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"bribe" Definitions
  1. a sum of money or something valuable that you give or offer to somebody to persuade them to help you, especially by doing something dishonest

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He tried to bribe one of the officers and the bribe was rejected.
Better the hard place: pay the bribe, and get on; pay the bribe, and get the necessary document; pay the bribe, and get treatment for your child.
I offer the bribe and then I am arrested for the crime of offering a bribe.
They demanded a bribe to arrest the perpetrator, but it seemed his family had already paid a bigger bribe.
"Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the innocent," Deuteronomy says.
We also have criminal statutes barring any quid pro quo involving public officials (bribery, solicitation of a bribe or offering of a bribe).
"The other party offering a bribe could also be charged... which is the same level of felony as bribe-receiving," Chun said, according to the court transcript.
Jane Kajugo, a spokeswoman for the director of public prosecutions, told Reuters Kabafunzaki was charged with soliciting a bribe, receiving a bribe and conspiracy to commit a felony.
Graphic - Bribe expectations for particular purposes (interactive) - tmsnrt.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti enlivened a crowd by praising Speaker Nancy Pelosi for calling "a bribe a bribe," a reference to Pelosi's blunt description of Trump's interactions with Ukraine.
A góber covers up for policemen in the pay of organised crime; a hueso (bone) is a bribe paid to get a public-sector job that itself offers bribe-taking opportunities.
A journalist who accepts a bribe—even under duress—leaves himself open to later charges of extortion, which means that the offer of a bribe functions as both carrot and stick.
THE BOTTOM LINE According to the police, Mr. Netanyahu should be charged with requesting a bribe, fraud and breach of trust, and Mr. Mozes should be charged with offering a bribe.
The FCPA is only a small part of the legal arsenal needed to wage that fight, and could be expanded to cover not only the bribe giver, but also the bribe taker.
"John Chambers paid bribe after bribe to put guns in the hands of people who had no business having them," Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Monteleoni told jurors during his closing argument on Monday.
Basically accusing members of Congress of trying to bribe him.
Local businessmen bribe these local bosses to their own advantage.
Some 84% of respondents admitted to having paid a bribe.
But he was soon released, probably after paying a bribe.
We'll bribe you with Oreos, Chips Ahoy, even Fig Newtons.
There's a bag of money we use to bribe people.
His former attorneys were arrested for attempting to bribe witnesses.
Each forestry cop, looking over his load, demanded a bribe.
For a graphic on Bribe expectations for particular purposes - tmsnrt.
She blasted the effort as an attempt to "bribe" her.
Suppose that the bribe increased a company's probability by 10%.
Pagliara denies two counts of paying and facilitating a bribe.
Those who could afford to bribe their way out did.
"We bribe her with food!" says Gabi with a laugh.
Apparently some gamblers had made an attempt to bribe him.
The police had demanded a large bribe from Mukesh's family.
Did the former Mexican president take a $2000 million bribe?
Bribery is the taking or giving of a bribe, i.e.
Other changes include serving prison sentences of less than three years at home, lower sentences for bribe taking and other graft crimes, as well as decriminalizing taking a bribe for someone other than the accused.
Retail corruption, you know, you pay a bribe to a politician, pay a bribe to a policeman, or to get a marriage license, but in the mid 2000s that retail corruption sort of went wholesale.
The line between legal and illegal, donation and bribe, is blurred.
During his trial, Cabral said he did not receive the bribe.
I bribe him with a treat and head out the door.
In 2009 she was convicted of taking a bribe and resigned.
A bribe to jump the queue can cost up to $1,000.
Guzmán paid a bribe of $100 million to President Peña Nieto?
It's a bribe, so I can ask you questions about rockets.
"Tell me, who do you think paid that bribe?" he asked.
On Friday, MTN denied paying a bribe to secure the reduction.
So powerful was he, people said, that he could bribe anyone.
Please don't attempt to bribe your way out of problems abroad.
Kabila denies ever taking a bribe, and Gertler denies paying them.
The officers say they refused the man's attempt to bribe them.
Guzman paid a bribe of $100 million to President Pena Nieto?
Collins has blasted the campaign as an effort to "bribe" her.
I had to bully and bribe myself across the finish line.
"Our hypothesis is that it was a bribe," Mr. Nieto said.
He also can't drop an investigation in exchange for a bribe.
Mr. Henry bonded out and was able to bribe my mom.
The bribe reportedly occurred one day before Kelly and Aaliyah wed.
One reason: He believes McKinsey tried to offer him a bribe.
In making the report, the employee noted that he thought the bribe offer might be an "integrity test" by his employer, and he knew that if it was, it would not be enough to save his job to simply decline the bribe, as he did, but that to pass the test, he was also required to notify D.O.I. of the attempted bribe.
" The cover story: the bribe money was meant to "help underserved kids.
Singer disguised bribe payments from clients as charitable contributions to the foundation.
Did you ever try to bribe them for food or a cuddle?
Having to bribe your way out of being arrested, is another possibility.
There's speculation that Facebook is using subcontractors to bribe Indian government officials.
Anna Turley, the member for Redcar, rejected the offer as a "bribe".
But is Frank – and his suitcase of bribe money – gone for good?
The commission said Wang tried to bribe CCDI officials during the investigation.
Ulyukayev is charged with extorting a $2 million bribe from the deal.
"I feel like he tried to bribe me last Thursday," Barnett said.
He used government connections to bribe his family out of the warzone.
Transnational criminal organizations and drug cartels have tried to bribe officers before.
This was the bribe pause — then set for foreigners at about $50.
Imagine a president taking a bribe in return for a promised pardon.
They have been newly charged with accepting sexual favors as a bribe.
He said Mr. Déby had also believed the money was a bribe.
I don't think that I can even food-bribe myself into watching.
At a traffic stop, a policeman coaxes a bribe out of her.
He doesn't know that I bribe her with peppermints and lemon cakes.
Some clients try to bribe sex workers to take meth, he says.
In other words, it wasn't a bribe -- so their defense will go.
The minister, Alexei Ulyukayev, was detained over a bribe allegation last night.
Panamanian banks are alleged to have held some of the bribe money.
This bribe was refused, but apparently some Nutter Butters did exchange hands.
Last year, Mr. Singh plead guilty to attempting to bribe the mayor.
Navalny said the lavish entertainment amounted to a "bribe" by the oligarch.
The president can't fire someone in exchange for a bribe, for example.
That's a critical line between a legitimate contribution and an illegitimate bribe.
Burzaco has testified that he was involved in bribe payments to all three.
"Basically, it's a bribe to get people to accept diesel fixes," Lutz said.
Padilha testified that Bragg did not know about the bribe payment, Moro said.
The national security minister accused him of accepting a bribe, without presenting evidence.
But to the Palestinians this smells like a bribe from a hostile president.
A bribe of at least 200,000 yuan was reportedly needed to guarantee victory.
Holders are tempted to bribe city, county and state authorities for lucrative permits.
Who do we have to bribe in order to get Enid killed off?
Your boat sinks, and you've gotta bribe a mermaid to get it back.
No, that requires, according to the Supreme Court a bribe or a kickback.
Rosenberg faces charges including attempting to bribe a public employee and resisting arrest.
If all else fails, they can always just bribe someone at the door.
The country's tax inspectors are poorly paid, which makes them easier to bribe.
But, Oliver comes to the wrong conclusion: he thinks it was a bribe.
Outside, gang members were charging patients' families a bribe to visit their relatives.
On June 21st officials released a video showing him confessing to bribe-taking.
The difference is that no one has accused Mr Kuczynski of bribe-taking.
Ulyukayev was detained while receiving $2 million as a bribe, the statement said.
One even traveled to Dubai to accept a bribe, according to the DOJ.
" Richards said she declined Kushner's proposal, saying: "It felt almost like a bribe.
He is said to have used his wealth to bribe officials in Mexico.
"The bribe was 45 or 50 million euros," one user wrote on Twitter.
Investigators later accused Morocco of paying a smaller bribe to the same official.
When things are scarce, you have to bribe government officials to get them.
I couldn't even bribe my constituents into coming with free bagels and coffee.
Another plaintiff said he had to bribe a police officer to avoid arrest.
Were there times when you were threatened or someone tried to bribe you?
We would run subjects through him, and he would authorize, consider their relative amount of the bribe to one against the other, or sometimes he would keep part of the bribe of someone if he thought he was receiving too much.
Just entering certain neighborhoods in San Salvador requires paying a bribe to youth lookouts.
No one is going to spot you or it's easy to bribe the cops.
Last week, prosecutors charged Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev with accepting a $2 million bribe.
In Colombia a former deputy transport minister has admitted to taking a $6.5m bribe.
But only a few details about the bribe scheme were offered at the time.
Cifuentes added that he was certain that there was a bribe of $100 million.
Well, we don&apost give participation trophies and you can&apost bribe the judge.
It said they were an attempt to bribe the Palestinians into accepting Israeli occupation.
They threatened her family with imprisonment but were satisfied with a bribe, she said.
He did not identify the official alleged to have received the bribe by name.
He reportedly paid a $1.2 million bribe to the Guatemalan military to protect him.
Grier even used likes and follows to bribe his followers to vote for Zaza.
Maybe I need to give you some bribe money to grease the college wheels.
He is late to the party, that you don&apost need to bribe him.
When her mother was abducted, police asked for a bribe to help free her.
But more importantly, people who try to bribe me are definitely not getting in.
You can bribe your way out, but the going rate is $6000-$8000 USD.
Ricardo Lopez, Crystal City's mayor, was accused of accepting a $6,000 bribe from Nguyen.
Netanyahu is dealing with two police investigations against him on alleged corruption and bribe.
Prosecutors solved cases for those who would bribe them rather than defending the poor.
González denied the bribe, saying that he was responding to concerns in the community.
Sheldon Silver, the former Assembly speaker, was sentenced to 12 years for bribe taking.
Each month he paid a small bribe to local toughs to let him stay.
My advice to them is do not bribe young people in exchange for votes.
You may disparage this practice as a cheap bribe, grease or even hush money.
Other Kirchner-era officials are accused of bribe taking, embezzling and misappropriating public funds.
Giuliani claimed on the show he had "absolute proof that Biden paid a bribe."
Creepy maester Qyburn has gathered those very same children to bribe them with sweets.
Parents bribe teachers in hopes of saving their sons and daughters from forced labor.
De Leon worked with those men to then launder the bribe money, prosecutors said.
In 2002, cities were trying to bribe I.O.C. officials to award them the Olympics.
"Do you have money to pay a bribe to get a job?" he said.
A former fundraiser for de Blasio was convicted of conspiring to bribe NYPD officials.
Actually, I'm still betting that it's a bribe and/or some kind of tape.
That deal looks very much like a bribe, as my colleague Paul Krugman noted.
The meme captured Lisa when she's upset after seeing a politician accepting a bribe.
These included slashing gas subsidies and tackling endemic bribe-taking in the police force.
Details of the alleged bribe Under cross examination by defense lawyer Lichtman, who referred to transcripts of de-briefings Cifuentes had with US authorities, Cifuentes alleged that a $613 million bribe was paid to Peña Nieto, who was President from 2012 to 2018.
It said Kushner's "abstract promises" were an attempt to bribe Palestinians into accepting Israeli occupation.
Music labels used to bribe radio stations to play their songs, thus ensuring their success.
Vandemoer did not pocket the bribe money, but rather put it toward the sailing team.
Federal Election Commission, held that the First Amendment protects the right to literally bribe candidates.
These included things like consensual incest, eating a dead pet, accepting a bribe, or shoplifting.
