On average, 43% of Africans said people are often or always bribed, with nearly 70% saying voters were bribed at least sometimes.
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You have power and you are not bribed by Russians.
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Players are being bribed and proselyted by the various institutions.
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She wouldn't have bribed her with ridiculous amounts of plastic.
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The complaint did not say which Indian officials were allegedly bribed.
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Not all of the bribed AT&T employees were apparently caught.
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Uber allegedly bribed government officials and employed sketchy information-gathering methods.
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She bribed her way out of Syria and escaped to Beirut.
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The editor wanted more, and bribed us with a small check.
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Some security officials said the attacker might have bribed corrupt officials.
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Guaido said he suspected they had been bribed to do so.
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Singer also bribed coaches to admit students they knew were not athletes.
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"We will find out who Odebrecht bribed," he told state-run media.
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French prosecutors declined to name the Malaysian officials suspected of being bribed.
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Susan Collins being bribed to vote against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh?
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"bribed" people who otherwise would not care to see the system continue?
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How easily my parents bribed me in return for buying booster packs.
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In a further refinement, the Japanese state bribed and coerced manufacturing companies.
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If I was bribed with good press, how come nobody noticed it?
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Mr. Casado was not the first public official Mr. Zarrab has bribed.
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Some people bribed the bill stickers responsible for putting the posters up.
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To grease the lucrative scheme, Mr Singer bribed proctors of admissions exams to fake scores and bribed athletics officials to accept wealthy children with concocted sports résumés, according to court documents unveiled by federal prosecutors on March 12th.
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Can Mr Kim be cajoled or bribed into giving up his nuclear ambitions?
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Some monks can be bribed to produce the parchments for viewing, risking damage.
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Parents allegedly Photoshopped their kids' faces into sports stock photos and bribed recruiters!
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Teachers were bribed to stay in the capital with more money and training.
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Royal or not, all kids can be bribed with the promise of candy!
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Guzmán also bribed as many officers as necessary to succeed in his business.
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In both cases, prosecutors alleged that witnesses were bribed or threatened into recanting.
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Eventually Wiseau bribed his way to France, where he began calling himself Pierre.
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"I've been bribed by future grandmas," Dianna Campitiello, another of Alfonso's daughters, said.
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Translation -- prosecutors say Lori bribed officials of a university that receives federal funding.
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Prosecutors said Kelly bribed the official so he could obtain a marriage license.
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"It wasn't a question of whether Agnew had been bribed," Mr. Skolnik said.
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I have never 'been kidnapped' or 'disappeared,' nor have I been coerced or bribed.
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"A lot of infuriated netizens say I am bribed by the government," he said.
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He was bribed, with China offering sweet deals to his personal business interests 4.
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The bank paid nearly $37 million to resolve allegations it bribed officials in Tanzania.
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He had previously bribed his way out of prison during an escape in 2001.
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Lee has also rejected charges he bribed Park in return for favors for Samsung.
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He also said he was a part of the Kennedy assassination and bribed Nixon.
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Prosecutors said they uncovered two related schemes, including one in which apparel executives, financial advisers and others bribed assistant college coaches to steer elite players to them, and a second in which players were allegedly bribed to enroll at schools sponsored by Adidas.
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According to prosecutors, Mr. Singer specialized in boosting students' chances through fraud: He bribed test administrators to allow cheating on college entrance exams and bribed college coaches to designate his clients' children as recruits to teams for which they were not actually qualified.
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In Eastern Europe, foreign terrorist fighters have bribed border guards on their path to jihad.
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Jughead won't be bribed into spilling the beans, not for all the burgers in Riverdale.
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Through Singer, prosecutors allege, parents bribed university officials for spots at top colleges and universities.
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Lichtman said Zambada bribed the Mexican government to leave him alone and pursue Guzman instead.
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Court officials say staff at Novartis are alleged to have bribed Greek doctors and politicians.
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Chase said he had managed a smuggling ring and bribed guards to carry in contraband.
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Mr. Kastner had bribed Adolf Eichmann to allow some 1,600 Jews to escape the country.
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Then, after a few attempts on his life, the emissary simply bribed away my fighter.
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They eventually bribed the Secret Service with a bottle of bourbon and got an interview.
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It was cast by Senator Edmund Ross, Republican of Kansas, who may have been bribed.
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I punished myself when I lost patience, when I bribed, when I wanted to flee.
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She rains medical files on his head — all tinkered by the bribed-out medical technician.
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Zarrab said in court he bribed several officials in Turkey as part of his scheme.
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And, not for nothing, it sure seems like the endorsements were bribed via dog treats.
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Court officials say staff at the firm are alleged to have bribed Greek doctors and politicians.
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The "Weak Flesh" probe uncovered allegations that inspectors were bribed to ignore lapses in food standards.
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If desirable land was owned by Indians, Jackson bullied or bribed them into selling it cheap.
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Local politicians often turn a blind eye to such activity, especially if bribed to do so.
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Prosecutors say more than a dozen foreign firms are thought to have bribed Petrobras executives. Aug.
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Rich countries do not have warlords who must be bribed to allow aid deliveries to pass.
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But the judges weren't bribed or leaned on by sinister hatchet men from the local mob.
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Once she gave birth, Dougal, the father, bribed someone to fake her burning, and she escaped.
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Yet revelations that Odebrecht bribed politicians across Latin America have complicated efforts to win new contracts.
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Her mother has bribed her to attend class with the promise of a virtual reality game.
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They are also arguing that he was bribed to oppose the expansion of the Superfund site.
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Several witnesses said they suspected that Mukesh's family had bribed senior officers at the police station.
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The defense says prosecutors have not produced a smoking gun showing that he directly bribed anybody.
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The media are bullied and bribed into becoming de facto propaganda organs of the ruling clique.
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Prosecutors called witnesses who admitted they'd taken part in murders, trafficked drugs and bribed public officials.
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Mr. Lichtman said the reason was that Mr. Zambada had bribed virtually the entire Mexican government.
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The coach of the Yale soccer team was bribed at least $400,000 to recruit one student.
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Nor had it found evidence that officials were bribed in an attempt to influence the deal.
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" According to some reports, Queen also stated he'd been "bribed with a gun to vote 'straight party'.
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Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction firm that bribed politicians across Latin America, paid $100m to suborn Panamanian officials.
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In the 21986 B.C. Games, he bribed three opponents to take a dive to ensure his win.
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But Antoinette's hopes of romance are sunk when she learns that Rochester was bribed into the union.
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In 2017 Lava Jato prosecutors gave immunity to two businessmen who claimed to have bribed Mr Temer.
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Authorities say investor Todd Blake and retail executive Diane Blake also bribed their daughter's way into USC.
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At the police station, her companion called his family, bribed the police and disassociated himself from her.
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The company acknowledged in a 2016 leniency deal that it had bribed officials in a dozen countries.
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The couple also allegedly bribed Georgetown's head tennis coach to designate their daughter as an athletic recruit.
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Some pretend EMT's then shipped him away and bribed a morgue pathologist to sign a death certificate.
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He bribed Ukraine for dirt on Joe Biden so he could cheat and win the next election.
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Bin Hammam was removed from that election contest amid accusations that he had bribed Caribbean soccer officials.
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Through Singer, parents are alleged to have bribed officials administering standardized tests in a number of ways.
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They claim Zambada bribed the Mexican government to frame Guzmán and remain free to run the cartel.
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The big picture: In what U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling called the "largest college admittance scam ever charged by the Department of Justice," some defendants allegedly bribed athletic coaches and administrators to falsely portray their children as athletic recruits, while others bribed administrators to allow cheating on college-entrance exams.
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According to the caption, the kids had to be bribed with lollipops to stay still for the pic.
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Her parents met surfing and bribed her with Snickers bars to wake up early and hit the water.
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For example, if state employees are bribed to issue drivers licenses to less-qualified truck drivers, that's bribery.
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Odebrecht has caused Latin America's biggest corruption scandal since it said it bribed politicians in a dozen countries.
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If a judge acquits someone nowadays, his or her colleagues immediately start suspecting them of having been bribed.
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Across the 36 African countries surveyed, 43% say voters are often or always bribed, with 26% saying sometimes.
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Some stories are too insane not to be told, especially if someone bribed you not to tell it.
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Clinton had "bribed" Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch by saying she would keep the prosecutor on if elected.
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More than a quarter of a century ago, I had a client who had bribed a building inspector.
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Roach believes that Ramirez, in planning the abduction, had bribed an official to acquire passports for the children.
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In other words, rather than respect the ruling, the Obama administration bribed their way out of the dispute.
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The headache for the government is that it is not clear that Dawkins and Code bribed a coach.
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They suspect Tokyo's bidding committee bribed the Diacks in 2013 to secure votes, which the committee has denied.
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They suspect Tokyo's bidding committee bribed the Diacks in 2013 to secure votes, which the committee has denied.
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Additionally, the organization bribed college coaches to help admit the students into college as recruited athletes, prosecutors said.
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Another founder, Gouverneur Morris, that a president may be bribed by a greater interest to betray his trust.
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The two infamously married a day after Kelly allegedly bribed the official for the fake ID, on Aug.
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The Justice Department's probe alleges that Salomon Melgen, a Florida ophthalmologist and political donor, bribed Menendez with gifts.
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That stake was repurchased at a 30 percent discount after allegations that Okada had bribed Filipino gaming officials.
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Singer and Riddell also bribed the test administrators so that Riddell could take the test without being caught.
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The head coach of the Yale team, Rudolph Meredith, was bribed at least $400,000 to recruit the student.
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Singer bribed at least two test administrators so that an imposter could either sit in or correct tests.
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"I would not and could not be bribed by anyone, and I would not allow it," he said.
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The Penguins basically bribed the Knights to eat salary on a player they'd never had, except briefly on paper.
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Without it, the gerrymandered and legally bribed Congress and the leadership of both parties will block any significant change.
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In Mali, 78% of people said voters were often or always bribed, and in Senegal the figure was 68%.
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Police suspect politicians were bribed to use their influence to help companies that did business with the power companies.
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After his Olympic victory, the runner Sotades of Crete was bribed to compete for the rival city of Ephesus.
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The company is the subject of a probe into whether its executives bribed inspectors to evade food safety checks.
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Burzaco also said that Qatar bribed officials of soccer's world governing body FIFA to host the 2022 World Cup.
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SI rig-building business agreed to pay more than $422 million to resolve charges it had bribed Brazilian officials.
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The postal workers were bribed by drug traffickers to deliver the cocaine while on their regular routes, prosecutors said.
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They raided each other's quarries, bribed each other's crews, and vilified each other in print and at scientific meetings.
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He bribed college coaches, he said, to falsely certify that students had been recruited for the school's sports teams.
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"So you bribed them?" the Fox host asked with a smile as he and Trump talked over each other.
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The guards noticed he was still alive, and Mr. Warfaa's family bribed them to release him, the complaint said.
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The lawsuit also alleges Nygard bribed local law enforcement, at the time, to help him conceal his sexual crimes.
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Prosecutors said the company had bribed public officials and hidden payments as part of a pattern of worldwide corruption.
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This commentary has been updated from an earlier version to clarify that historic evidence suggests Edmund Ross was bribed.
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Gamblers with pre-established point spreads bribed seven City College players to shave points, even while winning their games.
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The TLI executives bribed Mikerin with money he referred to as "cake," through a series of sham consulting contracts.
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Along the twisting route, they bribed guards at checkpoints and talked their way out of detention by Kurdish militias.
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"I bribed my husband to take a wheelbarrow and get it," Thiessen tells Food Network Magazine in the April issue.
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Later on the phone, my own Chinese mom talked me down: I wasn't being bribed, there was no ulterior motive.
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Menendez had been charged with being bribed by Melgen with flights, vacations, and campaign contributions to lobby on his behalf.
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Rumors are swirling in the comments section that wealthy Americans have bribed their way out of mention in the documents.
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Specifically, Singer bribed test proctors in Los Angeles and Houston, one of whom was a Harvard alumnus named Mark Riddell.
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It is claimed that managers within the firms bribed health inspectors and politicians to obtain government certificates for their products.
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According to the poet Pindar, the king of Pisa bribed Hermes' son Myrtilus to tamper with his opponent's chariot wheels.
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First, state prosecutors will be trying to show Lee bribed the government to allow for last year's merger, he said.
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Galanis meanwhile bribed two investment advisers to buy Gerova shares to lessen the stock sales' price-depressing impact, prosecutors said.
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Then he bribed a guy who worked in the warehouse to plant some trace amounts of this poison at work.
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In a statement on Thursday, Joesley Batista stressed that his companies had never bribed officials in countries other than Brazil.
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The company is also ensnared in a food safety probe into whether its executives bribed inspectors to evade safety checks.
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Prosecutors allege that major construction firms bribed politicians and others to win contracts worth billions of dollars for the event.
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It was the first institution to be systematically bribed by Colombian drug traffickers to allow cocaine shipments to transit Venezuela.
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Amanda tells me about a friend whose parents bribed the juntaora to pretend that she had passed the handkerchief test.
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An earlier version of this article mischaracterized legal action taken by a company whose former chief executive bribed soccer officials.
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But Palestinian leaders say they cannot be bribed into accepting an agreement that does not offer them genuine political autonomy.
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They suspect that Tokyo's bidding committee bribed the Diacks in 2013 to secure votes - an allegation the committee has denied.
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Melgen is also alleged to have bribed Menendez with flights on his private jet and a luxurious vacation to Paris.
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Zarrab has testified that in the course of his scheme, he bribed Aslan and former Turkish economy minister Zafer Caglayan.
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Teva admitted that its executives bribed officials in order to win more than $65 million in inflated, "corrupt" profits in Russia.
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Prosecutors pointed to Zarrab's 2013 arrest in Turkey on charges that he bribed high-level officials to facilitate transactions benefiting Iran.
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Defense attorneys on Monday lashed out at Burzaco, saying he was deeply corrupt and had bribed high government officials in Argentina.
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Second, the organization allegedly bribed college coaches to help admit the students as recruited athletes, regardless of their abilities, prosecutors said.
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Saab bribed Maduro's three stepsons to win no-bid, overvalued government contracts, said Sigal Mandelker, undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence.
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For example, the travel writer Pausanias wrote about how, in 21.8 B.C., the boxer Eupolus bribed his three opponents at Olympia.
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Over the decades, they said, Rohingya had bribed or negotiated with local military and police, thereby maintaining an edgy status quo.
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Singer also bribed college coaches to falsely designate students as recruited athletes, smoothing their path to admission, a criminal complaint says.
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The Department of Justice's investigation alleges that Melgen bribed Menendez with gifts, including the use of private jets and Caribbean villas.
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Police and governmental corruption runs rampant — officials either participate in the drug trade or are bribed to look the other way.
