My wife's friends are offered any kind of bribes for any kind of compromising material on Chubais.

When the thief ends up breaking into the home of Yan and his wife (Chen Jin), he steals a disc full of compromising material.

The suspect, the Russian businessman Andrei K. Lugovoi, also contended that British intelligence officers had tried to recruit him to collect compromising material about President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

According to Brusca, Provenzano "sold" Riina in exchange for the valuable archive of compromising material that Riina held in his apartment in Via Bernini 52 in Palermo.

As Sheehy writes, "When Palladino ran into resistance, he would visit relatives and former boyfriends and develop compromising material to convince the women to remain silent.

Mrázek's son Michal, who inherited father's wealth, publicly warned Czech politicians he has access to a hidden archive of compromising material collected by his father.

On three other occasions, it kept inspectors waiting outside the facilities long enough for potentially compromising material to be spirited away by Iraqi agents.

The conflicting versions are symptomatic of the most recent phase of Russia's political wars, in which antagonists have reached into their rich reserves of "kompromat" - compromising material - in attempts to tarnish one another.

Wiretapping to gather compromising material on political opponents is common in Ukraine, Russia and other former Soviet republics.

A New York Times article says that Scientologists paid private investigators to obtain compromising material on the IRS commissioner and blackmailed the IRS into submission.