It accused Ramirez and others of seeking a $10 million bribe to approve the transaction.
Brock Osweiler, a quarterback the Houston Texans had to bribe the Cleveland Browns—the Browns!
"There was information that people were using these to bribe voters," he told NTV Uganda.
Tamer paid a further 200 euros, some of which was used to bribe the guards.
Though Ahrens said attempts to bribe voters were not witnessed, "the rumors were rather massive".
In 2008, Scruggs was convicted of conspiring to bribe a judge in a different case.
Globally, one in five people reported paying a bribe for land services, the report found.
We shouldn't focus unduly on the "quid" side of the purported bribe, Mr Breyer explained.
Others bribe local officials to get a peek at the test before it is administered.
The benefit of the bribe is the extent to which the business increased its profitability.
Better economic models should be used to assess the true incremental profit from a bribe.
On Tuesday, he testified that he was "confused" about the exact amount of the bribe.
A presidency official said Osinbajo had given orders to install cameras to identify bribe-takers.
Meredith, who accepted a $400,000 bribe from Singer, is due to plead guilty, prosecutors said.
The photographs seemed designed to make it appear as if Senovia had taken a bribe.
As for Trafigura, prosecutors say the company used its own executives to bribe Petrobras employees.
Many residents called the offer an attempt at undue influence, if not an outright bribe.
Sechin set the minister up for a fall, trapping him a $2 million cash bribe.
Implicit in this plea is that he did not pay a bribe to Norman Seabrook.
Slip a drone inside and you can overhear a conversation about a million dollar bribe.
Mr Alemanno has also been indicted on charges of accepting a bribe from organised criminals.
Finally, in February of last year, we bought them a bunk bed, as a bribe.
"I gave him a bribe almost every time I met with him," Mr. Rivera said.
Abusive clergy are not likely to assassinate leakers or to try to bribe the media.
They did not know that he was going to use that money for a bribe.
Prisoners with money can bribe their way into hospitals if they fall ill, he said.
In addition to the growing violence, the Zetas cartel started to bribe the local businesses.
While the border is protected, a bribe or two can unlock deliveries, according to defectors.
He says he thought the bag holding the bribe was a gift of expensive alcohol.
A video alleged Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko took a bribe from oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
Or were they told that their money would be used to bribe individual USC employees?
It can also be seen as a bribe and can make the recipient feel awkward.
They referenced bribe payments that helped, for example, steer FIFA's 2022 World Cup to Qatar.
The bribe paying parents were weighted toward well-known actors, financiers and high-end designers.
Police said they believed there was sufficient evidence to charge Mozes with offering a bribe.
Terrified companies, the argument goes, no longer invest in their business and instead bribe their owners.
When it comes to the police, around one in four people say they paid a bribe.
How much did they bribe the judge to sign off on this ill-advised custody arrangement?
It seems likely that Valcke had something to do with a bribe FIFA paid Jack Warner.
I will bribe Riverdale creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa to keep Archie from yet another murder trial.
While Carrie also can't use this evidence in court, she can use it to bribe Conlin.
What's more, Tom's father, Harry, had been indicted in 1937 for attempting to bribe a juror.
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act makes it a crime to bribe overseas officials to win business.
They tried to bribe these despots and dictators with billions and hundreds of billions of dollars.
They impersonate, copy, deceive, threaten, sabotage, and even bribe Amazon employees for information on their competitors.
"Do you bribe your boss with food so that he lets you do this?" another asked.
They are being prosecuted for alleged bribe-paying in Nigeria in 2011 (both firms deny wrongdoing).
Prosecutors said the apartment and its refurbishing was a bribe worth 3.7 million reais ($1.1 million).
The former chief regulator of China's insurance industry, Xiang Junbo, was formally charged with bribe-taking.
Rimsevics has denied the allegations that he accepted a bribe of at least 100,000 euros ($115,880).
Grayson Marwa remembers politicians visiting his house to bribe his parents with money for their votes.
Tucson, Arizona, chopped down a 21-foot saguaro cactus and sent it as a bribe gift.
The chief prosecutor accuses Mr Cunha, who denies any wrongdoing, of managing the Petrobras "bribe pipeline".
Martinez allegedly accepted bribe payments in cash, trips and cars from powerful people to protect them.
Ridiculous standards, unpredictable enforcement and frequent "inspections" by bribe-grabbing officials make life hell for suppliers.
The money was intended as a bribe to get Moore to drop out of the race.
One woman had tried to bribe him to smuggle in cell phones for her, another tobacco.
He worked with William "Rick" Singer to bribe his two children's way into the private university.
Latvia's central bank governor is awaiting trial on charges of accepting a bribe, which he denies.
A construction executive has also testified that Mr. Temer was the beneficiary of a $300,000 bribe.
They often get in tangles with the law, having to bribe their way out of jail.
He admitted to drafting contracts that were used to make bribe payments, according to court records.
For decades, higher education, for those without parents wealthy enough to bribe the system, has failed.
The prime minister rejected the allegation about the attempt to bribe the judge, calling it "hallucinatory".
That might sound like a bribe, to some observers, even if they never acted on it.
That some rich families bribe their children's way into college is the least of our problems.
Bribe middle-school teachers and tutors who might otherwise judge your child based on actual effort.
"Any allegation that anyone offered the complainant a bribe is divorced from reality," Mr. David said.
Cilley, a Democrat, had charged a Whig editor, James Watson Webb, with having accepted a bribe.
He did take a bribe, and I won't talk that down, but he never raped anyone.
"Give them a reasonable bribe, if necessary, so that they take our honey," Mr. Faraji advised.
No, Mr. Trump didn't "stand up" to Carrier — he seems to have offered it a bribe.
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With Lori, even though she paid way more ($500,000), the bribe didn't really affect anyone else.
His aunt was murdered in Auschwitz for similar spying, but he was freed with a bribe.
Ho also schemed to pay a $500,000 cash bribe to Yoweri Museveni, the President of Uganda.
The bribe was not paid and there is no suggestion that Museveni accepted or solicited it.
Wealthy ranchers can bribe cartorios to register someone else's land, Emile told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Most cannot afford the bribe of about $4 required to leave their village, making competitions impossible.
This is not a company that needs several billion of our tax dollars as a bribe.
He did not offer a bribe to Zelensky, and the call transcript is categorical on this.
And sometimes you kind of have to sneak up on it or bribe it or something.
Ashe allegedly shared the bribe money with a former prime minister of Antigua, the federal complaint said.
People put their names on waiting lists, tried to bribe drugstore employees and ordered overpriced bottles online.
The simplest offers a small bribe, like a lip gloss, in exchange for a like or follow.
Enders told Handelsblatt he had no knowledge of illicit funds at Airbus used to bribe potential customers.
Prosecutors said in court that he laundered $21 million in bribe payments as part of the scheme.
Trump Jr. said if his father wanted to bribe delegates, he could -- and do it very well.
Protection rackets for illegal activity, kickback schemes, and the always reliable briefcase-full-of-cash bribe. 2.
That meant these fraudulent voters were unregistered, and candidates faced an electorate that was harder to bribe.
Last year the authorities abruptly accused Omurbek Tekebayev, another opposition leader, of taking a bribe in 2010.
I bribe him with a feeding session instead and he's back to bed after about 20 minutes.
It was not immediately clear how much money Michel is alleged to have received in bribe payments.
Oh, and then there's the alleged bribe the Trump Foundation paid to Florida attorney general Pam Bondi.
He had been arrested in 513 but, she says, was released after paying crooked cops a bribe.
The money was used to bribe Petrobras executives and provide kickbacks to politicians in Rousseff's governing coalition.
And speaking of that reporter, "the guy" that Draper is accusing of taking a $4 million bribe?
In this light it's hard to perceive it as much more than city officials rejecting a bribe.
Rather than use the money as bribe payments, Baptiste used it for personal purposes, according to prosecutors.
In short, the bribe story was sourced entirely from a Twitter account that just constantly posts lies.
Separately, central bank chief Ilmars Rimsevics was detained on Saturday on suspicion that he solicited a bribe.
Neither the police nor the anti-corruption authority gave details of the alleged request for a bribe.
About 48 percent of bribe cases dealt with by courts involved amounts of less than 100 euros.
In a heavily regulated economy, businessmen frequently bribe government officials into giving them licenses and other approvals.
"I like baking for my students, mostly to bribe them in to office hours," Ms. Brownsmith said.
Siri is suspected of receiving a 30,000-euro ($33,735) bribe to promote legislation that favored certain businessmen.
To save his reputation, the businessman would pay a bribe, or seek the help of a strongman.
"Or they pay a [bribe] to a high-ranking officer to get past the checkpoint," he adds.
The bribe alleged to have been received by Mr. da Silva is an apartment owned by OAS.
At first, the government lawyer assigned to her, a man in his 60s, asked for a bribe.
The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act makes it a crime to bribe overseas officials to gain business.
At Macy's Santaland, desperate dads have tried to bribe the elves to skip past the long lines.
" According to the criminal information charges, Glenn agreed not to deposit "bribe payments' in her bank account.
It will still be a bribe, but it will fall outside of anything that is technically illegal.
Shapiro originally slammed O'Donnell for her tweets appearing to offer a $2 million bribe to Republican Sens.
Prosecutors say $22014 billion worth of bribe money has been recovered from offshore accounts in 21.6 countries.
To jump the queue Gazans pay the tanseeq, or "co-ordination", a polite euphemism for a bribe.
To get a job as a junior engineer, he said, requires a bribe of 10 million rupees.
Because of that, a second part of Singer's scheme was to bribe college coaches and athletics officials.
It would also be unlawful for the president to end an investigation in exchange for a bribe.
Soliciting me for a minor bribe, he also allowed his nephews to beg handouts from our drivers.
Construction executives worked together to overcharge Petrobras for work and used the excess funds to bribe politicians.
Singer also arranged for parents to bribe university coaches to attest to a child being athletically gifted.
At some, a bribe is required, with a bag of potatoes now more effective than increasingly worthless cash.
Ulyukayev was detained overnight and charged with extorting a $2 million bribe from Rosneft, Russia's biggest oil company.
Meredith, who is accused of accepting a $400,000 bribe from Singer, is due to plead guilty, prosecutors said.
Lou was also convicted of paying a 200,000 yuan bribe to a credit officer at China Minsheng Bank.
"It is implausible that I tried to bribe him for a number of reasons," Pell told the commission.
Or you could offer the barometer as a bribe to the building manager and ask him the height.
"And yes, I bribe them with things, but I don't always follow through with my bribes," she adds.
Parents would also bribe college administrators and coaches to recruit students as athletes at many top-level universities.
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Amazon has the Alexa fund to invest in smaller companies and bribe them to adopt the Alexa Platform.
But then, Mr. Agayev conceded, "you would have to be very brave to ask us for a bribe."
I bribe my friends into forgiving this rudeness with a bottle of wine from my stash at home.
The bribe was a set-up, secretly filmed for a documentary by Anas Aremeyaw Anas, an undercover journalist.
My son doesn't want to leave so I bribe him with the promise of hot chocolate and cartoons.
The defence argued that neither money nor a bribe were discussed directly in wiretapped conversations between the men.
The policy is a shameless bribe to the elderly and prosperous Tory party members who choose the leader.
In 21988 B.C., the father of the Olympic wrestler Polyktor attempted to bribe the father of a rival.
You bribe a farmer in a remote area, take over one of his barns, and install yourself inside.
Prosecutors say about $1.8 billion worth of bribe money has been recovered from offshore accounts in 36 countries.
