Cement Industry …show more content…
Pappas. Pappas was a lawyer involved as a middleman between the local cement industry and corrupt officials who could be bought out to suit the needs of the cement industry executives. According to a 1976 article in the Quad-City Times, legislators accepted a shared total of thirty thousand dollars in bribes through Peter V. Pappas. Pappas himself admitted to making at least four thousand dollars through one bribery deal. Over the course of multiple trials, cement industry executives Arnold W . Moeller, Merlin Wille, Bernard Arquilla, John L . Edmier, Donald Carpentier, Jack E . Chalden, and Herbert L. Craig all pleaded guilty to charges of bribery. This does not include others before and after this string of