Sentence examples for illegal bribe from inspiring English sources

Richard Painter, who was Mr. Bush's chief ethics lawyer, has written that it hardly amounts to an illegal bribe.

The group alleges that BAE made £1bn of "illegal bribe payments" to Bandar while claiming to be a "highly ethical, law-abiding corporation".

Among other defenses, their lawyers have argued that Mr. Siegelman did not personally benefit from the payment and that there was no explicit quid pro quo to turn Mr. Scrushy's campaign contribution into an illegal bribe.

She now faces calls for a federal investigation into whether she took an illegal bribe.

It added that the bank had an adequate system of internal controls in place to guard against the illegal bribing of foreign government officials.

The complaint describes hundreds of illegal bribes from September 2005 to May 2006 and a subsequent cover-up by an executive "implicated in authorizing bribes," who caused Wal-Mart to sweep "everything under the rug" for almost six years.

That was instantly picked up by Indian politicians and others who blurred the line between legal lobbying and illegal bribing and claimed that Wal-Mart must have broken the law.

Even if the governor interceded in that case on his behalf, as Mr. Claywell alleges, lawyers say that the statute of limitations on illegal bribes and gratuities usually expires after five years.

Often unspoken was the great financial windfall provided by the bowls, which was occasionally supplemented by illegal bribes and other improprieties among bowl officials and local politicians, most notably in the case of an expenditure scandal that led to the firing of the Fiesta Bowl's CEO in 2011.

In a nearly daylong summation, Gerald Krovatin, the lawyer for Robert W. Lee, the I.B.F. president and founder, said that witnesses like Bob Arum, the head of Top Rank promotions, Cedric Kushner and Ronald Weathers, who all testified that they paid illegal bribes, were walking free "with a wink and a nod" from prosecutors while his client was forced to undergo a three-and-half month trial.

It said that Mr Su had abused his position of authority, receiving "large sums of illegal bribes" which resulted in "huge losses of government assets".