It was for bribing South Korea's former president, not for bribing multiple government officials.
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Turns out, bribing an 18-year-old was not so different from bribing a preschooler; it just cost more.
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I do not see the difference between getting a kid into school by bribing the Building Committee, and by bribing someone else.
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Ex-pharma execs arrested for allegedly bribing doctors to prescribe fentanyl Ex-pharma execs arrested for allegedly bribing doctors to prescribe fentanyl Several former top executives at a pharmaceutical company that sells the powerful painkiller fentanyl were arrested Thursday and accused of bribing doctors, defrauding insurance companies, and fueling America's opioid addiction crisis.
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Court documents reviewed by Insider say the scheme involved bribing college athletic coaches to recruit students regardless of their athletic ability, and bribing entrance exam administrators to falsify ACT and SAT answers.
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Odebrecht has admitted to bribing government officials in 12 countries.
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More than 50 parents have been charged with bribing universities.
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Hackers can get the codes by bribing phone company employees.
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Luis Arroyo (D) resigned after allegedly bribing a state senator.
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And lo and behold, you start bribing society at large.
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According to the Feds, Odebrecht started bribing officials around 2001.
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" Instead, he said, "the politicians started bribing them to buy loyalty.
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There are circumstances in which he can, like bribing a witness.
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What we don't welcome is China showing up and bribing people.
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So the company tried another common gambit in China: bribing officials.
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Both sides traded allegations of bribing legislators to secure their support.
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Prosecutors also accused him of bribing witnesses during the Carter trial.
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They were accused of bribing doctors to prescribe an addictive painkiller.
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Bribing of local officials and the police is common, campaigners say.
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The same "Comadre Maria" was supposedly involved in bribing Peña Nieto.
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They gained advantage by bribing politicians as well as producing new products.
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I know that people are bribing, intimidating, threatening ... Do not be afraid.
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It also accused the three leaders of bribing voters in internal elections.
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He flatly declared that "this is bribery," no different than bribing jurors.
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In his guilty plea, Akasha also admitted to bribing officials in Kenya.
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They had been accused of bribing African officials in exchange for business.
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Mr. Reichberg is still awaiting trial on charges of bribing police officers.
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Three former Fiat Chrysler executives have pleaded guilty to bribing union officials.
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I used all my available cash in bribing the two old servants.
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Read This Next: Pharma Reps Are Basically Bribing Your Doctor, Study Confirms
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Both men have been charged for bribing Petrobras officials, which they have denied.
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Tibet's government is bribing bottlers with tax cuts, tax holidays and cheap loans.
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Other traders serve Mosul shops, talking or bribing their way through army checkpoints.
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With their earnings, they started buying favors from the carabinieri and bribing officials.
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Specifically, Magyar Telecom admitted to bribing two government officials and Mr. Djukanovic's sister.
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Another official was charged, though not detained, for bribing the former board member.
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One common method they developed for doing this was by bribing government officials.
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He learns the rules of bribing etiquette ("You gotta be classy about it").
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How is bribing a coach all that different from writing your child's essay?
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They were also accused of bribing USC employees to get their daughters admitted.
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"Poachers are bribing rangers so easily because rangers aren't getting paid," he says.
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However he is now on trial accused of bribing witnesses in the case.
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Members of the Batista family, which controls J&F, admitted to bribing 1,893 politicians.
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In 2016 it fined Och-Ziff, a hedge fund, $412m for bribing officials there.
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Accusations of stealing intellectual property and bribing government officials are hardly limited to Huawei.
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Former Insys executives were recently convicted of bribing doctors to prescribe its painkiller, Subsys.
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More than two decades of browbeating, bribing and cajoling North Korea have been fruitless.
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Gayoom is accused of bribing the three legal professionals to overthrow the Yameen government.
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Kun-hee was convicted in 1996 of bribing politicians and in 2008 of tax
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Lee Jae-yong, was sentenced in 2017 to five years for bribing the former
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They were also later accused of bribing USC employees to get their daughters admitted.
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The company has been charged with bribing Libyan officials during the dictatorship of Col.
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The act sanctions companies for bribing foreign officials and accounting failures related to corrupt payments.
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A drunk driving conviction meant the loss of 50 points, as did bribing an official.
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SNC-Lavalin is accused of bribing Libyan officials to get contracts between 2001 and 2011.
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Giving expensive bottles of baijiu has long served as a quiet method of bribing people.
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"I find it very curious ... Nike has yet to deny bribing players," Avenatti said Monday.
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SNC-Lavalin has been accused of bribing Libyan officials for contracts between 2001 and 2011.
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Authorities accuse him of money laundering, bribing bank officials, defaulting on loans and other misdeeds.
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Earlier this year the brothers struck a plea-bargain deal with prosecutors for bribing politicians.
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Other managers told investigators they had no reason to think Anyuan was bribing Chinese officials.
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Pinto was convicted of bribing an Israeli police general and given a one-year sentence.
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Bribing your child's way into college seems like an outgrowth of these patterns of overstepping.
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In 2006, Siemens was accused of bribing officials around the world to win government contracts.
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Allegations against him include bribing a top Chinese intelligence official, kidnapping, fraud and money laundering.
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Around the clock, inmates pull off the scheme using phones they acquired from bribing guards.
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Transportation companies are accused of bribing the police to avoid investigation even of deadly accidents.
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"But that hasn't stopped people from bribing officials and cutting trees at night," he said.
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SNC-Lavalin is suspected of bribing the Libyan government during the regime of Muammar Qaddafi.
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Those criminal organizations are believed to have infiltrated public institutions, bribing legislators and security officials.
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J&F is the parent company of the world's largest meatpacker JBS SA. Two of its leading shareholders admitted to bribing politicians and unleashed a political crisis in Brazil with a plea bargain deal that accused Temer of endorsing the bribing of a potential witness.
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Prosecutors accused Kapoor and the other executives of bribing doctors to unnecessarily prescribe their painkiller, Subsys.
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"To put it crudely, it's bribing the population to be well-enough-off," Mr. Khosla said.
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He was convicted of misappropriating company funds, misstating his company's registered capital and bribing a director.
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By bribing officials, transportation companies obtain driver's licenses for employees, who are often first-time drivers.
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My how the tables have turned; Marty is making risky moves and Wendy is bribing Sue.
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A lawyer who was largely responsible for bribing the police was also part of the crew.
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I hated the idea of bribing Lily, trading plastic for affection, but I was desperately nervous.
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Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn are accusing Kelly, 52, of bribing an Illinois government employee on Aug.
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Early in his career Cohen worked for a lawyer who pleaded guilty to bribing insurance adjusters.
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Then, investigators say, they heard wiretapped conversations suggesting that Zarrab was bribing officials in Erdoğan's government.
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He was indicted in 2013 and charged with bribing Indian officials for access to titanium mines.
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It was later discovered that the Company had spent vast sums bribing members of the establishment.
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Bribing coaches for spots College coaches do not explicitly decide who gets accepted into their university.
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She had been linked to a Macau billionaire accused of bribing a U.N. General Assembly president.
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Odebrecht admitted to bribing officials in 12 countries, mostly Latin America, to help secure lucrative contracts.
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But prosecutors also accused Dawkins and Code of involvement in bribing assistant coaches at top programs.
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Mr. Singh eventually pleaded guilty to bribing the two officials, and agreed to testify against them.
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And after FIFA's infamous $100 million bribing scandal, it's harder to argue that it can't afford to.
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As director of public prosecutions, he oversaw trials of journalists accused of bribing public officials for stories.
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Kapoor&aposs scheme allegedly included bribing doctors into over-prescribing a painkiller intended only for cancer patients.
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They are bribing the witnesses to get them to testify but a lot of times -- HANNITY: Compose?
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Within a year, the Nicoll brothers were bribing doctors to steer blood samples to BLS for testing.
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The charges included the bribing of college athletic coaches and having other people take students' admission tests.
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Women have come forward and accused him of predatory behavior, and bribing them to send nude photos.
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They aren't as sexy as celebrities cheating and bribing to get their privileged kids into elite schools.
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I'm bribing the military, I'm buying my own food, buying my own reagents, paying to use equipment.
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Trump has complained about the unfairness of a law barring American businesses from bribing foreign government officials.
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On Thursday, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn accused Mr. Kelly of bribing an Illinois government employee on Aug.
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The charges included bribing the former president to help cement control of the South Korean tech giant.
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Democrats have accused Trump of bribing and extorting Ukraine into conducting investigations that would help him politically.
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"Bribing college officials is not the same as hiring a tutor," the headline on their post reads.
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This type of abortion is illegal, but many people undergo the process, sometimes by bribing a doctor.
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He's also accused of taking improper gifts from businessmen and bribing the owner of Israel's largest newspaper.
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"Buckwheat" refers to the practice of bribing voters with food or by other means during an election campaign.
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Temer denied the allegations, but the company was reportedly later fined $3.2 billion for bribing around 1,900 politicians.
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Some are even accusing Kwan of abusing his power and "bribing" his students for his own self-interest.
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This included cheating on standardized tests, faking athletic profiles and bribing a women's tennis coach at Georgetown University.
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Mr. Singh has pleaded guilty to bribing Mr. de Blasio and the defendants in the Long Island case.
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He was later found guilty and now accuses Meyers-Bettencourt of bribing witnesses to give evidence against him.
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And at exam time, corrupt practices like cheating and bribing teachers for good marks are rampant, she said.
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Fujimori himself was jailed for 25 years in 2009 for directing death squads, embezzlement, and bribing the media.
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In July 2018, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison for bribing former Rio de Janeiro Gov.
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Pfizer has been hit with three successive deferred-prosecution agreements, for illegal marketing, bribing doctors, and other crimes.
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I bought her candy according to my country's tradition of thanking — or, more accurately, bribing — the right people.
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Organizers of this game gained access to the site by bribing a guard with a liter of beer.
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"People are trying to create room for themselves to declare new income from future bribing," Mr. Mylovanov said.
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They were charged with bribing a witness in a case against the now-jailed opposition leader, Kem Sokha.
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Criminal gangs buy the ivory from poachers and ship it to Asia, bribing government officials along the way.
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Bribing government officials to look the other way is common practice — even among US companies that operate there.
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You can't do any kind of business without bribing the authorities, through goods or money, it doesn't matter.
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In the deal, Wesley, along with his brother Joesley Batista, confessed to bribing politicians to advance their business interests.
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Lee Jae-yong, the boss of Samsung, the country's biggest conglomerate, is behind bars for allegedly bribing Ms Park.
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He still awaits sentence on a separate charge of bribing witnesses, but the International Criminal Court ordered his release.
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The 19-year-old's mother, Lori Loughlin, is one of many parents accused of bribing their children into college.
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A British court recently convicted two British businessmen of bribing Kenyan election commissioners to get contracts for printing ballots.
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Ariana Grande has spoken out after a model accused celebrity photographer Marcus Hyde of bribing her for nude portraits.
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As a result, this exchange was taped: "I want to repeat myself: I'm not bribing you," the man said.
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Ms. Tillipman noted that the government has repeatedly gone after companies like Walmart and Alcoa for bribing foreign officials.
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In the Philippines, the company was accused in 2007 of bribing officials including the country's president at the time.
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Ms. Grinberg said a manager helped them escape in the middle of the night by bribing a security guard.
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It said that smugglers had been bribing inspectors and faking quarantine certificates to smuggle the animals across provincial borders.
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Prosecutors disclosed last week that Zarrab pled guilty in October to helping Iran avoid sanctions and bribing a guard.
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In Mr. Lichtenstein's case, the charges were related to bribing officers in return for rubber-stamping handgun license applications.
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At least two employees, though, knew the businessman gained access to these investment opportunities by bribing officials, prosecutors said.
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The United States has accused China of hacking companies and inducing or bribing scientists to hand over commercial secrets.
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In 2014, a former senior executive at SNC-Lavalin pleaded guilty in Switzerland to bribing Mr. Qaddafi's son, Saadi.
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Why mess around with this whole cloak-and-dagger business of paying test takers, bribing coaches, and photoshopping pictures?
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I mean, they have reporters that are bribing FBI officials with game-- tickets to games and concert tickets and meals.
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Brazil in March unveiled a probe accusing meatpackers of bribing inspectors, leading many countries to temporarily suspend Brazil meat imports.
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Singer pleaded guilty in March to four charges related to cheating on standardized tests and bribing college coaches and administrators.
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Josh Duhamel is determined to have a baseball-playing son — and isn't above bribing him a little along the way.
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Daring prison escape In January 2001, Guzman escaped the maximum security prison in Jalisco, Mexico, after bribing several prison employees.
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J&F's owners Joesley and Wesley Batista signed a leniency deal in May after admitting to bribing almost 1,900 politicians.
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Nigeria's land laws are opaque, with landlords in dispute with tenants often bribing police and local officials to demolish buildings.
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One is that social media are a more potent tool than the 1960s techniques of planting stories and bribing journalists.
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This week the police recommended that prosecutors charge Mr Gayoom's son, Faris, with bribing MPs to take the opposition's side.
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That sounds, to me, like -- well, Mueller is basically bribing Rick Gates with a get out of jail free card.
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A police investigation uncovered evidence in March that some meatpacking plants were bribing inspectors to overlook outdated and tainted food.
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It has struggled to rebuild sales after being fined nearly $500 million in 2014 for bribing doctors in the country.
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Australia broke international law by bribing smugglers to turn boats carrying refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar away from their shores.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A Brazilian man facing allegations of bribing officials at state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PETR4.
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He has also called it "rigged" and "crooked" and accused his detractors of bribing delegates with trips and other perks.
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Within three years of Cohen's arrival, Estrin was charged with bribing insurance adjusters to inflate damage estimates and expedite claims.
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Some spoke or sent messages on smartphones they acquired through smuggling or by bribing guards — not unusual in Syrian prisons.
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But you don't need a Ph.D. to know the correct answer: Bribing children to learn anything is a bad idea.
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In that settlement, Odebrecht admitted to bribing officials in 12 countries, including $35 million in Argentina between 2007 and 2014.
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Lin's arrest came shortly before prosecutors in Manhattan charged Macau real estate mogul Ng Lap Seng with bribing U.N. diplomats.
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In traditional sports, cheating often takes the form of bribing officials or using doping with performance enhancing drugs like steroids.
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The reference to buckwheat relates to the practice of bribing voters with food or by other means during election campaigns.
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The company was accused of bribing doctors to prescribe its product and misleading insurers about patients' need for the drug.
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That year, a Huawei executive was also convicted in Algeria of bribing an official from a state-run telecom operator.
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One involved bribing university officials to pass off applicants as athletic recruits; the other used brazen cheating on standardized exams.
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The company, SNC-Lavalin, has been accused of bribing officials in Libya's former government under the dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi.
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Even though she was on the winning side of the lawsuit, Bettencourt Meyers was later investigated for bribing a witness.
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An operator of a parking lot on the property was convicted of bribing a veterans department official at the site.
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According to the United States Justice Department, Odebrecht operated a department dedicated solely to bribing government officials around the world.
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The settlement resolved allegations that they took part in bribing government officials in Brazil and elsewhere to secure lucrative contracts.
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The Montreal-based construction and engineering company was accused of bribing Libyan officials to get contracts between 2001 and 2011.
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The pair documented their alleged plan so clearly it reads like a how to guide for bribing an African official.
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In July 2018, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison for bribing former Rio de Janeiro Governor Sergio Cabral.
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Separately, a former Embraer executive pleaded guilty to U.S. charges of bribing a Saudi Aramco official to secure a sale.
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The bad news is that some criminals have been able to bypass even this secondary security measure by bribing insiders.
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And, in 20133, the former CEO of the hospital's parent company was even convicted of bribing state legislators to gain profit.
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The special prosecutor's office accused Lee of bribing a close friend of the president to gain government favors for the conglomerate.
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Teva also admitted to bribing a Ukrainian government official in order to gain approval for the sale of the company's drugs.
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"Offering to buy them something on Amazon, on camera, for bribing them," Aydin, 41, says of a particularly embarrassing parenting moment.
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The 51-year old Lee was convicted of bribing Choi Soon-sil, a close friend of former President Park Geun-hye.
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He flirted with jail, standing trial in Germany for allegedly bribing a banker to steer the sale of F1 towards CVC.
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What little is known about Mr Assad's torture machine comes from survivors swapped in prisoner exchanges or released after bribing officials.
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Prosecutors accuse Fujimori and her associates of laundering $1.2 million for Odebrecht, which has admitted to bribing politicians across Latin America.
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In the early 1870s, President Ulysses S. Grant's buddies were caught stealing and bribing, speculating on gold and dodging whiskey taxes.
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By last year, the journey took five days, through land controlled by warring factions, bribing officials at checkpoints along the way.
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Season two opens with him on the run, successfully bribing some police officers in the search party to let him pass.
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He is still accusing Nike of rigging the college basketball recruitment process by bribing amateur players to attend Nike Sponsored Schools.
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In Malaysia, UMNO's usual trick of bribing voters did not work this time, since Malaysians saw it as their own money.
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At 81, Silvio Berlusconi has a criminal record (for tax fraud) and is on trial yet again (for allegedly bribing witnesses).
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Antinuclear villagers went on hunger strikes, accusing Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power executives of bribing older villagers with watermelons and other gifts.
