John Bolton, undersecretary of state for arms control and
international security, admitted, during his confirmation hearings,
to having received $30,000 to cover the costs of writing 3 research
papers.
The Taiwanese government has yet to deny the news stories.
A Japanese foreign ministry official used slush fund money to
finance the extra-marital activities of himself and many of his
colleagues - often in posh hotel suites. But this was no exception.
According to Asahi Shimbun, more than half of the 60 divisions of
the ministry maintained similar funds. The police and the ministry
are investigating. One arrest has been made. The ministry's
accounting division has discovered these corrupt practices twenty
years ago but kept mum.
Even low-level prefectural bureaucrats and teachers in Japan build
up slush funds by faking business trips or padding invoices and
receipts. Japanese citizens' groups conservatively estimated that
$20 million in travel and entertainment expenses in the prefectures
in 1994 were faked, a practice known as "kara shutcho" (i.e., empty
business trip).
Officials of the Hokkaido Board of Education admitted to the
existence of a 100 million yen secret fund. In a resulting probe,
200 out of 286 schools were found to maintain their own slush funds.
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