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Acquired

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Nisha UI and the Acquisition Universe

Nisha UI was involved in a corruption scandal in 1979 after it passed on a $500 million yen bribe from McDonald Douglas to the director of the Japanese defense agency. The scandal was uncovered only three years after a similar scandal involving Lockheed conspiring to bribe Prime Minister Tanaka. For anyone who didn't listen to our Lockheed episode, we talked about this bribe bringing down the Prime Minister of Japan and oh my God, it happened through Nisha.

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