On eBay, one buyer was willing to pay $140 in return for $170 worth of IOUs.
Victor Dahdaleh, 70, was found not guilty of paying more than £35m in bribes on behalf of Alcoa to former executives at Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) in return for contracts worth more than £2bn.
The Rt Revd Richard Chartres, Bishop of London, is to spend Easter on board a Swan Hellenic liner in the Med, giving lectures in return for £7,000 worth of tickets for him and his wife.
By December they had forced through enough spending cuts to secure a £1.9bn loan from the IMF (in return for £2bn worth of cuts) to tide Britain over and appease the markets.
At the peak of his trading with Alliance, Mr. Calugar may have traded more than $100 million in and out of Alliance mutual funds in return for $20 million worth of investments in the company's hedge funds, people briefed on the matter said.
Still, SL Green's rejection, Mr. Penson said, would only "highlight" — and this is his real motivation — a position that the public would be getting the short end of the deal if the city allowed SL Green to build such a tall tower in return for $210 million worth of work on Grand Central.
In return for cancelling $3.7 billion-worth of policies it wrote but was having difficulty honouring, XL will pay Merrill $500m.
In return for giving the judge thousands of dollars' worth of drinks, dinners, cigars and cash, Mr. Siminovsky has testified, he received appointments as law guardian as well as advice on winning cases he had before the judge.
In return for providing Ms. Fisher and Mr. Kerpen $3,000 worth of red roses for the ceremony, 1800flowers.com will receive advertising exposure like having its logo displayed on the ballpark's scoreboard and the tossing of 25 bouquets of miniature red roses to fans and wedding guests during the game.
In return for the state insuring 325 billion pounds' ($518 billion) worth of toxic assets, RBS has agreed to absorb the first 19.5 billion pounds' ($31.1 billion) worth of losses.
In return for their political contributions, Honeywell has received $13 billion dollars' worth of federal contracts, mainly defense contracts, over the last ten years.
