His intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, who is serving a 20-year jail sentence, systematically bribed potential opponents.
Conservative fiscal and monetary policies are hard to implement, because many governments like to bribe potential voters with their own money, and many voters like being bribed.
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.
The court, based at The Hague, said Wednesday that Judge Cuno Tarfusser had issued the arrest warrant for Mr. Barasa, 41, on suspicion of attempting to bribe a potential witness.
A former member of a Serbian defense team pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges that she bribed three potential witnesses to give false information to the war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
Judge McMahon also ruled on Tuesday that prosecutors could introduce evidence against Mr. Jereis that in 2006, he and a co-conspirator, Anthony Mangone, sought to bribe a potential candidate, who was not identified, with $10,000 in cash, so the candidate would not run against State Senator Nicholas A. Spano in the Independence Party primary.
Some Norman barons deemed unreliable were arrested or dispossessed, and Henry used their forfeited estates to bribe his potential allies in the neighbouring territories, in particular Maine.
On the surface, the mass demolition accomplishes two craven goals: it clears the slate and space to collect ever bigger bribes for potential new construction, and it eliminates the competition to Moscow's many large shopping malls, which are hurting for customers and renters.
He has withstood construction complications, pressure to pay bribes, wary potential customers, even a shootout, but he has persevered.
One tactic involved bribing coaches to designate applicants as recruited athletes even though they possessed little or no intercollegiate sports potential.
