"Using the lure of kickbacks disguised as rebates, Novartis co-opted the independence of certain pharmacists and turned them into salespeople for one of its drugs," Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement.
"In reality, the Links agreement -- which was not signed by anyone at the M.T.A. or Zar, but which in effect made them financially responsible for the costs incurred -- was a sham method to funnel money to the conspirators through the use of cash kickbacks and shell companies," according to a statement by Alan Vinegrad, the interim United States attorney for the Eastern District.
There is also some inventive and very realistic use of the kickback from a fire extinguisher.
Indeed, "Network operators like Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and AT&T, in cahoots with developers and landlords, routinely use a breathtaking array of kickbacks, lawyerly games of Twister, blunt threats, and downright illegal activities to lock up buildings in exclusive arrangements".
But he has also refused even to testify in an investigation focusing on allegations of a vast system of kickbacks used to raise funds for his party.
They said the president might have also used it to keep a part of kickbacks from excise taxes on the tobacco industry in Mr. Singson's province, Illocos Sur.
That hasn't stopped Boisseau from using the discovery process to turn up embarrassing evidence of kickbacks for 7-Eleven executives.
Prior to the CARD Act, colleges collected royalties for new customers and kickbacks for students' use of credit cards.
(Attempting to explain his stealing, for instance, Whitacre claimed that kickbacks and the illegal use of Swiss bank accounts were accepted within the upper reaches of ADM as a sort of unofficial bonus system).
Rumors of kickbacks and corruption swirled.
