“His government has dispatched a 300-strong team to inspect potential sources of pollution.”
Can envision the inspectors: “Hmmm, looks like shit, smells like shit, tastes like shit, hmmm might possibly be shit ... better get the boss to confirm it.”
—” better get the boss to confirm it.”
Usually, at that point, they first go for the shakedown.
Anything you have of any value, fork it over.
...Where did the term Fork It Over originate?
This slangy term probably comes from the verb “to fork,” underground slang for picking someone’s pocket using only two fingers (resembling a two-tined fork). Dating from the first half of the 1800s, the term occasionally alluded to turning over something other than money, but it is the monetary version that survived.
Curious that this wasn’t a problem for the Byzantine Empire