secret commission

In the last years of the war he was a secret commission to make preparations for the future peace conference, be consulted.

Secret commissions, or bribes, also come under the no profit rule.

Elf is said to have paid secret commissions on that deal totaling more than $30 million.

He paid secret commissions to agents of foreign governments.

This was a special secret commission in order to negotiate a separate peace with Great Britain.

Talbot and Shand were also charged over the alleged secret commissions.

Schreiber had at his disposal $20 million from Airbus for the payment of secret commissions.

The investigation is focusing in part on the possible payments of secret commissions to intermediaries with a view to securing contracts.

It was alleged that Bland took secret commissions from suppliers who were then recommended by him in his position as facilities advisor.

His strange practices, his secret commissions, his judicial assassinations are known to you.

Most dramatically, the report alleged that union officials accepted secret commissions, engaged in bribery, and criminal corrupt conduct.

In 2009 he was found guilty of corruptly receiving secret commissions during his time in office and jailed for seven years.

Bribes may also be synonymous with "secret commissions", where somebody is given an undisclosed "kickback".

Bruhl verily thinks that he is charged with a secret commission for negotiating the above-mentioned marriage.

In 2011, Shand was convicted of paying Nuttall a secret commission and sentenced to 15 months jail.

"A secret commission," Gissing corrected him.

Prince Bandar denied accepting "improper secret commissions."

In 1806, a secret commission was set up, known as the "Delicate Investigation", to examine Lady Douglas's claims.

BAE admitted writing an untrue letter to US authorities in 2000, denying it was paying any secret commissions.

Sandherr gathered a secret commission of inquiry that hastily decided on Captain Alfred Dreyfus as the perpetrator.

In 2004, Israeli military intelligence formed a secret commission to investigate Arad's fate, and in 2009, it determined that Arad was dead.

Contracts based on or involving the payment or transfer of bribes ("corruption money", "secret commissions", "pots-de-vin", "kickbacks") are void.

He faces charges in Canada of fraud, conspiracy to commit government fraud, abuse of trust, secret commissions and laundering the proceeds of a crime.

The estate now claims that Mr. Biddulph acquired instruments for personal gain, withheld revenues, collected secret commissions and generally abused his fiduciary responsibilities.

The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation of Commissioner Thomas M. Roberts, from whose office a secret commission memo reached a utility under suspicion.