This, the El Salvador team claim, has led to the offer of a 'bribe' from a Salvadoran businessman.
Mr Belykh is accused of receiving a €400,000 ($445,000) bribe and faces up to 15 years in jail.
In many parts of India, an untrained driver can receive a driver's license simply by paying a bribe.
There are myriad taxes on corporations, but it's easy enough to bribe one's way out of paying them.
The bribe may only partially explain how the business was obtained, or in some cases not at all.
Rimsevics, who has denied all wrongdoing, is accused of soliciting a bribe and has yet to face trial.
A president could almost certainly be prosecuted after leaving office for accepting a bribe to grant a pardon.
Should parents bribe their children to do what's right — with cash, extra screen time or other extrinsic rewards?
Students: Read the entire article, then tell us: — Should parents bribe their children with money, treats or toys?
Really, Reb Berish, you're not going to bribe the Lord of the Universe with a pair of phylacteries.
At the DEA's direction, the ex-governor provided Moreno and Pinilla a $10,000 bribe deposit, the complaint said.
The public prosecutor's office accused him of pocketing a roughly $13.5-million bribe from Odebrecht via his uncle.
Anything that could be used against someone to blackmail or bribe them into working for the other side.
Choi was indicted last year for taking bribe from a club in exchange of giving them favorable decisions.
These days, you can bribe pretty much anybody to let you smuggle all kinds of things into jails.
A simple bribe to the right person in Kiev allows a builder to eschew all codes and norms.
Research on the efficacy of rewards tells us that we can't bribe others into doing what we want.
Mr. Erdogan has told associates that he angrily rejected the offer as "a political bribe," this person said.
He is not the only person who has claimed to have used campaign contributions to bribe the mayor.
He provided documents showing Trafigura's Wainwright was copied on an email referencing what Herz alleges were bribe payments.
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act permits people to be convicted for merely trying to bribe a foreign leader.
After all, this is one guy we can be sure didn't need to bribe his way into Harvard.
They found Mr. Seabrook guilty of accepting a bribe but said they were deadlocked on a conspiracy charge.
Even when rules are introduced, enforcement is weak and offenders can often pay a bribe to avoid punishment.
The Netanyahus have argued the deal does not constitute a bribe and that they only sought balanced coverage.
But he said several times that he never knew a doorman to take a bribe at his building.
An international photojournalist and owner of Adventure Architects, he was expecting to be forced to pay a bribe.
When he wins, he's utterly unprepared, as are the local oligarchs, who try and fail to bribe him.
The easiest way to deal with Kataib Al Imam Ali was to bribe them, according to Sallyport employees.
You'd have to bribe or shoot your way through certain fucking death a thousand times, there and back.
One aspiring politician is accused of getting her bribe in a coffee cup chock-full of $100 bills.
Merely asking for a bribe counts — it need not actually occur for the act to be a crime.
Thiam's lawyer, Aaron Goldsmith, told jurors that prosecutors had offered no solid evidence the money was a bribe.
Mr. Do raised cash to help her bribe her way out and to bring her to South Korea.
The Latvian Anti-Corruption Authority said on Monday Rimsevics' detention was related to a solicitation for a bribe.
The man who received the bribe, Carlos Telleldín, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
And Trump pretty clearly believes on the merits that American businesses should be allowed to bribe foreign officials.
Bribe money allegedly moved through accounts in the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and other European nations.
"My friend, you won't believe how much you cost me to bribe the judge," he said with a grin.
Sechin later told Rossiya 24 state television that he had testified that Ulyukayev had asked him for a bribe.
"We tried to get the whole (fur) family involved but *someone* may have needed a bribe," joked the actress.
Authorities also say the Isacksons underpaid their federal income taxes by deducting the bribe payments as purported charitable contributions.
Traffickers often bribe poorly paid Dominican officials to turn a blind eye to their smuggling operations, US officials say.
Where a 100 rand (about US$6.87) bribe to a police officer can get you out of a DUI.
This rarely resulted in prosecutions of bribe-payers, it said, as too many companies were doing the same thing.
The following month Mr Ulyukaev was arrested while allegedly accepting a bribe during a sting operation in Rosneft's offices.
In the operation, KPK confiscated 240 million rupiah ($15,774) authorities suspect had been intended as bribe money, Situmorang said.
Officials from KAPO caught Gruzdev handing someone a petty bribe in the small town of Põlva in August 2015.
Local authorities reportedly arrested Le Roux, who turned down his bribe offer and handed him off to the DEA.
On one occasion, he said, he paid a $100,000 bribe to a general at the explicit direction of Guzman.
In Chile this month a Spaniard was arrested for attempting to bribe a policeman (with 30,000 pesos, worth $47).
Arthur de la Mare, the departing high commissioner, fulminated that this was "a bribe to keep the Singaporeans sweet".
She tells Snoop she's gonna kick his butt and then offers to bribe Wiz and Seth for their votes.
He is also accused of agreeing to bribe the city council president in exchange for repealing campaign finance limits.
Dealings with the authorities increasingly take place online, where it is harder to get shaken down for a bribe.
Desarrollos Energéticos SA (DESA), the company behind the dam construction, even allegedly attempted to bribe Cáceres to stay silent.
Then, prosecutors allege, the KWF would bribe coaches and administrators to accept the donors' kids into prestigious college programs.
Those Hun Sen schools are crumbling, and pupils hoping to pass their exams have to bribe ill-paid teachers.
The allegations of bribe-taking, according to opposition members of an all-party committee, may even have been faked.
Truthfully, I've never been on a flight with my kids where I even needed to bribe my fellow passengers.
The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act makes it a crime for businesses to bribe overseas officials to win business.
The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act makes it a crime for companies to bribe overseas officials to win business.
Federal prosecutors had accused Seabrook of steering $20 million of union funds into Platinum in exchange for a bribe.
Not to mention attempts by the media to bribe people with personal links to Markle - including her ex-boyfriend.
The plan was to show up to the Apple Store early and bribe someone in line to switch reservations.
He was found guilty of accepting valuable work on a luxury apartment as a bribe from an engineering company.
Egyptian tradition, he thinks, is tainted by a culture of bribe-paying, nepotism and other behaviour banned by religion.
How then, must he feel about his boss offering him up like a very delicious bribe for Emmy voters?
The FCPA enforcement view is that a business's full profit was secured solely as a result of any bribe.
Anxiety over China's influence operations has grown over Beijing's willingness to coerce, blackmail and bribe people in other countries.
One cannot lead a life in North Korea if he or she does not bribe his or her way.
I will personally bribe the Academy myself to complete his EGOT if he never posts another bloody finger again. 
Last year, lead prosecutor Hamilton Castro accused Odebrecht of paying a $20 million bribe to former president Alejandro Toledo.
He packs a bribe, often something as simple as fresh apples or bananas, or sometimes as much as $200.
Seabrook was found guilty last August of taking a bribe to invest $20 million of union funds in Platinum.
Police in Peru raided the home of former President Alejandro Toledo in February for allegedly accepting a Odebrecht bribe.
"According to the government, this is one of the trips that's a bribe in this case," Mr. Cogan said.
When you have that vital connection, she says, there's no need to threaten, nag, plead, bribe — or even punish.
Two of Suge Knight's former attorneys are behind bars for allegedly trying to bribe witnesses in his murder case.
Mr. Igtet said Mr. Yakunin seemed "desperate," even offering what appeared to be a bribe to restart the project.
Some families are so eager for the money that they bribe militia officers to let their sons go fight.
Nor is she going to coerce or bribe or threaten people into changing, or pretending to change, their religion.
Burzaco described a typical bribe payment of $600,000 annually to top officials in Conmebol, the South American soccer confederation.
His older sister managed to lure him to a restaurant on his birthday only by dangling a $40 bribe.
Police in Peru raided the home of former President Alejandro Toledo last year for allegedly accepting a Odebrecht bribe.
After the official's death, Arzuaga said he helped distribute bribe money left in his account to the official's heirs.
"I know sometimes the traders bribe my staff," said Wiranto, director general of conservation of natural resources and ecosystems.
Her husband, desperate to help, tried unsuccessfully to bribe a security guard so he could stay with her longer.
Ms. Park and Ms. Choi were accused of demanding a $7.8 million bribe from SK, prosecutors said on Monday.
In the years since, each had received a good reassignment after a small bribe was paid to the authorities.
Nonetheless, the public record already provides a strong prima facie basis for concluding that the President solicited a bribe.
Tillerson told Trump the Yemeni official offered him a bribe to get Exxon to agree to an oil deal.
She did not specify who had paid the bribe, or to whom, and Reuters could not verify her statement.
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For starters, it's an individual sport, so there's only one player who must act (and only one player to bribe).
Allegedly, Low's intention was to bribe DOJ officials to influence a criminal probe into his alleged misuse of international dough.
"I am walking over to the NFL store because I'm gonna try and bribe my family with gifts," she joked.
"Questcor's response to this challenge has been to bribe physicians to prescribe and promote H.P. Acthar Gel," the suit said.
The SEC said that all told the company's bribe scheme brought the company more than $200 million in illicit profits.
Prosecutors allege that from 2012 to 2015, Kapoor, Babich and others conspired to bribe doctors in exchange for prescribing Subsys.
Those who obtain a licence, however, ought to find it easier to stand up to bribe-demanding cops and bureaucrats.
He avoided capture through the years due to his enormous power to bribe corrupt local, state and federal Mexican officials.
In other words, a clear quid pro quo—signing a treaty after receiving a bribe, say—is a no-no.
He approached some wealthy businessmen inside the prison and arranged for them to bribe guards to allow in some books.
Even though the deal never happened, the mere offering of a bribe might legally be seen as a criminal action.
The Rangers broadcast team had to bribe him with a fishing rod before he agreed to tape a television interview.
The alternative is escape, which brings with it the risk of being shot or having to pay an extortionate bribe.
It was bad enough, they say, that last year's migrant crisis forced them to bribe Turkey to keep refugees away.
A 21964-month inquiry produced a charge that a housing inspector had taken a $19673 bribe, but he was acquitted.
If officers caught me, they'd take me to the station and I'd have to bribe them with money or booze.
Intense and wary, he views beauty as a bribe that the city pays strangers to keep them from its heart.
The three were arrested on Saturday in Mombasa for attempting to bribe investigators with amounts totaling 900,000 Kenyan shillings ($8,800).
In 20123, 22012% of Mexicans gave a bribe, up from 260% in 28, according to Transparency International's Global Corruption Barometer.
"I am walking over to the NFL store because I'm gonna try and bribe my family with gifts," she jokes.
The ruling largely upheld Mr Lee's insistence that he had been coerced by Ms Park into handing over the bribe.
Those who are caught risk being sent to a prison camp if they cannot bribe their way out of trouble.
He might purchase, say, 20 tons of steel, but bribe the vendor to give him a receipt for 0003 tons.
It would let businessmen and bribe-trousering officials secretly declare their ill-gotten gains and repay them to the state.
Now BuzzFeed indicates that the president himself suborned [a legal term meaning to bribe or induce] perjury from Mr. Cohen.
After that failed, he decided to bribe his way into her life, buying her PAX East Tickets, $5,000 earrings, etc.
Foreign companies seeking business in Iraq frequently hire well-connected intermediaries, who then bribe senior officials in return for contracts.
If the sex worker is an undocumented immigrant, she said, the bribe price is doubled or tripled to prevent deportation.
The bribery rate was highest in Yemen, where four out of five people reported paying a bribe for public services.
