A federal surveillance report reads like an obscure Abbott and Costello routine, in which Mr. Kruger and the lobbyist Richard Lipsky debate what to call bribes, which are referred to as "memos," "y'knows" and "our situation".
House members raised $78 million in campaign contributions (which HuffPost commenters like to call "bribes") in the last three months of the year, bringing the total for 2009 to $294 million, according to CRP.
Mr. Traficant felt that the I.R.S. had too much power -- perhaps a grudge he held after the agency, in a civil procedure, found him liable in the 1980's for taxes on income that federal prosecutors had originally called bribes.
Both Krovatin and John DeMassi, the lawyer for the younger Lee, flogged the law in their summations, parsing the legal distinctions between what the prosecution called bribes and what they called "legal gratuities" of the kind given to letter carriers, doormen and waiters.
In any other context, these payments would be called bribes.
This is complemented by a host of tactics that in other circumstances might be called bribes.
New York City, in seeking to recover what it calls bribe money from the estate of Donald R. Manes, the former Queens Borough President, could file civil suits in either Federal court or State Supreme Court, according to lawyers for the city.
Another start-up called Bribed created an app that pinpoints and aggregates the accepted amount to be paid for bribes within a certain area in order to avoid people being ripped off by officials.
This type of conduct typically is called bribe receiving, and it is proved by showing, in the words of the bribery statute, that a public official "corruptly received anything of value personally in return for being influenced in the performance of any official act". The language is neither vague nor complex.
Minor detail … but is there a reason @adamdavidson didn't say Trump's call re: bribes was referring to a Walmart case? #context****_ _ — @bleu_ruby As I wrote in my article, Donald Trump discussed the F.C.P.A. during an appearance on CNBC's Squawk Box, in May , 2012 the same month that his company finalized its deal in Azerbaijan.
Pound called the bribes "tacky beyond description" but did not think they were worth prosecuting.
