caisse noire

dites-nous ce que vous pensez de la caisse noire.
Please tell me what you think about the slush funds.
Je sais pas, mais ces hommes étaient payés avec la "caisse noire".
I don't know how many, but the men working under Mitchell... received the money from the slush fund.
Il était ce qui s'appelle dans l'ouest une caisse noire.
It was what is called in the West a slush fund.
Vous remplissez une caisse noire, et on ne parle plus Jamais de cela en public.
You set up a slush fund of cash to work with, and we never speak together in public again.
Pour financer sa campagne électorale, Edouard Balladur tente de faire main basse sur la caisse noire du parti gaulliste, cachée dans la double comptabilité du pétrolier Elf.
To be able to finance his electoral campaign, Edouard Balladur attempts to grab the secret slush fund of the Gaullist party, hidden in the double deckered accounting of the books of the oil group ELF.
L'existence d'une caisse noire est inacceptable et, de ce fait, je considère que le prétendu gentlemen's agreement conclu il y a près de 39 ans n'a plus de raison d'être.
I must say that not only is the existence of slush funds absolutely unacceptable to us, but also that this supposed gentlemen's agreement, which will be 39 years old, does not, in my view, now have any reason to exist.
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