Word: raked
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Murder, kidnaping, hired guns, fraud, embezzlement, rake-offs, power struggles-sounds like gangland crime, Chicago-style. But according to accounts of a current union scandal, those are also the standard ingredients of the oil business, Mexican-style. The sordid revelations are the latest, and most titillating, evidence of the widespread corruption that flourished under President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado's predecessor, José López Portillo. Last week Senator Ramón Martínez Martín, a former leader of the teachers' union, called for a complete investigation of the allegations of wrongdoing...
...Socialist government holds that he machines are a source of endless trouble. Officials say gangsters supply most of the slots to bar owners and then rake off half of the take. Interior Minister Gaston Defferre, who first proposed the ban, alls the machines "the milk cow of the underworld...
...while PPD personnel director Donald Lawton says the fee charge is assessed as a "standard practice" to any group wishing to obtain police records, the Rake charges stonewalling...
...They are hiding information because they want to obstruct the public's right to know because they don't want to have to operate under the rules that are set," says Rake member Liz Moore (Brown...
...Rake first requested the brutality records in 1950. --The Brown Daily Herald