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The "Dirty Tricks" scandal was a series of concerted campaigns by British Airways (BA) in the 1990s seeking to undermine their rival, Virgin Atlantic. Concerned by the prospect of an upcoming challenger, Lord King, Chairman of British Airways, told his chief executive "do something about Branson". The ensuing campaign involved BA ...
StopTheChamber.com, a critic of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and one of the targets of a planned Hunton & Williams dirty tricks campaign, is striking back. The group has filed an ethics complaint ...
In the eyes of some legal analysts, ... Allegations against him stemmed from the attempted cover-up of Nixon campaign "dirty tricks" operations, including the 1972 break-in at Democratic Party ...
Segretti was hired by his friend Dwight L. Chapin to run a campaign of dirty tricks – which Segretti referred to as "ratfucking" [3] – against the Democrats, with his work being paid for by Herb Kalmbach, Nixon's lawyer, from presidential campaign re-election funds gathered before an April 7, 1972 law required that contributors be identified.
Chapin was asked to find a "Dick Tuck" (a legendary Democratic political saboteur) type of prankster to perform the "dirty tricks" to work under H. R. Haldeman, Nixon's Chief of Staff, and the President. Segretti later testified before a Watergate grand jury about the activities, including Chapin's supervisory role.
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British Airways, faced with likely defeat, settled the case giving £500,000 to Branson and a further £110,000 to his airline; further, BA was to pay the legal fees of up to £3 million. [citation needed] It was an article written by Burnside (given legal clearance) in BA News, the company's in house newsletter, that prompted Branson's legal ...
With more Americans than ever falling behind on their house, car and credit card payments, collection agents are turning up the heat and getting tough on debtors in an effort to recoup overdue funds.