Sentence examples for crime of bribery from inspiring English sources
"Liu's crime of bribery… should be given the death penalty," Xinhua quoted the court as saying.
In the program bribery statute, "Congress, for the first time, directly federalized the crime of bribery of or by local officials".
Brewster reinstated a dismissed § 201 indictment because the crime of bribery is complete once the bribe is accepted, whether or not the official performs the promised act.
Between 2007 and 2009, Pichilemu had seven mayors, after Jorge Vargas González was removed from the office for committing the crime of bribery; he was mayor for over 10 years, from 1996 to 2007.
The crime of bribery is described in Section 1 as occurring when a person offers, gives or promises to give a "financial or other advantage" to another individual in exchange for "improperly" performing a "relevant function or activity".
The decree would have allowed thousands of people already convicted and sentenced under crimes of bribery and corruption to be pardoned.
The Act repeals all previous statutory and common law provisions in relation to bribery, instead replacing them with the crimes of bribery, being bribed, the bribery of foreign public officials, and the failure of a commercial organisation to prevent bribery on its behalf.
By corruption, I don't mean the hard crimes of bribery and extortion -- although there's no shortage of those, as revealed again and again in undercover investigations mostly conducted, notably, by the FBI (not state and local police, who tend to look the other way).
The files compiled by law enforcement and prosecutors were a burning fuse: they claimed to expose a vast network of organised crime, with evidence of bribery, abuse of power and widespread corruption at the very highest echelons of power.Corruption of the nation's media was at the heart of these allegations.
Further arrests are likely, government investigators said, for crimes of negligence, bribery and "Mafia operations".
However, the figures don't lie: in January 2012, Russia's own interior minister Rashid Nurgaliyev admitted that the number of corruption-related crimes and acts of bribery involving senior government officials had doubled in 2010.
