{Corrupt Practices (1)}[11th September 1990]

[Redbook7:280][19900911:1135]{Corrupt Practices (1)}[11th September 1990]

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‘The strict letter of the law must be bent a little for everyone’s sake. Morality and legality must be strained a little bit for business.’

– Kenneth Grob,* disgraced** former Lloyd’s insurance broker, quoted in The Independent Business on Sunday, 19900913:12, ‘Confessions of the Grobfather’, by Tom Bower.

Anyone who has been in business even in a small way knows the opportunities and in some areas the actual conventions, ***and necessities***, of legally corrupt practices: at least as bad in capitalism as in communism, and almost certainly as bad in local government as in business (I have no knowledge of central government**** on this score: what I write now# is based on my own experience and that of my friends).

*[15/09/1921-28/12/1991]

**(but acquitted)

***[Words between *** & *** inserted]

****{But see [[Redbook7:292][1990090914:1619]{Corrupt Practices (2)}[14th September 1990],] 292}

#[ie here, in this journal entry]

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