Ulyukayev was dismissed and put under house arrest in November over allegations he extorted a $2 million bribe from Rosneft.
Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, it is a crime for companies with U.S. operations to bribe foreign government officials.
People are asked about the chances of a public servant suggesting a bribe, or a corrupt public servant being jailed.
"[S]imply making a referral" is not an official act that could serve as evidence of a bribe at work.
It alleged the five people worked together to bribe an employee of a prominent proxy advisory firm, also not named.
"Never once has a person, much less a company tried to bribe me to undo my truthful claim," Bredouw said.
FCPA enforcement attempts to remedy the benefit of any bribe to a business, but this is not currently being achieved.
BROOKLYN, New York — First he accused El Chapo of paying a $25 million bribe to the former president of Mexico.
BROOKLYN, New York — First he accused El Chapo of paying a $2000 million bribe to the former president of Mexico.
A construction executive has also testified that Mr. Temer was the beneficiary of a $300,000 bribe, a claim he denies.
Prosecutors said from 1998 to 2010, Louis Berger and its employees orchestrated $3.9 million in bribe payments to foreign officials.
If sanctions fail to cause regime change, Step Two is to coerce or bribe military officers to overthrow the regime.
Three members of interim President Michel Temer's all-white male cabinet have already been forced to resign over bribe-taking.
Yet shortly after he was released on bail, a different Latvian bank leveled new allegations of bribe solicitation against him.
Ilmars Rimsevics, a member of the ECB' governing council, is suspected of accepting the offer of a 500,000-euro bribe.
How do we tell the difference between a gift as a sign of friendship and a gift as a bribe?
A former aide of Guzman's testified that Guzman once paid ex-Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto a $100 million bribe.
Peru's former President Ollanta Humala and his wife are in prison while authorities investigate their involvement in the Odebrecht bribe.
Last year, investigators obtained a recording in which Mr. Neves is heard requesting a large bribe from a prominent businessman.
Afterwards, Ismael was arrested, but his family managed to scrape together $20,3503 to bribe an official and get him released.
She said the note promising Ms. Wu a reward if a court verdict went her way was not a bribe.
In the recording, made at the house of Mr. Pólit, the anti-corruption official, the two men discuss a bribe.
So friends and neighbors were surprised the actress was accused of paying a bribe to improve their daughter's test score.
Mr. Spertus said that Ms. Guo and her parents did not know that the payment was going toward a bribe.
A former Odebrecht executive has said Toledo asked for a bribe and has been providing evidence to corroborate the claim.
Should a high school star be prevented from playing college basketball because his father was accused of taking a bribe?
During the trip, Mr. Kuhn repeatedly offered to bribe Mr. Nadjari to drop the charges or simply let him escape.
The tycoon sought to disguise the bribe as a deal involving the sale of a gold mine, the prosecutors said.
Mr. Hawilla testified that he had been disgusted that he had to bribe officials, but that he did so nonetheless.
Nuzman is accused of conspiring with Cabral and the United States-based Brazilian businessman Arthur Soares Filho to bribe voters.
Mr. Shin was accused of paying the $6.2 million bribe in May while seeking government help to regain the license.
The evidence for these ties — like the evidence that Mr. Trump sought a bribe from the Ukrainian president — is indisputable.
A commander at the apartment complex where Guzmán was captured refused a $3 million bribe for his release, Sandoval said.
But it really served wealthy families, prosecutors say Singer disguised bribe payments from clients as charitable contributions to the foundation.
Furthermore, he asserted that party leaders have arranged a system that allows them to bribe delegates to sway their votes.
In the 1990s, traders just needed to give the border patrols on both sides of the river a small bribe.
It suggests that Mr. Trump wasn't simply soliciting a bribe, but doing so to try to rig the next election.
They may reinterpret their events, use official channels to give an appearance of justice, and intimidate or bribe or bystanders.
He said the Justice Department was trying to equate an emolument with a bribe from foreign or state government officials.
While companies have the flexibility to make these accommodations, they are not required to — hence the cookies to bribe them.
And the Europeans, who still have this peculiar thing called rule of law, can't bribe their way to trade peace.
The family's lawyer said the family did not know that its payment was going to be used for a bribe.
Kapoor and four other former company executives are accused of scheming to bribe doctors into prescribing a powerful fentanyl painkiller.
Kauff and pitcher Fred Toney were offered $225 each to throw games; Kauff immediately reported the attempted bribe to McGraw.
Indeed, many Indian applicants bribe school boards to get a job, which they treat as a sinecure rather than a career.
"An oligarch takes a top government official on a ride on his own yacht—that's a bribe," he said on YouTube.
Odebrecht said it paid $439 million outside Brazil, with the largest bribe admissions abroad in Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and Panama.
Much lending in Bangladesh goes to those who know bankers or bribe them; Islami Bank appears to use more prudent criteria.
The big picture: SoftBank's package includes a massive bribe... errr, I mean golden parachute... errr, I mean "consulting contract" for Neumann.
I mentally bribe myself with the promise of a delicious breakfast and then I'm in the study groove within ten minutes.
Many bribe border guards to look the other way; hence the large number of Eritreans who have sought asylum in Europe.
Others have characterized it as a bribe, as a "charm offensive" to nudge May on various issues set to be discussed.
In parts of Russia the only profitable way to run a firm is to hide the profits from bribe-hungry bureaucrats.
"It may seem easy to take a bribe but, I'll tell you what, it's also easy to get caught," she said.
The DoJ alleges that Odebrecht set up a "Division of Structured Operations", which "effectively functioned as a stand-alone bribe department".
She called an election in order to increase her majority and with it her ability to bribe and bully her MPs.
Police recommended last month that in this case, Netanyahu should be charged with requesting a bribe, fraud, and breach of trust.
Insys's billionaire founder John Kapoor was arrested on charges that he participated in a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe Subsys.
NABU's undercover agent was in the process of handing over a "bribe" when she was arrested by the prosecutor general's men.
Larry Inman (R-Traverse City) is charged with attempted extortion, soliciting a bribe and making a false statement to the FBI.
They want, you know, literally cargo planes of cash and other currency and if you bribe the dictator, that&aposs right.
Prosecutors said Moreno had ordered part of the bribe to finance his 2014 reelection campaign managed by political strategist Luis Favre.
According to an indictment unsealed on Tuesday, Hayes worked with business executive Greg Lindberg to bribe state insurance commissioner Mike Causey.
The trafficking is said to include multiple kilos of cocaine and meth in exchange for thousands of dollars in bribe money.
When this happens, Babette makes it a point to run after them and bribe them with a free wild rice taco.
He admitted that he took part in a scheme to bribe officials in exchange for business opportunities, including a mining contract.
On Tuesday, in a statement to Newsmax, Collins likened the crowdfunding campaign to a political bribe trying to buy her vote.
Toledo, under whom Kuczynski served as finance minister and prime minister, is accused of taking a $20 million bribe from Odebrecht.
Instead of governing well, politicians are keener to steal money so as to bribe and rig their way back to power.
If there was a bribe, 10% - not 100% - of the business profit should then be taken in an FCPA enforcement action.
Existing fines and penalties can be hugely excessive relative to the benefit of the bribe, with a wider distortive economic impact.
Umm Saleh's mother and sister sold all their gold to pay the bribe, and Umm Saleh gave him her husband's name.
This whistleblower said they think the president essentially tried to bribe a foreign official to get dirt on his political rival.
Tweed tried to bribe Nast and threatened to use his control over city agencies to financially damage Nast's publisher, Harper's Magazine.
In an interview with The Courier Journal, a former Simmons College board member said the Schnatter gift amounted to a bribe.
Poorer citizens will avoid public healthcare if the cost of a vaccination or a treatment is a bribe they cannot afford.
Clinton over her use of a private email server, also accused her of trying to "bribe" Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch.
During the next few weeks, the lawyer asked Manu for the equivalent of three thousand dollars, in order to bribe officials.
JOHN C. WEBB Columbus, Ohio To the Editor: KJ Dell'Antonia asks if there's a right way to bribe children to read.
The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act makes it a crime for U.S.-tied companies to bribe overseas officials to win business.
With political campaigns sweeping in billions, with major banks tricking their customers out of vast fortunes, a $21988,250 bribe seems quaint.
It typically cost the bribe-paying family more than twice that amount, once the orchestrator's cut and additional fees were included.
The man who had attempted to bribe the players, Paris, had been arrested prior to the game, along with two accomplices.
Someone purporting to be the attacker appears in the DAO slack channel claiming they'll bribe miners to oppose the soft fork.
The government has said the job was actually a bribe for Mr. Percoco in exchange for his help with state business.
No hearings on this reverse Robin Hood tax bill, but Republican leaders can openly bribe members of Congress for their votes.
Mr. Cifuentes dated the alleged bribe to October 2012 and Mr. Guzmán was captured for the first time in February 2014.
According to the charges, they still find it necessary to bribe, cheat and deceive to get their children into elite colleges.
According to the charging documents, Mr. Singer arranged for an SAT expert to proctor her SAT in exchange for a bribe.
Mr. Sechin, for his part, now contends that Mr. Ulyukayev had solicited a bribe to smooth approvals for an oil deal.
They also bribe the police to get out of deadly accidents or allow their decrepit buses to continue along commuter routes.
Singer pleaded guilty in March to charges he helped bribe university sports coaches to present clients' children as fake athletic recruits.
Mr. Singh, indicted on Long Island in a separate corruption case, would later plead guilty to trying to bribe the mayor.
In still another case, he faces scrutiny over claims that he negotiated a $40 million bribe for the party in 2010.
One might hope that all public employees would be offended by the offer of a bribe and would report such conduct.
Mr. Temer also faces accusations that he negotiated a $40 million bribe for his party in 2010, a claim he denies.
Even assuming Mr. Comey's memo is accurate, there is no indication that President Trump willfully attempted to bribe the F.B.I. director.
Wyshak said Burlakoff, who supervised Insys' sales staff, worked with others to also bribe doctors by employing their girlfriends or relatives.
He congratulated himself for turning down a two-billion-dollar deal, which looked like a cartoonish bribe, from an Emirati businessman.
His conviction suggests a new phase for the case, shifting its focus to the financial institutions through which bribe money traveled.
He was mostly expressionless at the trial, nodding occasionally when one of his attorneys reiterated his previous denials of bribe payments.
Watch. Trump mentioned that over the weekend he was offered a $2 billion deal with Dubai, which sounds like a bribe.
The bribe made the procedure to give me back electric power last only three days after I paid the full bill.
But the next day the New York Times reported on affidavits alleging that Roosevelt's campaign had attempted to bribe black delegates.
No Russian intelligence official stood outside my polling place offering me a bribe or threatened me to vote against Hillary Clinton.
Once accused of corruption, he went on live television and swore on the Bible that he had never taken a bribe.
"This is funding is there regardless of the outcome," he told BBC radio when asked if the money was a bribe.
Ditto if some hypothetical president told an adviser to bribe a witness or destroy evidence — or commit any other criminal act.
They'd have to pay the odd bribe or fine at a police station, or they'd get into trouble with local toughs.
The exchange occurred after Lula's May 10, 2017 deposition against charges that he took a beachside luxury apartment as a bribe.
An ability to bribe your way out of anything and a lax attitude for drinking and driving compounds these issues significantly.
Warner, a long-time powerbroker from Trinidad and Tobago until resigning in a 2011 election bribery scandal, is identified by FIFA in its 22-page claim for receiving a $1 million bribe from 1998 World Cup bid candidate Morocco, and ensuring the $10 million bribe from South Africa was paid via a FIFA account in 2008.
