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14281.713 - 14306.932 Ben Gilbert

Nishio Iwai was involved in a corruption scandal in 1979 after it passed on a $500 million yen bribe from McDonnell Douglas to the director of the Japanese Defense Agency in an attempt to influence the sale of the F-4 Phantom aircraft to the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. The scandal was uncovered only three years after a similar scandal involving Lockheed conspiring to bribe Prime Minister Tanaka.