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"In order to acquire more business, C.C.T. bribed Mark Reilly, the general manager of GSK (China) with sex," the email said.
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Last week, an inquiry by the Electoral Commission cleared him of allegations that his campaign bribed voters with online cash credits.
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Abramoff also bribed members of Congress, federal officials, and congressional staff with campaign contributions, expensive meals, and tickets to sporting events.
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They bribed someone to have his name omitted from a watch list at the border, then dressed as Christians, wearing crosses.
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Late in 103, Hajji Lal Jan Ishaqzai, another major kingpin, bribed his way out of prison by paying millions of dollars.
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The organization also bribed college coaches to fraudulently help get students admitted as recruited athletes regardless of their abilities, prosecutors said.
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It means banning judges from going on fancy junkets where they might essentially get bribed by industries trying to grift consumers.
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Its founder resigned from the board of directors after being arrested on charges that he bribed doctors to prescribe the drug.
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The DOJ alleged that Melgen bribed Menendez with gifts ranging from stays at a Caribbean villa to use of private jets.
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He also bribed college coaches to designate children falsely as recruited athletes, smoothing their path to admission, a criminal complaint says.
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It wasn't the first, nor the last time I saw a doctor be bribed or shamelessly lie to a patient like that.
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Och-Ziff Capital Management Group (OZM) will pay $2.2 million to settle allegations the hedge fund bribed officials in several African countries.
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I actually had to be bribed to go, because halfway through, I would lose focus and start doing cartwheels or something else.
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They arranged for Huffman's daughter to take the SAT at a location controlled by an administrator bribed by Singer, the complaint says.
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SNC faces a trial in Canada over allegations that its former executives bribed Libyan officials to get contracts between 2001 and 2011.
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In May, Prosecutor-General Rodigo Janot reached a plea deal with both brothers, who agreed to turn in 1,893 politicians they bribed.
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In 2016, it acknowledged in a leniency deal that it had bribed officials in a dozen countries to secure public works contracts.
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Prosecutors say that the investigation revealed a scheme in which meat inspectors were bribed to allow the bad meat to be sold.
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When I was 12, my mother bribed me with a purse to stick it out for an entire season of youth track.
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To get certain recipes, including this one, he had gone to food stalls in Delhi, known as dhaba, and bribed their operators.
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Former president Saleh cajoled, bribed and otherwise reached understandings with Yemen's tribes to keep foreign fighters and extremists out of their areas.
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Others bribed antidoping authorities to ensure favorable results, and top sports officials routinely submitted bogus urine samples for athletes who were doping.
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" Another executive with Glaxo's Chinese operations bribed regulators to focus on "unequal competition," rather than a more punitive investigation into "commercial bribery.
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Apart from payments via Magalhaes, Glencore subsidiaries paid $4 million to other middlemen who allegedly bribed Petrobras officials, the judge's ruling said.
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Conlan then suggested on Twitter that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had bribed judges to rule in favor of Russian boxers.
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"Here is what Keith and Emiliano did: they bribed a judge in Mexico to issue an indictment against you," Keeffe told Bouchey.
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The first to fall was Paulo Roberto Costa, a former Petrobras official whom Youssef had bribed by giving him a Land Rover.
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And on Thursday, Musk tangled with Business Insider reporter Linette Lopez, suggesting Lopez bribed accused Tesla saboteur Martin Tripp for inside information.
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Under a long-running scheme, a group of engineering firms including UTC bribed politicians and Petrobas executives in exchange for inflated contracts.
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Evidence in the trial showed that Mr. Bebawi, 73, bribed government officials in Libya to obtain contracts and pocketed millions of dollars.
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In 2016, Odebrecht acknowledged in a leniency deal that it had bribed officials in a dozen countries to secure public works contracts.
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Companies allegedly bribed Petrobras employees for privileged information to gain an edge in bidding for contracts, federal police said in a statement.
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Allegations that FIFA officials were bribed by Qatar in exchange for granting its World Cup bid surfaced in media reports in 2014.
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They arranged for Huffman's daughter to take the SAT at a location controlled by an administrator bribed by Singer, the complaint says.
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Khosrowshahi has inherited a number of scandals from his predecessors including an alleged Department of Justice investigation into whether Uber bribed foreign officials.
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Berlusconi is due to stand trial on charges he bribed witnesses to silence them over accusations he paid for sex with young women.
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"I did jelly beans, I did sticker charts, I did toys — I can't believe I'm admitting this, but yes, I bribed," Sims says.
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Reuters reported earlier this month that Teva was investigating claims by an anonymous tipster that the company bribed state healthcare workers in Romania.
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Odebrecht acknowledged in a 33 leniency deal that it had bribed officials in a dozen Latin American countries to secure public works contracts.
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Prosecutors say the former Insys executives bribed doctors to write large numbers of prescriptions to patients, many of whom did not have cancer.
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State officials accused Ms Ahmed of being bribed by foreigners after she wrote about an HIV-positive character with a taste for prostitutes.
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But what if you don't have lights, you're shooting on your iPhone, and your only actors are the coworkers you bribed with snacks?
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Amazon is investigating whether employees are being bribed to leak company data to sellers, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
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According to a complaint, Singer bribed test administrators to allow Riddell to secretly take the ACT and SATs in place of the students.
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No one had to be bribed to give up their seats because if you paid for a seat, the airline provided a seat.
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Singer allegedly helped students cheat on SAT and ACT exams and bribed athletic coaches and administrators to pretend that students were athletic recruits.
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A new paper that shows vaccines don't cause autism, for example, could be further proof that doctors are being bribed to say otherwise.
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In the past, some candidates have openly bribed, manipulated and threatened voters, while financing their campaigns with embezzled funds without any serious penalties.
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Prosecutors in Miami alleged in an indictment late last year that Gorrín bribed Venezuelan officials to buy dollars at a distorted exchange rate.
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In 2008, Siemens paid about $1.6 billion to resolve U.S. and European allegations it bribed officials around the world in exchange for business.
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Justice Department officials allege participants bribed coaches to get students admitted as athletic recruits and paid people to help cheat on entrance exams.
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The company paid more than $400 million to settle charges with the U.S. government that it had bribed officials in several African countries.
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Brafman currently is representing Macau billionaire Ng Lap Seng against federal charges that he bribed former United Nations General Assembly President John Ashe.
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Finley and a Redflex contractor bribed Bills, 55, with $570,000 in cash, an Arizona condo and other kickbacks, according to a criminal indictment.
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He testified that he routinely bribed the Ecuadorean Navy (for information about American naval ships) and the Colombian police ("whenever it was needed").
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According to the criminal complaint, after a bribed proctor got involved, her score improved by some 400 points from her Preliminary SAT exams.
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"I was among the lucky," said Mr. Ghabbash, 31, who survived 19 months in detention until a judge was bribed to free him.
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And don't say that it's ridiculous to suggest that Trump can be bribed; everything we know about him says that yes, he can.
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He took money from the rich people he cultivated, charmed, bribed; and in turn he paid women to do what he asked them.
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Lichtman argued that Zambada, an associate of Guzmán's, bribed the Mexican government to frame El Chapo and remain free to run the cartel.
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They also said they had obtained more evidence against Marcelo Odebrecht, including that the company had bribed foreign officials in Argentina and Peru.
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Consumers have had to be bribed with subsidies to induce them to switch from conventional power sources to those preferred by the government.
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Mr. Ganor also bribed Mr. Sharan, prosecutors say, beginning in 2013, when Mr. Sharan was an aide to the Israeli minister of finance.
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Last month, G.M. contended in a lawsuit that Fiat Chrysler had bribed the U.A.W. to help it undermine G.M. by manipulating labor costs.
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G.M. is suing Fiat Chrysler in federal court, asserting that its rival bribed U.A.W. negotiators to get more favorable terms in previous contracts.
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Odebrecht has been at the center of Latin America's biggest graft scandal, acknowledging in 2016 that it bribed officials in a dozen countries.
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Companies acted as brokers and allegedly bribed Petrobras employees for privileged information to gain an edge in bidding for contracts, the police said.
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R. Kelly is officially responding to prosecutors' allegation he bribed someone to make a fake ID for Aaliyah ... in order to marry her.
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Second, the organization allegedly bribed college coaches to help admit the students into college as recruited athletes, regardless of their abilities, prosecutors said.
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A half-dozen said they bribed officials to cross over dirt roads, and a few swam from one leafy shore to the other.
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In the interview, Mr. Guo called the report that he bribed Mr. Ma "false," and he said he was not a Chinese citizen.
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But, despite the embargo, fuel still makes it over — whether from Russia or from government-held Ukraine once border guards are sufficiently bribed.
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This was in part because of a £19.53m fine that Rolls-Royce incurred to settle allegations that it had bribed officials in various countries.
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Nordman, 39, testified he bribed approximately 14 doctors, including Greenspan, with checks from a limited liability corporation formed specifically to further the bribery conspiracy.
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Gaetano Valastro, a former NYPD detective, allegedly worked as an expediter and bribed Dean and Espinel to move the process along for his clients.
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I&aposm joking, but he could be a person bribed with food, let&aposs just, I think we have to think creatively here Mike.
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Management typically bribed police to tip them off in advance so they could turn on the lights and interrupt dancing, which could risk arrest.
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NEW YORK — A key witness in the FIFA trial testified Tuesday that major media companies — including Fox Sports — bribed officials for soccer broadcasting rights.
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Och-Ziff Capital Management Group — Och-Ziff will pay $412 million to settle allegations that the hedge fund bribed officials in several African countries.
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While in prison, he bribed security guards for special treatment, took a mistress and continued to seamlessly oversee the workings of the Sinaloa Cartel.
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ST on suspicion that he and several others at the company had bribed an Azerbaijani official to secure a contract worth around $340 million.
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It's certainly possible, as economist Dean Baker suggests, that Republicans could be bribed with tax cuts for the rich into some modest additional spending.
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But for over a decade nobody knew the ruthless means by which they had been threatened, tricked, bribed or forced into undergoing the operations.
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Assistant U.S. attorneys are arguing that the three men bribed Robinson to object to adding the EPA cleanup to the organization's National Priorities List.
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Streams of visiting civilian journalists refused shelter in the public information trench and bribed Navy Seabees with liquor to share their impressively constructed bunker.
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He also said that his father routinely bribed a military officer who once served as a personal guard to Mexico's former president, Vicente Fox.
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The American indictment says that Mr. Zarrab bribed Turkish bank and customs officials, including a former economy minister, Zafer Caglayan, with millions of dollars.
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In 1758, George Washington bribed voters by campaigning with gallons of booze in order to gain a seat in the Virginia House of Burgesses.
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Government officials were also bribed to pass a law allowing a tax credit for the purchase of that crude byproduct and other raw materials.
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Afaq allegedly bribed Iraqi government officials to secure these U.S. companies exclusive rights to the bases and the Pentagon contracts that came with them.
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The organization also bribed college coaches to get the students into desired schools as recruited athletes, even if they didn't play sports, prosecutors said.
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He also admitted that while being jailed in Manhattan, he bribed a correctional officer in return for alcohol and the use of a cellphone.
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The inmate successfully bribed a sheriff's department officer into smuggling him a cell phone before the officer realized the inmate was actually an informant.
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The case involves Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction firm that has bribed officials in a dozen Latin American countries, and Grupo Aval, Colombia's biggest financial group.
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His lawyer contended that the real leader of the gang is Ismael Zambada, who remains free because he has bribed "the entire government of Mexico".
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He eventually joined the Nicolls&apos scheme, in which doctors were bribed with gifts, inflated rental agreements for their office space and bogus consulting agreements.
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Anti-corruption laws require border agents to pass polygraph tests to combat the possibility that they could be blackmailed or bribed by gangs or criminals.
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"Not sure if we were bribed or charmed, but either way it prompted a lovely chat with Renata this morning," Lewis wrote in her post.
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However, locals say the practice persists as foreigners, particularly Chinese, pay a high price to fishermen while officials are bribed to turn a blind eye.
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In March, it agreed to pay more than $25 million to the U.S. government to settle civil charges that it bribed healthcare professionals in China.
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His presidential campaign in 2010, and allegedly in 2014, accepted contributions from Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction firm that bribed parties and politicians across Latin America.
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That will make it harder for voters to send pictures confirming that they have picked the candidate for whom they have been bribed to vote.
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According to prosecutors, Mr Singer bribed Rudy Meredith, then a women's soccer coach at Yale, to accept a student who did not play competitive soccer.
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On Tuesday, several witnesses including a convicted felon and former prison officials told Congress that they had regularly bribed de Lima, who denied the allegations.
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The company admitted its executives knew outside agents bribed officials in order to win business, according to the agreement signed with the U.S. Justice Department.
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Yet another is that a Russian business rival, jealous of foreign sales by Ms. Kanorskaya's company, bribed the security services to knock out its competitor.
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Odebrecht in 2016 admitted in a plea deal with U.S., Brazilian and Swiss authorities that it had bribed officials in a dozen countries, including Peru.
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But he had risen to the top through behind-the-scenes corruption—opponents were bribed, physically intimidated, or susceptible to any number of dirty tricks.
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" Bregman said, arguing, "I think the issue really is one of corruption and of people being bribed and of not talking about the real issues.
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In 2016, the firm paid $412 million to settle criminal and civil charges with the U.S. government over allegations that a unit bribed African officials.
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In effect, we have pressured and bribed Mexico to do our dirty work, detaining and deporting people fleeing gangs in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
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We bribed roomfuls of kids with pizza and asked them what they loved and hated about the city; we asked about their fears, their dreams.
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The Trump Organization bribed New York City tax officials to lower its property tax for multiple buildings in Manhattan, ProPublica reported in a bombshell investigation.
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Odebrecht acknowledged in a 2016 leniency deal that it had bribed officials in a dozen Latin American countries, including Peru, to secure public works contracts.
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Mr. Lee faces charges that he bribed South Korean government officials to solidify his family's control of Samsung, one of the world's biggest business empires.
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Federal prosecutors in the United States are investigating whether representatives of his firm bribed government officials in Guinea to secure a multibillion-dollar mining deal.
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In March, Swedish police arrested three company executives based in the country amid an investigation into allegations that they had bribed railway officials in Azerbaijan.
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The memo said the same trafficker bribed legislators after that election to ensure that President Hernández would be elected the president of the Honduran Congress.
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In the United States, federal prosecutors are investigating whether representatives of his firm bribed government officials in Guinea to secure a multibillion dollar mining concession.
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Many poor countries (and not just in the Middle East) have inadequate criminal record-keeping, poor intelligence-gathering, and corrupt officials who are easily bribed.
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Mr. Lee was also accused of committing perjury when he insisted during a parliamentary hearing that he had never bribed Ms. Choi or Ms. Park.