Burga's lawyer pointed to the fact that his client had never accepted any bribe money, something the prosecutors acknowledged and called irrelevant; he had been wary of accepting suspicious payments while under investigation for money laundering in Peru, they said, and had nonetheless engaged in a conspiracy to collect such bribe money at a future point.
Prosecutors said the money, and cash Belykh received on other occasions, was a bribe in return for favourable treatment for Zyudheimer's company.
"The students respond with things like, 'I'd bribe her,' 'I'd give her pretzels,' 'I'd offer to hold her hand,'" Mr. Staten said.
They also floated the option of setting up meetings with opponents in which they're sneakily offered a bribe and caught on video.
Poor farmers like Veeraswami are often harassed by local officials who demand a bribe to correct or issue new documents, he said.
Glas has been accused by a fugitive former oil minister of being "the ringleader" of a bribe network in the energy sector.
Ulyukayev was dismissed and put under house arrest a year ago over allegations that he took a $2 million bribe from Rosneft.
Prosecutors allege that from 2012 to 2015, Kapoor, Babich and others conspired to bribe doctors in exchange for prescribing their patients Subsys.
"You will bribe to get a better task, you will sacrifice your body, or you will toil as an animal," he said.
Two of the lawyers who represented Knight were also indicted on conspiracy charges for allegedly attempting to bribe witnesses and obstruct justice.
Because not even Gregory seems to have enough hard liquor to bribe his way out of a dead Savior on the premises.
They also are accused of conspiring to bribe Georgetown's tennis coach to get their daughter into the university as a tennis recruit.
The doctors were obviously aware of all this, but they'd create the illusion that a bribe was necessary for a patient's care.
The crisis at ABLV comes alongside a separate police investigation into allegations that Latvia's central bank chief Ilmars Rimsevics solicited a bribe.
In September the country's Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) launched a scheme, in partnership with Britain's overseas aid ministry, called "Pay No Bribe".
Even so, the decision by Rodrigo Janot, the chief prosecutor, on June 26th to charge Mr Temer with bribe-taking was momentous.
Prosecutors accused Davidson of participating in schemes to bribe soccer officials to secure millions of dollars in sports marketing contracts for Traffic.
Forestry firm Holmen, where Lundberg is chairman, said Lundberg was suspected of offering a bribe related to hunting events arranged by Holmen.
Borg is suspected of taking a bribe at a hunt in 2014, the prosecutors' anti-corruption unit said, without giving further details.
Hoyt also entered a judgment against Rincon of $7 million, the amount of the bribe payments he admitted to taking, prosecutors said.
Overnight, state investigators said they had detained Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev on suspicion of taking a bribe to approve the Bashneft deal.
Western invalids will just have to deal with jello and white bread, unless they can bribe nurses into scoring some Taco Bell.
Of course, the judges were probably put in a bind: If they rejected the bribe, they may have risked losing their lives.
No gambler could ever hope to offer a sufficiently large bribe for such stars to put their massive legitimate incomes in jeopardy.
Bravo Fernandez sought to bribe Martinez Maldonado in order to win passage of bills that would benefit his business, according to prosecutors.
According to court documents, those charged used the "facade of the charitable organization" to hide the nature and source of bribe payments.
Odebrecht said it paid $439 million outside of Brazil, with the largest bribe admissions abroad in Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and Panama.
Prosecutors said shareholder Zebede did not tell the U.S. company about the bribe, and told Li not to reveal it as well.
The prosecutors probe centered on issues such as hunting trips organised by the company and whether these could be considered a bribe.
Saudi Arabia has arrested a defense ministry official on charges of receiving a 23 million riyal ($267,000) bribe and abusing his position.
But the longtime businessman knew that punishments meted out for small transgressions — the occasional bribe, payoff, or kickback — were mild in Cuba.
I saw people bribe a check-in attendant, laying their fists full of cash where you flash your wristband to get in.
One columnist proposed that it pay a large leaving "fine" – a kind of bribe – in exchange for continued membership, which might work.
But no other country systematically deploys intelligence services and state resources on a massive scale to dope, bribe and cheat in sports.
And sometimes police themselves perpetuate it, such as the Chicago cop who allegedly accepted a $5,000 bribe -- stuffed in a doughnut bag.
If the actual benefit from a bribe is determined, this may lead to more rationally based FCPA fines and criminal penalties overall.
It was only on cross-examination that Lichtman was able to ask Cifuentes about the alleged $100 million bribe to Peña Nieto.
Beyond that, a construction executive has testified that Mr. Temer was the beneficiary of a $300,000 bribe, an assertion Mr. Temer disputes.
But, in this case, it already knew that my client had paid the bribe, because it had a recording of the transaction.
Last week, Mr. Jin apologized for lying but did not say whether the money he received from Mr. Kim was a bribe.
It's a bribe, of sorts, but you may be a bit more willing to put up with the noise and the dust.
Guatemala's Attorney General's Office is currently investigating whether or not the use of Adelson's plane by officials could be considered a bribe.
She appeared to refer to the $391 million in promised security aid, which Trump withheld for 55 days, as the bribe. Conspiracy.
But the Supreme Court limited that type of prosecution to only those involving a bribe or kickback in 2010 in Skilling v.
The union said the understaffing situation was also contributing to corruption since it is harder to bribe employees who work in tandem.
Criminals either trick telecom employees into giving them control of the victim's phone numbers, or bribe them in exchange for their help.
"That's a hell of a bribe, to spend million of dollars on lawyers when you have a senator on retainer," he said.
The group planning the courses decided to eliminate one thing that can induce people to attend an internal meeting: the food bribe.
Details produced by American investigators in a 2015 corruption indictment revealed Morocco had tried to bribe voters in two of those races.
But once in Washington, he sinks into a morass of lobbyists, conspiracies and corruption, ultimately taking a bribe to resign his seat.
"He told me that unless we paid a 10,000 rand bribe (about $737), we would never get any business," Mr. Mzulwini recalled.
Besides testifying about cash payments to Mr. García Luna, Mr. Zambada told the jury about another multimillion bribe he paid in 2005.
One of his closest advisers was accused of trying to bribe a judge to drop a criminal investigation involving Mr. Netanyahu's wife.
Reducing the current regulatory hostility towards private businesses in Iraq also should reduce corruption by decreasing the benefit to the bribe payer.
Mr. Ulyukayev was charged with extorting a large-scale bribe, Svetlana Petrenko, a spokeswoman for Russia's Investigative Committee, said on state television.
Federal prosecutors accused Seabrook of steering $20 million of union funds into Platinum in exchange for a $60,000 bribe from the fund.
Mr. Janot charged Mr. Temer with corruption in June over accusations that he authorized a bribe to keep an imprisoned politician silent.
Here is what it didn't do, though: offer a 100,000-point bribe to every new customer who wanted one of its cards.
And a witness in El Chapo's trial in New York City testified that Nieto himself had accepted a bribe of $100 million.
They may reinterpret events, use official channels to give an appearance of justice, and intimidate, bribe, or threaten the individuals or bystanders.
He was charged with attempting to bribe an official to obstruct investigations into the looting of Eskom, a state-owned electricity provider.
In fact it is advising drug traffickers to avoid Guinea-Bissau because it is now too expensive for them to bribe officials.
A former president, Alejandro Toledo, is being sought by Interpol over allegations that he received a $20 million bribe from Mr. Odebrecht.
Bribery generally requires a showing of intent, but for impeachment purposes, whether a bribe must be related to official duties is unclear.
But when I started I didn't have any nieces or nephews and couldn't bribe people to come to the premiere with me.
Parents paid Singer approximately $25 million to bribe coaches and administrators to designate their kids' as recruited athletes, according to court records.
Is the Supreme Court in any way on the fence about the fact that Williams at least tried to bribe the governor?
"The farther along they are, the higher bribe price the external community has to pay for them to give it up," he said.
Others bribe border guards to cross into China, where women are vulnerable to trafficking into forced marriages or the sex trade, it added.
Hunter claims that officers would bribe inmates with canteen dollars (to buy shampoo or skin care) if they assaulted inmates the guards disliked.
The guards recognized that Warfaa, a farmer, had not died and accepted a bribe from his family to release him, according to documents.
Hongwei went missing in September after traveling to China, where Chinese authorities now say he is being detained over allegations of bribe-taking.
In addition to raping Lélis, Feliciano is accused of pressuring members of his party to bribe and threaten her to withdraw her allegations.
He'd been caught accepting $21,000 in bribe money from an FBI cooperating witness, who posed as a developer in a sweeping corruption sting.
Bruce Isackson also pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy and conspiracy to defraud the IRS for taking a tax deduction for the bribe.
Ulyukayev was dismissed and put under house arrest in November over allegations he extorted a $2 million bribe from top oil producer Rosneft.
The move wasn't intended as a bribe, proponents said, but rather as acknowledgement that the health of Amazonian forests has global climate implications.
It also said just 3.6 billion won ($3.31 million) was paid as a bribe, not 7.2 billion as the lower court had said.
Thanks to his father's prominent standing in the village where he was from, Noorzae managed to secure the money to bribe the Taliban.
The fantasy that the Saudis could bribe or strong-arm the Palestinians to accept a Kushner-constructed peace agreement is now officially dead.
"A Man of Integrity", filmed in Iran, is a tense drama about a man who refuses to bribe his way out of problems.
But his real bombshell was the allegation that Chapo paid a $21 million bribe to former Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto in 225.
"You can bribe officials for what kind of iron shackles you want to be put on: lighter ones or heavier ones," he said.
In exchange for bribe money, Janke helped rich parents' children get into USC by setting up profiles for them with falsified athletic credentials.
Ulyukayev was dismissed and put under house arrest in November over allegations he extorted a $2 million bribe from Russian oil producer Rosneft.
Fox is accused of introducing Singer to a former University of Texas tennis coach and accepting $100,000 for assisting with the bribe transaction.
Mr. Anderson was accused of, among other things, attempting to bribe a nurse to make statements that Mr. Lee was being held hostage.
Detailing a $1 million deal made around his dining room table, Mr. Ardón said that the president had later acknowledged receiving Chapo's bribe.
"We say the offer of an internship was a bribe in civil law," Roger Masefield, a lawyer for the LIA, told the court.
I have good reason to be cautious: In Austria, being caught bribing or accepting a bribe could land you five years in prison.
Sure, my Egg McMuffin is a lot pricier than usual this morning, but it tastes especially delicious, marinated in my first successful bribe.
Not only did no one want to use the assistant, but Samsung even recognized that it'd have to bribe users to do so.
People who bribe officials or public servants who solicit bribes in trade-related matters must be punished, under the terms of the deal.
In the absence of transparency and effective oversight, these firms can bribe local officials in recipient countries to greenlight more and bigger projects.
He made no headway, he said, because secrecy suits businesses that want to evade taxes and can bribe lawmakers to resist legislative change.
Given the choice to deliver marijuana or cocaine, all the postal service employees chose to deliver cocaine in exchange for a higher bribe.
Prosecutors say another former president, Alejandro Toledo, took a $20 million bribe from Odebrecht in exchange for help securing lucrative public work contracts.
Colombian trafficker Alex Cifuentes caused a stir by testifying that former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto took a $100 million bribe from Guzman.
Oscar producers Mike de Luca and Jennifer Todd aren't above the occasional beg or bribe to ensure Hollywood's biggest night stays that way.
In June of last year, he claimed US officials tried to bribe him and his developers to install a backdoor in the app.
As a 103-year-old, he remembers politicians coming through his town in Migori County to visit — and bribe — families for their votes.
