In the most serious kickback scheme, Mr. Lopez, 54, is accused of accepting $740,000 over a seven-year period in exchange for guaranteeing one company the contract to administer the union's benefits fund.
Unlike the usual sissy sister, your sister has a serious kickback to her; avoid tickle fights, it will escalate to serious torture, do this only if you are sure you can survive being blindfolded, hands tied behind your back while being mercilessly poked.
A missed kickback is a serious business.
He said the charges were "very serious and significant" and involved kickbacks and fraud in bidding and contracting at the ministry, but he declined to provide further details.
They are still also under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office over allegations of kickbacks paid to the Saddam regime in the oil-for-food scandal.
If none of the candidates break 50percentt in the Aug. 22 election, there will be a runoff on Oct. 3. It's expected to be a tough race; in addition to Woodfin, Chris Woods, a 42-year-old construction contractor who has accused Bell's administration of demanding "pay to play" kickbacks, is considered a serious contender, as is community activist Frank Matthews, 61.
Some of the donations, which came from a Mabey subsidiary called Beachley Property Ltd, were accepted even after it was reported in December 2005 that the Serious Fraud Office had begun looking into allegations of kickback payments in Iraq from another corner of the tycoon's business empire.
In agreeing to the plea, the United States attorney's office dropped four more serious charges that accused Mrs. Bost of defrauding taxpayers and accepting kickbacks totaling $8,500 in township transactions with a paving contractor and two housing developers.
Some were more serious than the bogus-jobs case, notably two involving a system of kickbacks on public contracts from the town hall for which many former colleagues were convicted.
But James Sheehan, an assistant United States attorney in Philadelphia who specializes in health care cases, said he had "serious questions" about whether such payments were legal under federal laws against kickbacks.
However, in September 2000, the Delhi court ruled that the Indian government should not approve further purchases from Airbus until the CBI had obtained the information it wanted from the French.The upshot of the IA story is that no serious attempt has been made to establish whether or not Airbus paid kickbacks to Mr Gandhi and associates.