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Uber is also subject to inquiries as to whether it bribed officials outside of the United States, a violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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" Despite being bribed three times, Jordan explained on Twitter that he still felt Brick was "the best boi" who was "great with kids and apparently bears.
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Galanis then allegedly bribed investment advisers to buy Gerova shares for their own clients, and through coordinated trading sold Gerova shares from the straw holder's account.
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According to the affidavit, Singer bribed two test administrators — Igor Dvorskiy in Los Angeles, and Niki Williams in Houston — in order to pull off the scheme.
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Prosecutors said Kapoor and the other executives bribed doctors to prescribe Subsys mostly through "sham" programs that were meant to increase brand awareness for their drug.
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The drug is also the target of two whistleblower lawsuits that say a drugmaker Mallinckrodt acquired in 2014, Questcor Pharmaceuticals, bribed doctors to prescribe the drug.
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There are some allegations that Ross may have essentially been bribed or he didn't want to elevate the ranking senator at the time to the presidency.
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These changes follow the news that several countries, including Britain, France and America, are investigating allegations that in the past Airbus bribed officials to win contracts.
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Since 22014 it has been probed over whether it bribed politicians to help its position in Greece's drugs market (the firm has conducted an internal investigation).
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Knowing how I hate going to the city, she bribed me with a trip to the Field & Stream sporting-goods store if I would ride along.
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Judge Nancy K. Johnson also unsealed the guilty plea of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) official Jose Orlando Camacho, 46, whom Castillo had bribed, it said.
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Soon JPMorgan Chase is expected to say it will pay $200m to settle allegations it bribed high-ranking Chinese officials by offering internships to their children.
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Even back in 1720, the South Sea Company bribed politicians to take over handling of government debt, creating a speculative bubble in its stock that popped.
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Prosecutors said the companies bribed employees at Petrobras, as the Brazilian state oil company is known, to the tune of $15.3 million between 2009 and 2014.
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Shortly thereafter, my client — who I was not yet representing — was summoned in front of a grand jury and asked whether he bribed the building inspector.
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The flaw lies within the telecom companies and their employees, which can be tricked—or bribed—into transferring phone numbers to SIM cards controlled by criminals.
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From 2010 through June 2013, the company's employees and agents bribed officials to bolster sales through increases in prescriptions and purchases by hospitals, the S.E.C. said.
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Two years ago, Novartis was forced to pay $25 million to settle U.S. civil charges it had bribed Chinese healthcare professionals to boost sales in China.
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He has faced an outcry over allegations that he received payments from Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction company that bribed officials across the region to secure contracts.
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Students who need extra time generally take the test alone, supervised only by a proctor — providing the opportunity for a bribed proctor to rig the outcome.
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She then bribed officials to win his freedom — more than $20,000, or around 10 times her annual income, raised with the help of siblings living abroad.
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Two years ago, the Crown Prosecution Service ended its investigation into the scandal, in which journalists illegally listened to voice mail messages and bribed police officers.
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"If you have an insider threat — somebody corrupted or radicalized or bribed — that's scary," House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said on Thursday.
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The 51-year-old Lee faces charges that he bribed a friend of former president Park to win government favour over succession planning at the conglomerate.
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He bribed a government employee in 22002 so that he could obtain a fake ID for the singer Aaliyah, a person familiar with the matter said.
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During his presidential campaign he bribed two women who have said he had affairs with them; his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, went to prison for this.
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It followed allegations by U.S. authorities Latvia's third-biggest bank had covered up money laundering, bribed officials and facilitated the breach of sanctions against North Korea.
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Investigators said some of the accused changed answers on tests; others bribed athletic coaches to claim they had recruited students for sports they did not play.
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They then arranged for Huffman's daughter to take the SAT at a location controlled by an administrator who had been bribed by Singer, the complaint states.
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An academic, stymied in his job search because he hasn't yet bribed a dean, is bothered by a relentlessly yappy canine somewhere in his apartment complex.
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"I just feel like, somebody please walk over there to those people and say, 'Your boy called Ukraine and bribed them,'" Tlaib said, referring to Republicans.
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The obstacles that they had to overcome were things that the children of the parents who bribed their way into schools could never imagine, they said.
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He stood accused of accepting bribes from lawyers with business before him, and of failing to recuse himself from cases involving people who allegedly bribed him.
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In 2016, it acknowledged in a leniency deal that it had bribed officials in a dozen countries to secure public works contracts, dating back over a decade.
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That, Blazer emphasized, was where corruption came in: Sports marketing companies systematically bribed soccer officials to keep prices low and not sell their rights to anyone else.
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Following the overthrow of Rhee's regime by General Park Chung-hee in 1960, the Samsung founder was listed among the businessmen who had bribed the former leader.
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Foes were bribed, allegedly including Genaro García Luna, secretary of security for President Felipe Calderón, whose drug war in 2006-2012 disproportionately arrested the Sinaloa gang's rivals.
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But there are very few things enticing enough to make us want to relive our awkward teenage years — unless, of course, we were bribed with Fenty Beauty.
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He was originally sentenced and imprisoned amid a corruption scandal that also involved South Korea's former president, Park Geun-hye, whom Lee was said to have bribed.
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In September 2016 it agreed to pay $20 million to resolve a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into claims it bribed Chinese officials to boost sales.
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Specifically, the fact that her parents allegedly bribed her way into the University of Southern California and pretended she was a recruit for the school's crew team.
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The Alliance for Campaign Finance Monitoring, the local lobby group that collected the data, says the NRM has bribed voters with hoes, saucepans, seeds, sugar and salt.
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Guo has given several interviews with overseas media recently, including Voice of America on Wednesday, in which he dismissed the claim he bribed Ma as a lie.
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Och-Ziff was fined $412 million by U.S. authorities to resolve an investigation into allegations dating back to 2008 that it bribed officials across several African countries.
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SI) offshore rig building business will pay more than $422 million to resolve charges it bribed Brazilian officials, including some at state-run oil company Petrobras (PETR4.
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The bribed coaches showed little regard to the players' interests, ignoring "red flags and seeing only the green of the cash bribes flowing their way," Kim said.
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But even the cops who would test positive for Original Glazed don't love being bribed with doughnuts—at least not when the briber is already in handcuffs.
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Prosecutors said they uncovered that apparel executives, financial advisers and others bribed assistant coaches to steer elite players to them, with some money going to athletes' families.
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Zarrab said he received this information from the government official he claims to have bribed to take part in the scheme, former Turkish economy minister Zafer Caglayan.
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It linked some of the alleged activities to North Korea's ballistic missiles program, saying bank executives and management had bribed Latvian officials to cover up their activities.
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Epstein openly bribed local policeAccording to Giuffre, Epstein used his connection with the Palm Beach County Police Department to get her out of trouble with the police.
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As demonstrated by the Clinton administration's failed efforts to end the North Korean pursuit of nuclear weapons, North Korea cannot be effectively bribed to cease its efforts.
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Israeli diamond tycoon Beny Steinmetz has denied charges made by Swiss prosecutors that he bribed Guinean officials to win lucrative mining licences in the west African country.
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Singer also built fake athletic profiles for students as a way of improving their odds, in some cases with the assistance of college coaches whom he bribed.
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North Korea said U.S. and South Korean agents bribed and coerced a North Korean man into joining the plot which was foiled by its state security ministry.
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Late last month, Wanda fired an executive after he was found to have bribed a local official in the northeastern city of Dalian in 2008 and 2009.
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Guzman's lawyers have said they would prove their client was framed by another drug lord, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, and the government officials he had allegedly bribed.
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Prosecutors say that McGlashan was one of dozens of parents who bribed intermediaries to "facilitate" his child's entry to a top-tier school, in this case USC.
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Rival Keppel Offshore & Marine, a unit of conglomerate Keppel Corp, agreed in late 2017 to pay a $422 million fine to resolve charges it bribed Brazilian officials.
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By his own account, he ordered and committed murders, bribed personnel in Vietnam to set up a heroin connection and paid corrupt police officers $200,000 a week.
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The federal investigation of Mr. Singer, his clients and the college employees they bribed revealed they were often anxious about being found out by suspicious school counselors.
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The investigation initially found that firms had bribed inspectors to keep processing plants running and allow the sale of substandard products in violation of food safety norms.
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In April one of his associates, a former vice minister of state security, appeared in a televised confession in which he said Mr. Guo had bribed him.
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"It smells like doctors being bribed to sell narcotics, and that's very disturbing," said Kolodny, who is also the executive director of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing.
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Previously, these hackers have bribed telecom employees to perform SIM swaps or tricked workers to do so by impersonating legitimate customers over the phone or in person.
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To win contracts to ship the Russian uranium, from 2004 to 2014, TLI executives bribed Vadim Mikerin, a former director of Russia's state-owned nuclear enterprise Rosatom.
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In September 2016, Och-Ziff agreed to pay more than $400 million to settle charges that it bribed officials in Libya, Congo and several other African countries.
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Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction firm that bribed officials across Latin America, paid $33.5m to Ecuadorean officials between 2007 and 2016, according to the United States Department of Justice.
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In one recent scandal, dubbed the Merry-Go-Round, construction firms overpriced work and bribed politicians, including Bogotá's former mayor, who was sentenced to 24 years in jail.
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It is alleged that as part of that scheme, Goldman Sachs bankers bribed former IPIC and Aabar executives to join the conspiracy and act against the companies' interests.
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But even before the threats made to staffers, he accused -- he said that -- he had some comment about how he will not be bribed into giving over information.
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Lori and Mossimo's lawyers have long maintained they only submitted materials that Rick Singer asked them to, and had no knowledge of anyone being bribed at the university.
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Navalny posits that Deripaska bribed Prikhodko with a luxury cruise and female companionship, and may have functioned as a back channel between Russia and the U.S., via Manafort.
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Across the region, judicial systems are being tested by revelations that Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction company at the centre of Lava Jato, bribed officials in a dozen countries.
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In a Swiss village, support for siting a nuclear-waste dump nearby fell when the residents were offered compensation; they did not like the idea of being bribed.
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An investigation into whether Germany bribed its way into hosting the 2006 World Cup came to a conclusion today, though not a satisfactory one: the answer is maybe.
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Russian and Syrian forces have laid siege to the area, preventing smugglers and traders who once bribed their way across checkpoints to deliver essential food to the camp.
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It is, however, the pieces that look at the human labor process and the way workers are manipulated, bribed, and encouraged to conform that are infinitely more captivating.
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We should support citizens in developing countries as they work to make sure their leaders are not bribed when they are negotiating the sales of their natural resources.
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Insys (INSY) founder John Kapoor has resigned from the drug maker's board of directors, following his arrest last week on charges he bribed doctors to prescribe opioid drugs.
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Students could get an additional $20 if they bribed the right people, but he refused to do it and had only $8 in his pocket when he arrived.
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State media also called the U.N. Security Council "a tool of evil" made up of "money-bribed" nations indebted to the United States that serve as America's lackeys.
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Prosecutors said Singer also bribed administrators of the SAT and ACT college admissions exams to allow an associate to help students with their answers or correct their answers.
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Beyond testimony of doctors being bribed, Kolodny said the video provided evidence as to how the company actively sought doctors to prescribe the drug beyond its intended scope.
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I wrote these comments in rat's blood on a scroll of wallpaper of my cell and bribed one of the guards to deliver it to the Wordplay offices.
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During Mr. Ho's trial, federal prosecutors said that he bribed officials in Chad and Uganda and tried to make CEFC a middleman with Iran to avoid oil sanctions.
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Part of this particular scam involved bribed proctors either allowing professionals to take these tests in place of students, or editing the test results before sending them in.
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In a statement, prosecutors said they had "vast documentation and robust evidence" that Brazilian officials bribed a former president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, Lamine Diack.
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My mind likes to go down complicated tunnels and weird itself out, but not in a particularly useful way, unless bribed by copious amounts of caffeine and sugar.
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The Frenchman, Gustave Bertrand, was the head of French radio intelligence who, in 1933, bribed a German in the military cipher department for four diagrams of Enigma's construction.
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The suit also contends that Fiat Chrysler executives bribed union leaders to win support for Fiat Chrysler's highly public effort to pressure G.M. into a merger in 22015.
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Dozens of people were arrested over the jailbreak, though details of who Guzman bribed and how his accomplices knew exactly where to dig into the prison remain scarce.
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Unfortunately, that's exactly the kind of environment in which swing senators, no longer in the spotlight, might be bribed or bullied into voting for a truly terrible bill.
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Ms Fujimori is in prison while she is investigated on suspicion of receiving undeclared campaign donations from Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction company that bribed politicians across Latin America.
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From 220 to 2019, Singer bribed test administrators to let Riddell take tests in students' place or have Riddell correct answers before they were handed in, prosecutors said.
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There are some allegations that Ross may have essentially been bribed or he didn't want to elevate Benjamin Wade, the ranking senator at the time, to the Presidency.
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The Obama administration's goal was to block Iran's path to a nuclear weapon diplomatically, instead of by force, and effectively bribed Iran with financial incentives to do so.
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Others have shown up for parliamentary races standing next to a political nobody who was bribed or coerced into running against them, to make the race look fair.
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Federal Judge Marcelo Bretas, who is based in Rio de Janeiro, found that Mr. Batista had bribed Sérgio Cabral, the Rio de Janeiro governor, to secure public contracts.
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Noah commented on one pharmaceutical executive and former stripper who allegedly bribed and engaged in sexual acts with doctors she was trying to persuade to prescribe more opioids.
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The former Auburn assistant basketball coach Chuck Person pleaded guilty on Tuesday to accepting nearly $100,000 to steer his players toward agents and advisers who had bribed him.
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The measures were revealed after the Singapore-based company agreed to pay $422 million to settle charges it bribed Brazilian officials, including some at state-run oil company Petrobras.
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It comes as Amazon investigates suspected data leaks from bribed employees, who are giving information to independent sellers — via middlemen — to help them gain an advantage in the marketplace.
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From 2010 through June 2013, the company's employees and agents bribed officials in order to boost its sales through increases in prescriptions and purchases by hospitals, the SEC said.
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Police in Brazil last week raided some of the country's meatpackers in an investigation into whether companies had bribed health inspectors to overlook unsanitary practices including processing rotten meat.
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Carrier got bribed and browbeat by the president-elect into keeping several hundred jobs in Indiana, while Trump's tweets wiped billions of dollars from Boeing and Lockheed's market capitalizations.
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Drug traffickers bribed the postal workers, sometimes with amounts as low as $250, to deliver drugs to designated addresses, the US Attorney's Office said in a statement this week.
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One of them, Mayank Pandey, said he felt so desperate to meet sales targets that he bribed doctors with his own cash to get them to prescribe Abbott drugs.
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What happened in Pennsylvania is similar to what infamously occurred in the archdiocese of Boston, where victims were bribed into silence and accused priests were transferred to new parishes.