The court reduced his sentence because Yang confessed and took steps to return bribe money and assets to the state treasury, CCTV said.
A Kremlin spokesman said Belykh was arrested for receiving a bribe, but did not comment on the broader issue of election slush funds.
Sometimes the hackers bribe workers inside telecoms such as T-Mobile and AT&T to give them control over a target's phone number.
He made no headway, he said, because secrecy suits businesses that want to evade taxes and can bribe lawmakers to resist legislative change.
Beat Cop has you writing tickets, but the opportunity to take a bribe or help out a street criminal is nearly always available.
In late June, Russian investigators detained Belykh, saying they had caught him accepting a bribe of 400,000 euros ($452,720) in a Moscow restaurant.
If I was an NHL agent, I'd bribe everyone in the TV truck to never give my players the Skate of Shame treatment.
My dad used to bring me with him, bribe my silence with a $503 bag of peanuts and a can of Mountain Dew.
As we continued to chat, Ionut seemed to become less and less certain of the exemplary, bribe-free neurosurgery department he had built.
Masera also engaged in a scheme that helped some of Singer's clients disguise bribe payments as charitable donations to his charity, prosecutors said.
If convicted, Mr. McKoy and Mr. Sufian face up to seven years in prison on the most serious charge, bribe receiving, officials said.
Former secretary for transport and public works, Ao Man-long, was arrested in 2006 for bribe-taking, money laundering and abuse of power.
Those with numbers can now use a simple smartphone app to collect government pensions or scholarships, or receive banking services — all bribe-free.
In 2009, Wang accepted a bribe of 2.36 million yuan from a developer to buy a property in Australia for his eldest daughter.
Shortly before the election, he was accused of attempting to bribe officials in a meeting in the Caribbean, and was suspended by FIFA.
The second charge involves a bribe of 1.5 million ringgit ($358,000) that she received from the same company official in 2017, prosecutors said.
Look, we realize that there are plenty of other reasons people use cash—to bribe police officers, for example— but we're not judging.
He would merely be aiding and abetting in a coverup in pursuit of a purely personal objective, no different than accepting a bribe.
For years, Republicans have torn at the potential common fabric of America, offering a racial bribe to working-class whites to win elections.
By 22016, Clarissa had concluded that the only way to bring Ben home was to help law enforcement catch Watts taking a bribe.
"Unlike theory A, this doesn't require the government to prove that a public official was involved—anyone can bribe a witness," Eliason wrote.
"He doesn't want to lose to workers, so he'll bribe whoever he needs to so he doesn't have to pay us," she said.
Bribe your way to the admissions office and score the ultimate scholarly achievement (the best mom award!) in this exclusive College Scandal costume.
They showed up with armed bodyguards at campaign offices to bribe challengers to drop out of the race to clear their candidate's path.
Mr. Callejas paid much of that bribe money forward, he said, to delegates of his country's soccer federation to ensure his re-election.
Powerful rural businessmen often bribe government officials or land registry agents known as "cartorios" to obtain property title deeds, according to Brazilian prosecutors.
Meanwhile, Latvia's central bank governor Ilmars Rimsevics, a top policy-maker at the European Central Bank, has been accused of accepting a bribe.
If you're like many moms, dads and grandparents, you'll probably start coaxing, harassing and begging, or even resorting to a bribe -- dessert. Relax!
Goldsmith did not dispute that Thiam received money, but said the government would not be able to prove that it was a bribe.
Rimsevics was accused last year by Latvia's public prosecutor of accepting an offer of a 500,000 euro ($566,100) bribe from a Latvian bank.
Brazilian prosecutors previously said Loya and Maarraoui "knowingly and voluntarily" arranged to bribe Petrobras employees using middlemen with whom the pair had direct.
Meanwhile, a previous time I wrote about the rockets, a spokesman for Phal Samom attempted to bribe us not to publish the article.
" Other parents paid Singer to bribe college sports coaches to "recruit" their child and get them into universities, even creating fake "recruiting profiles.
The former director of the Kazakh part of the zone, Vasily Ni, was dismissed after being accused of taking a $1 million bribe.
"Nixon approved the arrangements to bribe witnesses and offered to take care of their families if they went to prison," Mr. Lacovara said.
The unit aims to identify violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a US law that makes it illegal to bribe foreign officials.
He is accused of having accepted a bribe from a big construction company, called OAS, which was prosecuted in Brazil's "Carwash" corruption scheme.
Alexei Ulyukayev, the ex-economy minister, was accused of trying to extort a bribe from Russian oil major Rosneft, an allegation he denies.
Current governor Ilmars Rimsevics has been accused of accepting the offer of a 500,000-euro bribe and taking a paid holiday in Russia.
It has a clip that you can use to hold their favorite treat, so you can bribe them in exchange for a snap.
A second police general came forward to back up the allegation and said Albayalde told him he "got a little" of the bribe.
He said three young immigrants he knew told him that Russian journalists had tried to bribe them with 400 kronor (about $43) apiece.
A tax inspector who uncovers tax fraud gets to keep 0000% of the fine, so they bribe your staff to do bad things.
Ulyukayev is on trial on charges of extorting a $2 million bribe from Sechin, in exchange for Ulyukayev's approval of a business deal.
Calk has pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of soliciting a bribe in exchange for aid from a federally regulated financial institution.
Gadio rejected Ho's initial draft ("this letter is not well written"), according to prosecutors, and finessed the language the alleged bribe should take.
He said three young immigrants he knew told him that Russian journalists had tried to bribe them with 400 kronor (about $43) apiece.
Customers get irate if their ACs can't be installed immediately, and sometimes they try to bribe their way to the front of the line.
IESCO's Mehmood said that although the utility had periodically received complaints from customers about bribe-taking, it had taken steps to reduce the problem.
The indictment handed to judges on Monday and seen by Reuters accuses Diack and his son, Papa Massata, of bribe-taking and money laundering.
On Wednesday, the senate's legal committee approved amendments to the bill to include influence peddling and bribe-taking on a list of pardonable offences.
He claimed on social media that he paid a bribe, but just days later he was publicly uncovered as an army officer by Ponte.org.
Black market entrepreneurs will find a way to bribe or weasel their way through absurd levels of crackdown on either side of the border.
This may be the biggest Game of Thrones twist yet: Big-time celebrities are actually trying to bribe their way onto HBO's juggernaut series.
Now the question is whether Peña Nieto — who has denied ever taking a bribe — is the next target for the feds, or someone else.
According to prosecutors and police, the probe centers on a scheme to bribe government officials in exchange for approval of legislation favoring private interests.
Officials have said that Ahmsa transferred the money to the shell company via a subsidiary of Odebrecht and suspected the transfer was a bribe.
After independence in 1947 thugs used to bribe politicians to stay out of trouble and to secure lucrative state concessions such as mining rights.
The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act makes it a crime to bribe overseas officials to win business, even if the payments are non-monetary.
Pay No Bribe has yet to create a culture of accountability: few policemen, for example, seem even to have heard of it so far.
A former Colombian senator who admitted pocketing an Odebrecht bribe claims, without proof, that $1m went to President Juan Manuel Santos's campaign in 2014.
"She will not have DUP support regardless of whether the government tries to bribe, bully or browbeat us into accepting it," Wilson also said.
The whipping system is at breaking-point as the enforcers lose their ability to bribe and bully and political factions organise themselves via WhatsApp.
Glas, 48, had previously been accused by a fugitive former oil minister of being "the ringleader" of a bribe network in the energy sector.
Person, 53, was charged with receiving $91,500 in bribe payments in exchange for steering elite Auburn University players to certain financial advisers and agents.
Heck, just last week, leaked documents revealed that Qatar secretly paid FIFA nearly $1 billion in bribe money to land the 2022 World Cup.
I once had a dad approach me and bribe me ($219) to prevent a certain kid from playing in our upcoming flag football game.
Through the sting operation, investigators had confiscated 513 million rupiah ($33,772) and S$90,000 ($65,378) that had been intended as bribe money, Syarif said.
Even a man who tried to bribe his way into a job at the Anti-Corruption Bureau avoided serving prison time, he notes contemptuously.
In February, two Kenyan athletes claimed that the chief executive of Athletics Kenya asked them each for a $24,000 bribe to reduce their suspensions.
One group was presented with the opportunity to make a one-time bribe that would result in their acquisition of significantly more money immediately.
Ali ordered his men to bury Warfaa's body, but the guards saw Warfaa had survived instead ransomed him to his family for a bribe.
I really think they'll bribe off the moderates with opioid money and then actually move policy to shore up Mike Lee and Ted Cruz.
And he tried to bribe the mullahs in Iran that say "death to America, death to Israel" with $150 in cash and other currency.
The outlet reported that the indictment also said that Flaxman paid a similar bribe for his daughter, but she declined to attend the university.
When Ashe was arrested, he was accused of using bribe money in Antigua with senior Antiguan government officials, including the country's former prime minister.
Beckon pets over to you for cuddles and kisses, use a turkey bribe if you must, so that you can enjoy their comforting presence.
Previously, USAID ended funding for a flagship customs reform project in the southern Odessa region as plans to tackle bribe-taking there petered out.
"In particular, Grupo Televisa in no way knew of, or condoned, any bribe or other improper conduct," spokesman Alejandro Olmos wrote in an email.
There, the candy was more of a straightforward bribe, with sour belts and licorice ropes offered in exchange for Instagramming pictures from the show.
There, a call like this would most likely be a trap—a setup to demand a bribe, the prelude to a kidnapping, or worse.
The LIA claims this was a bribe, intended to help sway the fund's decisions, and that SocGen knew or suspected the payment was dodgy.
RIGA (Reuters) - Latvia's anti-corruption authority said on Monday it had detained central bank governor Ilmars Rimsevics over the weekend for demanding a bribe.
They begin wrongly assuming that all the business profits are due to the bribe, when that may not be even close to the case.
Read more: The State Department tried to bribe the captain of an Iranian tanker with several million dollars, but he headed toward Syria instead
"The bribe is to grant or withhold military assistance in return for a public statement of a fake investigation into the elections," she said.
I really think they'll bribe off the moderates with Opioid money and then actually move policy to shore up Mike Lee and Ted Cruz.
You're going to need a crew of your own to put this much food together and you'll probably have to bribe them with booze.
In the United Brands case, Eli Black directly authorized the bribe, but these days the precise author of corporate wrongdoing is seldom so clear.
He said the bribe was paid because it was believed at the time that the official could become Mexico's next secretary of public security.
At first he tried to bribe his way out of it, but he flipped on the plane back from Liberia to the United States.
"It's unfair the way the Palestinians have described this as a bribe or as an attempt to buy off their national aspirations," he said.
In effect, the authorities said Mr. Singh was guilty of handing a bribe to a political leader who was not charged with accepting it.
The investigation was one of the biggest under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which makes it illegal for American corporations to bribe overseas officials.
The lawyer cited an email one such businessman had sent to remind himself to "call Marco Polo about transfer," referring to a bribe payment.
The handkerchief test also went as planned—though if it hadn't, her mother was prepared to also bribe the juntaora at the last minute.
The defense argued that the bag never held bribe money, but was filled with fine cigars that Mr. Seabrook received as a Hanukkah present.
In June, Mr. Temer became Brazil's first sitting president to face criminal charges when the attorney general charged him with accepting a $152,000 bribe.
Mr. Scarpa, 65, was arraigned on Tuesday in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, where he pleaded not guilty to charges connected to the bribe.