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Thug claimed they got access to the T-Mobile tool by bribing an insider, but Motherboard could not verify this claim.
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O executives accused of bribing doctors to prescribe an opioid and suggested U.S. prosecutors streamline the case to avoid its dismissal.
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And younger brothers Raymond and Thomas Kwok were arrested on charges of bribing a government official in 2012, according to Bloomberg.
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Francis has pleaded guilty to bribing Navy officials and defrauding the government of more than $35 million, and is awaiting sentencing.
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Attached to the evaluation was a single PowerPoint slide that described Boeing's potential partner's strategy of bribing Indian officials for permits.
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McKinsey's evaluation included a PowerPoint slide that described the potential partner's strategy for winning mining permits, which included bribing Indian officials.
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A donor to his first mayoral campaign pleaded guilty to bribing him to get favorable lease terms for a Queens restaurant.
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But Judge Cogan will not allow him to testify about bribing a prosecutor to drop a criminal charge he was facing.
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Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn accused the disgraced singer with bribing an Illinois government employee to acquire a fake ID for Aaliyah.
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The special prosecutor's office accused Lee of bribing a close friend of former President Park to gain government favors for Samsung.
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The FCPA forbids U.S. companies from bribing foreign governments; Trump has said those restrictions are flawed because they hurt American competitiveness.
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Russians using smartphones filmed authority figures bribing subordinates to get out the vote for United Russia, the New York Times reported.
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The company executive, John Kapoor, was accused of bribing doctors and misleading insurers to increase sales of a highly addictive painkiller.
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It is currently fighting accusations of bribing Libya's Gaddafi family to the tune of US$36 million in return for contracts.
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Kelly is accused of bribing a government employee to obtain fake ID to marry the late singer Aaliyah at age 15
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General Motors has accused Fiat Chrysler of bribing union officials to reap benefits in negotiations, but Fiat Chrysler denies the allegations.
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In the video, Nix discussed bribing politicians while secretly filming them and sending Ukrainian escorts to the homes of political candidates.
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Chinese officials five years ago ordered GlaxoSmithKline, the British drug maker, to pay nearly $22013 million for bribing doctors and hospitals.
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Their only association is Jack Abramoff, who served time in a federal penitentiary for, among other things, bribing members of Congress.
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The same people who thought bribing North Korea as Bill Clinton tried in the 1990s would prevent them from building nuclear weapons.
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So, even if bribing kids with cash to eat their greens works at first, it is not sustainable in the long term.
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Praising and bribing are commonly used, especially when we don't expect children to like the food offered, but it can be counterproductive.
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In secret recordings made by Channel 4, Nix described undermining political candidates by bribing them or sending sex workers to their houses.
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In June a longtime associate was arrested on charges of bribing a union official to invest in Platinum, charges he has denied.
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"When Jennifer Lawrence's boyfriend is on campus bribing students to go vote in exchange for a FaceTime with her," one student tweeted.
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"I'm trying to keep him from having an aversion to it, so I am basically bribing him into it," the star says.
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The latest convictions come on top of seven others for bribing an agent of Sonangol, the Angolan state oil group, last year.
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Odebrecht has admitted to bribing officials in 12 countries as part of a $3.5 billion settlement with Brazilian, U.S. and Swiss authorities.
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They took a train and a bus and crossed the Tumen River — then frozen over — to northern China, bribing the border guards.
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More important, even if rash protectionism is avoided, a strategy based on bribing and bullying individual companies will itself be a problem.
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Farmers often accuse pastoralists, who are generally more affluent, of bribing local leaders to let them graze in areas reserved for farming.
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Several states have sued the company or former executives over claims they orchestrated a kickback scheme of bribing doctors to prescribe Subsys.
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Mr. Ó Cuirreáin also found that a lord lieutenant of Ireland, Earl John Spencer, seemed to have been involved in bribing witnesses.
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SNC-Lavalin Group Inc faces a criminal trial in Canada on charges of bribing Libyan officials for contracts between 2001 and 2011.
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Choi, meanwhile, is also accused of bribing a policeman to cover up his past DUI records from 2016, according to the outlet.
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He began fulminating about federal laws that prohibit American businesses from bribing officials overseas; the businesses, he said, were being unfairly penalized.
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Ramirez's associates would grow and process cocaine and fly it to Mexico, bribing authorities in both countries to look the other way.
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Brothers and J&F's owners Joesley and Wesley Batista signed a leniency deal in May after admitting to bribing almost 1,900 politicians.
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An Oregon man who recently tried to get his wife deported by bribing an ICE agent got four months in federal prison.
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Lee was accused of bribing Choi with a gift of three horses, and the Samsung heir was arrested and jailed in 2017.
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The "Fuller House" star is among more than 143 parents who were charged with bribing universities to allow admission for their children.
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The "Fuller House" star is among more than 50 parents who were charged with bribing universities to allow admission for their children.
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In 2963 he was implicated in a corruption case in China, accused in a court judgment of bribing a senior communist official.
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Nor would his three co-defendants, executives with two companies accused of bribing him in exchange for favors related to state business.
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In other conversations secretly recorded by the F.B.I., Dawkins and his associates use blunt language about bribing players to attend certain schools.
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The FBI recently accused Patrick Ho, deputy chairman of a CEFC-linked non-governmental organisation, of bribing African leaders; CEFC denies involvement.
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The Bovespa fell 219.7876% with meatpacker BRF sliding 20.30% lower after admitting to bribing food inspectors with bank deposits and health benefits.
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Roosevelt had tried to win the Republican nomination by bribing black delegates, who were then shut out of the Progressive Party's Convention.
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They pooled resources such as gunmen and transportation for drug smuggling, and also provided protection for each other by bribing Mexican officials.
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Singer last month pleaded guilty to facilitating the cheating scam and bribing coaches to present the parents' children as fake athletic recruits.
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But these days, the group can simply exploit loopholes reserved for the old and sick: bribing and intimidating health officials for early release.
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Prosecutors accused wealthy parents of bribing test administrators and college coaches to game the admissions system and get their children into selective universities.
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He has reportedly been accused by China of bribing a spy chief, Ma Jian (who has been dismissed and is now in custody).
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Novartis has faced numerous probes across the globe where authorities or whistleblowers accuse it of bribing doctors to boost sales of pharmaceuticals products.
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Since mid-March the Election Commission has seized some $500m of cash, gold, drugs and alcohol it suspects were intended for bribing voters.
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They said they had ignored the fact that he is yet again on trial, this time accused of bribing witnesses (which he denies).
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I have good reason to be cautious: In Austria, being caught bribing or accepting a bribe could land you five years in prison.
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Under interrogation, the driver said that the would-be attackers were able to slip in and out of Somalia by bribing border guards.
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When you're in the self-described business of bribing politicians and influencing elections, it's perhaps best not to leave a digital paper trail.
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Sindoro was convicted in 2009 for bribing an official at the anti-monopoly agency to obtain broadcasting rights for the English Premier League.
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But just in case, the party is also accused of beating opponents, bribing local chiefs and keeping a tight grip on the media.
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The conglomerate, as part of a $3.5 billion settlement with Brazilian, U.S. and Swiss authorities, has admitted to bribing officials in 12 countries.
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They include impersonating drivers, riders, and protestors, bribing foreign officials, recording competitors and employees without their knowledge, and using untraceable devices for communication.
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BRIBING AMATEUR ATHLETES IN NEED, AND PUTTING THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES AT RISK FOR FEDERAL CHARGES ALL IN THE INTEREST OF CORPORATE PROFITS.
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Mead specializes in white collar criminal defense, Congressional investigations and cases regarding the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prevents bribing foreign government officials.
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So the questions go as they've been practicing, with Axe evading the question about bribing the police instead of perjuring himself by answering.
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The scheme involved cheating on SAT and ACT exams on behalf of students and bribing college administrators and athletic coaches to recruit students.
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In 2012, the facility's CEO was sentenced to three years in prison for bribing three state lawmakers in exchange for more government aid.
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In 20143, Eli Lilly agreed to pay $22014 million, and Pfizer $23 million, to settle allegations that included employees' bribing doctors in China.
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The emissary—this emissary in particular, Menodorus Domitianus, this fucking guy I swear to God—started bribing units of my army into deserting.
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The brothers signed a leniency deal in May after admitting to bribing almost 1,900 politicians to obtain cheap government loans for their businesses.
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"Bribing Their Way Into College" was produced by Clare Toeniskoetter, Andy Mills and Ike Sriskandarajah, and edited by Paige Cowett and Larissa Anderson.
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Trump never specifically said he was bribing Ukraine, and if a witness didn't directly see the president do this, it couldn't have happened.
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J&F's leniency fine, the world's biggest to date, was imposed after members of the Batista family admitted to bribing scores of politicians.
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Many of the intercepted communications jurors heard this week, however, appear unambiguously to show Guzman discussing high-volume drug trafficking and bribing officials.
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Several former top Insys executives — including John Kapoor, the company's billionaire founder — have been arrested and charged with bribing doctors and defrauding insurance companies.
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And he paid billions of dollars in energy subsidies and made concessions and somehow sucking up and bribing dictators would make for world peace.
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The entrepreneur, who was found guilty of bribing a senator last year, said that his legal troubles have created "other concerns" than the club.
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Unlike bribing proctors to change your kid's answers on the SAT, hiring a college consultant is completely legal — though it can be similarly expensive.
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Through this scandal, a web of corruption was exposed and led to the indictment of head of Samsung, Lee Jae-Yong, for bribing Choi.
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Prosecutors across Latin America are making arrests after Odebrecht and its petrochemical subsidiary Braskem admitted late last year to bribing officials around the region.
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This was accomplished by bribing the children, who are from "orphanages, circuses, and slum schools" with money and later forcing them to return it.
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In May, the Batista brothers signed a plea deal with Brazilian prosecutors after admitting to bribing 1,900 politicians over the course of a decade.
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Guzman is known for not hesitating to use force when he needs to, and for bribing officials who get in his way, Stewart said.
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Others branded them robber barons who used their power and riches to snuff out competition, exploit workers, and undermine democracy by bribing corrupt politicians.
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For most, the journey required bribing border guards, life underground in China for months or years, and weeks of travel through still more countries.
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While it is illegal to dodge the compulsory mobilization drives, some potential recruits have done so by bribing officials or simply leaving the country.
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Company scion Jay Y. Lee was arrested in February and is on trial on charges of bribing ousted South Korean president Park Geun-hye.
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He started working as a spy in April 2013, bribing local residents to "gather important materials," which he smuggled into China or South Korea.
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Voting ends today, so Gregorius is out in New York City trying to drum up support by bribing New Yorkers with free subway rides.
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"You have somebody [in Trump] who bragged about bribing public officials," Eugene O'Donnell, a former Brooklyn cop and prosecutor, says of Trump firing Bharara.
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The U.S. Justice Department is investigating at least five criminal probes, including using illicit software, stealing intellectual property, and bribing, Bloomberg reported last month.
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He was convicted of misappropriating company funds, misstating his company's registered capital and bribing a director, charges that his trial lawyer described as ridiculous.
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The corruption strategy involves enticing, duping, bribing or recruiting political activists, lobbyists, journalists and academics to promulgate Moscow's conspiracy theories or whitewashing its policies.
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Two others involved in the campaign to fight the cleanup were convicted in federal court earlier this year for bribing an Alabama state lawmaker.
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The Brazilian construction firm has admitted to bribing officials in Panama and other countries to obtain contracts in the region between 2010 and 2014.
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Both were also defendants in a separate trial for allegedly bribing Joseph Percoco, a former top Cuomo aide, to win favorable treatment for COR.
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Baofeng Group said in a stock exchange filing that its founder, chairman and CEO Feng Xin was suspected of bribing a "non state" actor.
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Billionaires who donate money are just "bribing society at large," Anand Giridharadas has said, comparing Zuckerberg's school reforms to the adventurism of Christopher Columbus.
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Burzaco last year pleaded guilty to bribing soccer officials so that the company he ran would be awarded rights to the biggest regional tournaments.
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The Justice Department has accused both men of bribing government officials in Malaysia and Abu Dhabi and money laundering for their own personal gain.
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General Motors filed a racketeering lawsuit, accusing its rival Fiat Chrysler of bribing United Auto Workers officials during contract negotiations in 2011 and 2015.
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Nor would he mention that the parent's money truly went toward bribing college coaches in order to falsely get their children into elite universities.
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They tried to keep up with events outside by talking to new prisoners, reading smuggled letters and "begging, stealing and bribing" to procure information.
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Albuquerque police had launched their own criminal investigation accusing her of bribing and intimidating a witness involved in a past arrest of her son.
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Members of J&F's Batista family entered plea deals in which admitted bribing politicians to win advantages for their meatpacking, financial, pulp and apparel empire.
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The special prosecutor's office accuses Lee of bribing a close friend of the president to gain government favors related to leadership succession at the conglomerate.
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From the 1980s, as Congress started to fade as a political force, bribing its local representative became less of a sure thing for local crooks.
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Bribing an official and getting immediate access to thousands of hectares of nominally protected land is easier, quicker and cheaper than negotiating with those communities.
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The other is a case against a medical school that lost its license, and allegedly tried to get it back by bribing the Supreme Court.
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China's rulers have suffered a clarifying rebuke, and a lesson about the power of loss and the limits of bribing people to give up freedoms.
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Conn spent six months on the run last year after pleading guilty to bribing judges and doctors in a $500 million Social Security fraud scheme.
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By faking standardized test scores and bribing athletics officials, those parents managed to get their kids into elite schools like Georgetown, Stanford, Yale, and USC.
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The probe stemmed from another in which BRF and other meatpackers were accused of bribing government health inspectors to evade food quality and safety checks.
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In December, Odebrecht signed the world's largest leniency deal with Brazilian, U.S. and Swiss prosecutors and admitted bribing politicians across Latin America and in Africa.
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Guzman, whose nickname means "Shorty", first escaped prison in 2001 by bribing prison officials, and went on to dominate the world of Mexican drug trafficking.
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Joesley Batista, one of the brothers who control JBS, recorded a conversation with Temer in which the president appears to condone bribing a potential witness.
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Last week, the jury found all five executives guilty on racketeering charges for bribing doctors to prescribe the painkiller to people who didn't need it.
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They were following the U.S., which had signed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, or FCPA, in 1977 to outlaw U.S. corporations from bribing foreign officials.
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"One thing that's going to come out in this case is that Singh has pleaded guilty to bribing Mayor Bill de Blasio," Mr. Agnifilo said.
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Top pharmaceutical executives were found guilty of bribing doctors to prescribe dangerous opioids to patients who didn't need them, ultimately contributing to the opioid epidemic.
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What we found: Employees of major international firms like G.E., Philips and Siemens have testified in Chinese courts to bribing poorly paid public hospital officials.
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"This towns fund smacks of desperation from a government reduced to bribing Members of Parliament to vote for their damaging flagship Brexit legislation," he said.
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These agents influence the decision-making process in foreign countries by bribing politicians and buying off government officials through opaque tendering processes and inflated contracts.
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The president vowed to get rid of useless regulations, and already he's opened the road for dirty Appalachian water and oil companies bribing other governments.
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SEOUL, South Korea — More than two decades ago, South Korean prosecutors indicted the chairman of the powerful Samsung conglomerate on charges of bribing the president.
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B.C.C.I., an international bank run by Middle Eastern bankers, was shut down in 1991 on charges of fraud, laundering drug money and bribing banking regulators.
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JBS SA has bounced back from corruption scandals in Brazil involving its former chairman and chief executive, who admitted to bribing scores of Brazilian politicians.
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Some families allegedly participated in the scheme numerous times Often, Singer's clients were repeat customers, according to prosecutors, bribing coaches as well as test administrators.
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Singer was the mastermind of a nationwide scheme to game the college admissions system by cheating on standardized tests and bribing athletics officials for admission.
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Some scholars, like historian Dianne Ashton, argue it was a 19th-century attempt to get young people interested in synagogue (by bribing them with toys).
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The accusation involved Israeli businessman David Appel bribing Sharon, who was then serving as Foreign Minister, to help Appel win approval for a development in Greece.
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It's weirdly easy to digest that rich parents were bribing their children's ways into college — didn't all of us kind of assume this was already happening?
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The company in December signed the world's largest leniency deal with Brazilian, U.S. and Swiss prosecutors and admitted bribing politicians across Latin America and in Africa.
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Azeri officials are also accused of bribing foreign lawmakers to stop the Council of Europe from adopting a resolution to condemn their detention of political prisoners.
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Premier said he had to sneak into the hospital to say goodbye, bribing a hospital worker who wanted the producer to listen to his demo tape.
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According to The Wall Street Journal, the Department of Justice is evaluating whether managers breached the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which relates to bribing foreign officials.
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In March, a former Trafigura executive, Mariano Marcondes Ferraz, was found guilty of bribing a Petrobras executive on behalf of his own company, Decal do Brasil.
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In Loughlin and Giannulli's case, prosecutors said, that meant bribing a University of Southern California athletics official to pretend to prize their daughters' nonexistent crew skills.
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When New Jersey law discontinued that practice, they switched to bribing doctors with bogus consultant agreements paid for by shell corporations formed specifically for that purpose.
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Duterte said he would allow the casino boss to come back to the Philippines if he apologised for bribing an official and paid the correct taxes.