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"I will say this: Nick is really good at what he does," Raven says, in a talking-head interview that I hope someone bribed her in cash to shoot.
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We know Lauren Conrad's Parisian love interest was fake, cast members were bribed to say Kristin Cavallari did drugs, and that Heidi Montag thought the show was unfairly edited.
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Many Maldivians believe the court has been bribed by wealthy opposition figures to rule against the president — something Mr. Yameen kept referring to in his televised remarks on Tuesday.
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In February, Bosasa's former chief operating officer Angelo Agrizzi told a South African judicial inquiry into alleged influence-peddling that he had bribed politicians and bureaucrats to secure contracts.
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Venality reached new depths in the 1990s under Mr. Fujimori, when the infamous head of the secret services, Vladimiro Montesinos, bribed politicians, bankers, entrepreneurs, judges, military officers and journalists.
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He told us, they'd always try and place the story — " — in a third-world country — " — somewhere like — " — say, in India, Thailand — " — where journalists could be easily tricked or bribed.
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The theory goes that Zambada -- who's also named in the superseding indictment against Guzmán -- bribed the Mexican government to frame El Chapo and remain free to run the cartel.
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Those documents were secured after Kelly bribed an Illinois official into giving Aaliyah a fake ID, which was then used to get a marriage license, according to NBC News.
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So good, in fact, that Singer would have Riddell fly from his home in Florida to testing centers in Houston and Los Angeles, where the bribed test administrators worked.
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Singer helped wealthy parents cheat on standardized tests for their children, and he bribed college coaches to falsely designate the children as recruited athletes, smoothing their path to admission.
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A May plea-bargain deal showing how the Batista family bribed several high-ranking politicians led the bank's BNDES Participações SA investment arm to seek his removal from JBS.
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The police said the organized group had bribed the players to guarantee predetermined results and used the identities of thousands of citizens to place international bets on the matches.
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Unless you're Bill McGlashan, you're doing impact investing, but you don't want people to be empowering to compete with your son for that seat that you bribed for him.
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According to a joint statement, police are investigating suspicions that Shikun & Binui bribed foreign government officials to advance projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars in Kenya and other countries.
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In a series of tweets this week, Jordan revealed that his "idiot furry son" had successfully been bribed with a deer bone by a neighborhood bear on three separate occasions.
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The company has been at the center of Latin America's biggest graft scandal since acknowledging in a 2016 leniency deal that it bribed officials in a dozen countries, including Peru.
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Mallinckrodt said it expects to pay $393 million to the DOJ after two whistleblower lawsuits claimed Questcor improperly promoted and bribed doctors to prescribe its popular drug H.P. Acthar Gel.
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From Mexico to Argentina and many places in between, his Brazilian construction company bribed presidents, ministers and candidates to win public contracts, setting a nefarious example that other firms followed.
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The country's congress was threatening to impeach him based on evidence that a company he founded had worked with Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction company that bribed officials across Latin America.
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It also agreed in December to pay more than $519 million to settle U.S. criminal and civil allegations that the company bribed overseas officials to gain business for its medications.
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We may have bribed him with desserts to take one bite of broccoli, messed up his bedtime routine every now and then, and overindulged him with toys on his birthday.
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Odebrecht has rocked Latin American politics with its confession exactly a year ago that it bribed officials across the region, landing elites in jail from Colombia to the Dominican Republic.
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Ng is set to face trial in January on charges that he bribed a former U.N. General Assembly president to support a Macau-based conference center his company would develop.
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The mission in which a journalist is set for assassination is called "Breaking News" and it calls on the player to kill someone who bribed a police officer for information.
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In December, Teva Pharmaceutical agreed to pay more than $519 million to settle U.S. criminal and civil allegations that the company bribed overseas officials to gain business for its medications.
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" When the friend responded that it was bad for the doctor but not for Insys, Beisler replied: "The thing is they bribed the [expletive] out of that guy to write.
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BNDES wants to oust the Batistas from day-to-day management and the board of JBS, following revelations they bribed 1,893 politicians in the past decade to protect their business.
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A UN report, published at the end of last year, details how Kenyan border security agents had been easily bribed by known al-Shabaab terrorists not to search their cars.
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While in Iraq, he said he saw Saddam Hussein's pool, which had been commandeered by United States Marines; met armed insurgents; and bribed his way across the Jordan-Iraq border.
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On Tuesday, Brooklyn prosecutors explained the inconsistency with a shocking allegation: A shadowy courthouse figure with a history of fixing criminal cases had bribed Mr. Cherry to alter his account.
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Similarly, the company's men were often wicked and arrogant; they bribed, robbed and killed those who crossed them — yet their Indian opponents could commit even more appalling acts of violence.
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A South Korean court found that there was sufficient evidence that Mr. Lee had bribed the government, expecting to gain state support for a merger of two Samsung-controlled companies.
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A 2010 anti-corruption bill passed by Congress required polygraph tests for all agents, concerned about the possibility they could be blackmailed, bribed or compromised by gangs, cartels or criminals.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating whether managers at the ride-hailing app Uber illegally bribed foreign officials to do business in their country, according to a Tuesday report.
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Brazilian federal prosecutor Carlos Fernando dos Santos Lima said at a press conference on Monday investigators had evidence Odebrecht had bribed officials abroad, including a former transportation secretary in Argentina.
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While his lieutenants have shared details about the Sinaloa cartel's operations, the kingpin himself could offer even more intimate information, such as how he possibly bribed a president of Mexico.
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A civil servant friend of mine was still offered a brand-new iPhone as a "gift" in 2016; I've yet to hear of anyone who was bribed with a Huawei.
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The federal investigation, dubbed "Operation Varsity Blues," characterized the scheme as involving corrected admissions test scores, falsified student achievements and disabilities and bribed college coaches and administrators at prominent universities.
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Allegations swirled at the time that some lawmakers had been bribed $350 million by the government to sway their votes, along with rumors that they were involved in embezzling state funds.
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In other words, I don't know anyone who had to be bribed to walk down the aisle — or who only stayed around for the wedding in order to keep the ring.
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Earlier this year, the story broke of a far-reaching college admissions scandal involving at least 50 super-rich parents who essentially bribed their children's way into elite colleges and universities.
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Wilson-Raybould told the House of Commons justice committee last month that Wernick had put intense pressure on her to help SNC-Lavalin avoid prosecution over allegations it bribed Libyan officials.
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Criminals, with help from Pemex workers who are bribed or coerced, attach thick hoses to the pipes, which channel the fuel into trucks, often waiting several kilometres away to receive it.
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Prosecutors say some of the parents facilitated cheating on the SATs and ACTs on behalf of their children, and some parents bribed college coaches to smooth their children's path into college.
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The 21 plants involved in the audit were implicated in a probe that alleged that major meatpackers bribed federal health inspectors to allow production and marketing of irregular meat-based products.
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An investigation into whether food companies bribed inspectors to evade safety checks, the so-called Weak Flesh probe in March, caused temporary bans on Brazilian meat exports which were later lifted.
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Nearly every infrastructure project connected to the Games is under investigation and prosecutors allege major construction firms bribed politicians and others to win contracts worth billions of dollars for the event.
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My husband and I bribed my son with chocolates and messed up his bedtime routine every now and then, but having a happy and healthy five-year-old outweighs our missteps.
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Odebrecht has been at the center of Latin America's biggest graft scandal since acknowledging in a late 2016 leniency deal that it had bribed officials in a dozen countries, including Peru.
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The next morning, I bribed her: If she would walk by herself all 13 miles back to the car, I would buy her a spectacular ice cream in the nearest town.
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Two whistleblowers at a drugmaker that recently made news for a major price hike alleged the company bribed doctors to increase sales, according to CNN, citing court documents unveiled this week.
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While conducting a separate probe into allegations that Samsung bribed the country's former president, investigators found thousands of documents suggesting the conglomerate had developed union busting strategies, domestic media outlets reported.
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Mr. Menem's successor, Fernando de la Rúa, who was in power from 1999 to 2001, was prosecuted, and acquitted, over allegations that he had bribed lawmakers to pass a labor reform.
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"Spears is filmed and costumed in such a harsh, unflattering manner that it looks like Christina Aguilera bribed the crew to make her rival look as hideous as possible," he wrote.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. jury on Thursday found Macau billionaire Ng Lap Seng guilty on charges he bribed two U.N. ambassadors to help him build a multibillion-dollar conference center.
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Lopez did concede to prosecutor Joan Illuzzi that it was possible Weinstein could have snuck in when a doorman was in the bathroom or possibly bribed one to let him in.
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But then media attention moved on to presidential tweets and other outrages — and with the spotlight off, House leaders bullied and bribed enough holdouts to narrowly pass a bill after all.
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Fiat Chrysler dropped 2.7% after General Motors filed a lawsuit, alleging that its rival bribed United Auto Workers union officials over many years to corrupt the bargaining process and gain advantages.
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A survey here of 288 Rohingya construction workers in Malaysia published late last year found a quarter had been sent to jail at least once, and nearly half had bribed police.
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In 2012, Wynn Resorts pushed Okada out and forcibly redeemed his roughly 1.93 million shares, at a 30 percent discount, for $1.9 billion over allegations Okada had bribed Filipino gaming officials.
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Or that the other powerful parties to the scandal — some of South Korea's major corporations — will suffer serious consequences, if accusations that they bribed the president and her friend prove true.
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" This marked Kaavia's "first big carpet," he shared, noting that "she didn't cry" and joking that they had a "stern talk in the car" where the couple "bribed" their daughter "with Puffs.
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Some celebrities, like Kyle Richards, aren't sure how to feel about the fact that a handful of their peers, including Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, allegedly bribed their children's ways into college.
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" Though this marked Kaavia's "first big carpet," Wade shared that "she didn't cry" and joked that they had a "stern talk in the car" where the couple "bribed" their daughter "with Puffs.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Sundance Resources said on Thursday Australian police are investigating allegations that the company may have bribed politicians in Congo Republic to win permits to pursue a major iron ore project.
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In 2012, Biomet entered into the agreement with the Justice Department to resolve alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act according to which Biomet bribed government officials in Brazil and Mexico.
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After a very tense checkpoint moment (a bribed guard ultimately lets them pass — good to know corruption is alive and well), our merry band of travelers arrive at a quaint little cabin.
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THE LAWYER IS MAKING 27 PAGES OF DOCUMENTS THAT HE SAYS IS EVIDENCE THAT SHOWS THE ATHLETIC SHOE GIANT BRIBED AMATEUR BASKETBALL PLAYERS AND OR THEIR FAMILIES TO ATTEND NIKE AFFILIATED COLLEGES.
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"Federal agents have taken down a mafia of businessmen that bribed inspectors ... and politicians to obtain certification to sell meat without any inspections," he said in a statement on the federation's website.
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After a trip with my friends where they bribed me with gelato to do a daily five-minute workout with them, I was finally intrigued enough to try it on my own.
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The United States opened to fresh Brazilian beef in 2016 after years of negotiation, but within months Brazil's meatpacking industry was rocked by allegations that companies bribed officials to manipulate inspection results.
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Lin was arrested in a case brought by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn just before prosecutors in Manhattan charged Macau real estate mogul Ng Lap Seng, whom they said bribed a U.N. diplomat.
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Ng is scheduled to go on trial in January 2017 on charges that he bribed a former U.N. General Assembly president to support a Macau-based conference center his company would develop.
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Two former Goldman Sachs executives allegedly bribed foreign officials and helped launder money through the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad, the US Justice Department alleged in indictments a month ago.
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For instance, a company that sells a drilling rig in one country that was bribed may well have sold that same rig elsewhere without such a bribe and still made a profit.
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He rented limousines and gave tours of the landmark, and insinuated not only that this was very hush-hush government business, but that he could be bribed into accepting the winning bid.
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Ms. Ma was among 452 delegates of the Liaoning Province People's Congress who were stripped of their membership this month after investigators found that they had bribed their way onto the legislature.
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Prosecutors say the executives bribed Mr. Percoco to obtain favorable treatment from the state or conspired with Dr. Kaloyeros to rig a bidding process to ensure that they won lucrative state contracts.
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The United States halted fresh beef imports from Brazil in June 2017 after discovering issues with the meat in the wake of a scandal alleging Brazil's meatpackers bribed inspectors for favorable results.
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Such robust growth suggests the sector has bounced back quickly from a bombshell investigation in March named "Weak Flesh," which alleged that some meatpackers had bribed health inspectors to evade safety checks.
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Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, said she had sex in 2006 with the recently-married Donald Trump, who then bribed her to keep quiet days before the 2016 presidential election.
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Whether students are admitted because their parents paid for a boathouse, or because their parents bribed the sailing coach, it is still the case that merit alone is not deciding the issue.
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The department had spent four years investigating whether the retail giant had bribed government officials in Mexico and other countries, one of the biggest investigations ever under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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Acting as a cartel bagman, Mr. Zambada said he bribed military officers, the municipal and federal police, authorities at airports and seaports, officials in the attorney general's office, even representatives from Interpol.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. jury on Thursday found Macau billionaire Ng Lap Seng guilty on charges he bribed two United Nations ambassadors to help him build a multibillion-dollar conference center.
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" Singer also noted that someone named Liz, presumably a federal agent, "raised her voice to me like she did in the hotel room about agreeing with her that everyone bribed the schools.
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A recurring trope in American politics is that the best person to fix what's wrong with Washington would be someone so wealthy that they can't be bribed or bought by special interests.
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At trial, defense lawyers argued that Zambada -- who was also named in the superseding indictment against Guzmán -- bribed the Mexican government to frame El Chapo and remain free to run the cartel.
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In a separate case, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) opened an investigation in 2012 into accusations that Brookfield's Brazil shopping mall unit bribed Sao Paulo officials to win construction permits.
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In 2015 a construction tycoon left a suicide note implying that he had bribed eight high-level figures, including Ms. Park's former chief of staff and the prime minister, who then resigned.
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According to the book, this revelation happened before production on The Room ever began, and Sestero maintains he had to be bribed with a car to take on the role of Mark.
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The investigation centers on whether companies bribed members of CARF, a body within the finance ministry that hears appeals on tax disputes, to get favorable rulings that reduced or waived the amounts owed.
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In 2010, Congress passed an anti-corruption bill that requires all agents to pass polygraph tests to combat the possibility that they could be blackmailed, bribed or compromised by gangs, cartels or criminals.
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In 2010, Congress passed an anti-corruption bill that requires all agents to pass polygraph tests to combat the possibility that they could be blackmailed, bribed or compromised by gangs, cartels or criminals.
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The tourists in her studio were bribed into clapping with free gifts (books, CDs, Broadway tickets) and snacks — such as the Ding Dongs and chocolate milk under their chairs to keep them caffeinated.