The client, Peter G. Kelly, an executive with the power company, would later hire Mr. Percoco's wife in what prosecutors say was a bribe.
Prosecutors have accused Mr. Ho of trying to bribe Mr. Déby by presenting him with $2 million in cash hidden in several gift boxes.
What makes it difficult is that each piece of bureaucratic red tape has its defender because it enables some official to extract a bribe.
Mr. Temer was already accused of negotiating a $40 million bribe in 2010 for his Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, a claim he also denies.
In a motion filed last year, defense attorneys said the couple did not know their money was being used to bribe a USC official.
It's about a second-generation or third-generation corporate leader who is constantly on cocaine and tries to bribe people out of his way.
The solicitation or acceptance of a bribe under the authority of political office is a serious breach of the public trust and, therefore, impeachable.
Hackers sometimes trick or bribe phone company employees into transferring their target's phone number to a new SIM card, which stores a phone's number.
But it refuses to spend money on these goals, trying instead to bribe private investors into serving those goals by offering targeted tax breaks.
Glenn also took a number of steps to hide her actions, including creating a false loan note for the $15,000 bribe, the information states.
But the suit claims that the decision to bribe the UAW in order to get a better labor deal went much higher than Iacobelli.
"On two occasions, the cartel personally delivered bribe payments to Garcia Luna in briefcases containing between three and five million dollars," the release states.
Many small and large businesses are infuriated that they have to pay a bribe to Google to get noticed by its billions of users.
Last week, Ng was extradited to the United States where he pleaded not guilty to conspiring to launder money and bribe foreign government officials.
It also clarifies that a stream of benefits -- rather than a single act -- qualifies as an unlawful benefit paid in exchange for a bribe.
Bruce Isackson will also plead guilty to money laundering conspiracy and conspiracy to defraud the IRS for taking a tax deduction for the bribe.
Hackers sometimes trick or bribe phone company employees into transferring their target's phone number to a new SIM card, which stores a phone's number.
According to court papers, he once gave a $1 million bribe — in cash — to Mexican law-enforcement officers to protect a single drug shipment.
The Trump kids (who were both in their 20s at the time they were reportedly misleading would-be customers) didn't need to bribe anyone.
Federal prosecutors cited one example where parents paid a $22018,000 bribe to Yale's women's soccer coach so that their daughter could attend the school.
Federal prosecutors cited one example where parents paid a $173,000 bribe to Yale's women's soccer coach so that their daughter could attend the school.
Siri last month was put under investigation for allegedly accepting a bribe from a wind farm entrepreneur who has been linked to the Sicilian Mafia.
The indictment alleged that they led a nationwide conspiracy to bribe medical practitioners to unnecessarily prescribe a fentanyl-based pain medication and defraud health insurance.
Rule learned that inmates would pool their money, draw lots, and bribe guards for impromptu conjugal sessions in the restroom or behind the water cooler.
According to Guo's lawyer, James Spertus, the young woman and her parents did not know the payment was going to be used for a bribe.
Among them is Fu, the Hong Kong investor who said he paid a bribe to inflate the appraisal for the property he wanted to buy.
She could typically bribe her way out of individual arrests, but when the regime targeted her whole operation in a sting, things got much worse.
I mean, the left&aposs mentality seems to be I got to kiss the ring and bribe dictators then maybe they will like us better.
The country's anti-corruption commission alleges that Eni and Shell "conspired" to send payment as a "bribe", and is seeking charges against their local subsidiaries.
But in the same poll only 2% said that they had been asked to pay a bribe in the past year, half the EU average.
Messite asked if that meant the emoluments clauses would allow the president to accept what amounted to a bribe if there was no corrupt intent.
The border can't be sealed in mountain regions and some Tunisian guards, often related to smugglers, look the other way for a bribe, residents say.
He goes on to explain how this happens: the story starts at birth, he says, with a bribe for the doctor in the delivery room.
In the mind of an anti-Semite, Jews are not inferior — we are perilously superior, with the skills to enslave, manipulate, and bribe non-Jews.
The scandal first erupted last fall, after Germany's Der Spiegel magazine published a report alleging the DFB had a slush fund to bribe FIFA officials.
It seems the habit of trying to bribe writers for big sites and providing access to those sites to marketers is still alive and well.
Prosecutors allege he helped students cheat on their SATs, sometimes without their knowledge, as well as bribe coaches and administrators to accept wealthy parents' children.
Police also accused a former spokesman for the prime minister of trying to bribe a judge into dropping a fraud case against Mr Netanyahu's wife.
Now that Grace has fully mourned her dearest friend in the world, her employer believes it's the right time to bribe the young woman. Mrs.
In 1958, Mr. Hooker was enlisted to assist in a corruption case against a Tennessee judge accused of accepting a bribe from the Teamsters union.
Earlier on his trip, an immigration agent in Chiapas demanded a bribe of 500 pesos (about $26), threatening to deport him if he didn't pay.
In reality those who refuse risk expulsion or the sack unless they bribe an official or hire someone to work in their place, sources said.
His mother spent close to $2000,2400 on a bribe to see one of the brothers behind a glass pane for just three minutes in 282.
Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged the founder of Insys, John Kapoor, with participating in a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe a particularly potent opioid.
It's unclear how an alleged recipient of a bribe would be a victim of receiving money, but that's their stance and they're sticking to it.
A payment by the Samsung Group to a firm controlled by Choi and used to back Chung's equestrian career is considered a bribe by prosecutors.
According to a criminal complaint, Blicht told the employer it was getting a "sweetheart deal" by making bribe payments he called "tickets," each worth $1,000.
Prosecutors said Singer used the cash to bribe two people who administered the exams — Igor Dvorsiky, of Los Angeles, and Lisa "Niki" Williams, of Houston.
Brazilian police raided Nuzman's home in September and accused him of paying a $2 million bribe to Diack's son Papa Diack, who was also charged.
Her claim to know nothing of it, nor that her campaign guru in the election in 2014 was paid with bribe money, smacks of negligence.
Before journalism, McCool worked as an anti-corruption campaigner for Transparency International, which made her pretty good at talking her way out of a bribe.
Braskem agreed in December to fines in Brazil and the United States to settle charges that it schemed to bribe politicians and executives in Brazil.
The scheming Andrew uses Selina's moment of post-surgery weakness to bribe her into considering him for secretary of state, should she remain in office.
It accuses Ban's relatives of a scheme to bribe a Middle Eastern official for an attempted $800 million sale of a building complex in Vietnam.
In emails and other correspondence, Mr. Percoco and Mr. Howe referred to bribe money as "ziti," a term used in "The Sopranos," the complaint says.
According to a criminal complaint filed in Manhattan federal court, Simon met with Bahn and another person in April 2014 to discuss the bribe payment.
Those charged are accused of paying William "Rick" Singer to bribe athletic coaches and exam proctors to help their children get into top-tier colleges.
It means threatening the citizens of Macedonia or, according to local reports, it means attempting to bribe them into giving false statements about other officials.
Prosecutors said in a news conference they were investigating corruption on infrastructure projects and soccer stadiums and identified Odebrecht bribe payments in Angola and Argentina.
Mr. Rozenblat had originally filed the motion in late 212 after attempting to flee Ukraine amid an investigation into his taking of a large bribe.
Witnesses in the trial of Guzman claimed the gangster, 61, once paid a $100 million bribe to Lopez Obrador's predecessor, former president Enrique Pena Nieto.
A close associated of Guzman's testified late last year that the drug lord authorizied a $100 million bribe for former Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Aruban official living in Florida pleaded guilty in Miami federal court to laundering bribe money, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday.
It's ingrained in us from birth: just ask any of the exasperated parents who have to bribe or force their child to give up toys.
It was a bribe so that he could sneak alcohol into the jail and use the guard's cell phone to call family members in Turkey.
The most recent season shows her accepting a thinly veiled bribe to try to establish her post-presidential library and emerging determined to run again.
Maybe you ease up on your television and video game policy or accept the power of candy as a bribe to help you kids comply.
Maybe you ease up on your television and video game policy or accept the power of candy as a bribe to help your kids comply.
Mr. Zarrab testified that he had never paid a bribe to Mr. Atilla — the defendant being tried, who was the deputy general manger of Halkbank.
He described a party at the St. Regis Hotel in Miami, celebrating a South American tournament brought to the United States through coordinated bribe payments.
Equipped with a secret camera by anti-corruption investigators, she filmed a representative of Poltava's mayor offering her a $5,000 bribe to close a case.
He then asked Odebrecht's chief executive in Peru for a $35 million bribe — he got only $20 million — and set up fresh machinery for graft.
His intention, according to the Justice Department, was to bribe African officials on behalf of a private Chinese conglomerate with global ambitions and enormous wealth.
Judge Moro convicted Mr. da Silva of corruption and money laundering last July for accepting a seaside apartment remodeled to his liking as a bribe.
The president also faces scrutiny over other matters, including claims he negotiated a $40 million bribe in 2010 for his centrist Brazilian Democratic Movement Party.
In February, Choi was sentenced to 20 years in jail on 18 charges including abuse of power, coercion, fraud and bribe, and fined $16.6 million.
She is determined to be a rower who earns her way into college, not one of those fake rowers whose parents bribe their way in.
The panel, commissioned by the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC), concluded in its report that the payments to Singaporean firm Black Tidings were not a bribe.
The minister, Alexei Ulyukayev, who denies extorting a $2 million bribe from oil giant Rosneft, had led the Kremlin's efforts to deepen cooperation with Tokyo.
Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist Did the president of the United States just betray the nation's security in return for a bribe from the Chinese government?
Hodge also lied to the IRS by deducting these bribe payments from his income taxes as purported charitable donations, prosecutors said in a sentencing memo.
The U.S. Attorney says the smoking gun is that Heinel received $20,000 a month from Rick Singer, which prosecutors say is proof of a bribe.
He's a member of Israel's Steinmetz family, diamond traders whose most prominent figure is under investigation in the U.S. for possible bribe payments in Guinea.
The "Simpsons" meme Pompeo tweeted showed a scene of Lisa crying and ripping up her speech on democracy after witnessing a politician accepting a bribe.
Most of the remaining parents are charged with seeking to bribe U.S.C. athletic officials to admit their children as recruited athletes based on false credentials.
You can request that another country interfere in our elections on your behalf, and then attempt to bribe them to ensure that they follow through.
Some 34% of those polled said they had paid a bribe over the past 12 months to access public services, down from 51% in 2017.
Both the anti-corruption authority and the police are yet to provide details of the alleged request for a bribe by the central bank governor.
Affluent customers in major cities — Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi — can also order alcohol from bootleggers, who often bribe the police to keep their operations going.
In June 2017, Brazil's attorney general charged Mr. Temer with corruption, accusing him of accepting a $152,000 bribe from executives of a giant food conglomerate.
Of the public sectors, almost one in three people who dealt with the courts paid a bribe in the last 12 months, according to the report.
You would never bribe a patient with breast cancer to keep her tumor from spreading, or threaten to impose a penalty on her if it did.
They have complicated the perilous life of truckers who already face harassment from bribe-seeking soldiers, spiraling prices for parts and hours-long lines for fuel.
Some 20 others were also detained in the investigation, including the chief secretary of the agency who faces charges of bribe taking and trade in influence.
Golden allegedly solicited and received $5,770 overall in bribes and fraudulent fees from two victims and tried to solicit an additional $3,000 bribe from another victim.
Insys' former Chief Executive Officer Michael Babich in January pleaded guilty to participating in a nationwide scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe the addictive opioid medication.
Greece said it had expelled two Russian diplomats for trying to bribe officials and foment demonstrations to thwart a deal to allow Macedonia to join NATO.