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Two years later, the FBI arrested two Chinese nationals who tried to obtain the formula for Corning Corp's cellular-glass insulation by bribing a company employee.
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Odebrecht and Braskem were charged with conspiring to violate the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which is aimed at deterring companies from bribing officials overseas.
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SNC-Lavalin, which employs 9,000 people in Canada and tens of thousands abroad, is accused of bribing Libyan officials to get contracts between 2001 and 2011.
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The 49-year-old billionaire heir to South Korea's Samsung Group was convicted by the lower court of bribing the country's former president Park Geun-hye.
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Brothers Wesley and Joesley Batista in May made a plea deal with prosecutors in which they admitted bribing almost 2,000 politicians, including allegedly President Michel Temer.
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The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act bans American companies from bribing or attempting to bribe officials outside the U.S. Uber says it is cooperating with the investigation.
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An arrest warrant is still pending for three of his associates, who are accused of intimidating and bribing witnesses who later retracted or changed their statements.
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Zarrab said he began working with Halkbank on the scheme in 2012, after bribing Zafer Caglayan, then Turkey's economy minister, to broker a deal with Aslan.
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Four members of Adhoc, one of the country's leading human rights organizations, have been imprisoned for allegedly bribing a witness in the case against Kem Sokha.
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Ferraz is already serving a 10-year sentence in Brazil for bribing a former Petrobras refinery manager on behalf of his own company, Decal do Brasil.
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Wilson-Raybould says officials urged her to overrule prosecutors who insisted SNC-Lavalin must face trial on charges of bribing Libyan officials between 2001 and 2011.
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Back in the day, when pro wrestlers were our gladiators, no restaurant was too difficult to get into—albeit with a little bribing and physical intimidation.
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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited allegedly made $85033 million in illicit profits by bribing government officials in Russia, Mexico and Ukraine, violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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Embraer is under investigation by the U.S. and Brazilian authorities for allegedly bribing officials in the Dominican Republic to secure deals for commercial and defense aircraft.
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Mr. Giuliani was referring to more typical obstruction cases, where prosecutors focus on measures taken in private, like bribing witnesses, destroying evidence or lying under oath.
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Stop writing checks and start bribing him in more fulfilling ways, like taking him on an exciting trip or to a movie he wants to see.
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At the center of the crisis, which began a month ago, is SNC-Lavalin, charged in 2015 with bribing Libyan officials during the dictatorship of Col.
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At Latin America's biggest construction company, bribing government officials around the world became so common that a division was created devoted to tracking and facilitating kickbacks.
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Federal prosecutors accused the disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly with bribing an Illinois government employee to acquire a fake ID for 1003-year-old Aaliyah.
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In a case filing Friday, prosecutors say most of the parents accused of bribing university officials to admit their children have not submitted their discovery materials.
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Mr. Sessions affirmed the department's commitment to prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bars corporations from bribing foreign officials to gain a business advantage.
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Mr. Lee earlier this year was accused of bribing President Park and others to push another major shareholder, the government's pension system, to approve the deal.
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R. Kelly has reportedly been charged with bribing an official to get a fake ID for 15-year-old singer Aaliyah, who he married in 1994.
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Terms of Joesley Batista's deal with prosecutors, in which he admits bribing politicians, should be used in the proceedings, JBS case's rapporteur Augusto Sherman Cavalcanti said.
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Buildings collapse often in Nigeria because of endemic corruption, with contractors using substandard materials and bribing inspectors to ignore shoddy work or a lack of permits.
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"The summits in 40 and 2007 were essentially the result of South Korea bribing the elder Kim [Jong Il] to come to the summit," he argued.
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The New York Times reviewed more than a dozen cases in which employees of G.E., Philips and Siemens testified to bribing meagerly paid public hospital officials.
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We all understand that these same corporations have destroyed Democracy by the unchecked bribing of our politicians: now, policy is determined by lobbyists, rather than constituents.
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Corruption in Mexico is as old as the country itself, and traffickers have been bribing politicians during the century that they have been smuggling drugs to Americans.
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Cambridge CEO Alexander Nix was suspended by his company last week after British reporters published covertly recorded footage showing Nix boasting about bribing and blackmailing political rivals.
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Jay Y Lee, the vice President of SAMSUNG electronics, was accused by prosecutors last year of bribing former South Korean President Park Geun-Hye for preferential policies.
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Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, are among 33 parents who have been accused of bribing their children's way into college with the assistance of William Singer.
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Republican Donald Trump is accusing Hillary Clinton of bribing Attorney General Loretta Lynch following a report that said Clinton would consider keeping Lynch if she's elected president.
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"I was essentially buying or bribing the coaches for a spot," Singer said as he pleaded guilty to charges including racketeering, money laundering and obstruction of justice.
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The journalists recorded then-Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix suggesting how the company undermine a rival candidate by bribing them and sending sex workers to their houses.
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But it made headlines when a subsidiary admitted to bribing African officials and after paying $412 million to settle criminal and civil charges with the U.S. government.
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It has spread far beyond the cartel of construction companies that obtained unduly generous contracts from Petrobras, the state-controlled oil company, by bribing officials and politicians.
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Guzmán's lawyers say he's been working with both the Mexican and American governments, bribing officials to steer clear of the legal mess while Guzmán takes the fall.
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The KWF is accused of helping students cheat on their SATs, sometimes without their knowledge, as well as bribing coaches and administrators to accept wealthy parents' children.
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SNC-Lavalin, which employs some 9,000 people in Canada and tens of thousands abroad, is accused of bribing Libyan officials to get contracts between 2001 and 2011.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities have charged a Maryland businessman with bribing a Russian official in an effort to win contracts to ship uranium to the United States.
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Rick Singer, the Varsity Blues ringleader who pled guilty to rigging entrance exams and bribing college coaches, bragged under oath he coached "tens of thousands" of students.
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JBS has also been ensnared in a scandal involving alleged bribing of food safety inspectors that prompted several countries to suspend imports of Brazilian meat for days.
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Lee was convicted of bribing Park in exchange for government help in a merger that helped him gain more power at Samsung, the world's largest smartphone maker.
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Ryan, the House speaker, is now bribing them with an ancillary provision to defund Planned Parenthood so that the whole repeal edifice doesn't explode on the launchpad.
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He acknowledges now that there was plenty he could've done to get around the rules—bribing officials, writing songs for other artists, or leaving the country altogether.
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Odebrecht and Braskem admitted to bribing officials in 12 countries, mostly Latin America, and agreed to pay $3.5 billion in fines in return for freedom from prosecution.
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Havelange, who will be 100 in May, was accused in 1974 of bribing his way to power by buying votes to win that year's FIFA presidential election.
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And even if your celebrity parents are accused of bribing the crew coach to secure your university admittance, you still believe you made it on your own.
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Leissner admitted that he hid from Goldman the fact that Malaysian financier Jho Low secured business for the bank by bribing officials in Malaysia and Abu Dhabi.
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Before that, tourism wasn't officially authorized in the area, so some visitors had reportedly gotten away with bribing security officials and illegally removing objects from the zone.
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"Let's be aware that there are perfectly legal ways of bribing your kids [into college]," Glastris, whose publication releases an annual list of college rankings, told Hill.
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Novartis faced numerous probes in several countries, including in the United States, where authorities or whistleblowers accused it of bribing doctors to boost sales of pharmaceuticals products.
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There are, it turns out, ways to do the wrong thing that go beyond the usual influence-peddling, bribing, extorting and other common varieties of Albany venality.
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Lee was convicted of bribing former President Park Geun-hye, who was removed from office earlier this year, as well as embezzlement, hiding assets overseas and perjury.
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In April, just days before a shareholders' meeting to elect new directors, Bolloré was taken into police custody on suspicion of bribing officials in two African countries.
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Mr. Singh, who is cooperating with prosecutors in the case, has already been charged with several crimes, including bribing a former deputy town attorney in Oyster Bay.
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In a separate case, Swiss prosecutors have accused al-Khelaifi of bribing a top official at soccer's governing body, FIFA, to obtain lucrative World Cup broadcast rights.
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Teenagers are constantly pressured by both their families and society to go to big-name colleges, a task so competitive that many resort to cheating and bribing.
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My mom was in the car and she somehow managed to persuade the cops (partially by bribing, partially by pulling the Mom card) to let us go.
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Holding the World Cup inspires a similar calculus, especially after an investigation by FIFA, the international football association, cleared Russia of bribing its way to the role.
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As the trial wrapped up on Monday, above, prosecutors recommended that he be sentenced to 12 years in prison for bribing the ousted president Park Geun-hye.
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The class divide was further emphasized by last year's college admissions scandal, in which numerous wealthy parents were accused of bribing their children's way into the school.
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Odebrecht has admitted to bribing scores of politicians throughout Latin America, and three of Peru's former presidents have received jail orders for their ties to the company.
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In a statement, Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused China of bribing Solomons politicians to abandon Taipei in the run-up to the 70th anniversary on Oct.
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The 49-year-old Jay Y. Lee was convicted by a lower court in August of bribing Park Geun-hye, who was dismissed as president in March.
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That March, the head of Benfica's legal department, Paulo Gonçalves, was arrested on suspicion of bribing three judicial officials to provide him with updates on the case.
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Joesley Batista, one of the brothers who control JBS, recorded a conversation with Temer in March in which the president appears to condone bribing a potential witness.
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Brazilian police accused him of bribing a former Rio de Janeiro governor, and he was told he had to turn himself in or face becoming a fugitive.
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The special prosecutor's office accuses Lee of bribing a close friend of President Park Geun-hye to gain government favors related to leadership succession at the conglomerate.
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Jay Y. Lee was convicted in August and jailed for five years for bribing the country's former president, raising concerns of a leadership vacuum at Samsung Electronics.
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In recent weeks, the nominee has -- without evidence -- warned of a "rigged" election, speculated the Obama administration will delay an upcoming enrollment period for health insurance to swing the race, accused the president of bribing New York's attorney general to launch a lawsuit against the now-defunct Trump University, and accused Clinton of bribing the United States Attorney General to avoid criminal prosecution despite the FBI's recommendations not to pursue charges.
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Thieves are bribing them to hand over personal data that thieves use to drain money from accounts and make debit cards, checks and credit cards in customers' names.
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Joesley Batista is at the center of a corruption investigation into Temer, after secretly recording a conversation in which the president appeared to condone bribing a potential witness.
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Back in April, Loughlin looked super breezy on her way to face a legal system accusing her of bribing her daughters' way into the University of Southern California.
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Haden has not been charged in the scandal, in which wealthy parents were accused of bribing college coaches and test administrators to get their children into selective universities.
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O'Callaghan said JBS is still dealing with fallout from plea deals struck by the company's former chairman and chief executive, who admitted to bribing scores of Brazilian politicians.
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He accused China of exerting pressure on American universities by threatening to deny visas to researchers, and bribing and bullying Hollywood into portraying it in a positive light.
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The people are accused of bribing parliamentarians to avoid an investigation into Binasawit's plantation permits and palm processing waste near Sembuluh lake in the Borneo island, Situmorang said.
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Why it matters: Insys executives have been found guilty of bribing doctors to prescribe its painkiller, Subsys, and the legal fallout has now forced the company into bankruptcy.
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Many Brazilians questioned Prosecutor-General Rodrigo Janot's plea deal by which he decided not to jail brothers Joesley and Wesley Batista who admitted to bribing nearly 2,000 politicians.
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SNC-Lavalin has said it might have to move - or cut - some of its Canadian workforce of 9,000 if the company is found guilty of bribing Libyan officials.
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The stock has shed 37 percent since May 16, when Brothers Joesley and Wesley Batista admitted in separate plea deals to bribing nearly 1,900 politicians in recent years.
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Prosecutors imposed a world-setting record 10.3 billion-real fine on J&F and the brothers, who admitted to bribing 1,900 politicians to win businesses in recent years.
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Trudeau says officials were trying to make Wilson-Raybould understand that thousands of jobs would be at risk if SNC-Lavalin were found guilty of bribing Libyan officials.
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But the deal amounted to bribing Iran to suspend its nuclear program, which is like feeding a wild animal scraps of meat to dissuade it from biting you.
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It also succeeded in bribing three other economically stressed countries to sever diplomatic ties with Taipei this year, advancing China's goal of delegitimizing Taiwan as a political entity.
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The development comes after the arrest last week of Murray Huberfeld, who was accused of bribing Norman Seabrook, the president of the New York City prison officers' union.
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"The defendant company GSKCI is guilty of bribing nongovernment personnel and will be fined 3 billion yuan," the judge, Wu Jixiang, said sternly, referring to Glaxo's Chinese name.
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Italian police wiretaps show that Nigerian trafficking networks have infiltrated reception centers, employing low-level staffers to monitor the girls and bribing corrupt officials to accelerate the paperwork.
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In fact the only way her parents could convince her to move to Dunedin as a teenager was by bribing her with a ticket to see Bowie live.
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If you can't forgive the restaurant for letting the semifamous cut the line, even after bribing you with cocktails, find another place to spend your dining-out dollars.
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That investigation led to the conviction last year of Ng Lap Seng, a Macau billionaire, for bribing two diplomats to help him build a conference center in Macau.
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Prosecutors have said that extra testing time — permitted with guidance from a psychologist — made it easier for Mr. Singer to arrange the cheating by bribing certain test administrators.
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In a separate case, he was convicted of coaching and bribing witnesses to give false testimony during his trial and is waiting for a decision on that sentence.
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In addition to cheating on college admissions exams, the scandal includes accusations of bribing college coaches to designate students as recruits in sports they did not play competitively.
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That law, enacted in 1977 and heavily enforced since around 2005, prohibits companies that operate in the United States from bribing foreign officials to obtain or retain business.
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He has now been accused of bribing the girl in the video and her family when it came to the court case, as the New York Times reports.
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The allegations have also prompted a lawsuit by General Motors accusing Fiat Chrysler of bribing union officials to get a leg up on G.M. by manipulating labor costs.
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The scandal also swept up the de facto head of Samsung, Lee Jae-yong, who was indicted on charges of bribing Ms. Park and her confidante, Ms. Choi.
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Last year, a federal jury in Boston found Kapoor guilty of racketeering conspiracy in a scheme that involved bribing doctors to prescribe the company's fentanyl-based painkiller, Subsys.
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"This towns fund smacks of desperation from a government reduced to bribing Members of Parliament to vote for their damaging flagship Brexit legislation," he said in a statement.
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The Department of Justice is beginning to look into claims that Uber violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits bribing foreign officials to obtain and retain businesses.
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WASHINGTON – One of France&aposs largest banks, Societe Generale, is pleading guilty in the U.S. and paying a $585 million fine for bribing Libyan officials to win government investments.
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Her legal lineup is a stark contrast to the star-studded team assembled by Samsung Group head, Jay Y. Lee, who is on trial on charges of bribing Park.
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The Fuller House star was indicted last month along with 50 other people for allegedly bribing her daughters' ways into the University Of Southern California as false crew recruits.
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The logic is kind of like putting a bank robber in charge of Fort Knox or electing someone president because they claim they've been legally bribing politicians for decades.
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O, accusing the drugmaker of illegally marketing a powerful fentanyl-based pain medicine, while a former employee pleaded guilty in New Jersey over bribing doctors to prescribe the drug.
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The Department of Education is investigating universities tied to the massive student admissions scandal that unveiled a system of bribing school officials and falsifying test scores to gain acceptance.
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Mr Guo has denied bribing Mr Ma. He says eight members of his own family have been detained and that 120bn yuan ($17bn) of his assets have been frozen.
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Arizona, USC and Louisville enter the season clouded in uncertainty after assistant coaches from all three schools -- along with Auburn -- were arrested in a federal investigation into bribing players.
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A former justice minister has claimed that Mr Trudeau and his aides sought to discourage her from authorising the prosecution of an engineering firm charged with bribing Libyan officials.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City lawyer was found guilty in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday of bribing a police sergeant to help his clients get gun licenses.
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Given the failure of Mr Obama's policy of bribing and cajoling Pakistan into becoming more co-operative, it would not be surprising if the new administration tries something different.
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Mr. Kim said he began spying on behalf of "South Korean conservative elements" in 2013, by bribing residents to collect data about the North's military and its nuclear program.
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The crisis follows allegations that Trudeau's officials pressured a former minister to allow SNC to escape with a fine and avoid a trial over charges of bribing Libyan officials.
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The decision is another setback to the Batista family's efforts to emerge stronger from a corruption scandal, five months after Joesley and Wesley admitted to bribing nearly 2,000 politicians.
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The allegations included parents bribing college athletic coaches and administrators, having other people take admission tests for their kids and hiring people to correct incorrect answers on standardized tests.
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Prosecutors said Vimpelcom had been accused of bribing government officials and keeping inaccurate books and records to gain access to the Uzbek telecom market during the 2006-2012 period.
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Vizcarra said on Monday that Odebrecht should not be able to continue working in Peru because the Brazilian construction company had "contaminated private activity" and admitted bribing public officials.
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The Associated Press has reported that Chinese prosecutors are investigating Guo "for at least 19 major criminal cases," which included allegedly bribing intelligence officials, kidnapping, fraud and money laundering.
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This news follows an FBI investigation back in March that ended with 50 wealthy parents charged for bribing universities and forging documents to get their kids into elite schools.