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He performed the role with great—some might say excessive—enthusiasm: he is said to have bribed and leant on William Chaloner's associates and mistresses to secure the conviction of the counterfeiting kingpin.
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A 37-year-old Russian man was arrested in March on suspicion that he and several others at the company had bribed an Azerbaijani official to secure a contract worth around $340 million.
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Most dramatically, Mr Trump bribed and cajoled Carrier, a maker of air-conditioning units in Indiana, to change its plans and keep 800 jobs in the state rather than move them to Mexico.
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One summer during middle school, my mom bribed me to pack my bags and spend a week at a Baptist church camp, not far from where Star meets Jake in that Oklahoma supermarket.
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Like voters elsewhere in Latin America, Colombians are fuming about serial scandals, including revelations that Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction company that bribed politicians across the region, paid some of Mr Santos's campaign expenses.
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The lawsuit alleges that after the assault, a third deputy stole a gold chain off of Petrov and bribed witnesses with the jewelry and some of Petrov's money to keep them from talking.
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Trump painted a dystopian picture of the reclusive North, saying people were suffering in "gulags" and some bribed government officials to work as "slaves" overseas rather than live under the government at home.
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Unless a would-be hacker has rounded up or bribed your closest friends as well as stealing your login details then your pals will be able to get you back up and running.
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They then bribed an undertaker with an undisclosed amount of cash and a set of Jee's golf clubs, and the undertaker helpfully incinerated Jee's body and allegedly flushed the remains down the toilet.
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The authorities thought we'd bribed prison officials, and put the word out that they'd make sure we had immunity from the wrath of the warden if we told them which officers were involved.
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The USC college freshman, who is the daughter of Loughlin and fashion designer Mossimo Gianulli, reportedly got accepted as a crew recruit after her parents bribed a man to secure her a spot.
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The incident would seem to imply that Medvedev felt the fix was in against him, but when reporters asked him if he was trying to say the umpire was bribed, he denied it.
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The case is investigating whether companies bribed members of CARF, a body within the Finance Ministry that hears appeals on tax disputes, to get favorable rulings that reduced or waived the amounts owed.
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But he should be sticking around to fix Toys "R" Us out of a sense of obligation — obviously he knew there were problems upon joining in mid-2015 — not because he's being bribed.
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Zarrab, who has yet to be sentenced, testified during Atilla's trial that he bribed Turkish officials, and that Erdogan personally signed off on parts of the scheme while serving as Turkey's prime minister.
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Safa Kasim bribed a guard on the border with Jordan, and the family eventually settled in Hounslow, in west London, where Yaser's talent was spotted by a scout from Tottenham Hotspur's youth academy.
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In a letter obtained by Politico, the head of the American Democracy Legal Fund (ADLF) alleged that Trump bribed Carson into endorsing his candidacy after the former neurosurgeon dropped out of the race.
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The probe, which is still ongoing, alleged that some firms bribed inspectors to keep processing plants running, issue international health certificates, and allow the sale of products in violation of food safety standards.
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The U.S. Justice Department is pushing for Och-Ziff to plead guilty in a probe of whether it bribed Libyan government officials to win an investment mandate from the country's sovereign wealth fund.
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Michael Conlan, an Irish boxer who lost a quarterfinal fight on Tuesday to a Russian fighter, went so far as to accuse the federation of corruption and suggest that Russia had bribed judges.
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In 2011, the Serious Fraud Office opened an investigation into allegations that one of the group's military subsidiaries bribed Saudi Arabian officials to win a multibillion dollar contract for a satellite communications system.
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Automaker General Motors (GM) has filed a lawsuit alleging that officials at rival auto giant Fiat-Chrysler (FCA) bribed top union officials in the U.S. to secure more favorable contracts with autoworkers' unions.
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To the Editor: If children learn that reading is an assignment they are forced to pursue, or a chore they are bribed to do, how can that lead to a love of reading?
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The idea that women can be gently bribed into cancelling their abortion sounds like a neo-capitalist version of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, but it's fast becoming reality for many Hungarian women.
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Trump and Giuliani have pushed claims for months that the former vice president bribed government officials in Ukraine to stifle investigations into Burisma, the gas company for which Hunter served on the board.
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In 260, several years after the copper king William A. Clark bribed his way into the U.S. Senate, Montana passed a law that barred corporations from making contributions to political parties and candidates.
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Disguised as an Army officer, Mr. Lucas said, he organized a network of bribed soldiers to move heroin to an air base in Vietnam, from which the bodies of servicemen were flown home.
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Books News THIMPHU, Bhutan — Not long ago, when Bhutan's government tried to enroll children in school, parents hid them in the attic and bribed government agents with butter and cheese to go away.
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Lee Jae-yong, vice chairman and heir apparent to Samsung Group, faces charges that he bribed South Korean government officials to solidify his family's control of one of the world's biggest business empires.
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General Motors sued its rival Fiat Chrysler on Wednesday, asserting that it bribed United Auto Workers officials in contract negotiations to get a leg up on G.M. over the course of a decade.
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MILAN (Reuters) - An Italian court on Saturday ordered ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to stand trial on charges he bribed witnesses to silence them over accusations he paid for sex with young women.
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Prosecutors have said the Sinaloa cartel bribed Garcia Luna throughout his time in government to ensure safe passage for its drugs, and obtain information about rival cartels and Mexican probes into its activities.
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The 37-year-old Russian man was arrested in March on suspicion that he together with several others at Bombardier had bribed an Azerbaijani official to secure a contract worth around $340 million.
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An investigation established that in 2007-14 KES officials and affiliated organisations bribed former senior officials of the Komi region to set advantageous heating and electricity tariffs, the Investigative Committee said in a statement.
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JPMorgan on Thursday agreed to pay more than $264 million to US authorities to settle charges that it bribed officials in the Asia-Pacific region to win business, ending a nearly three-year investigation.
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In a vindication of the strategy pursued by Britain's Serious Fraud Office, Rolls-Royce settled claims dating from 1989 to 2013 that it had bribed officials in various countries in order to win contracts.
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California college admissions adviser William "Rick" Singer has pleaded guilty to charges that he facilitated cheating on college entrance exams and bribed coaches at universities to falsely present the parents' children as athletic recruits.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 27 (Reuters) - The Council of Europe (CoE) is to investigate possible corruption in its assembly in response to reports that Azerbaijani members had bribed others to influence votes on human rights there.
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Prosecutors allege Lee, the 48-year-old scion of the country's richest family, bribed a close friend of then president Park Geun-hye to gain government favors related to leadership succession at the conglomerate.
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They alleged Kapoor and other Insys executives bribed doctors to prescribe the company's powerful fentanyl spray, called Subsys, to a wide array of patients — even though the medication is only intended for cancer patients.
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Walls then said that the price differences and accommodation differences between the rooms detailed in the emails were negligible, and that they had nothing to do with whether or not Melgen had bribed Menendez.
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The ongoing college admissions scandal, where well-heeled parents bribed their kids' way into top universities, demonstrates how cathartic it can be when those who believed themselves above the law are brought to justice.
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Using that information, they developed a software program that made it possible to carry out the unlocking process remotely, ostensibly so bribed employees didn't need to enter each IMEI number manually at their desk.
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A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation in May 2015 revealed widespread corruption in Uganda's intercountry adoption process with Ugandan parents bribed, tricked or coerced into giving up their children to U.S. citizens and other foreigners.
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Instead, they wanted Wilson-Raybould to merely issue financial penalties, which would allow the company, which was charged with having bribed Libyan officials, to avoid a 10-year ban on bidding on federal contracts.
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The inquiry comes against the backdrop of a wide-ranging admissions scandal this year, which exposed how ultra-wealthy families bribed officials and faked elaborate athletic credentials to get their children into desirable colleges.
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By 0000 the government of another former Soviet republic, Kyrgyzstan, had hired Mr. Akhmetshin to investigate whether Washington had bribed the family of the country's former president to keep an American air base there.
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He had persuaded — and by this I mean bribed — caste leaders to allow their women to work as day laborers, and their rising incomes were apparent in new brick houses and well-nourished children.
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But prosecutors said the Sinaloa cartel bribed Garcia Luna throughout his time in government to ensure safe passage for its drugs, and to obtain information about rival cartels and Mexican probes into its activities.
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Fiat Chrysler was down 3.6% after General Motors filed a racketeering lawsuit, alleging that its rival bribed United Auto Workers (UAW) union officials over many years to corrupt the bargaining process and gain advantages.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Several former executives of Keppel Corp have been arrested by Singaporean authorities in a probe related to charges its rig-building unit bribed Brazilian officials, Singapore's Straits Times newspaper reported on Friday.
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The police accused the Spaniard Marc Fornell-Mestres, whose highest career singles ranking was 236th in 2007, of acting as the link between players and the Armenian ring that bribed them for betting purposes.
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She must come to the terms with the fact her mother, along with dozens of other members of the One Percent, may have criminally bribed people to get her child into a premier institution.
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In some cases, they allegedly used imposters to stand in for the children at exams or bribed athletic recruiters to recruit their children, even if they didn't end up playing that sport in college.
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The banking index fell 0.63 percent U.S. prosecutors said the FBI's investigation corroborated findings of a 2013 probe in Turkey that saw Zarrab arrested on charges he bribed high-level officials to facilitate the transactions.
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Twenty years since he bribed the Taliban to get out of jail, fled to Tehran, was targeted by the Iranian secret police, and paid human smugglers to transport him across Asia and Europe to safety.
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She whips out a shiv when she's asked by one of her cellmates if she is Aunt Becky and explains that she's already bribed the guards by getting their kids into competitive pre-K schools.
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The seven individuals involved include a former treasurer of Venezuela, Claudia Diaz, and television mogul Raul Gorrin, who bribed the Venezuelan Treasury in order to conduct illegal foreign exchange operations, according to the U.S. Treasury.
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"Hernández bribed law enforcement officials to protect drug shipments, solicited large bribes from major drug traffickers, and arranged machine gun-toting security for cocaine shipments," said Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman in a news release.
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In September, prosecutors said they uncovered two major schemes, including one in which apparel executives, financial advisers and others bribed assistant college coaches to influence sought-after players to join them and retain their services.
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California college admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer pleaded guilty in March to charges that helped parents facilitate cheating on college entrance exams and bribed coaches at universities to falsely present their children as athletic recruits.
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The probe initially claimed that some firms, including BRF and JBS SA, bribed inspectors to keep processing plants running, issue international health certificates, and allow the sale of products in violation of food safety norms.
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Kuczynski, a 78-year-old former investment banker who was prime minister and finance minister in 2005, said Odebrecht employees must be brought to Peru to explain whom it bribed to secure public work contracts.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has stopped beef and poultry imports from four Brazilian companies over concerns about food safety after accusations that individuals had been bribed to allow sales of rotten and salmonella-tainted meats.
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Further, the economics literature notes that the real profit from the bribe is only the incremental profit from a bribed business, as compared to the profit of the same company just doing different business instead.
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A woman who bribed a top United Nations official to support business ventures was sentenced to 20 months in prison by a judge who said bribery schemes do "substantial damage" to the international organization's image.
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Richenthal said evidence showed that Chinese officials were involved in talks with Ng about developing a U.N.-sponsored conference center for which Ng had bribed former General Assembly President John Ashe to gain his support.
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The Pomerantz lawsuit alleges Gerdau failed to disclose it and its executives bribed tax authorities, defrauded Brazil's tax revenue service of $429 million, laundered illegal funds and carried out influence peddling, according to the filing.
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The prosecution said Mutee invested in multi million dollar factories inside the country's duty free zone and bribed officials to smuggle in and flood the local market with cheaper counterfeit cigarettes under top international brands.
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The editors bribed a mishmash of unemployed laborers to participate, and Cossins uses their stories to paint a picture of France in the early 1900s to show how the race influenced the culture of cycling.
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Prosecutors are expected to offer up the epic tale of Mr. Guzman's rise from a teenage marijuana farmer to a ruthless kingpin who bribed officials in Mexico and often toted a gold-plated assault rifle.
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Detained over charges that he bribed former president Park Geun-hye, Lee has since missed the launch of two new flagship phones and three record-breaking quarterly earnings, including July-September earnings guidance on Friday.
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Taking the witness stand on Wednesday for the first time since his trial began in April, he denied having bribed Park Geun-hye, then South Korea's president, to keep his control of the business empire.
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An affidavit from a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent made public in the case last month said that the minister bribed a fellow government official "on behalf of" one of Mr. Steinmetz's companies in 217.
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The government said that Mr. McGlashan's son was told to take the exam at one of two test centers where Mr. Singer worked with test administrators who had been bribed to allow students to cheat.
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In return, the Brazilian government is hoping to see movement toward the reopening of the U.S. market to fresh beef imports from Brazil that were shut down after a meat-packing industry scandal involving bribed inspectors.
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It said the seven individuals targeted by the move include a former Venezuelan treasurer, Claudia Patricia Diaz Guillen, and Raul Antonio Gorrin Belisario, who bribed the Venezuelan Treasury in order to conduct illegal foreign exchange operations.
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In what Department of Justice prosecutors have called the biggest admissions scam in U.S. history, parents allegedly bribed coaches and paid for forged standardized tests in a conspiracy to get their children into elite American colleges.
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California college admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer pleaded guilty in March to charges that he helped parents facilitate cheating on college entrance exams and bribed coaches at universities to falsely present their children as athletic recruits.
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The investigation centers on allegations that dozens of companies bribed members of the CARF, a Finance Ministry body that hears appeals on tax disputes, to get favorable rulings that reduced or waived the amounts they owed.
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California college admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer pleaded guilty in March to charges that he helped parents facilitate cheating on college entrance exams and bribed coaches at universities to falsely present the children as athletic recruits.
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Famed short-seller Jim Chanos, who's been shorting Tesla for years, recently spoke to CNBC about how Musk had attacked him on Twitter, claiming that Chanos had bribed a journalist for inside information on Musk's company.
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SAO PAULO, March 20 (Reuters) - The Brazilian Agriculture Ministry confirmed on Monday that China had temporarily banned beef imports following a police investigation that revealed health inspectors were bribed to overlook unsanitary conditions at several plants.
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"Hernandez allegedly arranged machine-gun-toting security for cocaine shipments, bribed law enforcement officials for sensitive information to protect drug shipments, and solicited large bribes from major drug traffickers," said Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman.
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A convention negotiated in 1903 obliged countries to report disease outbreaks to each other, only to be flouted shortly after by the Italian authorities, who bullied and bribed doctors and journalists to deny a cholera outbreak.
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The airline is investigating whether the practice was a violation of a United States law, which subjects foreign companies traded in a U.S. stock exchange to sanctions if they are found to have bribed government officials.
