Word: middlemen
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...American public," said one of his aides. "The only difference is that he feels personally accountable for those 52 lives." Indeed, since his defeat in the November election, Carter has devoted much of his time to the technical details of the negotiations with Iran through Algerian middlemen. He had hoped that he might yet succeed in freeing the Americans and give his presidency something of an upbeat finale. Explained the aide: "This happened on our watch, and we all would have liked to write an end to it on our watch...
During the course of Abscam, the FBI handed out more than $400,000 in bribes to Congressmen and various middlemen. Now the Government is planning to file suits to get the money back. To recover the sums under federal bribery law, the Government can only sue people who have been convicted of taking bribes. So far, the prosecutors have won all four trials that have been completed. The two best-known defendants to be found guilty are Congressmen Michael ("Ozzie") Myers of Philadelphia and John Jenrette of South Carolina, both defeated in November's election. Myers was convicted...
...paid farmers small fees to let them hide 55-gal. drums on unused land, often by dark of night. Some haulers have pumped liquid wastes into tank trucks and driven down rural roads with the pet cocks open, releasing the chemicals into ditches. Some of the companies that paid middlemen or haulers to get rid of the refuse asked no questions about-and did not want to know-where the chemicals went...
According to the indictment, the Congressmen took $50,000 each in return for private immigration bills that would allow the Arabs to stay in the U.S. The FBI said the other three were middlemen who helped set up the deal. More indictments are expected, but convictions of two other Congressmen may be harder to obtain, since the chief informant, Criden, refuses to cooperate any longer unless he is given total immunity...
...gives them some political leverage over their customers. In the early 1970s the seven leading companies controlled some 80% of world oil trade, but they now have their hands on only about 40%. Says one U.S. energy official: "The shared objective of OPEC is clearto eliminate the middlemen...