These officers thus drew a line not between honesty and corruption but between "honest" graft (cash from shopkeepers for overlooking violations) and "dishonest" graft (extortion or protection money).
Every time a character is seen wearing a badge emblazoned with the letters P.R.I. -- the Spanish initials for the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which ruled Mexico then and rules it still -- he may as well be sporting a license to engage in graft, extortion or worse.
Instead it got a mayor looking to cash in on his office through graft, extortion and self-dealing".
Instead it got a mayor looking to cash in on his office through graft, extortion and self-dealing," the memo recommending Kilpatrick's sentence read.
Corruption in this study is defined as the misuse or the abuse of public office for private gain and it is reflected in various forms and a wide array of illicit behaviour, including bribery, extortion, fraud, nepotism, graft, speed money, pilferage, theft, misappropriation, falsification of records, kickbacks, influence peddling, and campaign contributions.
The leaders of the two top political parties, Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, and Sheik Hasina Wazed of the Awami League, are in custody on various graft and extortion charges.
The images, and ensuing accusations of graft and extortion, made him a much-mocked exhibit in the newly appointed Communist Party leadership's efforts to persuade citizens that it was stamping out official graft and depravity, which have stoked deepening public ire.
… This does not include the additional elements of violence, corruption, graft, or extortion necessary to be considered organized crime".
Organized Crime Members (Members): "Organized crime groups are a specialized subset of criminal enterprises that maintain their position through the use of actual or threatened violence, corrupt public officials, graft, or extortion.
Organized Crime: "…any group having some manner of a formalized structure and whose primary objective is to obtain money through illegal activities" and "maintain[s] their position through the use of actual or threatened violence, corrupt public officials, graft, or extortion".
Wave upon wave of legislation, governmental fiat, and clerical fanaticism, bigotry, graft, and extortion, which are fast turning Israel into the only former democracy in the Middle East.
