Sentence examples for bribery prosecution from inspiring English sources

A more characteristic courtroom triumph, however, was the bribery prosecution, in 1974, of the Brooklyn Democratic congressman Bertram Podell.

"It's unusual to see a bribery prosecution where the payment wasn't to the defendant," said David A. Sklansky, a former federal prosecutor who teaches at the law school at the University of California, Berkeley.

Karl Rove, the former senior political adviser to President Bush, denied Wednesday that he had anything to do with the Justice Department's bribery prosecution of former Gov. Don Siegelman of Alabama, a Democrat.

With 22 defendants, it was also the biggest individual foreign bribery prosecution by the Justice Department — and the new charges against Mr. Bistrong, identified as a main figure in the F.B.I. sting, reveal that a much larger investigation is under way than was previously disclosed.

The bribery prosecution stemmed from a lawsuit filed by John Griffin Jones, a lawyer in Jackson, Miss., against Mr. Scruggs and others, in which Mr. Jones contended he had been cheated out his share of a $26.5 million settlement in a case the two had filed against State Farm Insurance after Hurricane Katrina.

He tried to turn the tables in a scathing op-ed in the Patriot-News in March of 2014, in which he took her to task for not pursuing the bribery prosecution.

A. These questions are similar to those that commonly come up in bribery prosecutions.

What is clear is that the collapsed case could spell the end of undercover stings in bribery prosecutions.

Third, the U.S. settlement demonstrates that bribery prosecutions may themselves be powerful tools for behavioral change.

But, recent cases have called into question Russia's commitment to transnational prosecution of bribery infractions.

Writer describes the legal and legislative maneuverings performed by Berlusconi and his allies to avoid prosecution for bribery.