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En route to her execution, her guard told her, "You lousy thug, get lost" and punched her in the mouth: Her cohort had arranged her rescue by bribing him.
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Last year, a court in southern Italy found him guilty of bribing a senator to switch factions in a move which helped topple a center-left government in 2008.
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He pleaded to the meth charge and a few other charges, bribing a government official, engaging in arms sale to Iran, which is a crime in the United States.
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Mr. Kelly is also accused of bribing a government employee to create a fake identification in order to marry someone in 1994 who was under 18 at the time.
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Samsung's top executive, Lee Jae-yong, was convicted in August of bribing Ms. Park and sentenced to five years in prison, but he has appealed, and his trial continues.
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When Mr. Cousins took the helm of the company, it was mired in a corruption scandal, accused of bribing a United Nations official to garner contracts to supply peacekeepers.
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Trudeau and other officials deny doing anything improper by asking Wilson-Raybould to consider offering SNC-Lavalin a deal to avoid a trial on charges of bribing Libyan officials.
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A former restaurateur, whose $12 million Ponzi scheme embroiled two businessmen accused of bribing New York City law enforcement officers, was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison.
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Scolding kids to clean their plates, bribing them to eat their vegetables, and applying other forms of pressure can make them even less likely to eat a given food.
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The SEC found Och-Ziff in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) for bribing officials at the Libyan Investment Authority sovereign wealth fund, inducing it to invest.
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Italy is accused of bribing Libyan militiamen who have profited from smuggling across the Mediterranean, and of wielding the law to stop humanitarian groups from helping migrants in distress.
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Court documents obtained by Insider said that the scheme included bribing college athletic coaches to recruit students regardless of their athletic ability, as well as cheating on entrance exams.
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Additional economic penalties also were issued on Friday against Khamis Farhan al-Khanjar al-Issawi, an Iraqi politician and wealthy Sunni businessman who is suspected of bribing government officials.
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JBS, which paid $1.5 billion from Moy Park two years ago, is near completing an asset sale plan unleashed by the Batistas' admission to bribing 1,203 politicians in Brazil.
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Twenty-five years after he married 15-year-old singer Aaliyah, R. Kelly has been charged with bribing a government official to get a fake ID for the teen.
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In a superseding indictment filed on Thursday, a grand jury charged Kelly with bribing an Illinois official to produce "a fraudulent identification document for Jane Doe #1" on Aug.
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The gang either failed to declare goods brought to Kyrgyzstan from China or disguised them as items of little value, while bribing customs officials to look the other way.
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The billionaire founder and top executive of a drug company that manufactures a prescription opioid has been arrested and charged with bribing doctors to overprescribe the drug, CNN reports.
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He also admitted to bribing college coaches or athletics officials to recommend certain students for admission -- even though the students, in some cases, had never competed in those sports.
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Singer is also accused of bribing college coaches and athletic officials to say a prospective student should be accepted because the student was a recruit for their sports team.
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Anger at Odebrecht in Peru has been swelling since the family-owned conglomerate acknowledged last month that it spent years bribing unnamed officials in a dozen countries including Peru.
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In 2013, the Justice Department accused Firtash of bribing Indian officials as part of a racketeering scheme aimed at gaining approval for a titanium mining project in that country.
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"This man did a lot of bad things in a lot of places," Mr. de Blasio said of Harendra Singh, a restaurateur who pleaded guilty to bribing the mayor.
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The scheme involved either cheating on standardized tests or bribing college coaches and school officials to accept students as college athletes -- even if the student had never played that sport.
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In a case linked to the scandal, the chief of South Korea's biggest conglomerate, Samsung Group, was arrested on Friday on suspicion of bribing Park's friend to gain government favors.
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Partially agreeing with a lower court's ruling in August, the High Court convicted Lee of bribing Park by supporting the equestrian career of the daughter of a friend of hers.
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After reportedly denying their first offer, the couple, who was indicted with 50 other parents, coaches, and administrators for allegedly bribing their children's way into college, is still in negotiations.
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An FBI sting known as "Operation Varsity Blues" identified and charged 50 people, mostly wealthy parents, for bribing or cheating their children's way into several Ivy League universities, including Yale.
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Imagine that a court found Apple's CEO Tim Cook guilty of bribing the president in order to secure favorable treatment from government regulators and was sent to prison for it.
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Brazilian authorities investigated allegations that the company built its business through corruption, according to the public prosecutor's office, including bribing officials from two state pension funds in late October 19933.
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Wilson-Raybould said she had confronted Trudeau in September over what she said were persistent efforts by officials to help SNC-Lavalin evade trial on charges of bribing Libyan officials.
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A May plea-bargain deal that exposed the propensity of Batista's billionaire family for bribing politicians led the bank's BNDES Participações SA investment arm to seek his removal from JBS.
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PIRRO: You are going to do that, yes, but if you have people sitting on a jury and the prosecutor already has them -- HANNITY: Aren&apost they bribing the witnesses?
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In Libya, Italy is accused of bribing some of the same militiamen who have long profited from the European smuggling trade — many of whom are also accused of war crimes.
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Odebrecht, a family-owned construction conglomerate, spurred probes across Latin America after it admitted publicly in late 2016 that it had secured lucrative contracts in the region by bribing politicians.
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Federal investigators discovered that Conn, who launched his law practice in 1993, had been bribing a doctor and a judge to rubber-stamp disability claims based on sham medical evidence.
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Police in their charge sheet said Qasim was arrested for allegedly of bribing and "undue influencing of parliament members and state security forces" in the impeachment vote against the speaker.
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They needed to be crafted by way of doing an infuriating little slide puzzle (or "bribing" the authorities so you could skip it) and tended to get lost rather quickly.
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She said private companies had enjoyed a competitive advantage over state firms in the course of China's economic development, saying many resorted to "unscrupulous tactics" such as bribing government officials.
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Former President Park is being held at the same detention center where Samsung Group leader Jay Y. Lee, on trial for bribing Park and her friend, is also being detained.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya has charged 62 people with offences linked to party primaries for national elections in August, including bribing voters and inciting violence, the prosecutor's office said on Wednesday.
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But in 2016, Mr. Aiello and Mr. Gerardi were arrested and accused of bribing the governor's close friend and former aide, Joseph Percoco, to steer contracts back to the company.
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Those charges come on top of a Justice Department investigation of violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bars corporations from bribing foreign officials to gain a business advantage.
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Last year, a federal indictment brought to light the ways in which big-name programs, agents and apparel companies worked together to give top players special treatment, including bribing them.
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Batista's arrest is the latest blow to JBS's controlling family, which last year signed plea bargain agreements with prosecutors admitting to bribing scores of politicians to advance their business interests.
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The oligarch had been arrested in Vienna in 2014, at the American authorities' request, after his indictment on charges of bribing Indian officials for permission to mine titanium for Boeing.
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The head of Iraq's military intelligence branch recently said that some of the group's main financiers had found refuge in southern Turkey after bribing their way through Kurdish-held territory.
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At the center of the controversy is the giant Canadian engineering and construction company SNC-Lavalin, which in 2015 was charged with bribing Libyan officials during the dictatorship of Col.
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Common brokering practices include paying "junkie hunters" for clients; bribing patients with cash, drugs, and other incentives; and kicking back a portion of insurance reimbursements for blood, urine, or genetic testing.
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Most recently, all eyes have been on actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, who were two of many charged with bribing their children's ways into college — now that movie is TBD.
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Through those organizations, he allegedly facilitated cheating on standardized tests, and bribing college coaches and administrators to falsely designate the children as recruited athletes -- even if they didn't play that sport.
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J&F agreed to pay a record-setting 10.3 billion-real ($3.1 billion) leniency fine, after Joesley Batista and his brother Wesley admitted to bribing almost 1,900 politicians in recent years.
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A corruption scandal involving cartels of companies bribing officials for public contracts has enveloped most of Brazil's political elite with Janot expected to issue another charge against Temer in coming weeks.
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This report comes after Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli were both indicted by the FBI for allegedly bribing the University of Southern California to falsely admit their daughters as crew team recruits.
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As part of that agreement, Siemens and its Argentina subsidiary pleaded guilty in the United States to violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bars companies from bribing foreign officials.
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These lands, however, are regularly threatened by "grileros" – a Brazilian term for businessmen fraudulently obtaining or selling properties by bribing local land registry workers, doctoring ownership certificates and other dubious practices.
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His son, Lee Kun-hee, took control of the company in 1987, and less than a decade later he was convicted of bribing politicians and given a two-year jail term.
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Gregg Schonhorn, a vice president at FTN Financial Securities Corp who was also accused of bribing Kang, has pleaded guilty and is cooperating with the government, prosecutors said at the time.
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Clinton may also cross rhetorical lines she and her campaign have stopped short of thus far, like calling Trump a "racist" or accusing him of "bribing" public officials with campaign donations.
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Several former top executives at a pharmaceutical company that sells the powerful painkiller fentanyl were arrested Thursday and accused of bribing doctors, defrauding insurance companies, and fueling America's opioid addiction crisis.
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Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, speaking at a campaign rally in Cincinnati, Ohio, accused Clinton, his likely Democratic opponent, of bribing Lynch to decide not to press charges.
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He was found guilty of crimes ranging from ordering death squads to massacre civilians in a ruthless counter-insurgency campaign to bribing tabloid journalists with public funds to attack political enemies.
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Aiello and Gerardi were previously defendants in a separate trial in which they were accused of bribing Joseph Percoco, a top former aide to Cuomo, to win favorable treatment for COR.
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Sources briefed on the notice told the Post Guo, who has close ties to disgraced former state security vice-minister Ma Jian, was suspected of bribing Ma with 60 million yuan.
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PARIS, Dec 21 (Reuters) - A Paris court on Friday fined French oil group Total 500,000 euros for bribing foreign public officials in a case related to contracts in Iran in 1997.
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U.S. authorities said on Thursday that Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC would pay $412 million to resolve probes into the hedge fund's role in bribing officials in several African countries.
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His most notable engagement with public policy resulted in a report that called for making it acceptable for American companies to start bribing foreign governments — undoing laws that the SEC enforces.
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Clayton, like Trump, considers the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act to be an unfair burden on American companies expanding abroad for prohibiting them from bribing foreign officials to win lucrative business contracts.
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Vicente, who was once seen as a possible successor to President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, is accused of bribing a magistrate when he was chief executive of state oil company Sonangol.
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Oliver Robinson (D) testified on Tuesday that he accepted money to oppose cleanup efforts in Birmingham and that those bribing him wanted him to use his "influence" to oppose the EPA.
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We'd start off by bribing someone who was of age to buy us a blunt from a gas station, pitch on some sub-par shwag, and then nominate someone to roll.
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The bottom line: Testing Kim's willingness to engage with the South and forego provocations through the Olympics makes sense, but bribing Pyongyang in exchange for "good" behavior would be a mistake.
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In February, an appeals court convicted Lee Jae-yong, the son of Lee Kun-hee and a Samsung vice chairman, of bribing Ms. Park, who succeeded Lee Myung-bak as president.
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But even though he confessed to startling crimes — admitting, for example, that he personally paid $300,000 in bribes a month, for years — he never mentioned anything about bribing a Mexican president.
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In another sign of the bank's mounting problems, Abu Dhabi's state energy investment company sued Goldman in New York State Court on Wednesday, accusing bank employees of bribing Abu Dhabi officials.
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Other areas of focus grew out of Deutsche Bank's long history of criminal misconduct: manipulating markets, evading taxes, bribing foreign officials, violating international sanctions, defrauding customers, laundering money for Russian billionaires.
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For example, if powerful corporations manage to break down the peer-review mechanism by bribing a large enough number of scientists, investigative journalists and courts can expose and punish the perpetrators.
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Domestically, he argues that undocumented immigrants are causing the wages of middle-class workers to plummet, and that campaign donors are bribing politicians—except Trump, a billionaire who can't be bought.
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These arrests follow the 22019 arrest of two prominent oil businessmen being arrested in the U.S. for violating the Foreign Corruption Practices Act by bribing PDVSA officials to win lucrative contracts.
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In 21944 he again convicted Mr. Corallo, this time for bribing James L. Marcus, a former city water commissioner, to win contracts for renovating the Jerome Park Reservoir in the Bronx.
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In 21944 he again convicted Mr. Corallo, this time for bribing James L. Marcus, a former city water commissioner, to win contracts for renovating the Jerome Park Reservoir in the Bronx.
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The elaborate scheme involved bribing the administrators of college entrance tests to allow a child's wrong answers to be corrected or for someone else to take the test in their place.
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Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli, the parents, were indicted for allegedly bribing their daughters' ways into the University of Southern California as crew recruits, although neither Olivia nor Isabella plays the sport.
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According to federal indictments unsealed on Tuesday, William "Rick" Singer ran a college counseling business through which he helped get students into top universities — sometimes by bribing officials and falsifying application materials.
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Arizona, USC and Louisville enter the season clouded in uncertainty after assistant coaches from Arizona and USC -- along with Auburn and Oklahoma State -- were arrested in a federal investigation into bribing players.
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Drawing on a report in The New York Times that Clinton "may decide" to keep on U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch should she win in November, Trump accused Clinton of bribing Lynch.
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ROME (Reuters) - Silvio Berlusconi was sent to trial on Friday for allegedly bribing a businessman to lie over accusations he had supplied the former Italian prime minister with prostitutes a decade ago.
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In December, federal prosecutors in Boston brought charges against six former Insys executives and managers, including former Chief Executive Michael Babich, related to a scheme that involved bribing doctors to prescribe Subsys.
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Loughlin and Giannulli are among 33 prominent parents originally accused of conspiring with William Singer and others in a scheme that involved rigging college entrance exams and bribing coaches at elite universities.
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Privately held ABLV, Latvia's third-biggest bank, has been in focus since U.S. authorities accused it of covering up money laundering, bribing officials and facilitating the breach of sanctions against North Korea.
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Prosecutors say Singer made some $25 million over eight years by bribing coaches and arranging for phony test-takers to secure clients' children spots at elite universities including Yale, Georgetown and Stanford.
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In 2015, Francis and the company pleaded guilty to bribing navy officials over 10 years while billing the Navy $200 million for work in a half dozen ports, according to court documents.
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The Batista brothers, who have built J&F into a sprawling conglomerate, have admitted to bribing politicians in a case that has sparked calls for the resignation of Brazilian President Michel Temer.
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A March 2017 police report outlined a complaint filed by a senior state forest official accusing M3M of bribing forest guards with $6,000 for permission to illegally fell more than 2,103 trees.
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He said that he would try again on Tuesday, and that once he arrived, he would try to make it to Germany by bribing police officers and border guards along the way.
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But he has become mired in a debt scandal related to the airline's collapse, with the Indian authorities accusing him of money laundering, bribing bank officials, defaulting on loans and other misdeeds.
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In fact, coalition forces have been caught bribing and recruiting AQAP fighters, putting Washington in the absurd position of indirectly subsidizing a terrorist group with ties to the perpetrators of 9/11.
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The plot involved getting prospective students admitted to colleges and universities as athletic recruits — even in sports they didn't play — by bribing coaches and paying people to cheat on college entrance exams.
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Mr. Kim said he had begun spying on behalf of "South Korean conservative elements" in 2013, by bribing North Korean residents to collect data about the North's military and its nuclear program.
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The accused were charged with bribing foreign public officials in relation to SNC's bid for a construction supervision contract for the Padma Bridge in Bangladesh, which was funded by the World Bank.
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And the blood has only flowed heavier in recent months as two of Brady's top lieutenants have been charged with bribing a political rival to drop a primary challenge against the congressman.
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Singer, who last addressed a Pimco event in 2015, is accused by federal authorities of bribing athletic coaches and arranging for phony test-takers to secure clients' children spots at elite universities.
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General Motors (GM) filed a federal racketeering lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler and its former executives, accusing the automaker of bribing United Auto Workers officials to receive more favorable terms in labor negotiations.
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Swiss prosecutors in October named al-Khelaifi a criminal suspect, accusing him of bribing the former FIFA secretary general Jérôme Valcke to secure World Cup 2026 and 2030 rights for BeIN Sports.
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The way in which Peru addresses this crisis is crucial for Latin America, where the Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht's bribing of presidents, ministers and candidates to win public contracts unleashed the graft scandal.
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In May, a federal jury in Boston found the company's top executives, including the founder, John Kapoor, guilty of conspiring to fuel sales of Subsys, by bribing doctors and misleading insurance companies.
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In October, China Central Television, the official government broadcaster, accused Mr. Ye of bribing a provincial party boss to help CEFC secure the money to make bigger and more high-profile deals.
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Mr. Ramírez boasted from the stand that in 1997, he spent more than $10 million bribing what amounted to the entire Colombian Congress to change the country's extradition laws in his favor.
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Meanwhile, there is the torrent of illegal cash that washes through tax havens and secret bank accounts — cash that is often put to illicit use, from bribing public officials to arms trafficking.
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Prosecutors said that in 2017, Bizzack agreed with Singer to secure his son's admission to USC through a scheme that involved bribing an athletics official to designate him as a volleyball recruit.
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But it was also a stinging reminder of how angry Peruvians have grown at politicians since Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht admitted to securing lucrative contracts in Peru by bribing high-ranking officials.