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Kim recently testified as an expert witness for prosecutors in their bribery case against the Samsung Group leader Jay Y. Lee, who has been jailed since February on charges that he bribed Park, the former president.
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Republicans were able to extract some positive storylines from their testimony, including explicit denials that Trump bribed Ukraine and assertions that they were not alarmed by the much-scrutinized July 25 call between Trump and Zelensky.
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Only days after Thiam's arrest in December, Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz was put under house arrest by Israeli authorities on charges that he bribed officials in Guinea to secure mining rights for his company, BSG Resources.
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Federal agents who had monitored CEFC's rise since at least the summer of 2016 had sprung into action, arresting Mr. Ho in New York on allegations that he had bribed African officials in Chad and Uganda.
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According to The Boston Globe, Bulger's reputation was shredded during his racketeering trial in federal court in 2013, where he was portrayed as a mob boss who bribed FBI agents and strangled at least one woman.
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Boss Tweed had bribed enough Albany Republicans with jobs and other favors to impose a new charter that returned supremacy to City Hall, with some individual demands occasionally subject to veto by the Republican-run Senate.
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"Out of pure greed, Insys executives, from John Kapoor on down, bribed doctors to prescribe this powerful and highly addictive narcotic to people who did not need it," US Attorney Andrew Lelling said in a statement.
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Airbus on Friday agreed a record $4 billion settlement with France, Britain and the United States, after prosecutors said it had bribed public officials and hid the payments as part of a pattern of worldwide corruption.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Maryland-based company has agreed to pay $2 million to settle charges that it bribed a Russian official to win contracts to ship uranium to the United States, U.S. authorities said on Tuesday.
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Mark Warner of Virginia told BuzzFeed News that the revelation of a Facebook worker being bribed to reactivate scammy ads was further evidence of the unaccountability of platforms and the corruption endemic to digital advertising markets.
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The probe, known in Brazil as "Operation Zealots," has alleged that some of Brazil's largest companies bribed members of the CARF - a Finance Ministry body that hears appeals on tax disputes - in return for favorable rulings.
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Mr. Guzmán, known as El Chapo, trafficked tons of drugs, bribed nearly everyone of authority in Mexico and once ordered his henchmen to incinerate the bodies of two of his enemies in a bonfire, they said.
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A former executive of Bosasa, now called African Global Operations, was arrested earlier this month alongside five others after testifying at a judicial inquiry that he bribed politicians and bureaucrats to secure government contracts for the company.
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In March, a court fined Medojevic 1,000 euros for refusing to testify about a claim that former Podgorica mayor Miomir Mugosa bribed Special Prosecutor Milivoje Katnic with 100,000 euros in an abuse of office and corruption case.
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The results represented progress for a company striving under Chief Executive Pedro Parente to move past the fallout from a probe, begun in 2014, that showed construction firms bribed Petrobras officials and politicians to win inflated contracts.
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It was designed to promote the interests of China, not the interests of the recipient countries; its ambitious infrastructure projects were mainly financed by loans, not by grants, and foreign officials were often bribed to accept them.
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One is the cynical claim that peaceful protesters, whether against Mr Trump's policies or corruption in Romania, take to the streets only if they are bribed: usually, run the calumnies from Bucharest to Washington, by Mr Soros.
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Prosecutors also said Zarrab has used his wealth to buy access to corrupt politicians in Turkey, pointing to his 2013 arrest in that country on charges that he bribed high-level officials to facilitate transactions benefiting Iran.
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U.S. authorities have been investigating whether Och-Ziff bribed Libyan officials to win business from that country's sovereign wealth fund, and whether Och-Ziff loans funded illegal payments to the government in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Countries around the world are closing their ports to Brazilian meat, following the revelation that health inspectors there had been routinely bribed to allow the sale of expired and adulterated meat into the domestic and international marketplace.
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All criminals (terrorists included) will be able to transfer funds with ease and confidence, avoiding the risks and costs they now face when they move hundreds of millions of dollars using "mules," bribed officials and shady bankers.
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Their mother or father are either being deported, or they are seeing the agony of their father who bribed his way to get to Europe, or the desperation of the mother trying to find bread for them.
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Huffman's daughter — unaware her mother had shelled out thousands, disguised as donations, to Key West Foundation, the purported charitable organization that bribed test administrators across the country — asked her mother if they could get ice cream afterward.
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Her father, Agustin Huneeus, a Napa Valley vintner, bribed a consultant to falsify her test scores and athletic credentials, including a photograph of an entirely different girl playing water polo, to the school's admissions office, authorities said.
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Earlier on Wednesday GM filed a racketeering lawsuit against FCA, alleging that its rival bribed United Auto Workers (UAW) union officials over many years to corrupt the bargaining process and gain advantages, costing GM billions of dollars.
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The latest lawsuit against Sam Rainsy, in the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, accuses him of defamation over claims made in France that the prime minister bribed an activist to break up the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party.
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We need to make that next step into, it's not just that Trump is conducting business at Mar-a-Lago, and being bribed to do it, it's that's going to hurt you and the decisions he makes.
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Early in his career, he said, after he was arrested in Colombia, he not only bribed officials to let him out of prison, but also paid them to erase every trace of his existence from government records.
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The union was accused last year of having been involved in a scheme in which automaker Fiat Chrysler allegedly bribed top UAW executives to allow newer workers to be paid at a lower rate, thereby cutting costs.
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The Trump Organization bribed New York City tax officials to lower its property tax for multiple properties in Manhattan in the 1980s and 1990s, ProPublica reported, citing five former tax assessors and a former Trump Organization employee.
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There are also allegations, made public by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, that Mr. Deripaska bribed a government official, ordered the murder of a businessman and had links to a Russian organized crime group.
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They were handed out by government agents, who could be bribed, he said, and the richest landowner would thus become "a waterlord," who could drain the aquifer supplying everyone else's wells and then charge them for water.
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It goes on to claims that "after a failed bid to take over GM in 2015, FCA corrupted the collective bargaining process by structuring terms through bribed UAW officials that 'forced unanticipated costs on GM,'" Reuters reports.
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The judge granted another prosecution motion to prevent the defense from claiming that Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada -- also believed to be one of the heads of the Sinaloa Cartel -- bribed the Mexican government to focus on Guzmán.
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Four former executives from Insys Therapeutics were just cleared of some serious convictions after a judge ruled there wasn't sufficient evidence to prove they bribed doctors intentionally to get them to illegally push the fentanyl drug Subsys.
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"For us, defending women is a priority and it always has been," Mr. Berlusconi, who was cleared of soliciting underage prostitutes but is still fighting charges that he bribed a witness, said in a recent television interview.
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Parents accused in the scandal took advantage of extra-time allowances on the ACT or SAT exams, court documents said, and bribed test administrators to allow someone else to take the tests or to correct students' answers.
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Mr Correa has said that his name, and that of Mr Glas, are likely to appear on the Justice Department's list of officials bribed by Odebrecht, but insists that is part of an American plot to undermine him.
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The court pursued President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya on charges related to postelection violence in his country, but prosecutors withdrew the case before trial, saying the Kenyan government had obstructed its investigation and had intimidated and bribed witnesses.
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Through a middleman named Martin Fox, who knew both Singer and Texas tennis coach Michael Center, Singer bribed the coach to designate that child as a student-athlete and a recruit of the University of Texas tennis team.
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N, a Kentucky-based wire manufacturer, agreed to pay more than $75 million to resolve allegations that it had bribed officials in Angola, Bangladesh and China, the U.S. Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission said on Thursday.
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Keppel's offshore rig-building business agreed to pay the combined penalty to resolve investigations into charges it bribed Brazilian officials by authorities in the United States, Brazil and its home country of Singapore, U.S. authorities said on Friday.
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After working with a partner in China, it discovered that its partner bribed an employee to hand over source code, and hacked computer systems to try and steal more information, and keep an eye on the legal dispute.
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Ng and his assistant, Jeff Yin, are scheduled to go on trial in January on charges that they bribed former U.N. Assembly President John Ashe to support a conference center in Macau that Sun Kian group would develop.
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At one theater, actors tackled corruption and the decline of state services by playing Libyans who need to go to Tunisia for medical treatment but can't get tickets as officials have bribed airport staff to board overbooked flights.
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The announcement comes a day after more than 40 people were charged in a college admissions scam where parents allegedly bribed coaches to recruit students for athletic programs or paid people to help cheat on college entrance exams.
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Some of the lawmakers whose dismissals were announced on Tuesday, all from the economically struggling northeastern province of Liaoning, had bribed their way into the National People's Congress by buying votes, according to the official news agency Xinhua.
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Galanis then allegedly bribed investment advisers to buy Gerova shares for their own clients, and through coordinated trading sold Gerova shares from the straw holder's account in a scheme that generated nearly $20 million in profits, prosecutors said.
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Federal police in Brazil raided Gerdau offices in March 2015 and February 2016 as part of Operation Zelot, a probe into tax fraud through which companies are alleged to have bribed tax revenue agents to issue favorable rulings.
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While not disputing that pollution occurred, San Ramon, California-based Chevron has said it is not liable and that Donziger and his associates orchestrated the writing of a key environmental report and bribed the presiding judge in Ecuador.
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The transaction isn't simple—before getting there, a secretive network of poachers, middlemen, and bribed customs agents in Africa ping-pong the cargo around the continent, widening the gap between the ivory's origin and its eventual departure point.
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The F.B.I. affidavit revealed how wealthy parents and William Singer, a private admissions consultant, lied to counselors about why students planned to take the SAT and ACT in far-flung locations, where bribed proctors would correct their answers.
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African Global came under fire early this year after its former chief operating officer, Angelo Agrizzi, told an anti-graft judicial inquiry in January he and others bribed politicians and bureaucrats to secure government contracts for his company.
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General Motors on Wednesday filed a racketeering lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, alleging that its rival bribed United Auto Workers union officials over many years to corrupt the bargaining process and gain advantages, costing GM billions of dollars.
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If you need a refresher on that one, a "terrified" Olivia Jade emerged for the first time since legal proceedings started for her parents' after they allegedly bribed a scam artist in return for her admission to college.
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Context: In what Department of Justice prosecutors are calling the biggest admissions scam in U.S. history, parents allegedly bribed coaches and paid for forged standardized tests in a conspiracy to get their children admitted to elite American colleges.
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In his 1998 book Lord Elgin and the Marbles: The Controversial History of the Parthenon Sculptures, William St. Clair investigated Lord Elgin's financial records and discovered that he had bribed Ottoman officials in order to export the works.
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Summer 2018 seems like such a simpler time when one could watch an Olivia Jade video titled "EVERYDAY MAKEUP TUTORIAL" without simultaneously wondering if she knew her parents had allegedly bribed her way into the University Of Southern California.
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He also said he would order a review of dismissed criminal cases against active law enforcement officers because he suspects that some might have bribed their way back onto the force after getting busted for criminal involvement or drugs.
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Read more: British student accused of spying in UAE says he was drugged, forced to sign a false confession, and bribed to betray his country The UAE pardoned the academic in November after intense pressure from the international community.
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It should be easy to clamp down on these men, but traders say agents of the Interior Ministry's General Department of Public Funds Crime Investigation Unit, which is responsible for tackling illegal trading outside the bureaux, are easily bribed.
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This case probes alleged kickbacks in a multibillion-dollar deal to buy submarines and patrol boats from German firm ThyssenKrupp — specifically, that state officials were bribed to make the purchase, despite opposition to the deal from the Defense Ministry.
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In September, Amazon confirmed that some of its marketplace sellers had bribed Amazon employees to delete negative reviews or to obtain proprietary information like sales data or customer e-mail addresses, following a report in The Wall Street Journal.
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The downfall of Toledo, once a pro-democracy hero and anti-corruption crusader to many in Peru, has raised questions about who might be next as Odebrecht provides testimony on high-ranking officials it bribed from Argentina to Panama.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British prosecutors will recover 4.4 million pounds ($6.2 million) from a corruption case in which a Canadian energy company bribed Chadian diplomats in North America, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said on Thursday following a court ruling.
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According to Vice Foreign Minister Han Song Ryol, the country "will ask for the handover of those criminals," described as foreign agents who bribed a North Korean man working in Russia to kill the leader with a biochemical substance.
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"Hernandez allegedly arranged machine gun-toting security for cocaine shipments, bribed law enforcement officials for sensitive information to protect drug shipments, and solicited large bribes from major drug traffickers," said Geoffrey S. Berman, a federal prosecutor in New York.
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Prosecutors said two of his investors, Jona Rechnitz and Jeremiah Reichberg, who both raised money for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's 2013 campaign, bribed senior police officers with luxury trips and other gifts in exchange for favors.
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During this period, the intelligence services supplied stories to the press in the form of transcripts, audiotapes and videos in which people confessed to having bribed government officials, including the Awami League leader and current prime minister, Sheikh Hasina.
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Prosecutors said defense lawyers had opened the door to that line of inquiry by arguing that Mr. Aiello and Mr. Gerardi had been innocent victims of, rather than active collaborators with, Mr. Howe, when they allegedly bribed Mr. Percoco.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Convicted Philippine felons on Tuesday told a Congressional hearing they had bribed a former justice minister and fierce critic of President Rodrigo Duterte, dealing another blow to her efforts to investigate the country's deadly war on drugs.
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Lamine Diack, a former I.A.A.F president, will stand trial in January in France after being charged with corruption in a case that includes accusations that he and other top ranking officials were bribed to cover up failed drug tests.
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Colombia has been rattled in recent years by a corruption scandal that put Brazil's Odebrecht at the center of Latin America's biggest graft case, when the construction firm acknowledged in 2016 that it bribed officials in a dozen countries.
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She said in testimony to the House Justice Committee that she had faced "veiled threats" and "sustained" pressure to help SNC-Lavalin, a major employer in Canada, over allegations that it had bribed officials in Libya to secure contracts.
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Moreover, a former U.S. law-enforcement official said that the Americans were angered that Lutsenko had helped rehabilitate Zlochevsky, who they believed had bribed at least one prosecutor in 33 to stall the British money-laundering case against him.
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But it was Mr. Fujimori's infamous head of the secret services, Vladimiro Montesinos, who bribed politicians, bankers, entrepreneurs, judges, military officers and journalists, and videotaped the shady secret transactions, preserving a legacy of abuse of power behind closed doors.
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Additionally, it looks like there's no way Damiani didn't know that Hugo and Mariano Jinkis—a father-son duo who allegedly bribed FIFA officials with tens of millions for broadcasting rights to Latin American matches—were doing something dirty.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - A unit of Insys Therapeutics Inc pleaded guilty on Friday to fraud charges as part of an $225 million deal with the U.S. Justice Department resolving claims that the drugmaker bribed doctors to prescribe an addictive opioid medication.
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Different forms of alleged cheating The actresses were involved in different aspects of the alleged scheme run by mastermind Rick Singer, who facilitated cheating on standardized tests and bribed college coaches to give students an advantage in the admissions process.
