He received the house, investigators alleged, as a form of bribe from a developer who had obtained Mr. Walters's help in obtaining "lucrative H.P.D. contracts".
"There is no suggestion whatsoever of any Uefa official or marketing partner taking any form of bribe or kickback, whether in relation to this tiny deal, or any other commercial transaction," it said.
He received the house, investigators alleged, as a form of bribe from a developer who has since died, but who had obtained help from Mr. Walters in obtaining "lucrative H.P.D. contracts".
The affidavit even suggests that the Harlem home, on historic Strivers' Row, was itself a form of bribe from a developer he had helped and who has since died.
Rather, it is a form of bribe, pressure, intimidation, coercion, seduction.
No big campaign contribution or other thinly veiled form of bribe was necessary.
Trick or treat Washington style has become a sordid form of bribe management for favor or money to support re-election with little in it for citizens.
In interviews with middlemen and several retailers, Reuters found the official cost for crucial licenses was typically accompanied by significant expenses in the form of bribes.
Payan guesses that Guzmán might be in Central America, "or some other place where the desperation caused by poverty is even greater than in Mexico, and the need for his monies, in the form of bribes, is correspondingly much greater, which makes it easier for him and others to corrupt those police bodies".
Gerber's defense cost him his life savings, some of which may have been in the form of bribes paid through his lawyer.