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Last week's arrests were the latest blow to JBS's controlling Batista family, which last year signed plea bargain agreements with prosecutors admitting to bribing scores of politicians to advance their business interests.
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In a staged press conference, Kim reportedly admitted publicly to spying for "South Korean conservative elements" since 2013, as well as bribing North Korean residents for information about Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program.
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Loughlin is accused of paying Singer $500,000 to help both her daughters cheat their way into USC by bribing an athletics official at the school to pretend the girls were gifted rowers.
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Wilson-Raybould said she had confronted Trudeau over what she said were persistent efforts by officials to help construction firm SNC-Lavalin Group Inc evade trial on charges of bribing Libyan officials.
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Nowadays, those who have money exempt themselves from the service by sending supplies, paying someone else to fulfil the duty, or bribing brigade leaders to turn a blind eye, Cho and Kwon said.
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READ: Ex-pharma execs arrested for allegedly bribing doctors to prescribe fentanyl Earlier this year, new Insys president and CEO Saeed Motahari called the launch of Syndros "a pivotal milestone" for the company.
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Leland has not been charged with a crime, but Fiore has pleaded guilty to bribing a different elected official and faces up to five years behind bars, according to the Detroit Free Press.
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Last week, the founder of drugmaker Insys Therapeutics and four former executives of the company were found guilty of racketeering and other crimes for bribing doctors to unnecessarily prescribe one of their painkillers.
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Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction company, and Braskem, a petrochemical firm in which it owns a stake, pleaded guilty to bribing officials and political parties to win contracts in Latin American and African countries.
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As previous Motherboard investigations have detailed, SIM hijacking (or SIM swapping) involves a hacker bribing or conning a wireless carrier employee to port out a user's phone number right out from under them.
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The parents each allegedly "conspired to commit federal program bribery by bribing employees of the University of Southern California (USC) to facilitate their children's admission," according to the Department of Justice's Tuesday statement.
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Keiko is running on the populist authoritarian legacy of her father who is now serving a 25-year prison term for embezzlement, directing death squads, and bribing the press to smear his opponents.
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The government is changing public contracting laws to ensure that companies that have been penalized for corruption or that have admitted to bribing officials cannot compete on projects, said Prime Minister Fernando Zavala.
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Three of them had been security guards employed by the hospital, and local media posing as patients managed to jump the line by bribing scalpers, who then paid security personnel at the hospital.
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Ms Wilson-Raybould says that the Liberal prime minister and his officials pushed her to suspend the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin for bribing Libyan officials prior to 2011, and fine the company instead.
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Bribing brands to use a service is obviously not a long-term strategy, so whether Facebook Live turns out to be a pivotal change or the next Poke remains to be seen. [Reuters]
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That's a good reason for rich white parents like Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin to stop bribing elite colleges to get their kids in; their kids will be fine in material terms regardless.
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Montreal-based construction and engineering firm SNC-Lavalin was charged in 2435 by the Public Prosecution Service of Canada with bribing Libyan officials to influence the awarding of contracts between 20183 and 22018.
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Still derided for hosting Bacchic "Bunga Bunga" parties while running the country, Mr Berlusconi is due to go on trial, charged with bribing his young female guests to perjure themselves in earlier proceedings.
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This phrase refers to any payments from foreign governments to the president, as our founders had the foresight to include a clause in the Constitution prohibiting foreign nations from bribing our top executive.
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STOCKHOLM, March 10 (Reuters) - Swedish prosecutors said on Friday they had arrested an employee of Canadian aircraft and train maker Bombardier on suspicion of bribing Azerbaijani officials in a 2013 railway procurement deal.
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In July, Greece expelled two Russian diplomats and barred two other people from entering the country, accusing them of having meddled by encouraging demonstrations and bribing unidentified officials to thwart the Macedonia agreement.
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Leung was charged in May by Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption with bribing the then chairman of a potential client, a logistics company, by employing his son at the U.S. investment bank.
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Although she says the relationship has been repaired, it's unclear how Trump feels ... Megyn claims in her new book aside from bullying her, Trump threatened and even tried bribing her during the campaign.
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What is really worrying is that bribing of officials to turn a blind eye to the practice is just seen as routine – nearly a third of Brazil's politicians are implicated in the practice.
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The 2016 move came after a November 2015 BBC program described cases of BAT employees bribing officials in East African countries including Rwanda and Burundi in an effort to undermine anti-smoking laws.
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On Wednesday, Greece expelled two Russian diplomats and barred two other people from entering the country, accusing them of having meddled by encouraging demonstrations and bribing unidentified officials to thwart the Macedonia agreement.
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He said he started working as a spy in April 2013 on behalf of "South Korean conservative elements," bribing local residents to "gather important materials," which he smuggled into China or South Korea.
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U.S. prosecutors are working hard to extradite Firtash from Austria for bribing Indian officials to the tune of $18.5 million, but all parties involved know that is just the tip of the iceberg.
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The people involved in the scam allegedly sought to get prospective students admitted to colleges and universities by forging athletic records, bribing coaches and paying people to help cheat on college entrance exams.
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Mello said some developers are taking advantage of the area's high illiteracy rates and reliance on customary land tenure and bribing public officials to get title deeds to land that belongs to locals.
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Celebrities Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman were among those charged in the scandal, which also involved cheating on college entrance exams and bribing athletic coaches to recruit students for regardless of their ability.
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U.S. and Brazilian federal authorities ordered one of the world's largest airplane makers to pay over $205 million for allegedly bribing government officials for contracts in the Dominican Republic, Saudi Arabia and Mozambique.
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In a bombshell 95-page complaint, GM accused executives of its crosstown Italian rival of bribing United Auto Workers officials in order to undercut competition and violating federal labor law in the process.
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The probe, known as "Operation Weak Flesh," found evidence of meatpackers bribing inspectors and politicians to overlook unsanitary practices such as processing rotten meat and shipping exports with traces of salmonella, police said.
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"For these men, bribing coaches was a business investment," declared Joon Kim, acting United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, in disclosing a continuing investigation into academia and sports entertainment.
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Of the nearly three dozen parents named in court documents unveiled this week, more than half are accused of bribing their way into the elite private campus in the heart of Los Angeles.
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Although one Hydra shop owner interviewed last year said he sometimes kept his droppers out of jail by bribing police officers 500,173 rubles ($6,800) to drop the charges, some are not so lucky.
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Singer was the mastermind behind the scam to help wealthy students get admitted to college by cheating on the ACTs or SATs or bribing athletic officials to promote students with fake athletic profiles.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump wanted to strike down a law that prohibits companies from bribing foreign officials, calling the ban "so unfair" to American companies, two Washington Post reporters recount in a new book.
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According to court papers, he later helped the men illegally get gun permits with the assistance of another fixer from Borough Park, a vodka-swilling businessman who, the papers say, was bribing him.
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Mr. Lee, a vice chairman at the conglomerate, has been accused of bribing Park Geun-hye, the former South Korean president, for government approval of the merger of two Samsung affiliates in 2015.
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Avenatti is accused in the Nike case of trying to shake down the company by threatening to expose alleged evidence of bribing amateur basketball players and their families unless the company paid up.
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General Motors filed a federal racketeering lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler and its former executives on Wednesday, accusing the automaker of bribing United Auto Workers officials to receive more favorable terms in labor negotiations.
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The development comes after the arrest last week of longtime Platinum associate Murray Huberfeld, who was accused of bribing Correction Officers' Benevolent Association President Norman Seabrook in return for an investment in Platinum.
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Federal investigators say 50 people took part in a scheme that involved cheating on standardized tests and bribing college coaches and school officials to accept students as college athletes regardless of their abilities.
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One aspect of the alleged scheme, according to a federal criminal complaint, went toward bribing college entrance exam administrators and stand-in test takers to help students get better scores on standardized tests.
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Suddenly, an investigator from Orlando is added into the mix to describe an alleged Pearlman scam involving a modeling agency (as well as the bribing of a public official) that never got prosecuted.
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Fujimori was extradited back to Peru in 2007 and later found guilty of commanding death squads that massacred civilians, bribing lawmakers and having a hand in the kidnapping a journalist, among other crimes.
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Nowadays, those who have money exempt themselves from the service by sending supplies, paying someone else to fulfill the duty, or bribing brigade leaders to turn a blind eye, Cho and Kwon said.
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Montreal-based construction and engineering firm SNC-Lavalin was charged in 0003 by the Public Prosecution Service of Canada with bribing Libyan officials to influence the awarding of contracts between 2000 and 21.
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To survive, ordinary people were forced to look beyond the marshaled ranks on display at parades, and hustle for scraps on private markets, bribing officials to turn a blind eye to any illegality.
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The Department of Justice is also currently looking into whether Uber has broken a US law against bribing foreign officials with payments that it made to officials in China, India, Indonesia, and elsewhere.
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More than two dozen wealthy families charged with allegedly cheating or bribing their kids' way into elite schools are learning the hard way that crime doesn't pay, even when higher education is the prize.
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Once among the nation's largest egg producers, Quality Egg paid a $6.79 million fine in the case, after pleading guilty to charges including selling mislabeled eggs and bribing a U.S. Department of Agriculture inspector.
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All eyes have been on influencer Olivia Jade ever since news broke that her parents, Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli, were indicted for allegedly bribing their daughters' ways into the University Of Southern California.
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Prosecutors say the scheme was overseen by California college admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer, who has admitted to facilitating the cheating scam and bribing coaches to present the parents' children as fake athletic recruits.
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A South Korean court has just found Samsung head Lee Jae-yong guilty of a host of corruption-related crimes — including bribing South Korea's former president — and sentenced him to five years in prison.
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These ranged from doling out money and jobs in the Taliban shadow government to sweet-talking disaffected cadres, bribing clerics to give favorable pronouncements and playing for time whenever a problematic issue presented itself.
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Last year, Molina reached an agreement with prosecutors to pay 100 million reais ($26 million) of restitution to state lender Caixa Economica Federal, after being accused of bribing the bank's employees to secure loans.
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What Mr Singer did—for 761 buyers, he claimed—is create a "side door" by bribing university officials and faking test scores that would achieve the same result at one-tenth of the cost.
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The probes into whether inspection procedures were relaxed for meatpacking, dairy and other food companies come two months after industry leaders JBS SA and BRF SA were rocked by allegations of bribing food inspectors.
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"We all fundamentally know one size doesn't fit all — and that we won't accomplish our goals by creating a new federal bureaucracy or by bribing states with their own taxpayers' money," DeVos said Monday.
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That came on the back of plea-bargain testimony indicating Temer condoned bribing a witness in the sprawling "Car Wash" graft probe and that he had received 15 million reais ($4.59 million) in bribes.
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GIFTED ROWERS Loughlin is accused of paying Singer $500,000 to help both her daughters cheat their way into USC by bribing an athletics official at the school to pretend the girls were gifted rowers.
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The billionaire Batista brothers who control JBS through holding company J&F Investimentos SA have admitted to bribing politicians in a case that has sparked calls for the resignation of Brazilian President Michel Temer.
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"We all fundamentally know one size doesn't fit all -- and that we won't accomplish our goals by creating a new federal bureaucracy or by bribing states with their own taxpayers' money," DeVos said Monday.
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However, magistrates subsequently laid new charges against Berlusconi and other defendants, accusing them of bribing some of the women who attended the parties to keep them from telling the truth at the initial trial.
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Exploitative recruitment agencies are believed to have trafficked hundreds of children to Hong Kong, Singapore and other Asian countries to work as domestic workers by using forged documents and bribing officials, rights groups say.
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The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which prohibits a U.S. business from bribing foreign officials, is likely to be one of the first pieces of legislation to face significant scrutiny under the next Administration.
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BNDES Participações SA, the bank's investment arm, is pushing to remove JBS Chief Executive Wesley Batista with the support of other minority shareholders, after he and his brother confessed to bribing hundreds of politicians.
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These sources occasionally receive favors—such as help in getting their children into Western schools—but money doesn't change hands, because it could risk violating laws against, say, bribing government officials or insider trading.
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General Motors on Wednesday filed a damning lawsuit against its rival Fiat-Chrysler accusing the automaker of bribing union officials for a better labor contract to help it get a leg up on competition.
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U.S. authorities have been investigating the companies controlled by J&F alongside their Brazilian counterparts since their largest shareholders - brothers Joesley and Wesley Batista - admitted to bribing politicians to obtain benefits for their businesses.
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Paulo Rabello de Castro did not name the world's largest meatpacker, JBS SA, in which the bank's investment arm BNDESPar has a 21 percent stake and whose owners admitted to bribing almost 1,900 politicians.
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"No legal system in the world can accept the bribing of witnesses, the inducement of witnesses to lie," said the presiding judge, Bertram Schmitt, who read out the summary of the decision in court.
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Now that slide, known as Exhibit A, is the key evidence in Mr. Firtash's extradition to the U.S., where he has been charged with bribing Indian officials in anticipation of getting titanium for Boeing.
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Federal prosecutors have so far charged 50 people in the admissions case, in which wealthy families are accused of cheating on college entrance exams and bribing college coaches to designate students as athletic recruits.
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Lee, 51, was initially sentenced in 2017 to five years imprisonment for bribing a friend of former President Park Geun-hye as he sought to succeed his father and secure control of Samsung Group.
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Lee, 51, was initially sentenced in 2017 to five years imprisonment for bribing a friend of former President Park Geun-hye as he sought to succeed his father and secure control of Samsung Group.
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The prosecutors said that a criminal organization with ties in Belgium and Armenia has been bribing professional tennis players to fix matches since 2014, letting the criminals to rake in profits by placing bets.
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This August, Lee Jae-yong, the de facto head of Samsung, one of the most prominent chaebols, was sentenced to five years in prison for bribing Park and her notorious confidante Choi Soon-sil.
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He is also accused of bribing the family of a teenage girl so she would not testify against him in a child pornography trial, in which he was acquitted of all charges in 2008.
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BOSTON — Most of the parents charged in the nation's largest college admissions scandal were accused of paying to cheat on admissions exams or bribing coaches to get one child into college, or perhaps two.
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Ms. Loughlin and Mr. Giannulli were among roughly three dozen wealthy parents accused by federal investigators last year of paying to cheat on admissions exams or bribing coaches to get their children into college.
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Most prominently the former policeman, currently in prison over allegations of money laundering and bribing public officials, has been linked to BBVA, leading the Spanish high court to place the bank under formal investigation.
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J&F is the parent company of the world's largest meatpacker JBS SA, whose top executives admitted to bribing politicians in exchange for political favors in a scandal that threatens to topple President Michel Temer.
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Hagerstown, Maryland (CNN)Donald Trump on Sunday made some of his most direct accusations yet against Ted Cruz in the GOP nomination fight, saying the Texas senator is "bribing" delegates to come to his side.
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J&F agreed on Tuesday to pay 10.3 billion reais in fines after its founders, Joesley and Wesley Batista, admitted to bribing lawmakers and politicians in a massive corruption scandal that deepened Brazil's financial crisis.
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TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israeli police detained a prominent Israeli businessman on Monday on suspicion of bribing public officials in Guinea, a country with vast mineral deposits and mining operations, to promote his business interests there.
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While in custody, Johnson tried to tamper with witnesses and contact his victims online, bribing them with gifts and promises of money to change their testimony, the U.S. Attorney&aposs Office said in a statement.
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WATCH: I Made My Shed the #1 Restaurant in London Honestly, I'm glad to return to bribing people the traditional way; the detour of pretending to be an influencer never felt completely right to me.
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Heidelberg's car was never tested for fingerprints, Hale claims, adding that he's uncovered documents showing police spied on Heidelberg's conversations with his original public defender, as well as evidence of witness coercion, tampering, and bribing.
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French ambassador Michel Miraillet said there was heightened concern in the European Union over food safety after a series of recent scandals, including the bribing of inspectors by meatpackers in Brazil to overlook sanitary practices.
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"No legal system in the world can accept the bribing of witnesses, the inducement of witnesses to lie, or the illicit coaching of witnesses, nor can the International Criminal Court," Presiding Judge Bertram Schmitt said.
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Guzman's legendary reputation in the Mexican underworld began taking shape when he staged his first jailbreak in 222 by bribing prison guards, before going on to dominate drug trafficking along much of the Rio Grande.
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Prosecutors said the Gerova scheme involved a plan to quietly take control of nearly half of the reinsurer's public float, and cash out profitably after bribing investment advisers to buy shares for their own clients.
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Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman launched a sweeping anti-graft crackdown last November, arresting dozens of princes, senior officials and top businessmen accused of crimes such as money laundering, bribing and extorting officials.
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Then Wednesday evening in Brazil, the O Globo newspaper reported that Brazilian President Michel Temer in March allegedly discussed bribing former House Speaker Eduardo Cunha to prevent him from testifying about a massive corruption case.
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He pleaded guilty to a number of charges, including racketeering, for masterminding the scheme, which included bribing college athletic coaches and having other people take admissions tests for the children of those who hired him.
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Accused of bribing politicians and executives to get contracts throughout Latin America, Odebrecht made a deal two years ago with U.S, Brazilian and Swiss authorities, paying a record $3.5 billion in fines to settle charges.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Macau billionaire accused of bribing a former United Nations General Assembly president on Thursday accused the U.S. government of prosecuting him for geopolitical reasons to slow China's influence over developing nations.
