Sentence examples for was a kickback from inspiring English sources

It was part of what the government said was a kickback scheme to enrich the governor and his aides, and that did enrich his wife, Patti Blagojevich, via her close-to-no-show job with Mr. Rezko's real estate firm.

He did not mention that the lawyer, Gary Berenholtz, needed that signature to complete a multimillion-dollar settlement and that the $115,000 the judge demanded was a kickback on $1.6 million in legal fees.

At the heart of the shelter was a kickback: The taxpayer avoided taxes on U.S. income because the income was supposedly being taxed in Guam, when in reality, the territory had agreed to rebate the tax after six months.

It's a kickback.

The post-1945 settlement of the welfare state is about to be permanently decimated, and unless the British public have become anaesthetised, there will be a kickback.

As I grew up, I found that annoying – that we're invisible in our own landscape – and the book is a kickback against that".

One is a kickback scandal of multibillion-dollar proportions swirling around the U.N.-run oil-for-food program that kept ordinary Iraqis from starving during the long years of punishing economic sanctions.

"I want the government to present a clean case," Judge Batts told the prosecutors, "that you really do have sufficient evidence" for the jury to understand that "it must have been a kickback, and I don't hear that from what you're telling me today".

Prosecutors said Dr. Spinella and the company "knew, understood and expected" that the doctor would then bill Medicare and patients for those free samples and that those payments "would be a kickback and bribe" paid in exchange for the doctor's business.

I even fear poor Ed Stourton is collateral damage, losing his job on Today just when there's a kickback against genial coves with large tums and posh voices elsewhere in public life (though I, for one, will miss his urbane contributions to the morning debates).The class discussion in Britain has carried on for a very long time, but in recent years many thought it had become less relevant.

"Most people have no idea that the dealer is getting what in essence is a kickback on the loan," Shahan says.