No one can say exactly how much the kickback scheme cost Petrobras itself — the prosecutors assume that if companies were willing to pay $2 billion in bribes, it had to be at least that much — but the broader losses to the country can be seen in places like Itaboraí.
Those lists take into account doctors' recommendations based on need, but the chief pharmacist and the hospital finance department make the final decision, based as much on kickbacks as on clinical judgment.
It has the flow and the lightness of touch that is the Lotus speciality, but its power steering has much more feedback – kickback even, over bumps – than is normal in expensive cars today.
Petrobras, Brazil's state-controlled oil company, is embroiled in a much bigger scandal involving kickbacks of perhaps $4 billion over the past decade.
Geneva officials say they suspect that Mr. Borodin took as much as $30 million in kickbacks for awarding lucrative contracts for elaborate renovations.
According to the complaint, Mr. Denault had worked as CityTime's program manager since 2003 and had perpetrated a kickback scheme for much of his involvement.
Halliburton cut off all ties with him in 2004 after he was accused of secretly enriching himself by as much as $5 million in the payment and kickback scheme.
The second part is what is called a 'sidecar' bill -- just some minor tweaks to the original bill, like stripping out the Cornhusker Kickback Republicans complain about so much.
The authorities say that he siphoned off more than $80m from the country after taking office in mid-1998, through kickbacks, bribes, misdirected taxes and much else.In this section A surfeit of pills in Thailand President or princess?
By Nate Raymond and Joseph Ax. NEW YORK, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Sheldon Silver, one of New York's most powerful politicians for two decades, was convicted on Monday of abusing his office to collect as much as $4 million in illegal bribes and kickbacks.
