#RonAngell: Internet search #Aramark 911 connection- Do NOT USE #GOOGLE TO SEARCH- Aramark manipulates google.. mit.edu/activities/thistle/v9/9.11/5aramark.html Guess Whos Coming to Dinner? The #Mob! By Patrick Burkart, Travis Donoho, and Paul Odekirk This month #MIT must decide whether to renew its contract with an unscrupulous and lawbreaking dining services provider. #Aramark, formerly #ARA, is a multibillion dollar mammoth, operating various services illegally throughout the world. Aramark currently operates at MIT, Boston University, and numerous other college campuses across the country; it is one of the top three food service providers in the U.S. For years, Aramark has committed and admitted to unfair and illegal trading practices, including violating federal anti-trust laws. Also, Aramark has been suspected of having massive organized crime connections in its transportation and vending-machine divisions. The food service giant first got into trouble with the law in 1964, when the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) negotiated a consent order in which ARA did not acknowledge guilt, but agreed anyway to dispose of some of its vending machine companies worth an annual $7.7 million. Again, in 1973, ARA accepted another FTC consent order, this one requiring disposal of the vending and periodical companies that it owned. On top of that, ARA had to pledge to stay out of certain markets delimited by the FTC. In 1979, the FTC successfully pressed for and won a $300,000 civil penalty against ARA after the company was found guilty of violating the terms of the 1973 agreement. This penalty also required ARA to dispose of some of its business assets. ARA was also fined an additional $80,000 in 1973 for conspiracy to fix cigarette prices in Cincinnati. In 1977, ARA admitted to making questionable and sometimes illegal payments between 1970 and 1976, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) report. A total of $393,000 in payments were made to politicians and client related recipients who were influential in handing over state contracts to ARA. Also, ARA admitted receiving $504,000 in questionable and sometimes illegal rebates from 1970 to 1976. ARA made $23,400 in political campaign contributions that the company itself reported to the SEC as illegal, and another $11,550 in legal but improperly recorded campaign contributions. Disbursements and gifts to client related persons amounted to $370,000 during the same 1970-1976 period. The SEC investigated ARA without recommending action in 1982. The next year, Gerald F. OLeary, a member of the Boston School Committee, pleaded guilty to extortion of $50,000 from ARA in return for awarding ARA a $40 million dollar contract.
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