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- Former judges who sent kids to jail for kickbacks must pay more than 200M https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118108084/michael-conahan-mark-ciavarella-kids-for-cash 128 comments
- Doctor Gets 4 Years in Prison for Insys Opioid Kickbacks http://fortune.com/2018/03/10/jerrold-rosenberg-opioid-kickbacks/ 121 comments
- How landlords get kickbacks to lock tenants into big Internet providers https://medium.com/backchannel/the-new-payola-deals-landlords-cut-with-internet-providers-cf60200aa9e9#.mps85yo24 152 comments
- Trump administration proposes changes to anti-kickback rules for healthcare https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-healthcare-trump/update-1-trump-administration-proposes-changes-to-anti-kickback-rules-for-healthcare-idusl2n26u0fa 10 comments politics
- Former judges who sent kids to jail for kickbacks must pay more than $200 million https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118108084/michael-conahan-mark-ciavarella-kids-for-cash 761 comments nottheonion
- Former judges who sent kids to jail for kickbacks must pay more than $200 million https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118108084/michael-conahan-mark-ciavarella-kids-for-cash 15 comments law
- Amazon.com Inc has launched an internal investigation in India after a whistleblower alleged an employee had taken kickbacks https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/amazon-investigating-kickback-allegation-india-unit-source-2190701 3 comments worldnews
- Novartis Agrees To $642mn US Settlement Over Kickbacks https://www.ibtimes.com/novartis-agrees-642mn-us-settlement-over-kickbacks-3004163?utm_source=public&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=distribution 4 comments worldnews
- Pakistan submarine deal scandal: Former French PM Balladur to stand trial over role in kickbacks scheme https://www.reddit.com/r/pakistan/comments/dccylq/pakistan_submarine_deal_scandal_former_french_pm/ 7 comments pakistan
- NY regulators probing NRA for illegal gun insurance kickbacks https://nypost.com/2019/08/09/new-york-regulators-probing-nra-for-illegal-gun-insurance-kickbacks-sources/ 6 comments politics
- Mallinckrodt paid 'kickbacks' to keep drug price high, and stuck taxpayers with bill, DOJ lawsuit says https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/05/health/mallinckrodt-lawsuit-doj/index.html?utm_content=2019-06-05t23%3A31%3A04&utm_medium=social&utm_term=link&utm_source=twcnn 5 comments politics
- Update 2-U.S. sues Lockheed, others for alleged kickbacks on nuclear site cleanup https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/08/reuters-america-update-2-u-s-sues-lockheed-others-for-alleged-kickbacks-on-nuclear-site-cleanup.html 15 comments politics
- Eight Dallas-Area Pharmacy Owners and Marketers Charged in $9 Million Kickback Scheme https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/eight-dallas-area-pharmacy-owners-and-marketers-charged-9-million-kickback-scheme 6 comments politics
- Chinese officials confess receiving kickbacks in Multan metro bus project https://dunyanews.tv/en/Pakistan/464465-Chinese-officials-confess-receiving-kickbacks-in-Multan-metro-bus 10 comments pakistan
- Five Manhattan Doctors Indicted For Accepting Bribes And Kickbacks From A Pharmaceutical Company In Exchange For Prescribing Powerful Fentanyl Narcotic | USAO-SDNY https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/five-manhattan-doctors-indicted-accepting-bribes-and-kickbacks-pharmaceutical-company 127 comments politics
- Texas officials allegedly engaged in bribes and kickbacks to make millions while building Trump's border wall http://www.businessinsider.com/texas-official-allegedly-took-bribe-when-hiring-border-wall-contractor-2018-2 151 comments politics
- Ivanka Trump backs Corker on denial of kickbacks for yes vote on tax bill http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/21/politics/ivanka-trump-corker-denial-kickback/index.html?sr=twcnnp122117ivanka-trump-corker-denial-kickback1224pmstory&cnnpolitics=tw 14 comments politics
- People Are Outraged About the GOP Tax Bill's 'Corker Kickback.' This Is Why http://time.com/money/5068840/gop-tax-bill-corker-taxes-kickback/ 8 comments politics
- The Kodiak Kickback: the quiet payoff for an Alaska senator in the Senate health bill https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/15/15971642/alaska-republicans-health-care 33 comments politics
- Clinton Foundation Donor Ensnared in Kickbacks Probe http://freebeacon.com/issues/clinton-foundation-donor-kickback-probe/ 19 comments politics
- OT: Petronas Caught in Major Oil Scandal: "Unaoil also corrupted senior figures inside Malaysia's Petronas, paying kickbacks to secure their help to award contracts to Unaoil's clients on a major oil field in Iraq." http://www.smh.com.au/business/police-raids-and-more-revelations-the-fallout-of-the-unaoil-scandal-20160401-gnw9mx.html 12 comments formula1
- Brazilian prosecutors, declaring war on what they called a culture of impunity, presented charges on Friday against the CEO of Latin America's largest engineering firm as part of a landmark investigation of a kickback and bribery scandal http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/24/us-brazil-petrobras-odebrecht-charges-iduskcn0py2a320150724 4 comments worldnews