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Och-Ziff and its chief executive, Daniel Och, agreed last September to pay $412 million and $2.17 million, respectively, to resolve U.S. investigations of the hedge fund's role in bribing officials in several African countries.
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At seventeen, he and his friends began driving to Chicago, three hours away, and bribing doormen in order to get into the night clubs where a danceable new style called house music was being forged.
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A federal judge on Monday dismissed a proposed class action accusing Allergan Plc's Warner Chilcott unit of illegally boosting prescriptions of osteoporosis medications Atelvia and Actonel and other drugs by bribing doctors and defrauding insurers.
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Their sentencing capped an investigation into what the U.S. Justice Department called a long-running bribery scheme at Louis Berger to secure government construction management contracts by bribing officials in India, Indonesia, Vietnam and Kuwait.
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In a bombshell 95-page lawsuit this week, GM accused executives of its crosstown Italian rival of bribing United Auto Workers officials in order to undercut competition and violating federal labor law in the process.
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Joesley Batista, controlling shareholder of family holding company J&F and its biggest asset JBS SA, the world's largest meatpacker, last week admitted to bribing thousands of politicians in a plea deal with Brazilian prosecutors.
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PARIS — Jean-Pierre Bemba, a Congolese politician who is serving an 18-year prison sentence for crimes against humanity and war crimes, was convicted on Wednesday of coaching and bribing witnesses to give false testimony.
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A month ago, a federal jury in Boston found the company's top executives, including the founder, John Kapoor, guilty of conspiring to fuel sales of the drug, Subsys, by bribing doctors and misleading insurance companies.
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By the end of the day in Turkey, and more than four hours after Mr. Zarrab testified about bribing Mr. Caglayan, neither the Turkish state broadcaster nor the news agency had reported on the testimony.
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Prosecutors said Janavs also agreed to pay $200,000 to facilitate the admission of one of her daughters at USC by bribing an athletics official at the school to designate her as a beach volleyball recruit.
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US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein cited the conviction of one of the richest men in China, real estate magnate Ng Lap Seng, of bribing UN officials, as an early example of this strategy's success.
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Riddell and Meredith represent the two prongs at the heart of the scheme: cheating on standardized tests and bribing college coaches to falsely classify an applicant as a recruited athlete, clearing a path to admission.
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Alleging rampant corruption in college basketball, federal prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed a handful of criminal complaints Tuesday charging assistant coaches, financial advisers, and even a high-ranking executive at Adidas with illegally bribing college athletes.
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Authorities say the scheme was overseen by California college admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer, who has pleaded guilty to facilitating the cheating scam and bribing coaches to present the parents' children as fake athletic recruits.
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Lori Loughlin may be all smiles outside the courtroom, but her professional life has been put through the ringer ever since she was indicted for allegedly bribing her daughters' ways into the University of Southern California.
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Kim Kardashian is the latest celebrity to speak out about the college admissions scandal — you know, the one where Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are accused of bribing and lying to get their kids into college.
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Well, it turns out that four years ago, Sin Rostro (Bridget Regan) actually faked Michael's death by bribing some EMT drivers and then gave Michael amnesia via electroshock therapy focused on the hippocampus and temporal lobe.
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On Friday March 17th, in time for a traditional weekend churrasco, or barbecue, the federal police accused some of the country's biggest meat producers of bribing health inspectors to turn a blind eye to grubby practices.
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Nowhere has that collusion been clearer than in the circus of corporate pardons: the elder Mr Lee was convicted of bribing politicians in 1996, and of tax evasion in 2008, but spent no time in prison.
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Trump, gleefully tossing out his "Crooked Hillary" mantra, said the FBI's decision proves "our system is totally rigged" and accused -- without any proof -- Clinton of bribing the U.S. attorney general to get a favorable outcome. 4.
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Guzman's legendary reputation in the Mexican underworld began to take shape when he staged his first jailbreak in 21 by bribing prison guards, before going on to dominate drug trafficking along much of the Rio Grande.
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In March, Brazil's police announced a graft probe, known as "Operation Weak Flesh," and accused companies of bribing food inspectors to evade checks, leading many countries to temporarily ban imports from the country and increase oversight.
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The sale comes after J&F Investments' owners, Joesley and Wesley Batista, were indicted earlier this year for corruption; the two have testified about bribing 1,829 politicians in order to receive advantageous loans and other favors.
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South Korea's special prosecutor's office accused Lee of bribing a friend of former President Park Geun-hye in exchange for government favors, allegedly including approval of a 2015 merger between Samsung C&T and Cheil Industries.
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Villanueva, a lawmaker with the small party Alliance for Progress, had called for Kuczynski to be forced from office over his connections to scandal-plagued Brazilian builder Odebrecht, which has acknowledged bribing officials across Latin America.
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Samsung Electronics Vice-Chairman Jay Y. Lee was later jailed for bribing a friend of former President Park Geun-hye in exchange for government support for a restructuring seen as advantageous to the controlling Lee family.
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Kimmel, who owns a media company, is accused of bribing Georgetown University officials on behalf of her daughter as a tennis player and USC officials to gain her son's admission as a track and field recruit.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Hopes Latin America's largest economy could emerge from its worst-ever recession this year were plunged into doubt on Thursday after President Michel Temer was shaken by allegations he condoned bribing a potential witness.
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The firm, a major employer in the politically important province of Quebec, wanted to take advantage of a 2018 law allowing it to escape with a fine rather than be prosecuted for bribing officials in Libya.
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A federal jury earlier this year convicted Balch partner Joel Gilbert and Drummond vice president David Roberson for bribing an Alabama state lawmaker as part of the effort to stop the EPA cleanup effort, AL.com reported.
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ZAGREB (Reuters) - A Croatian court ordered on Monday the detention of the head of Hungarian energy group MOL, Zsolt Hernadi, who is being tried in Croatia in absentia for allegedly bribing the country's former prime minister.
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The arrest of a Gabonese man on charges of bribing African officials may help pull back the curtain on a long-running foreign corruption scandal that has ensnared the giant hedge fund founded by Daniel Och.
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U+1F98E LIZARD The only logical explanation for including this useless emoji in the new update is that Geico, the auto-insurance company with its gecko mascot, is bribing members of the Unicode Technical Committee. 58.
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The prosecution said chief suspect Owni Mutee and his 28 other accomplices had evaded paying 539 million dinars ($760 million) by bribing officials to dodge customs and taxes from a counterfeit cigarettes and tobacco production business.
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In 213, she did a brief stint with a defense contracting firm whose founder, Mitchell Wade, pleaded guilty a year later to bribing a congressman with more than $1 million in return for favors and earmarks.
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Prosecutors first announced charges against 50 people in March, describing a brazen scheme of cheating on college entrance exams and bribing officials to secure admission to universities like Stanford, the University of Southern California and Yale.
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Huawei workers have been accused of bribing government officials to win business in Africa, copying an American competitor's source code and even stealing the fingertip of a robot in a T-Mobile lab in Bellevue, Wash.
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A U.S. grand jury indicted Firtash in 2013, along with a member of India's parliament and four others, on suspicion of bribing Indian government officials to gain access to minerals used to make titanium-based products.
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It soon dismissed five football players after they were arrested on criminal charges and suspended its head coach for flouting university and N.C.A.A. rules in bribing an instructor to try to raise a star player's grade.
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Federal prosecutors have accused Mr. Kelly of bribing the girl's family to keep them quiet, and a lawyer for that girl — today a woman in her 30s — has said she is now cooperating with federal investigators.
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Zsolt Hernadi was found guilty of bribing former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader to allow MOL become the key decision-maker in Croatian energy firm, in which MOL is the biggest but not the majority shareholder.
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Earlier this year, about 50 people were accused in a college admissions scandal of either cheating on standardized tests or bribing college coaches and school officials to accept students as college athletes -- even if they weren't.
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General Motors has accused its rival Fiat Chrysler of bribing officials at the United Auto Workers union to get the upper hand in contract negotiations, and will seek billions of dollars in damages as a result.
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Top executives of one manufacturer, Insys Therapeutics, were criminally convicted in May of bribing doctors to prescribe and give sham educational talks about its drug Subsys, and of misleading insurers about patients' need for the drug.
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In one instance, Singer fraudulently gained a student admission to Yale by bribing the soccer coach with a check for $400,000, according to court documents, paid out after the student was admitted as an athletic recruit.
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Olivia's parents, Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli, have been accused of bribing both Olivia and her sister Isabella Rose Giannulli's ways into the University of Southern California, and the whole family has gone underground since the scandal.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Switzerland is investigating six people on suspicion of money laundering, bribing foreign officials and other offences as part of an investigation into Malaysian state fund 22016MDB, the Swiss attorney general's office said on Tuesday.
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Embraer said in a securities filing it was nearing a settlement to defer prosecution under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) for allegedly bribing officials in the Dominican Republic to secure a deal for defense aircraft.
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He controlled those test centers, a Texas high school and a private college preparatory school in California, by bribing test administrators who would then allow Riddell to proctor the exams and carry out the cheating, prosecutors said.
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Earlier this month, the How I Met Your Mother alum told PEOPLE he and Burtka had "something in mind" for this year's costume, but "it might take some bribing" for the kids to go along with it.
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READ: North Korea sentences U.S. student to 15 years hard labor He said he started working as a spy in April 2013, bribing local residents to "gather important materials," which he smuggled into China or South Korea.
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It has proved particularly hard to stamp out in Italy, where several clubs were caught bribing referees in 2500: Juventus, the nation's most successful team, was stripped of two league titles and relegated to the second division.
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He was one journalist, knocking on doors, bribing his way into free trade zones where these companies were offshoring, turning up at Mossack Fonseca's offices in Panama and Nevada to ask questions no one wanted to answer.
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Another scalper admitted that operating smoothly requires bribing hospital security guards and doctors, although at times when this wasn't possible, he found ways around it by teaming up with other scalpers to evade security or undercover cops.
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Och-Ziff Capital Management will pay $412 million and CEO Daniel Och will pay $2.17 million to resolve U.S. probes into the hedge fund's role in bribing officials in several African countries, U.S. authorities said on Thursday.
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Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are open to abuse by construction firms such as Odebrecht, which make low bids to secure contracts and then renegotiate them to push up the cost, often by bribing a politician or two.
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U.S. lawyers for Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan say they suspect the schools are a front that generates $500 million annually that is funneled from Gulen's movement for subversive activities against the Turkish state, such as bribing officials.
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Ariesman Widjaja, the firm's chief executive officer, is suspected of bribing a member of the Jakarta provincial assembly to influence the regulation for a land reclamation, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said in a statement dated Friday.
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For those abroad, doing so requires a little creativity — like bribing your American cousin to bring Boy Brow to you for Christmas or using your work trip to New York as an excuse to buy new sunscreen.
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Wilson-Raybould told the House of Commons justice committee that she had confronted Trudeau over what she called inappropriate pressure to help construction firm SNC-Lavalin Group evade a corruption trial on charges of bribing Libyan officials.
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Police sought Nogueira, who was returning to Brazil from South Africa, because he allegedly discussed bribing health inspectors, including one who helped prevent the closure of a plant in the state of Goiás, according to court documents.
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JBS Chairman Joesley Batista this week set off a political firestorm by revealing that he had taped a conversation with Michel Temer in March in which the Brazilian president seemed to assent to bribing a jailed lawmaker.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A billionaire real estate developer from Macau accused by U.S. authorities of bribing a former United Nations General Assembly president has dropped his demand to go to trial immediately amid setbacks at his companies.
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Former drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman allegedly authorized the bribing of former Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto to the tune of $100 million dollars, his former right-hand man testified Tuesday, according to multiple news outlets.
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More recently, the SAT's legitimacy came under fire once again after it was determined that parents spent tens of thousands of dollars bribing corrupt test proctors to alter test scores as part of the college admissions scandal.
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"This case is a matter of Lee Jae-yong and Samsung Group executives, who had been steadily preparing for Lee's succession ... bribing the president," Seoul Central District Court Judge Kim Jin-dong said, using Lee's Korean name.
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In matter-of-fact detail, Mr. Aguayo and other researchers at the Colegio de México describe how the Zetas moved into the northern ranchlands near the border with Texas and established control by bribing the local authorities.
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Mr. Mebiame, the son of a former prime minister of Gabon who worked as a consultant for a joint venture involving Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, is charged with bribing officials in at least three African countries.
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Lawyers representing a former top state official, Joseph Percoco, and three executives accused of bribing him had been promising for days to mount a vigorous defense case, complete with documents, videos and more than 20 potential witnesses.
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The scandal also involves the actress Felicity Huffman and other wealthy individuals who are accused of bribing college officials and using fabricated test scores to get their children into prominent universities such as Yale, Stanford, and USC.
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Two companies, Herbalife and Usana Health Sciences, disclosed last year that they faced investigations in the United States for their operations in China under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits American companies from bribing foreign officials.
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Berrin T. did nothing to stop the increasingly perverse advances on her son, which began with showing him pornographic videos and bribing him with expensive gifts in exchange for being allowed to touch him inappropriately, it said.
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The bad news is that while SIM swapping relies on relatively simple techniques—tricking customer support reps into believing you're somebody else, or bribing them to believe it—there's not that much you can do about it.
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The Swiss also accused the Qatari businessman Nasser al-Khelaifi, who is the Paris St.-Germain soccer club's chairman, of bribing Valcke in return for a separate package of rights to the 2026 and 2030 World Cups.
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In 1948, the tradition of bribing was put to an end when a law was passed deeming it illegal to reward people for votes using food, booze, or "any such expenditure" that could violate the electoral process.
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Monday's settlement calls for SAP to give up $3.7 million of profit and pay $189,000 of interest to settle charges that it violated the federal Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits bribing foreign officials to win business.
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The allegations include bribing of test-center administrators to allow reasonable accommodations to students -- such as taking longer to complete standardized tests -- when such students were not genuinely entitled to accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Nonetheless, the outcomes seem incongruous: Mr. Singh pleaded guilty to bribing the mayor, charges brought by the Eastern District prosecutors, while those in the Southern District examined the same conduct and chose not to charge the mayor.
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Through those organizations, he allegedly facilitated both cheating on standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT, and bribing college coaches and administrators to falsely designate the children as recruited athletes, even if they didn't play that sport.
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In another case, television mogul Raul Gorrin was put on the sanctions list in January after he was charged in the United States with bribing officials with property, Rolex watches and luxury cars in a currency exchange scheme.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice have indicated this has been one of the largest investigations under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prevents American companies from bribing foreign officials, according to the Times.
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Midge acts as his psuedo manager, jotting down detailed notes about Joel's sets — "You got three more laughs tonight than you did last time" — and bribing cafe bookers with pot roast in exchange for better performance time slots.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - African refugees in Libya are so desperate that some are bribing their way into detention centers in the hope of eventually being resettled out of the war-torn, lawless country, the United Nations said on Thursday.
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While not disputing that pollution occurred, Chevron has alleged the villagers' lawyer, Steven Donziger, and his associates went too far, including arranging for the ghost-writing of a key environmental report and bribing the presiding judge in Ecuador.
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French bank Societe Generale will pay $1.3 billion to resolve criminal and civil charges in the United States and France for bribing Gaddafi-era Libyan officials and manipulating the Libor interest rate benchmark, U.S. authorities said on Monday.
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That $10 million mansion was owned by a Chinese associate of Ng Lap Seng, a Macau billionaire accused of bribing a U.N. diplomat who was questioned by the FBI about the homeowner's intelligence ties, according to court records.
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That $10-million mansion was owned by a Chinese associate of Ng Lap Seng, a Macau billionaire accused of bribing a U.N. diplomat who was questioned by the FBI about the homeowner's intelligence ties, according to court records.
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Avenatti also claimed Al-Rumaihi boasted about bribing administration officials in a "sworn declaration filed in court" -- a reference to a declaration from Jeff Kwatinetz, an entertainment executive who is currently in a legal battle with Al-Rumaihi.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean court said on Friday it has reassigned Samsung Group chief Jay Y. Lee's bribery trial to another judge, following questions about the previous judge's connection to a woman Lee is accused of bribing.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's JBS SA, the world's largest meatpacker, will hold on Friday its first board meeting since its owners admitted to bribing scores of politicians, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on Thursday.
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Butts, testifying to the House of Commons justice committee on Wednesday, denied he had crossed the line by asking Wilson-Raybould to consider offering SNC-Lavalin a deal to avoid a trial on charges of bribing Libyan officials.
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The irony, of course, is that Olivia's parents are facing serious charges and jail time for allegedly bribing her way into college ... and now she's immersing herself back in the world she always wanted to be in anyway.
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Batista, whose fortune was once estimated at $30 billion, making him the world's seventh richest person, was jailed in January for allegedly bribing the governor of Rio de Janeiro state and left prison in April on house arrest.
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She jokes about bribing Amelia with M&M's to get her potty trained in time to start day care, and about jiggling Alex on her hip while frying pork chops and fielding a job offer over the phone.
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The Wall Street Journal reported that the DOJ is investigating whether managers at the company violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits U.S. companies from bribing foreign officials to get or maintain business in a foreign country.
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A Kazakh citizen who used to live in Turkmenistan told Reuters that by buying out luggage allowances from other travelers and bribing airline officials, a "shuttle trader" can move up to 200 kilograms (441 pounds) in one trip.
