on the take
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“I kind of admire the way he’s going about it because it’s so shameless,” Carlsen said on the Take Take Take podcast.
But his attorneys vehemently denied the charges and said the government failed to prove the veteran DEA agent was on the take.
From Seattle Times
Rudy Gobert of the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves got benched for a technical foul and a $100,000 fine for making a money-counting gesture at a ref after an adverse call, suggesting that the ref was on the take.
From Los Angeles Times
Gobert was called for a technical foul in the closing seconds of regulation Friday night in the Timberwolves’ 113-104 overtime loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers when he rubbed his fingers together several times, implying referee Scott Foster might be on the take.
From Seattle Times
But by early 2015, a Chinese anticorruption campaign, aimed at officials on the take from freewheeling billionaires, had ensnared Mr. Ma.
From New York Times
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