept secret and that businessmen will receive the department's probable "enforcement action" within 60 days...
Some Rhodesian economists estimate that about $2 billion could flow into the country within 13 months after the final lifting of sanctions. Local whites are now talking less of emigrating and more of enjoying the benefits of the anticipated economic boom. They are raising the prices of their elegant colonial houses once again after a prolonged slump. One example: a $50,000 house in the Salisbury suburb of Highlands, whose value had dropped to $30,000 within the past year, is now selling for $60,000. But some whites take a dimmer view of the future. Says a Salisbury businessman...
...would create an Energy Mobilization Board, which would be able to bulldoze through bureaucratic red tape, legal roadblocks and laws, like the Clean Air Act, that now delay refineries, pipelines and other energy projects. The board would have the power to make some decisions for federal, state or local agencies that were delaying needed developments. The House-passed bill goes further than Carter proposed and gives the board power even to overturn federal laws, although state and local ones remain outside its domain, Arizona Democrat Morris Udall and other Capitol Hill environmentalists feared that the new agency might repeal...