- RCMP probing Ontario Provincial Police union for laundering proceeds of crime; allegations include $2M condos in Bahamas, and kickbacks after rank and file whistleblowers blew. http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2015/03/13/opp-union-brass-investigated-over-fraud-allegations.html# 8 comments worldnews
- At least six of the 10 men charged last week for their involvement in an alleged kickback scheme at a West Virginia coal mine have been major donors to Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, campaign finance records show. http://www.wvgazette.com/article/20140601/gz01/140609955/1419 13 comments politics
- Tony Abbott should probably resign now that this secret family kickback is out in the open. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/21/tony-abbotts-daughter-did-not-have-to-pay-for-60000-design-degree 4 comments politics
- 2 more executives facing the death penalty in Viet Nam for Kickbacks and corruption http://tuoitrenews.vn/society/16018/vinalines-graft-officials-get-16-mln-kickback#.uq3nzlykx1e.reddit 160 comments worldnews
- McConnell pushes back on 'Kentucky kickback': The spending bill added more than $2 billion for a system of locks under construction at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and between his home state and Illinois. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/17/mcconnell-pushes-back-on-kentucky-kickback/ 4 comments politics
- Why Do People Think US Health Care is Corrupt? The Examples of Amgen, Mallinckrodt Settling Charges of Giving Kickbacks to Doctors to Induce them to Prescribe Their Products, While No Individual Suffers Negative Consequences http://hcrenewal.blogspot.ca/2013/07/why-do-people-think-us-health-care-is.html 3 comments politics
- US judge receives 28-year jail term for his role in kids-for-cash kickbacks http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-judge-receives-28year-jail-term-for-his-role-in--kidsforcash-kickbacks-8598147.html 17 comments worldnews
- Former FIFA president Joao Havelange received millions of dollars in a World Cup kickbacks scandal. http://news.yahoo.com/fifa-names-havelange-teixeira-kickbacks-case-165005227--sow.html 8 comments worldnews
- 2 PA Judges Plead Guilty to accepting kickbacks for putting children in for profit juvenile detention centers http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/04/16/pa-judges-plead-guilty-to-selling-child-prisoners/ 258 comments politics
- Sheriff Saves $1 Million By De-Privatizing County Jail: Privatization has nothing to do with saving money and everything to do with giving kickbacks to politically connected contractors like Corrections Corporation of America http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/sheriff-saves-1-million-de-privatizin 186 comments politics
- In 7 years, New Orleans' crime camera program has yielded six indictments: three for crimes caught on video and three for bribes and kickbacks a vendor is accused of paying a former city official to sell the cameras to City Hall. http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/10/new_orleans_crime_camera_progr.html 8 comments reddit.com
- Apple manager indicted on kickback charges http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38706555/ns/technology_and_science/ 9 comments technology
- Texas Gov Rick Perry Under Scrutiny Over Possible Kickback http://ezinearticles.com/?texas-gov-rick-perry-under-scrutiny-over-possible-kickback&id=4336731 7 comments politics
- Two astoundingly corrupt Pennsylvania judges who convicted innocent children in order to send them to a for-profit detention facility in exchange for kickbacks have been caught on tape discussing those kickbacks and making plans to commit perjury. (Link to partial transcript in comments) http://cbs3.com/wireapnewspa/prosecutors.pa.judges.2.1690459.html 477 comments politics
- Bribes, kickbacks, concealing gang rapes, and engaging in human trafficking are among the crimes listed in a new class action lawsuit filed against KBR. http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/140118/is_kbr%27s_decade-long_crime_spree_finally_coming_to_an_end/ 3 comments reddit.com
- Democrat mayor has improper relationship with developer, including kickbacks; MSM ignores story http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_city/bal-te.md.ci.dixon24jun24,0,7363358.story 2 comments reddit.com
- Texas oilman accused of cheating the United Nations oil-for-food program, pleaded guilty yesterday to paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein’s Govt http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/world/middleeast/02wyatt.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin 7 comments politics
- Texas oilman Oscar Wyatt accused of having paid millions of dollars in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's government, earning him a privileged position in Iraq http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070910/ts_nm/un_iraq_trial_dc 5 comments reddit.com