The definition proposed by the government would basically define an emolument as a bribe, the judge wrote, and the Constitution already separately made that a crime.
Two versions of her glossy, embroidered "chandeliers" shimmer on the wall; the captions, intriguingly, list "middle man, smuggling, bribe, tension, anxiety and censorship" among the materials.
Britain's SFO on Friday alleged that planemaker Airbus paid a bribe of $50 million to executives linked to AirAsia and AirAsia X to win plane orders.
In a separate initiative launched by the opposition, Rousseff's 2014 re-election campaign is being investigated by an electoral court for alleged funding with bribe money.
He is the 0003th parent to be sentenced in the sprawling scam to cheat, bribe and lie in an attempt to game the college admissions system.
Venezuelans have long suffered alarming levels of violent crime, in part because of the widespread availability of guns, inadequate policing and a bribe-riddled justice system.
That is roughly eight years' salary, but the bribe is judged worthwhile because a state pension is secure and the job comes with opportunities for kickbacks.
Fox, the president of a private tennis academy in Houston, is accused of introducing Singer to Center and accepting $100,000 for assisting with the bribe transaction.
Mr Ndichu's cinema, named the innocuous "Heshima Youth Group" to deter bribe-demanding cops, is in Mathare, a rough neighbourhood of tin shacks in eastern Nairobi.
Investigators have confiscated 513 million rupiah ($33,772) and S$90,000 ($65,378) that they said had been intended as bribe money and suspect other instances of corruption.
I'm not the only one who tried to beg and bribe LA-based friends to brave the hours-long lines for me, but to no avail.
A government benefit which requires days of trekking to receive, and then a bribe to unlock, may not feel like much of a benefit at all.
Zyudheimer alleges that he personally gave Belykh a 230,2000 euro bribe in 221, and another 2100,2100 euros via an unidentified intermediary in Moscow in May 33.
A spokesman for Rosneft, the state oil company headed by Sechin, said on Wednesday there was exhaustive evidence to show that Ulyukayev had taken a bribe.
A college-bribe scandal, and the entitlement on show by the parents involved, exposes one more way U.S. higher education was tilted toward the 1 percent.
Parents also allegedly paid Singer a purported $25 million to bribe coaches and college administrators to designate the children as athletic recruits, according to the complaint.
The crisis at ABLV comes alongside a separate police investigation into whether the head of Latvia's central bank took a bribe of more than 100,000 euros.
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act bans American companies from bribing or attempting to bribe officials outside the U.S. Uber says it is cooperating with the investigation.
While the crackdown gained popular support after netting bribe-taking bureaucrats, media reports state that the campaign has hurt growth in the world's second-largest economy.
Gorrin allegedly also bought jets, yachts, "champion horses" and luxury watches in Florida and Texas for a government official as a bribe, according to the indictment.
U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni in Manhattan federal court said she hoped the penalty would cause "the next corrupt politician to hesitate" before accepting a bribe.
In 2008, the Chinese won the rights to the Aynak copper mine for $3 billion and an alleged $30 million bribe to the minister of mines.
"I consider this quid pro quo fundraising to be the equivalent of an attempt to bribe me to vote against Judge Kavanaugh," Collins told the outlet.
Prosecutors said Batista had paid a roughly $16 million bribe in 2011 to former Rio Governor Sergio Cabral, who was arrested in November on corruption charges.
Many of those admitted are genuinely bright, but the families of some bribe universities with sums equivalent to many years' wages for the average urban worker.
Instead Guachochi has empty beds and a reputation for being filled with inmates convicted of serious crimes who neither consume drugs nor seek to bribe guards.
That settlement followed testimony from J&F's owners Joesley and Wesley Batista that they spent 600 million reais to bribe nearly 1,13 politicians in recent years.
Prosecutors allege Singer would then help students cheat on their SATs and bribe coaches and administrators to accept into school the children of his wealthy donors.
On Friday, the SIIJ said it has charged Kovesi with taking a bribe, abuse of office and giving false testimony, without providing details of the case.
A construction executive has testified that Mr. Temer was the beneficiary of a $300,000 bribe related to contracts at Eletronuclear, Brazil's state-controlled nuclear energy producer.
"(Rimsevics' arrest)... is about demanding a bribe of no less than 100,000 euros," the bureau's head Jekabs Straume told reporters at a news conference on Monday.
For example, a cardiologist received a two-year suspended sentence in 2015 for accepting a bribe of 1,000 euros, a box of chocolates and two ducks.
Mr. Michalek, who had served as a justice since 1995, pleaded guilty in State Supreme Court on Wednesday to a felony count of receiving a bribe.
The "bribe" of an excursion with a parent, or of special time reading together or discussing a book, conveys the importance of reading, said Dr. Ryan.
"For all of the people who said I am getting her gifts and I'm trying to bribe her for an interview -- they were kumquats," Winfrey said.
They see the type of corruption he is targeting, like bribe-taking and skimming funds for development projects, as a burden on the system, Haykel said.
At one point, a former close personal aide alleged that the drug kingpin once paid a $100 million bribe to former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
Legally, they have a right to cut up to 1,000 trees, but by fudging numbers or paying a small bribe, they'll cut up to 2,000 trees.
Clubbers are often the targets of "random" stop-and-frisks in an attempt to score a bribe from members of society seen as "not conservative enough".
Not to beat this point into the ground, but McPhee did not get enough in terms of bribe draft picks to take on other teams' garbage.
" Another Reddit commenter I interviewed via Skype, /u/10thTARDIS, echoed that sentiment: "A bribe is anything that someone else will accept in return for doing work.
Between 4 and 6 AM, you can knock on a door or secret gate, and for a little bribe money, grab a sandwich or fresh croissant.
The men admitted their guilt, but their lawyers said the judge in the case was corrupt, having offered a lesser sentence in exchange for a bribe.
Last week, John Kapoor, Insys' billionaire founder and majority shareholder, was arrested on charges that he participated in a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe Subsys.
In the soccer corruption case, American authorities have scrutinized numerous banks through which bribe payments traveled, but none of those financial institutions have been publicly charged.
As he tells it, he had no need to bribe coaches because he was already paying players, despite the undercover agent urging him to do so.
According to Ms. Coronel, Mr. López said, to ensure the transfer happened, Mr. Guzmán paid a $2 million bribe to the chief of Mexico's prison system.
In 1998, he used $13,000 in savings to bribe a South Korean to make him a business partner so he could get a South Korean visa.
For the parents charged in the case, paying the bribe means that they are just as guilty for acting as an accomplice in the fraudulent scheme.
Neglecting to bribe the middle-school lacrosse coach who benched your daughter in the eighth grade might have seemed like good cost savings at the time.
The library had closed for a midday break, but Azzdine had the presence of mind to pay a small bribe to one of the local guides.
Opponents cried foul, accusing the Venezuelan leader of intimidating and attempting to bribe lawmakers to oust Maduro's arch-rival, opposition head Juan Guaido, in the Jan.
She smiled with pride as she recalled the time he chose to go to court rather than pay a small bribe for a minor motoring offence.
They had the money to bribe the prison's guards and understood that the authorities would be quite happy to see the troublesome philosopher flee into exile.
Police sources told City Press, a local newspaper, that the case related to a plot to bribe the former deputy finance minister, Mcebisi Jonas, in 2015.
So he tried to bribe his way in, by offering politicians, government officials and executives all manner of sweet deals that were not exactly above board.
Some $20 million changed hands in the lead-up to Wednesday's election, and bribe-taking, crony capitalism and the stealing of public money are deeply entrenched.
Temer has denied the allegation that he condoned paying a bribe and is expected to make a public statement about the allegations later in the day.
Also, get the great powers, or at least the United States, to compel, coerce or bribe the government you're trying to break from into going along.
The ability for the groups involved in these prison escapes to bribe and otherwise corrupt security forces represents a threat to governments' abilities to improve security.
An affidavit obtained by The Cincinnati Enquirer alleges that she attempted to bribe and extort, including exchanging her votes for money, between August and December 2019.
Mr. Temer himself is facing a claim that he negotiated a $40 million bribe in 2010 for his Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, an accusation he denies.
Does the judge who jailed Toby MacFarlane for attempting to bribe his kids' way into college have any idea how higher education has worked for decades?
In April, for example, a bogus report asserted that Mr Karoblis had been arrested for accepting a bribe to promote American interests at Lithuania's defence ministry.
In April 2018, Meredith solicited a bribe from the father of a second applicant, but the meeting was an FBI set-up, according to court documents.
The man behind the alleged scheme took payments from parents to either cheat on standardized admission tests or bribe coaches to recruit students, according to prosecutors.
But rather than go to charity, some of that money was instead used to bribe coaches and athletics officials as part of the scheme, prosecutors said.
On or about April 12, 2018, he met with the father of a Yale applicant in a Boston hotel room and solicited a bribe from him.
Not everyone has the resources necessary to pay someone to take their child's SAT exam, or bribe a proctor to correct the test after it's taken.
Not everyone has the resources necessary to pay someone to take their children's SAT exam, or bribe a proctor to correct the test after it's taken.
His three sisters, we learn, have embarked on a journey from Syria to Sweden via Turkey, Greece and Germany — and also via boat, bribe and luck.
Sending Guzmán to the United States would help allay fears the drug lord could use his massive fortune to bribe prison officials and escape yet again.
The defendant, John Saro Balian, pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying about his involvement with organized crime, accepting a bribe and obstructing justice, the Times reported.
Singer would bribe test administrators to replace the answer sheets or allow Riddell to physically sit in and take the test instead, according to court documents.
And if their children's grades too were not up to snuff, they could bribe coaches to accept them as fake tennis, soccer and water polo prodigies.
"I know a lot of parents who use it as a bribe or a pacifying technique," journalist, mom, and former Vox colleague Elisabeth Dickson told me.
Lori and hubby Mossimo Giannulli face felony charges for allegedly paying a $500k bribe to get Isabella and Olivia Jade into USC by hook or crook.
Carnevale says public schools can try three things: show students how to enroll in postsecondary education, bribe them to do it, or force them to do it.
"South Africa did not pay any bribe nor did it illegally obtain the right to host the World Cup," he told a news conference in Cape Town.
President Vladimir Putin fired Ulyukayev as economy minister earlier this week after his arrest over allegations that he extorted a $2 million bribe from oil major Rosneft.
Prosecutors allege Singer would then help students cheat on their SATs and bribe coaches and administrators to accept the children of his wealthy donors into elite schools.
"This was a cold and calculating effort by her and her husband to use shell companies to conceal bribe payments," Gardey said, according to the Free Press.
I take them out again and give them a treat to bribe them back to bed with L. I give L. a kiss goodbye and head out.
Between 2011 and 2018, the fixer, identified as CW-1 in the documents, received approximately $25 million from parents to bribe coaches and administrative officers at colleges.
Between 2011 and 2018, the fixer, identified as CW-1 in the documents, received approximately $20193 million from parents to bribe coaches and administrative officers at colleges.
A representative of the society said it was not involved in any alleged attempts to bribe senior Greek Orthodox clergymen, the Russian state Interfax news agency reported.
However, last week's ruling said Lee's bribe-giving was a "passive compliance to political power," appearing to put the weight of the blame on Park and Choi.
My car needs gas, so I bribe my husband to get some for me by telling him to buy whatever fast food he wants while he's out.
Kim Kardashian West says she is shocked and saddened by recent allegations against Marcus Hyde by models claiming the photographer tried to bribe them for nude photos.

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