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Prosecutors said that Kelly bribed Percoco by giving his wife a mostly no-show job that paid $90,000 a year for three years in an ultimately unsuccessful effort to win favorable treatment from state officials for two power plant projects.
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As the Washington Post reports, the Singapore-based Francis bribed officers of the Navy's Seventh Fleet — the service's largest fleet that operates in Asia — with gifts like prostitutes, money, and vacations while they docked in his ports from Russia to Australia.
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Frankel traces the rise of Right Wing News, which had 3.1 million followers, and was recently posting false stories stating that lawyers for Christine Blasey Ford had been bribed in connection with her testimony about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
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On Sunday, The Wall Street Journal published a report that revealed that sellers have bribed Amazon employees to get access to internal sales data or to delete negative reviews, and that the company has launched an investigation into the practice.
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In what Department of Justice prosecutors are calling the biggest admissions scam in U.S. history, at least 50 people allegedly bribed coaches and paid for forged standardized tests in a conspiracy to get their children admitted to elite American colleges.
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In March, she told Food Network Magazine that she "bribed" her husband to grab a wheelbarrow to take brick from a nearby house that had been torn down so she could re-use it for a fireplace in their backyard.
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More than half named as pressing concerns jobs, health care and corruption, which is fresh in voters' minds after allegations that Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction firm, bribed Colombian officials (and paid for posters and polling in Mr Santos's re-election campaign).
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Why it matters: In the past, inmates bribed visitors or guards to sneak them things like drugs or other small items, but drones open up "the possibility of transporting much bigger and much more lethal items like guns" into the facility.
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ET, details of the extreme lengths Singer went to to secure student admission were revealed — including the Photoshopping of students' faces on athletes' bodies and arranging for students to take the SAT or ACT individually with the administrators he bribed.
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Canada's Griffiths Energy, using a front company called "Chad Oil", bribed senior diplomats at the Chadian Embassy to the United States with discounted share deals and payments in return for oil contracts in the central African nation, the SFO said.
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For more, click on Drugmaker Novartis agreed on Wednesday to pay more than $25 million to the U.S. government to settle civil charges that it bribed healthcare professionals in China to boost sales there, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said.
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Despite Loughlin's plea, her connection to the explosive news story — that she and Giannulli allegedly bribed University of Southern California officials with $22019,21 to get their daughters, including influencer Olivia Jade, into USC — seems to have already damaged her reputation.
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Patterson examines how the political clientelism that took root in independent Jamaica has led to deadly "garrison-based politics," in which a poor neighborhood is bribed or coerced through the threat of violence into voting for a particular political party.
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The lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, gave no reason why Ng was no longer seeking a quick trial on charges that he bribed John Ashe, a former U.N. ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda who was U.N. General Assembly president from 2013 to 2014.
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The G.O.P., meanwhile, was short on elder statesmen who had enough credibility with its populist wing to halt the lurch toward a demagogue who said that all politicians were crooks, and that he knew it because he had bribed them himself.
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And the COO of pizza chain Villa Italian Kitchen offered him a job at any one of the store's locations, along with a $1,101 signing bonus—a buck more than the amount his parents bribed him to move out with.
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Harvard, my alma mater, gives need-based financial aid to approximately 70 percent of students — students who, if they cannot afford to pay $67,580 a year, certainly could not have bribed athletic coaches and SAT proctors to boost their application.
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After five weeks of testimony from government witnesses about how their clients had bribed and bullied their way into the halls of state power, defense lawyers in a major New York corruption trial finally got their own day in court.
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The father had remarried in China, but he bribed the Chinese police to create fake Chinese identification documents for his family so they wouldn't be returned to the North, the father said in a deposition to South Korean lawyers last year.
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And in December 2016, the Brazil-based construction conglomerate Odebrecht and another petrochemical company agreed to pay more than $3.5 billion to settle charges they bribed politicians around the world through a web of shell companies and off-the-books transactions.
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They say they will call witnesses, including his fellow traffickers, to describe how he smuggled dope in ingenious ways — such as in cans of jalapeño chilies — bribed Mexican officials at every level and masterminded the brutal murder of his enemies.
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Keppel had posted a net loss for the quarter ended December 2017, its first such loss in 14 years, after accounting for a huge fine its rig-building unit agreed to pay to resolve investigations into charges it bribed Brazilian officials.
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He became president 16 months ago, when his predecessor, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, was forced out of office over allegations that he had helped secure public contracts for Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction firm that has bribed officials and politicians across Latin America.
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The charges revolve around a scheme in which so-called gun-licensing expediters bribed police officers in exchange for approval of hard-to-obtain gun permits, according to two criminal complaints unsealed on Tuesday in Federal District Court in Manhattan.
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"In the course of investigating that, I found out this incredible story about Joe Biden, that he bribed the President of the Ukraine in order to fire a prosecutor who was investigating his son," said Giuliani, alleging a media coverup.
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He had the prosecutor recount the particulars of the crime: Mr. Lichtenstein had bribed police officers to secure 25 to 50 gun licenses, with minimum scrutiny, for various people who had paid Mr. Lichtenstein thousands of dollars for his help.
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" Justice Wigney said that while Mr. Garnaut asserted that "he had taken care to avoid conveying anything beyond a strong suspicion that Dr. Chau had bribed Mr. Ashe, I was not satisfied that Mr. Garnaut had in fact exercised reasonable care.
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Becoming a prized athletic recruit at a top school gives an applicant a serious edge, which is why the wealthy parents indicted last week bribed soccer, sailing and crew coaches to pretend their children were top athletes when they weren't.
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Sitting very still and wearing a dark suit, he described how he arranged for students' SAT and ACT results to be falsified by sending them to take the exams in Houston or Los Angeles, where he had bribed test administrators.
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The tax probe, known in Brazil as "Operation Zealot," alleges that some of Brazil's largest companies bribed members of the CARF, a Finance Ministry body that hears appeals on tax disputes, to get favorable rulings that reduced or waived the amounts owed.
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University athletic coaches and administrators were also allegedly bribed "to designate applicants as purported athletic recruits — regardless of their athletic abilities, and in some cases, even though they did not play the sport they were purportedly recruited to play," court documents state.
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Investigators allege that athletic advisers for Adidas, the second best-selling sneaker brand in the United States, bribed basketball coaches at NCAA Division I universities in exchange for the coaches influencing the student-athletes to sign endorsement deals once they enter the NBA.
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The main defense argument, as put forth by Guzman lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman in his opening statement, has been that the real leader of the Sinaloa Cartel is Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, and that Zambada bribed the Mexican and U.S. governments to frame Guzman.
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The move seeks to replicate a January settlement inked by U.S. investors who received nearly $3 billion from Petrobras for claims stemming from a massive corruption scandal, in which contractors bribed company officials and politicians to win inflated contracts from the company.
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The fine proposal is quadruple of what the holding company J&F had offered last week after bombshell allegations that its owners Joesley and Wesley Batista had bribed scores of Brazilian politicians but still short of the 11.2 billion reais prosecutors are seeking.
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The SEC said on Thursday that MTS had agreed to pay a criminal fine and forfeiture in the amount of $850 million after the regulator found that it had bribed Uzbek authorities to win and retain business in the Central Asia republic.
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Congolese former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba and his defense team bribed witnesses to lie in his favor at a war crimes trial that ended in the highest ranking conviction by the International Criminal Court, judges ruled on Wednesday.
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Russian law enforcement officers detained Evgeny Olkhovik, a managing director of Renova, and Boris Vainzikher, chief executive of Renova subsidiary T Plus, in September 2016 under a criminal case into allegations that executives in firms controlled by Vekselberg had bribed regional officials.
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It is the second high-profile case of wrongdoing at companies in Singapore to hit headlines in recent weeks, after Keppel Corporation Ltd's rig-building business agreed in December to pay more than $422 million to resolve charges it bribed Brazilian officials.
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Prosecutors allege Lambert, former co-president of a Maryland-based shipping company Transport Logistics International (TLI), bribed a Russian energy official through a series of shell companies in Cyprus, Latvia and Switzerland in exchange for contracts to ship nuclear fuel to U.S. utilities.
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During an argument with the shop's employee (whom Jimmy has bribed to tell Chuck that Jimmy was never there), the elder McGill brother passes out, hitting his head in a blow that looks like it could result in death or serious injury.
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MILAN, July 22 (Reuters) - A witness in a corruption case involving Italian oil firm Eni told a court on Monday that a senior official from the company had bribed him to withdraw his allegations of graft, which he had agreed to do.
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Humala and Heredia turned themselves in to authorities after the lower court's July 13 decision, which marked the second time that a former Peruvian president has been ordered jailed since Odebrecht admitted last year that it bribed local officials over three presidencies.
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Insys Therapeutics Inc is engaged in talks to settle a lawsuit by New York's attorney general seeking at least $75 million over allegations it recklessly promoted a fentanyl-based cancer pain medicine for much wider uses and bribed doctors to prescribe it.
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He cheated on his wife with one of his students, bribed Ali to stay quiet about his affair, took the whole family to another country right after Ali's murder, and allowed his girlfriend to drug and attack his daughter without ever apologizing.
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The selloff came as holding company J&F Investimentos, controlled by billionaires Joesley and Wesley Batista, resumed negotiations with Brazilian prosecutors over a multi-billion dollar fine that would settle charges they bribed President Michel Temer and a raft of other politicians.
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A day before he published his letter, a Peruvian news website released a recording of a conversation in 2016 between Ecuador's then-comptroller-general and an executive at Odebrecht, a Brazilian infrastructure firm that has bribed officials in a dozen Latin American countries.
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Prosecutors have said that Kelly bribed Percoco by giving his wife, Lisa Percoco, a mostly no-show job that paid $90,000 a year for three years in an ultimately unsuccessful effort to win favorable treatment from state officials for two power plant projects.
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A hearing is scheduled for Wednesday and, if Judge Richard Concepcion approves Juarez' request, Humala would become the second former Peruvian leader sought for arrest since Odebrecht acknowledged publicly last year that it bribed officials across Latin America over a decade-long period.
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Trump and Giuliani have pushed claims for months that the former vice president bribed government officials in Ukraine to stifle investigations into Burisma, the gas company for which Hunter served on the board, so to insulate his 2020 presidential bid from possible controversy.
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As William Dalrymple lays out in gruesome detail in "The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company", its employees killed, pillaged, bribed and stole in pursuit of shareholder value, providing a steady flow of dividends to its owners back in England.
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Other tidbits from our conversation: • Ms. Warren suggested that Gary Cohn, President Trump's former top economic adviser, had been "pre-bribed" by his former employer, Goldman Sachs, which made him more likely to push for a tax overhaul that benefits the company.
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According to tribal membership documents from 1900 reviewed by The New York Times and High Country News, Cherokee Nation lawyers fought the tribal enrollment of Mr. Stitt's ancestor, Francis Dawson, who they claimed pretended to be a Cherokee and bribed Cherokee commissioners.
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A federal judge sentenced John Kapoor, the founder of the opioid manufacturer Insys Therapeutics, to five and a half years in prison Thursday for his role in a racketeering scheme that bribed doctors to prescribe a highly addictive opioid and misled insurers.
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Trudeau's former minister of justice and attorney general has said she was pressured to help a Quebec-based construction company to settle a pending criminal case amid allegations it bribed officials in Libya for government contracts, The Globe and Mail reported last month.
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A South Korean court blocked a prosecutor's attempt to arrest Mr. Lee, a third-generation scion and vice chairman of Samsung, saying there was not enough evidence that he had bribed President Park Geun-hye, in a scandal that led to her impeachment.
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As detailed brilliantly in The Economist, the DOJ brought charges based on the Travel Act, a law which bars foreign travel, using the mail (including email), and/or using an instrument of travel to do something illegal like, say, bribe or be bribed.
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Pyongyang's Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, which handles the North's external ties and propaganda, also called for the breakup of the Security Council, which it called "a tool of evil" made up of "money-bribed" countries that move at the order of the United States.
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This week Mr Uribe resigned his Senate seat to defend himself before the Supreme Court on charges that he bribed witnesses to give false testimony in a dispute over his alleged links to right-wing paramilitary groups in the 1990s, all of which he denies.
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In July Mr Uribe resigned from his seat in the senate after the supreme court called him to testify about allegations that he had bribed witnesses to retract their claim that he is linked to the AUC, a paramilitary group that disarmed during his presidency.
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In 1999 the North was bribed with sanctions relief to give up missile testing, and in 2000 a summit between leaders of the two Koreas prompted talk of a visit by President Bill Clinton (in the end, he only made the trip after leaving office).
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Members of the billionaire Batista family, which owns about 42 percent of JBS, are looking for ways to raise cash after prosecutors demanded they pay an 11 billion-reais ($3.36 billion) fine to settle allegations they bribed scores of politicians, one of the people said.
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The gang wanted to get the witness back on the streets as soon as possible so that they could put their scheme into action, so they bribed people who worked in the prison to get him transferred to an open prison and given weekend release.
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The news underscores the mounting pressure on Platinum, which produced stellar returns since launching in 2003 but has been under significant scrutiny this year following criminal charges against longtime associate Murray Huberfeld that he bribed a union official in exchange for an investment in Platinum.
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Hodge "Huff" Huffington has to be bribed with worms to get his photo taken and he gets a little prickly if the temperature isn't perfect (72 to 80 degrees) for shooting pictures outdoors, but he still produces some of the sweetest hedgehog shots on Instagram.
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At a hearing before U.S. District Judge Pamela Chen, US Imagina LLC general counsel Erika Lucas said that beginning around 2008, the company bribed officials of the national soccer federations of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras and of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU).
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Prosecutors said Avenatti and an unnamed co-conspirator met with Nike's attorneys on March 483 and said they had a client, a former amateur athletic coach, who had evidence that Nike employees had bribed top high school players to play for Nike-sponsored teams.
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Teva's bad run continued on Tuesday, when the company said it was being investigated in Israel over the same issues that led to a $519 million U.S. bribery settlement in December over criminal and civil allegations that it bribed overseas officials to gain business.
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Background: Earlier this month, prosecutors arrested Lee, saying he bribed impeached President Park Geun-hye's close friend Choi Soon-sil with millions of dollars in order to gain government support for a 2015 company merger with Cheil Industries that would cement his control over Samsung.
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A gaunt man in tan jail clothes took the witness stand Wednesday and began testifying about how he had bribed a Turkish economy minister as part of a billion-dollar scheme to smuggle gold for oil in violation of United States sanctions on Iran.
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According to prosecutors, Mr. Singer bribed test administrators and proctors to tamper with students' answer sheets, or in some cases to take the whole test in a student's place, to obtain the scores that were agreed in advance with the parents who paid him.