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The indictment lists a variety of deceptive tactics, including having children falsely designated as athletic recruits; bribing proctors to edit answers on standardized college-entry exams; and hiring people to pose as students to raise grade-point averages.
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Trudeau is not helped by the optics of the scandal involving SNC-Lavalin Group Inc, a prominent Montreal-based engineering and construction firm that has been accused of bribing Libyan officials to get contracts between 2001 and 2011.
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Proponents of the rule say it's aimed to prevent companies from bribing foreign governments and taking part in other forms of corruption, but opponents argue it creates undue burdens on American companies and puts them at a competitive disadvantage.
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Federal prosecutors have charged two people in connection with the probe: a member of a volunteer safety patrol in an Orthodox Jewish community for bribing police officers for gun licenses, and a former restaurateur for running a Ponzi scheme.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian prosecutors on Thursday filed corruption charges against Decal do Brasil co-founder Mariano Marcondes Ferraz accusing him of bribing a former executive at state-run oil company Petrobras to win contracts for Ferraz's own firm.
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Pundits and tweeters have given preposterous examples from kidnapping an opposing candidate to bribing voters and rounding up Democrats to tampering with ballot boxes, all of which are criminal, as were many of the impeachable offenses of President Nixon.
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Volkswagen is trying to keep as many cars out on the road as possible by essentially bribing customers into fixing their faulty diesel vehicles, said Bob Lutz, a Via Motors board member and former vice chairman of General Motors.
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In August he was sentenced to five years in prison, charged with bribing Ms Park in order to win support for an $8bn merger of two affiliates, Samsung C&T and Cheil, which tightened his hold over the group.
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In court documents, William Rick Singer, the admitted ringleader of the cheating operation, referred to the techniques he used—like paying impersonators to take standardized tests and bribing college coaches—as a "side door" entrance to elite academic institutions.
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AND I FIND IT VERY, VERY CURIOUS, AS SHOULD THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WHICH IS VERY SMART BY THE WAY – OR WHO IS VERY SMART – THAT NIKE HAS YET TO DENY BRIBING PLAYERS IN CONNECTION WITH THIS FIVE-YEAR SCANDAL.
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The only exception is that the president may not order the FBI director or any other official to do something unlawful in the course of an investigation or prosecution, such as destroying evidence, suborning perjury, or bribing a juror.
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GSK, which was fined nearly $500 million in 2014 for bribing doctors in China, is the first drug company to implement such a broad clampdown on payments to prescribers and competitors are watching closely to assess the commercial fallout.
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KUALA LUMPUR, July 10 (Reuters) - Switzerland is investigating six people on suspicion of bribing foreign officials and other offences, as part of a money laundering investigation into Malaysian state fund 1MDB, the Swiss attorney general's office said on Tuesday.
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SAO PAULO, April 19 (Reuters) - A judge in the Dominican Republic has approved terms of a $184 million fine on Odebrecht SA, which sought a plea deal after admitting to bribing officials to win contracts in the Caribbean nation.
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Kim's wife, Park Chae-yoon, was sentenced to a year in prison, the court official said, for bribing one of Park's presidential aides, An Chong-bum, and a former health ministry official to win support for Kim's overseas business.
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A coal company executive and a lawyer have been convicted in federal court of bribing an Alabama lawmaker to oppose Environmental Protection Agency plans that could have made the company help pay to clean up a polluted Superfund site.
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Now, however, Mr. Singh is cooperating in a different bribery trial — that of two Long Island politicians — and on his fourth day on the stand, he testified about bribing Mr. de Blasio in extensive, if not quite incriminating, detail.
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But in the decades since, not least because of the amount of philanthropic coin that has been spent (can it still be called bribing when millions are the recipients?), touching all corners of our cultural life, attitudes have changed.
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He claimed, without proof, that the company was engaged in bribing top officials and their relatives, and has even spun conspiracy theories about the death of the company's co-chairman Wang Jian in an accident in France last summer.
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Fujimori senior, who is widely suspected of managing his 40-year-old daughter's presidential bid from his jail cell, is now serving a 773-year sentence for embezzlement, directing death squads, and systematically bribing journalists to smear his opponents.
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Now he is embroiled in a scandal involving accusations of back-room deal-making and bullying tactics, all to support a Canadian company accused of bribing the Libyan government when it was run by the dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi.
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Five high-ranking executives of Insys -- one of the makers of a fentanyl called Subsys that is part of the federal program -- also stand accused of bribing doctors in exchange for prescriptions of the drug meant for cancer patients.
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R&B singer R. Kelly was charged on Thursday with bribing an Illinois government employee to create a false ID for 15-year-old singer Aaliyah Haughton one day before marrying her in August 1994, the Washington Post reports.
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China can start by quietly bribing the Kim regime's top military and civilian officials, offering political asylum and a safe exile for them and their families in China, while simultaneously cutting off energy and other supplies to the North.
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A billionaire real estate developer from Macau was sentenced to four years in prison on Friday for bribing two diplomats, including a former president of the United Nations General Assembly, to help him build a conference center in Macau.
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The action against Pearson comes on the same day that GM (GM) filed a federal racketeering lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler (FCAU), charging that it received unfair advantage by bribing union officials, which helped the company lower its labor costs.
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OTTAWA — The company whose corruption case nearly derailed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's campaign for re-election, bruising his image as a feminist and defender of "sunny ways," pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a fraud charge of bribing Libyan officials.
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His plea came after Och-Ziff and its chief executive, Daniel Och, agreed in September to pay $412 million and $2.17 million, respectively, to resolve U.S. probes into the hedge fund's role in bribing officials in several African countries.
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A more dispassionate review of Mr. Barr's memo shows that he was trying to prevent an unprecedented expansion of a federal criminal statute intended to prevent crimes such as destroying evidence, bribing prospective jurors, intimidating witnesses and the like.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, May 25 (Reuters) - Brazil's JBS SA, the world's largest meatpacker, will hold on Friday its first board meeting since its owners admitted to bribing scores of politicians, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on Thursday.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - The founder of Insys Therapeutics Inc put profits over patient safety by bribing doctors to prescribe an addictive fentanyl spray, fueling the U.S. opioid epidemic, a federal prosecutor said on Thursday at the end of a landmark trial.
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The first attempt became public when a North Korean agent confessed to attempting to stage Kim Jong Nam's death by bribing a taxi driver to run over Kim, according to South Korean investigators and reported by the New York Times.
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She said $7 million was paid offshore to the couple by Odebrecht, Brazil's largest engineering conglomerate that has admitted to bribing government officials for contracts in Brazil and a dozen other countries, and another $2 million by Brazilian builder Andrade Gutierrez.
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His monthslong trial in New York offered a glimpse into the narco's life as the head of one of Mexico's most violent cartels, including allegations of bribing Mexican presidents, naked escapes, violent murders, diamond-encrusted pistols, and high-tech surveillance.
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" The U.S. Department of Justice said in a press release that Loughlin, 55, Giannulli, 56, and nine other defendants "conspired to commit federal program bribery by bribing employees of the University of Southern California (USC) to facilitate their children's admission.
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Prosecutors said that from 2007 to 2012, Georgeson employees sought an illegal edge by bribing ISS employee Brian Bennett with $14,000 worth of tickets to events like a Boston Red Sox baseball game and concerts featuring U2 and Jay-Z.
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Benowitz acknowledged that Gilbeau made a false statement when being questioned as part of a probe into a foreign defense contractor who allegedly won favorable treatment for his company by bribing Naval officers with prostitutes, luxury travel and others gifts.
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The standout supporting performance after two episodes, however, is Ray Romano as Zak Yankovich: As Richie introduces him, he's the label's glad-handing "head of payola — I mean, promotions," responsible for bribing radio DJs to get the company's songs played.
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Insys Therapeutics Inc's billionaire founder and several ex-executives accused of bribing doctors to prescribe its flagship opioid product on Wednesday sought to secure the dismissal of part of the case against them after prosecutors had already dropped several charges.
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After bribing a maintenance guy ("There's a common misconception that the hosts don't log sexual encounters when they're underground for reprocessing, but like I said, misconception"), she manages to get access to the host who attacked her in episode 3.
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Meanwhile, the second part of an undercover investigation conducted by the UK's Channel 4 aired today in which Cambridge Analytica executives were caught on tape bragging about bribing and entrapping politicians using hired sex workers to compromise its clients' political opponents.
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WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Monday that Legg Mason will pay more than $34 million to resolve a charge it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in bribing Libyan officials to secure investments.
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Guzman's legendary reputation in the Mexican underworld began to take shape in 214, when he staged his first jailbreak, bribing guards in a prison in western Mexico, before going on to dominate drug trafficking along much of the Rio Grande.
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Vigor is the second firm sold by J&F since the holding company agreed in May to pay a record-setting 10.3 billion-real ($3.1 billion) leniency fine after members of the Batista family admitted bribing politicians to get favors.
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But former Insys CEO Michael Babich told jurors in federal court in Boston that after Kapoor expressed dissatisfaction with Subsys' initial sales, the company began bribing doctors by paying them to act as speakers at events to promote the product.
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Many prisoners had reportedly died because of conditions at Ovadan-Depe jail, and inmates with infectious diseases were held with healthy prisoners, only getting hospitalized "when they are close to death or through bribing the relevant officials", the committee said.
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Nathaniel Yeager told jurors in his closing argument in Boston federal court that Kapoor sought to eliminate the risk of the company failing after investing millions of dollars in founding it by bribing doctors to prescribe Subsys.
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The source, who confirmed the target is Itaú, said the raids mark a new phase of Operation Zealot, which investigates the alleged involvement of banks and companies in the bribing of Brazilian tax auditors to waive or reduce tax payments.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday said they will narrow a case against several former Insys Therapeutics Inc executives accused of bribing doctors to prescribe a potent opioid after a federal judge questioned the scope of the indictment charging them.
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Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli, for example, allegedly spent an eye-popping $500,000 to get their daughters into the University of Southern California by bribing a school official who falsely presented the girls as recruits of the crew team.
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But on Thursday, Brazilian stocks fell 8.8 percent in their worst day since 2008 after the O Globo newspaper reported that Brazilian President Michel Temer in March allegedly discussed bribing a witness to stay silent in a massive corruption case.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Senate voted on Wednesday to block magistrates from using wiretaps as evidence against former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in a trial where he is accused of bribing women to keep quiet over his "bunga bunga" sex parties.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Hong Kong government official was sentenced to three years in prison on Monday by a U.S. judge following his conviction for bribing officials in Chad and Uganda in exchange for contracts for a Chinese energy company.
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CBS New York profiled Chidick the same day that dozens of people, including celebrities Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, were charged in a massive college admissions cheating scandal that saw wealthy parents allegedly bribing elite universities to admit their children.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Brooklyn volunteer neighborhood safety patrol member pleaded guilty on Thursday to bribing police officers to expedite gun license applications, becoming the latest person to admit wrongdoing in a wide-ranging corruption probe in New York City.
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Hernadi has been indicted in Croatia for allegedly bribing former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader in 2008 to allow MOL to become the key decision-maker in Croatian energy company INA, in which MOL is the biggest, but not the majority, shareholder.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire Macau real estate developer Ng Lap Seng was sentenced to four years in prison on Friday after being found guilty last July of bribing two United Nations ambassadors to help him build a multibillion dollar conference center.
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BOSTON, July 24 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday said they will narrow a case against several former Insys Therapeutics Inc executives accused of bribing doctors to prescribe an opioid after federal judge questioned the scope of the indictment charging them.
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This was a few years before the college admissions scandal that snared 33 high-profile people, including the actress Lori Loughlin and the businessman Douglas Hode, who were charged for bribing or defrauding the elite universities that later accepted their children.
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His political nemesis, Mayor Bill de Blasio, is destined to be haunted by one Harendra Singh, a restaurant owner who, it was recently reported, secretly pleaded guilty to bribing Mr. de Blasio in return for help getting favorable lease terms.
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According to the charging documents, wealthy parents collectively paid Singer more than $25 million to get their children into top universities by bribing college coaches and administrators into designating their children as recruited athletes — when they very much were not.
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Besides Seungri, who was an internal director at Burning Sun and previously helped run the club, police are investigating two of the club's co-presidents and an operating director for various crimes including distributing drugs, assaulting a customer, and bribing police.
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But McKinsey's reference to illegal acts has thrust the firm into a tangled international battle over the extradition of Mr. Firtash, who has been charged in the United States with bribing Indian officials in anticipation of getting titanium for Boeing.
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"The whole country has been rocked by the news that hundreds of parents have been accused of bribing their kids' way into elite colleges — and also U.S.C." — TREVOR NOAH Noah weighed how much sympathy he ought to have for the students.
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Mr. Rechnitz, who pleaded guilty to a fraud conspiracy charge, is cooperating with the government in its case against Norman Seabrook, the former head of the city's correction officers' union, and Murray Huberfeld, a hedge fund financier accused of bribing him.
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One involved bribing four assistant coaches — at Arizona, Auburn, Oklahoma State and Southern California, all programs in the so-called Power 5 conferences of college sports — to persuade players to send business to certain financial advisers once they turned professional.
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In the lawsuit, GM alleges it was harmed as a result of "corrupted" collective bargaining involving Marchionne and other Fiat Chrysler officials for allegedly bribing union officials into taking company-friendly positions that resulted in unfair labor costs and operational advantages.
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Lee Jae-yong is accused of bribing Ms. Park, the former president, to support a contentious merger of two Samsung subsidiaries in 2015 that helped cement his hold over Samsung, putting him in place to succeed his father as chairman.
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The case focused on the existence of an opaque system of hundreds of third-party Airbus agents who are accused of bribing officials in 16 countries — including Japan, Russia, China and Nepal — to buy the company's civilian aircraft and satellites.
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Executives from the world's biggest meatpacker JBS SA said in plea-bargain testimony to police that Temer condoned bribing a potential witness in the "Car Wash" corruption case and they paid the president nearly $5 million in bribes in recent years.
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But customer data is so valuable that some sellers have resorted to bribing Amazon staff to hand it over, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation last year, and the company has fired at least one employee as a result.
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles on Friday urged a federal judge to throw out a General Motors Co's lawsuit accusing Fiat Chrysler of racketeering and bribing officials of the United Auto Workers union to put GM at a multibillion dollar labor cost disadvantage.
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For the first time, a member of Mr. Ben Ali's family circle openly described how he had built his business empire by bribing customs officials and using his presidential connections to monopolize import concessions and flout legal and financial regulations.
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Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee fought back tears and denied wrongdoing on Monday as prosecutors sought a 12-year jail term on charges that include bribing the former president to help cement control of the South Korean tech giant.
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In a separate case, they filed preliminary charges against Nasser el Khelaifi and Yousef al-Obaidly, the most-senior figures at Qatar-based beIN Media Group, on suspicion of bribing officials during the bidding process for track and field's world championships.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - The heir to South Korea's Samsung Group, convicted of bribing the country's former president, appeared in a packed court on Thursday for the first day of arguments in the appeal of his five-year jail term for corruption.
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SEOUL, Feb 5 (Reuters) - A South Korean appeals court on Monday set Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee free after nearly a year of detention, suspending his five-year jail term after he was convicted of bribing the country's former president.
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Prosecutors also sought in the same filing in New Jersey federal court to dismiss the remaining charges against Dr. Salomon Melgen, the Florida eye doctor accused of bribing Menendez with pricey trips and donations in order to obain political favors.
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Melissa Hanham, a scholar who first identified the site's threatening potential, said equipment model numbers showed that the North had obtained the machinery by evading sanctions — laundering money, creating front companies or bribing people to buy it on the black market.
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MOL's chief executive and chairman Zsolt Hernadi was found guilty of bribing former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader to allow MOL become the key decision-maker in Croatian energy firm , in which MOL is the biggest but not the majority shareholder.
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WASHINGTON — The United States accused President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela on Friday of trying to rig a coming election for control of his country's parliament, either by detaining opposition leaders or bribing lawmakers with up to $323,000 for each vote.
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He is now the 2nd parent to be sentenced of 35 charged in the scheme, led by consultant William Singer, which involved correcting admissions test scores, falsifying student achievements and disabilities and bribing college coaches and administrators at prominent universities.
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The 19 parents are accused of engaging in a similar pattern of conduct, whether it involved paying to have the answers on their children's standardized tests changed or bribing coaches to get children admitted as athletes when they were not.
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True Thompson's momma dished with Disso Queen Laura Wasser on her hit podcast, 'Divorce Sucks!' which drops Monday ... and Khloe says Kris is like your typical grandma ... always fretting about extra layers and bribing the little ones with sugary treats.
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The 19-year-old is in the spotlight this week after her parents, Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli, were charged with bribing their daughters' ways onto the University Of Southern California's crew team as recruits although neither of them participated in the sport.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday rejected billionaire Macau real estate developer Ng Lap Seng's request to throw out his conviction and four-year prison sentence for bribing two U.N. ambassadors to help him build a multibillion-dollar conference center.
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The scheme, referred to by the FBI as Operation Varsity Blues, involved facilitating cheating on SAT and ACT exams for students and bribing college administrators and coaches to recruit students as athletes, according to a criminal complaint from the FBI in Boston.
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But its status as a darling of the $3 trillion hedge fund industry is under threat as it faces pressure from the U.S. Department of Justice to plead guilty to bribing government officials in Africa, according to a person familiar with the talks.
