Word: pena
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With one out in the 11th, Karkovice lined a single to left and took second on Robin Ventura's single to center. Scott Fletcher popped out but Guillen pulled a low-outside pitch into right field and Karkovice just beat Kevin Romine's throw to catcher Tony Pena...
...dubious deals with M.D.C. Holdings, the state's largest home builder. Former employees of Silverado and M.D.C. have told TIME that the home builder made improper campaign contributions to local and national politicians. Among those donations were payments made to the 1987 re- election campaign of Denver Mayor Federico Pena in the hope of ensuring that key portions of a huge new $2.9 billion airport, then still on the drawing board, would be located on land owned by Silverado and M.D.C...
Most Denver residents welcome the 52-sq.-mi. project, not only to ease air- traffic congestion but also to provide an economic stimulant to a city that has been nearly paralyzed since the oil bust of the mid- 1980s. When Pena first ran for office in 1983, he opposed the new airport, advocating instead an expansion of Denver's Stapleton International Airport. But after he was elected, Pena became a supporter of the popular project. Throughout 1984, as Denver secretly negotiated with neighboring Adams County for a new site, M.D.C. and Silverado quietly began buying up farmland that would eventually...
Mizel met with Pena in 1986 to urge an accelerated time-table for the airport construction. Pena, citing a study forecasting the creation of 20,000 new jobs, announced a plan to move up the airport's opening date more than a year, to 1992. When Pena entered a tight race for re-election in 1987, M.D.C. was a principal backer...
Public records show that M.D.C. and its executives contributed $34,000 to his campaign. In fact, the company funneled additional thousands to Pena through back channels. To disguise the extent of its political influence, former employees say, M.D.C. coerced many of its building subcontractors into making contributions to Pena and then allowed them to recoup the money by submitting phony bills for construction work. Asked about these contributions, a Pena spokesman said, "We have absolutely no knowledge of this...