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BUSINESS, Page 60Business NotesADVERTISINGToo Funky In Kingston
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.
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.