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This intense competition has led to the emergence of a secretive, lucrative black market where agents peddle "black hat" services, sometimes obtained by bribing Amazon employees, that purportedly give marketplace sellers an advantage over their rivals, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News.
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Over the years UMNO has resorted to every conceivable trick to remain in power: stirring communal tensions among Malaysia's ethnic groups, locking up critics, rigging the electoral system in its favour, bribing voters with populist handouts and threatening chaos if it lost.
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Can you think of any reason on God&aposs green earth that Barack Obama, Hillary, putting aside all the evidence that we now know they had, that Vladimir Putin had agents in America bribing, extorting, money laundering, racketeering, they knew in 2009.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former managing director at broker-dealer Sterne Agee pleaded guilty on Tuesday to bribing a former portfolio manager at New York state's retirement fund in exchange for tens of millions of dollars' worth of business, federal prosecutors said.
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Fellow inmates include Choi Soon-sil, a friend of President Park Geun-hye who is at the centre of the scandal and who Lee is accused of bribing, as well as the country's former culture minister and former presidential chief of staff.
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The scandal, which has led to calls for the resignation of Brazilian President Michel Temer, has laid bare the Batistas' cozy relationship with some of the country's most powerful politicians whom they admitted to bribing to obtain cheap government financing and other favors.
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An Ohio mom accused of killing her 5-year-old son and burying his body in her backyard allegedly hid her endangerment of him from a social worker hired to oversee the family by bribing her with the family's food stamps, PEOPLE confirms.
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SIM hijacking is an elaborate but relatively straightforward bit of fraud and social engineering in which crooks steal phone numbers from targets by various means, in this particular case by bribing customer support representatives or in other cases by impersonating the victims.
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PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama said on Tuesday it will cancel a contract given to Brazil's Odebrecht and will not allow the company to participate in public bids, shortly after Odebrecht admitted to bribing officials in Panama and other countries to obtain government contracts.
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Witnesses at the trial alleged that President Hernandez pledged to protect his brother from extradition and called for bribing mayors in Copan, a department bordering Guatemala and a notorious gateway for cocaine trafficking, to secure power for himself and the ruling National Party.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - An employee of a Chinese airline, who came onto the radar of U.S. authorities as they probed the activities of a Macau billionaire accused of bribing a U.N. General Assembly president, is now facing legal troubles of her own.
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Nathaniel Yeager told a federal jury in Boston in his closing argument that Kapoor sought to eliminate the risk of Insys failing after investing millions of dollars in founding it by bribing doctors to prescribe the company's pain drug Subsys.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Eike Batista, the former mining and oil magnate who was once Brazil's richest man, was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison for bribing Rio de Janeiro state's disgraced ex-governor, according to a court document published on Tuesday.
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U.S. prosecutors have identified Insys Therapeutics Inc's billionaire founder as an unindicted co-conspirator in a case accusing six former executives and managers of participating in a scheme that involved bribing doctors to prescribe a fentanyl-based drug, according to a court document.
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The 49-year-old Jay Y. Lee was convicted by a lower court in August of bribing former president Park Geun-hye to help strengthen his control of the crown jewel in the conglomerate, Samsung Electronics, one of the world's biggest technology companies.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Panama-based company on Wednesday pleaded guilty to bribing a Costa Rican soccer official and was ordered to pay a fine and restitution totaling $1.4 million, the latest penalty imposed in the U.S. prosecution of corruption in international soccer.
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NEW YORK, March 25 (Reuters) - A former Hong Kong government official was sentenced to three years in prison on Monday by a U.S. judge following his conviction for bribing officials in Chad and Uganda in exchange for contracts for a Chinese energy company.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee fought back tears and denied wrongdoing on Monday as prosecutors sought a 12-year jail term on charges that include bribing the former president to help cement control of the South Korean tech giant.
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Prosecutors said Harris told Bahn he could help get a deal via his connections, which he said included members of a Middle Eastern royal family, and offered to arrange the Landmark 72's sale to a sovereign wealth fund by bribing an official.
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Rolls-Royce agreed to pay authorities more than $800 million to resolve charges of bribing officials in six countries in schemes that lasted more than a decade, the U.S. Justice Department and Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said in statements on Tuesday.
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Moreover, the Trump Organization's ties to these partners leave it potentially vulnerable to violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the 1977 law that prohibits U.S. companies or their business partners from bribing, or unduly influencing, foreign officials to advance a business deal.
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"A self-admitted fraudster, tax cheat and liar," said Steve Coffey, a lawyer for two development executives facing federal charges for allegedly bribing Andrew Cuomo's former top aide and close friend, Joseph Percoco, in a scheme that Mr. Howe has admitted to arranging.
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The operative, G. Steven Pigeon, is accused in a criminal complaint of bribing the justice, John A. Michalek, with help for a promotion; favors for two close relatives; Buffalo Sabres hockey tickets; and a seat at one of Mr. Cuomo's fund-raisers.
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SEOUL, Aug 7 (Reuters) - South Korean prosecutors on Monday sought a 12-year jail term for Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee, over charges including allegedly bribing ex-President Park Geun-hye for government support to cement Lee's control of Samsung Group.
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As part of a plea deal with U.S., Brazilian and Swiss prosecutors, Odebrecht and its petrochemicals unit, Braskem, admitted to bribing officials in 12 countries, mostly in Latin America, and agreed to pay $3.5 billion in fines in return for freedom from prosecution.
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Fonseca, a former presidential adviser in Panama, has previously denied that the firm had any connection to Brazilian engineering company Odebrecht, which has admitted to bribing officials in Panama and other countries to obtain government contracts in the region between 2010 and 2014.
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In addition, Fujimori was found guilty in separate trials of breaking into the home of a former spy chief to steal incriminating videos, taking money from the government treasury to pay the spy chief and authorizing illegal wiretaps and bribing congressmen and journalists.
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" She added, "His only mistake was his friendship with Jona Rechnitz, a criminal who has admitted bribing a union official and who is desperately trying to get others in trouble in order to curry favor with prosecutors and save his own skin.
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Recently, a Minnesota man got 29 months for trying to bribe a witness in a burglary case, a Texas prison guard got two years in prison for taking bribes, and a New York businessman got four years for repeatedly bribing New York cops.
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The pair are waiting outside their Punjabi Charing Cross restaurant when I arrive and begin by telling me about the time they convinced parking inspectors to stop harassing them for leaving their car in front of the restaurant by bribing them with pakoras.
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The company said it will not issue a dividend for the quarter in order to have some breathing room after it agreed in September to pay $412 million to resolve federal probes into its role in bribing officials in several African countries.
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Mr. Rechnitz had been called to testify about how he facilitated a payoff between Mr. Seabrook and the financier Murray Huberfeld, who is accused of bribing Mr. Seabrook into steering millions of dollars of correction officers' retirement money into his hedge fund.
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The actual defendants at the trial, in Federal District Court in Central Islip, are Edward Mangano, the onetime Nassau County executive, and John Venditto, the former town supervisor of Oyster Bay, N.Y., both of whom Mr. Singh has already pleaded guilty to bribing.
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So from a very early stage, Chuck and Charles discussed bribing officials all the way up to Treasury Secretary Todd Krakow, part of a sting operation designed to catch Connerty and Jeffcoat breaking the law in pursuit of the Rhoadeses' wholly imaginary lawbreaking.
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But he called last week's revelation that Ms. Wilson-Raybould secretly recorded a conversation with the country's top public servant "unconscionable" The two were discussing the case against SNC-Lavalin, which has been charged with bribing Libyan officials during the dictatorship of Col.
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Op-Ed Contributor WASHINGTON — Last week, a federal jury in New York convicted a Turkish banker, Mehmet Hakan Atilla of playing a role in an elaborate gold-smuggling scheme that involved bribing high-ranking Turkish government officials to help Iran evade American sanctions.
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The company lost its London casinos in 21 for gambling violations and was denied a gambling license in Atlantic City, partly because of reports that Mr. Hefner had been involved in bribing New York officials for a club license 22011 years earlier.
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The tape caused jaws to drop over Mr. Batista's description of moves that seem to crudely refer to buying off a prosecutor and judges, as well as bribing Eduardo Cunha, the jailed politician who helped to orchestrate the impeachment of Ms. Rousseff.
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A lower court in August convicted Lee for bribing Park for help in strengthening his control of Samsung Electronics, the crown jewel of the country's largest conglomerate and one of the world's biggest technology companies, as well as embezzlement and other charges.
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In 2000, federal investigators said Mr. Litwin and dozens of other property owners had received illegal tax breaks arranged by a consultant who was charged with bribing tax assessors in a scheme that cost the city $20083 million in revenue over four years.
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The film sends up the sport of cycling, and specifically the Tour de France, revisiting a fictional legendary moment in that race's history: 1982, when all but five of the 170 competitors are disqualified for bribing a race official to avoid drug testing.
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" Follow the money: "In spring 2017, Trump also clashed with Tillerson when he told him he wanted his help getting rid of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a 1977 law that prevents U.S. firms and individuals from bribing foreign officials for business deals.
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Transport Logistics International admitted to bribing the Russian official with more than $1.7 million over the course of a decade, through a maze of shell companies and accounts in Latvia, Cyprus and Switzerland, according to Maryland federal court papers made public on Tuesday.
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A member of a neighborhood watch group in Brooklyn who obtained dozens of handgun permits by bribing officers in the New York Police Department's gun-licensing division also handed out cash and gifts to other officers assigned across Brooklyn, prosecutors said Thursday.
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OTTAWA — Another minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada quit in protest on Monday over accusations that he and his aides tried to influence a criminal case against a multinational Canadian company accused of bribing the Libyan government.
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"If there is a circumstance under which the difference between a direct sale and third-party sale is double, that's a red flag," said Richard Bistrong, who went to prison for bribing foreign officials and now advises companies trying to beef up compliance.
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Taken to its criminal extreme, that means bribing SAT proctors and paying off college coaches to get children in to elite colleges — and then going to great lengths to make sure they never face the humiliation of knowing how they got there.
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Italy — Corruption in the Eurozone's third-biggest economy is often associated with former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who has been accused of corruption numerous times, was convicted of tax fraud in 2013, and was found guilty of bribing a senator in 2015.
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He allegedly looked to represent people who had issues with getting gun licenses and is accused of bribing David Villanueva—the guy who ran the NYPD's licensing division from 2010 to 2015, but who was arrested back in June of 2016 on corruption charges.
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According to documents we obtained, the intense competition between sellers to get better rankings has led to the emergence of a lucrative black market where agents peddle "black hat" services, sometimes obtained by bribing Amazon employees, that purportedly give sellers an advantage over rivals.
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Avenatti told CNBC's "Closing Bell " on Monday that Nike "pulled a stunt" by having him arrested in New York before he could go public with his claims that the company was bribing high school hoop players to coax them into attending Nike-sponsored colleges.
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Construction company Odebrecht Group recently saw its CEO accused of bribing officials at Brazil's own scandal-riddled energy giant Petrobras, while a subsidiary of China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) was last year accused of offering a bribe to former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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The Tidelanders' stories are similarly half-baked, centering around a brewing coup against Adrielle by the scheming Violca (Madeleine Madden), who never offers any reason why she'd make a better queen, apart from bribing her fellows with a bigger cut of the drug money.
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The firm faces a criminal probe by America's Department of Justice into a covert software feature that showed regulators different versions of its app, as well as a new investigation into whether it may have violated America's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by bribing officials abroad.
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Quoting unnamed sources, the report said that Mr Trudeau and his team wanted Ms Wilson-Raybould to decide against the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin, a Quebec-based construction firm, on charges of bribing officials in Libya when the country was ruled by Muammar Qaddafi.
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Jerry O'Callaghan, JBS's chairman and investor relations officer, did not provide a time-frame for a U.S. listing, which was put off after the company admitted to bribing scores of politicians in Brazil and became the target of a U.S. Department of Justice investigation.
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The lawsuit accuses a small Miami-based company called Helsinge Inc of obtaining inside information and rigging bid proceedings by bribing PDVSA officials including current Vice President Ysmel Serrano in a scheme that yielded billions of dollars in illicit gains, according to the lawsuit.
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NEW YORK, Aug 9 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday rejected billionaire Macau real estate developer Ng Lap Seng's request to throw out his conviction and four-year prison sentence for bribing two U.N. ambassadors to help him build a multibillion-dollar conference center.
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Amott said she did not suspect it at the time, but Singer has admitted to helping to create fake athletic profiles, helping students cheat on their college entrance exams, and bribing college coaches and administrators to get students into at least eight elite colleges.
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So, per the DOJ, by creating a fake athletic profile for Abdelaziz's daughter (and by bribing Donna Heinel with roughly $20,000 per month), Singer was able to get Abdelaziz's daughter admitted to USC as a basketball player, without the student ever having to play basketball.
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BOSTON, April 4 (Reuters) - Prosecutors on Thursday will present their closing arguments in the trial of the wealthy founder of pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics Inc and four colleagues accused of contributing to the U.S. opioid epidemic by bribing doctors to prescribe an addictive fentanyl spray.
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The MAS said Ang, a former representative of Maybank Kim Eng Securities Pte Ltd, was convicted of an offence under the Prevention of Corruption Act for bribing Lee with S$3,000 to expedite the preparation of a valuation report on PetroSaudi Oil Services Limited (PSOSL).
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A lower court last month convicted the 49-year-old Lee, heir to the Samsung Group and one of Asia's largest technology companies, of bribing former president Park Geun-hye to help strengthen Lee's control of the crown jewel in the conglomerate, Samsung Electronics.
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Singer has pleaded guilty to masterminding the scheme to help children of wealthy people get into universities through a combination of bribing college athletic coaches, having other people take admission tests for the applicants and hiring people to correct students' incorrect answers on those tests.
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Prosecutors said Avenatti's alleged effort to shakedown Nike for millions of dollars kicked off in earnest last Tuesday, and quickly escalated over the next two days as he threatened to hold a press conference accusing the company of being involved in bribing amateur basketball players.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has charged a former Senegalese foreign minister and a former top Hong Kong government official with links to a Chinese energy conglomerate with bribing high-level officials in Chad and Uganda in exchange for contracts for the mainland company.
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Prosecutors say the scheme was overseen by California college admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer, who has admitted to facilitating the cheating scam and bribing coaches at schools like Yale University and University of Southern California (USC) to present the parents' children as fake athletic recruits.
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Prosecutors say the scheme was overseen by California college admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer, who has admitted to facilitating the cheating scam and bribing coaches at schools like Yale University and University of Southern California to present the parents' children as fake athletic recruits.
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SA) will pay an $853.2 million fine to settle charges that former executives and directors of the state-run Brazilian oil company broke U.S. anti-corruption laws by bribing politicians and then seeking to conceal the payments, the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) said on Thursday.
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Back in 2012, Rotella was indicted on six felony counts and was accused of bribing a public employee, Todd DeStefano (who at the time was the Coliseum's events manager) with more than $1.8 million in kickbacks while he and other promoters threw raves there.
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The 5-Star Movement, which bases its appeal on a promise to clean up politics, refuses to countenance a deal with the 81-year-old media billionaire who has a conviction for tax fraud and is on trial for bribing witnesses - a charge he denies.
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The police came to García's house to arrest him on several counts of corruption tied to the Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht, accused of bribing politicians from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela, among others, in one of the most sweeping scandals in modern history.
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Camargo Correa confessed to bribing the former president of state-run Valec, which was responsible for building the railways, as part of a settlement with prosecutors last year in which it agreed to pay more than 800 million reais ($201.5 million) in fines and indemnities.
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LONDON — Nasser al-Khelaifi, a Qatari businessman who has become one of the most prominent figures in soccer, was accused by the Swiss authorities on Thursday of bribing the former FIFA general secretary Jérôme Valcke in return for lucrative World Cup soccer broadcast contracts.
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She sees perfection as her job, be it throwing the perfect Yom Kippur break-the-fast dinner, stage-managing Joel's comedy dreams (down to bribing the club booker with homemade brisket) or maintaining her figure — which she has measured, systematically, every day for 10 years.
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Even then, however, the governor seemed willing to take advantage of donor's generosity: testimony at trial showed that Mr. Cuomo, in the closing days of that campaign, used a private plane from a company, Competitive Power Ventures, r later accused of bribing Mr. Percoco.
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In 2007, after his brother — a former pilot for the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar — was killed, Mr. Cifuentes fled to Ecuador, where he began arranging drug deals with the FARC for Mr. Guzmán and protecting their investment by bribing a local military officer.
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In his opening statement, Jeffrey Lichtman, one of Mr. Guzmán's lawyers, promised jurors that a witness who has not yet appeared at the trial, Cesar Gastelum Serrano, could — if asked — talk about bribing presidential candidates in Guatemala and buying off a president of Honduras.
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NEW YORK, April 150 (Reuters) - An employee of a Chinese airline, who came onto the radar of U.S. authorities as they probed the activities of a Macau billionaire accused of bribing a U.N. General Assembly president, is now facing legal troubles of her own.
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The indictments accused Gambino associates of bribing a real estate executive to skim hundreds of thousands of dollars from New York City construction projects, including the XI, a luxury building with two twisting towers being built along the High Line park in West Chelsea.
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