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And Gephardt has yet to bring around most of the old Democratic barons: the Obeys, the Boniors, the Dingells.
The union's local bosses were no better: The "barons" padded their payrolls with family members, paid themselves enormous salaries (as much as $500,000 a year), took bribes from employers in exchange for sweetheart contracts, siphoned pension funds into mob-run operations, and generally screwed their rank and file.
What was Soviet Central Asia is now a free-fire zone: Drug, mineral, and arms barons compete for power, while legitimate governments of the region are patsies by comparison.
Sugar barons have funneled $13 million to federal officeholders in the past eight years to block any cuts in sugar subsidies, which add $1.
The NYT , in its off-lead on the crisis, continues to paint the picture of Russia's financial barons sinking economic reform--with its aims of collecting back taxes and allowing money-losing concerns to go under--and reasserting their power.