What is "kickbacks"

Usage examples of "kickbacks".

I knew that the big reputable firms never asked for kickbacks at all, and that individual agents varied from nil to nearly extortionate.

He said he’d just have to go on with the kickbacks, and anyway we’d been doing pretty well out of those for two years so it didn’t seem too bad.

The cops stole from the parking meters, took bribes from drunk drivers, and accepted kickbacks from bail bondsmen for steering clients after arrests.

It lays out the kickbacks and the payoffs, how much and where it went, but everything is done by code numbers.

Before Mickey Cohen sent the LAPD and Mayor’s Office topsy-turvy with his Brenda Allen revelations--the high brass taking kickbacks from LA’s most famous whores--there had been solid City/County cooperation, pathologists and cadaver caddies sharing plastic sheets, bone saws and pickling fluid.

Danny caught an address: 1611 South Bonnie Brae, the Sheriff’s Central Vice operations front, where recalcitrant bookies got strong-armed, recalcitrant hookers got serviced, protections kickbacks got tallied.

But I think you'll agree that the amounts your supposedly loyal associates put away for a rainy day are considerably higher than payoffs and kickbacks alone would explain.

Maybe he's getting kickbacks from the drug deals that Scotch and Soda is making in Latin America.