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...Miki's response was to send police to raid 28 separate offices and homes in search of evidence of wrongdoing. No. 1 target was the home of Yoshio Kodama, the 65-year-old ultranationalist who was allegedly paid more than $7 million of the $12 million of payola handed out in Japan by Lockheed. Investigators from the national tax agency, Tokyo police and the Public Prosecutor's office struck at 9 a.m. While Kodama lay ashen-faced and ailing-he is recuperating from a stroke-the probers combed every room for potentially incriminating documents...
...permissive corporate attitude toward bribery loosens morals throughout the company; lower-echelon employees cannot be expected to operate ethically while the boss is setting an example of handing out payola. It is no coincidence that several of the companies caught paying off abroad are the same ones that broke the law at home to make political contributions out of corporate funds. The damage that corporate chicanery is doing to U.S. foreign relations, and to the reputation of the nation overseas, is painfully obvious...
...October 1973, Jacobsen went on, when the pair learned that Lilly had told the special prosecutor's office of the payola, they concocted a story that Jacobsen had offered the money to Connally for political candidates but that he had turned it down and the cash had remained in Jacobsen's safe-deposit box at an Austin bank. To make good their story, Jacobsen told the court, Connally gave him $10,000, handing it over in a cigar box. Jacobsen said that he then deposited the money in the Austin safe-deposit...
Surprisingly, drugola did not seem to be the central problem. Vestiges of the drug-oriented youth culture of the late '60s linger on in the rock world. But so far there is little likelihood of a scandal approaching the scope of the payola debacle of the '50s. A federal grand jury in Newark is investigating the matter, but is reported to be months away from any conclusions or possible indictments...
...Beach Boys are tenuous; really only a group of friends who, juiced, are wont to slobber through "ba-ba-ba-ba-barbara ann." I've always felt a little sorry for the Beach Boys, because it is their singular misfortune to represent rock at its nadir, the post-payola early sixties. I've also resented the fact that they managed to ride surf music, that most dubious of forms, to fame and fortune. They don't do that sort of thing any more. Brian Wilson can't hear well enough to sing, the whole band struggled with the Maharishi, there...