They stripped a combined $1.5 billion from the M.T.A. by repeatedly diverting tax revenues earmarked for the subways and also by demanding large payments for financial advice, I.T. help and other services that transit leaders say the authority could have done without.
The historic breakthrough won him the Nobel Peace Prize that year, although the achievement was sullied by the revelation that his government had in effect bought the summit by making large payments to North Korea.
This game, however, came to a close when Bharara shut down Full Tilt's U.S. operations last year, exposing a large financial shortfall that Bharara claims was exacerbated by the large payments the company continued to make to its owners even after Full Tilt could no longer access the financial system.
For Adelson, the real close-to-home issue isn't in the Middle East; it's in the Far East -- and in Washington, D.C. Federal investigators are examining whether Adelson's company violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by offering large payments to officials in Macau, where it has a major casino operation.
Senate records of Riggs accounts show large payments by American oil companies into accounts of Equatorial Guinean officials and their relatives, sometimes in increments as high as $250,000.
These results, released today by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, are part of an examination of NIH ethics rules begun in late 2003 following media reports of large payments by drug and biotech companies to some NIH employees.
For example, 34-year-old French photographer Jonathan Alpeyrie had his release secured last month by a large payment from a Syrian businessman.
"It would be even more of an incentive," he continued, "for closely held companies whose owners will be directly affected" by large dividend payments, adding that there could be a flood of such dividends declared after a Kerry victory if there appeared to be a good chance that the tax law would be changed.
"Will Mikelann be financially harmed next year by large car payments?" Yes or no.
He wants to generate revenue by seeking larger payments in lieu of taxes from local nonprofit institutions, like Boston College, and curtailing the cost of health benefits for city employees and retirees, which he said were growing by 11percentt annually.
