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In all, eight people were charged in what prosecutors described as an influence-peddling scheme that involved hospital funding, real-estate deals and favors large and small.
New Plea in Bribes Scandal Terin Miller 2012
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I call it influence-peddling, Romney told Gingrich.
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But the Chicago Tribune, the Sun-Times and Chicago Magazine, among others, have repeatedly questioned influence-peddling at Berrios 'office.
Cook County Assessor's Race: Joe Berrios Gets Roughed Up On 'Chicago Tonight' (VIDEO) Will Guzzardi 2010
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NEW YORK — A former top political consultant to New York's disgraced ex-comptroller was led off to prison Thursday after being sentenced to at least a year and four months behind bars for his pivotal role in an influence-peddling scandal involving the state pension fund.
Hank Morris Is Going To Prison AP 2011
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But the Chicago Tribune, the Sun-Times and Chicago Magazine, among others, have repeatedly questioned influence-peddling at Berrios 'office.
Cook County Assessor's Race: Joe Berrios Gets Roughed Up On 'Chicago Tonight' (VIDEO) Will Guzzardi 2010
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The accusations of bribery and attempted extortion marked a stunning turn of fortune for Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. and suggested an influence-peddling scheme that reached into New York City government.
Assemblyman Again Faces Bribe Charges Sean Gardiner 2011
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NEW YORK — A former top political consultant to New York's disgraced ex-comptroller was led off to prison Thursday after being sentenced to at least a year and four months behind bars for his pivotal role in an influence-peddling scandal involving the state pension fund.
Hank Morris Is Going To Prison AP 2011
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NEW YORK — A former top political consultant to New York's disgraced ex-comptroller was led off to prison Thursday after being sentenced to at least a year and four months behind bars for his pivotal role in an influence-peddling scandal involving the state pension fund.
Hank Morris Is Going To Prison AP 2011
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The plea represented another victory for federal prosecutors in a wide-ranging March 2010 indictment that has ensnared eight people, including a state assemblyman and former Sen. Carl Kruger , in an alleged influence-peddling scheme.
Lobbyist Lipsky Admits to Bribery Tamer El-Ghobashy 2012
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NEW YORK — A former top political consultant to New York's disgraced ex-comptroller was led off to prison Thursday after being sentenced to at least a year and four months behind bars for his pivotal role in an influence-peddling scandal involving the state pension fund.
Hank Morris Is Going To Prison AP 2011
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