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A former operations chief in the Sinaloa drug cartel testified on Tuesday that he had personally bribed one of Mexico's top law-enforcement officials, meeting with him twice in a restaurant, each time delivering a briefcase stuffed with at least $3 million in cash.
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Just last week, Vice President Mike Pence authored a mendacious op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, which touted one senator's vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson as a profile in courage, despite historians' agreement that the senator was, in fact, likely bribed.
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But Kuczynski's plans to jumpstart economic growth through infrastructure development and lower taxes were derailed this year by an unexpectedly brutal rainy season and revelations that Odebrecht, a Brazilian builder with an outsized presence in Peru, had bribed local officials for at least a decade.
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The possibility of his arrest, over allegations that he bribed Ms. Park and a secretive confidante in exchange for helping him strengthen his control of Samsung, threatens a carefully crafted narrative in which he was portrayed as a new kind of South Korean executive.
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Diana DeGette, Democrat of Colorado, drew parallels between Tuesday's proceeding and hearings called in the early 2000s by the same subcommittee regarding the Salt Lake Olympics corruption scandal, in which American officials had bribed I.O.C. members to win the right to host the 2002 Games.
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The message from chairman Lim Boon Heng to major portfolio companies comes after the offshore rig-building unit of Keppel — in which Temasek has around a 20 percent stake — paid more than $422 million (306 million pounds) to resolve charges that it bribed Brazilian officials.
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But it was not all good news for Berlusconi on the legal front, with a court in Rome ordering that the 81-year-old should stand trial on charges that he bribed a witness in a 2013 under-aged prostitution case, a legal source said.
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SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean court on Thursday blocked a prosecutor's attempt to arrest Jay Y. Lee, the leader of Samsung, saying there was not enough evidence that Mr. Lee had bribed President Park Geun-hye, in a scandal that led to her impeachment.
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Nicky Scarfo, a Mafia boss who purged two dozen fellow mobsters during his 1980s reign in Philadelphia and South Jersey, milked casino profits in Atlantic City and bribed the city's mayor, died on Saturday at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C. He was 87.
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BOSTON, June 7 (Reuters) - A unit of Insys Therapeutics Inc is set to plead guilty on Friday to fraud charges as part of an $225 million deal with the U.S. Justice Department resolving claims that the drugmaker bribed doctors to prescribe an addictive opioid medication.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore oil rig builder Keppel Corp's agreement to pay a $422 million fine to resolve charges it bribed Brazilian officials, including people at state-owned oil company Petrobras, sent its shares tumbling and triggered a decline in smaller rival Sembcorp Marine Ltd on Tuesday.
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The change at the top comes as Jay Y. Lee faces trial on charges that he bribed a friend of former president Park Geun-hye to win government favor over succession planning at the conglomerate, a scandal which led to the impeachment of Park Geun-hye.
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That same year, an explosive book entitled Think Samsung, written by former chief legal counsel Kim Yong-chul, was published, claiming Lee Kun-hee stole about $10 billion from Samsung subsidiaries, destroyed evidence, and bribed government officials to ensure the smooth transfer of power to his son.
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Federal prosecutors describe a conspiracy involving some 50 defendants including TPG Growth Managing Partner Bill McGlashan, Willkie Farr & Gallagher Co-chair Gordon Caplan and actor Felicity Huffman, who allegedly bribed their way through the gruesome college-application process to get their children into elite institutions like Yale.
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A foreign debt default and a catastrophic economic crash in 2001 prompted his successor, Fernando de la Rúa, to call a state of emergency, resign and retire — after which he faced an unsuccessful prosecution on charges that he had bribed senators to approve a labor reform law.
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The "Fat Leonard" scandal, the worst corruption scandal in Navy history, centers around Malaysian contractor Leonard Glenn Francis, who bribed scores of officers with extravagant parties, luxury gifts, prostitutes and more in exchange for classified information to win lucrative contracts for his Glenn Defense Marine Asia company.
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Gingrich and Trump also questioned Lynch's meeting with Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson ClintonThe magic of majority rule in elections The return of Ken Starr Assault weapons ban picks up steam in Congress MORE last week — Trump suggested that the Clintons had bribed Lynch to not press charges.
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In some ways, the cutthroat admission rates — and the image of exclusivity that comes with them — point to why those parents, several of whom appeared in federal court in Boston on Friday, were said to have bribed coaches and athletic directors to game an increasingly restrictive system.
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Mr. Rechnitz, 36, a real estate investor who sought influence through political donations, has admitted bribing police officials, and said he also bribed the mayor, who received more than $150,000 in contributions for his political campaigns and causes from Mr. Rechnitz before and after becoming mayor.
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Lai's testimony in federal court forced Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah of Kuwait, a powerful power broker in soccer and the Olympic movement, to quit his soccer roles after allegations surfaced in Lai's guilty plea that he had bribed Asian officials, though he denies any wrongdoing.
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Separately, Uber is dealing with an inquiry over accusations that one of its employees bribed officials in India, and the company continues to be entangled in a legal battle over intellectual property theft with Waymo, a major competitor in the race to conquer self-driving car technology.
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A system that perpetuates abuse To cover up the alleged abuse, Glaser bribed local officials and used his network of allies in Kalangala to threaten those who spoke out against him, according to survivors and a police officer formerly based in the district, who spoke with CNN.
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Lee, the 49-year-old heir to one of the world's biggest corporate empires, was detained in February on charges that he bribed then-president Park Geun-hye to help him secure control of the conglomerate that owns Samsung Electronics, the world's leading smartphone and chip maker.
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All these things would be easier if Mr Tshisekedi could curb corruption: the ingrained habit whereby anyone with access to public money steals it, and anyone with even a little power makes life miserable for ordinary folk in the hope of being bribed to back off.
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The details: The suit argues that Fiat Chrysler bribed UAW officials over the course of the past decade with "millions of dollars in prohibited payments and things of value" in order to get a better labor deal from the union than GM was able to secure.
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New York-based Platinum, led by Mark Nordlicht, is in the process of liquidating its main funds amid dual federal probes and the arrest in June of a longtime associate, Murray Huberfeld, on charges he bribed a union official in return for an investment in the fund.
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Vizcarra's statement comes weeks after Odebrecht Peru signed a deal with Peruvian authorities to pay a fine of $182 million over 15 years that would allow it to continue operating in the country in return for providing evidence about officials it bribed to win infrastructure project contract.
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Huffman 'deeply ashamed,' she says More than 50 people -- parents, coaches, test administrator and conspirators -- were charged in the scandal, in which prosecutors said mastermind William "Rick" Singer either facilitated cheating on standardized tests or bribed college coaches to give students an advantage in the admissions process.
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Huffman explains her actions More than 50 people -- parents, coaches, test administrator and conspirators -- were charged in the scandal, in which prosecutors said mastermind William "Rick" Singer either facilitated cheating on standardized tests or bribed college coaches to give students an advantage in the admissions process.
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"He may be bribed by a greater interest to betray his trust, and no one would say that we ought to expose ourselves to the danger of seeing the first Magistrate in foreign pay, without being able to guard against it by displacing him," Morris said.
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Deputies initially discovered the federal civil rights investigation in the summer of 2011, when they found that F.B.I. agents had bribed a deputy to get a cellphone to the inmate working as an informant in their investigation of widespread corruption and routine beatings at the jail.
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Though it's especially alarming to watch at this current moment, Loro is a period piece, a mostly imagined look behind the scenes at Berlusconi's milieu during the mid-aughts, after one of his falls from power, as he plotted and bribed his way to the next rise.
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The serious allegation before us is that the president bribed the head of a foreign nation by asking him to do him a favor — to sabotage an American election by announcing a false investigation into the president's political rival so that the president could retain his office.
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For months, Mr. Guo has been posting images and documents on Twitter and broadcasting video on YouTube alleging that HNA has bribed high-ranking officials and given the relatives of at least one senior government official a major stake in the company — possibly through Mr. Guan.
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Insys already had reached a $225 million settlement before filing for bankruptcy with the U.S. Justice Department, admitting to illegal conduct in resolving claims that it bribed doctors to write prescriptions, including medically unnecessary ones, for a fentanyl spray called Subsys designed to treat cancer pain.
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When she allegedly murdered her second husband for taking another wife, his first wife—the purported Om Ali of dessert fame, who was thrown over at Al-Durr's behest—allegedly bribed some maids to murder her in the hammam by beating her to death with their shoes.
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Now that we've pretty much finished rubbernecking the college admissions scandal in which over 30 parents, including Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, bribed or faked their children's ways into elite schools including the University Of Southern California, a new wave of equally annoying celebrity behavior is on the rise.
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In the second scheme, prosecutors say high school-aged players and their families were allegedly bribed by James Gatto, a senior executive at German sportswear supplier Adidas, and Merl Code, a person affiliated with the company, to enroll prospective players at colleges that were sponsored by the athletic brand.
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When Singer's foundation, which he allegedly used to funnel money from parents to the people he bribed to get kids into schools, was audited, he reached out to Huneeus and asked him to make sure not to tell anyone about the extremely illegal fraud they are now accused of.
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Prosecutors said Avenatti and another lawyer, who was not named in court papers, met with Nike's attorneys on March 19 and said they had a client, a former amateur athletic coach, who had evidence that Nike employees had bribed top high school players to play for Nike-sponsored teams.
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Prosecutors said Avenatti and another lawyer, who was not named in court papers, met with Nike's attorneys on March 19 and told them they had a client, a former amateur coach, who had evidence Nike employees had bribed top high school players to play for Nike-sponsored college teams.
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According to the Justice Department, William Rick Singer, founder of college counseling organization Edge College & Career Network, helped students cheat on SAT and ACT exams, bribed athletic coaches and administrators to pretend that students were athletic recruits and used a charity he had established to funnel the funds.
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In a free-wheeling interview with the staff of The New York Times, the president-elect made a series of comments that lend credence to the suspicion that he's running afoul of the "emolument clause" of the Constitution, which prevents the president from being bribed by foreign powers.
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The worst corruption scandal in Navy history centered around Malaysian contractor Leonard Glenn Francis, who bribed dozens of officers from the 85033th Fleet with extravagant parties, luxury gifts, prostitutes and more in exchange for classified information used to win big-dollar contracts for his company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia.
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The worst corruption scandal in Navy history centered around Malaysian contractor Leonard Glenn Francis, who bribed dozens of officers from the 7th Fleet with extravagant parties, luxury gifts, prostitutes and more in exchange for classified information used to win big-dollar contracts for his company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia.
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One presented itself on December 13th, when evidence emerged detailing payments of $780,000 between 2004 and 2007 to Westfield Capital, a Florida-registered firm Mr Kuczynski founded in the 1990s, made by Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction giant which had bribed its way to government contracts across Latin America.
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The announcement means there will likely be more fallout for local businesses and politicians from the massive graft scandal triggered by Odebrecht in late 2016, when it admitted in a plea deal with U.S., Brazilian and Swiss authorities that it had bribed officials in a dozen countries, including Peru.
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Mallinckrodt CEO Mark Trudeau in 2017Screenshot: YouTubeMallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals announced today that the company expects to pay $2000 million in a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department after allegations that Questcor Pharmaceuticals, which Mallinckrodt acquired in 233, had bribed doctors and their staff to prescribe an incredibly expensive drug.
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Last week Kuczynski's government said Brookfield Asset Management Inc was close to buying Odebrecht's 55 percent stake in the project, an announcement quickly overshadowed by revelations in a plea deal Odebrecht signed in the United States that it had bribed officials in Peru from about 2005 to 2014.
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After Dr. Blasey testified, Right Wing News posted several false stories about her — including the suggestion that her lawyers were being bribed by Democrats — and then used the network of Facebook pages and accounts to share the pieces so that they proliferated online quickly, social media researchers said.
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For all that he uncovered, though, what is not unearthed — after 18 months of investigation and then three years of ill-explained secrecy — is proof that either Russia, host of next year's World Cup, or Qatar, which will hold the tournament in 2022, had bribed their way to victory.
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He said that Mukesh's family had bribed the senior officers in the police station, but that it could not have happened without a vigorous effort by the village chief, Jahiruddin Mewati, to persuade Geeta's widowed mother, a day laborer from a village 30 miles away, to withdraw murder charges.
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As we all know from every prestige movie and TV show from the last forever, everything sounds fancier and more important with a British accent, so we a bribed my boss, Buzzfeed News world editor Paul Hamilos, a Londoner by birth, to read out the text of the articles.
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"The investigation has revealed several instances in which coaches have exercised that influence by steering players and their families to retain particular advisers, not because of the merits of those advisers, but because the coaches were being bribed by the advisers to do so," the court papers added.
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The Globe and Mail reported on February 7 that Jody Wilson-Raybould, the former minister of justice and attorney general, had been pressured to help a Quebec-based construction company settle a criminal case and avoid prosecution over allegations that it bribed officials in Libya for government contracts.
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While Insys executives bribed doctors to prescribe the cancer-pain drug with trips to strip clubs, fancy dinners, and shady fees for speaking at events, there wasn't enough evidence to determine beyond a reasonable doubt that those bribes were supposed to inspire doctors to act like illegal drug pushers.
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More: China may be running out of economic ammunition to use against the U.S. General Motors sued Fiat Chrysler yesterday, claiming that it bribed United Automobile Workers officials in contract negotiations to get a leg up on G.M. over the course of a decade, the NYT's Neal Boudette reports.
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Nor have we taken a good look at the very real possibility that his fake charitable foundation was a form of illegal tax evasion or that he bribed the attorney general of Florida to prevent scrutiny of his fake university or the women who've accused him of sexual assault.
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It also said staff working with interim clearances will have them revoked by February 23rd, raising the prospect that personnel including Ivanka Trump and Kushner will be kept in a sort of official limbo while the FBI reviews their personal histories and potential ways they could be bribed or blackmailed.
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Arison and a second executive fully cooperated with investigators, according to the statement that was put out by Arison Group, her investment arm, Israeli officials have been investigating suspicions that Shikun & Binui bribed foreign government officials to advance projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars in Kenya and other countries.
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The Justice Department alleges that William Rick Singer, founder of Edge College & Career Network, a for-profit college counseling organization, helped students cheat on SAT and ACT exams, bribed athletic coaches and administrators to pretend that students were athletic recruits and used a charity he had established to funnel the funds.
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GENEVA — Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah of Kuwait, a powerful power broker in soccer and the Olympic movement, resigned from his post on FIFA's governing council and said he was resigning from all of his soccer roles after allegations in a United States federal court that he bribed Asian officials.
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Garcia is a skilled orator and political heavyweight who has governed Peru twice, first in the 1980s as a protectionist and then as a free-market proponent from 2006-2011, when Odebrecht said it bribed a high-level government official in exchange for help winning a $400 million transportation contract.
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