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- <text id=89TT2677>
- <title>
- Oct. 16, 1989: Business Notes:Advertising
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Oct. 16, 1989 The Ivory Trail
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 60
- Business Notes
- ADVERTISING
- Too Funky In Kingston
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The island's siren song is simple and successful: "Come
- back to Jamaica," the slogan goes. But the way in which the
- giant U.S. ad agency Young & Rubicam landed the Caribbean
- country's business is a tale of bribery and racketeering,
- according to a federal grand jury in New Haven, Conn. Last week
- the panel indicted the ad agency on charges that it paid about
- $900,000 in kickbacks between 1981 and 1986 to win and keep the
- Jamaica Tourist Board's account.
- </p>
- <p> The jury charges that Y&R hired Arnold Foote Jr., a
- Jamaican advertising consultant who the Justice Department
- contends was also a government official. He allegedly passed
- along money to Eric Anthony Abrahams, Jamaica's Tourism Minister
- from 1980 to 1984. Y&R is accused of violating the Foreign
- Corrupt Practices Act, which forbids the bribing of foreign
- officials. The agency denies any wrongdoing.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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