Sentence examples for massive bribery from inspiring English sources

Reilly was accused of running a "massive bribery network".

One result was that massive bribery and civil disorder in the service of ambition became endemic.

The Senate also secured by massive bribery the election of an anti-Caesarean, Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus.

Not until 1870 after massive bribery by "Boss" William Magear Tweed was local police power restored.

Truth veered rather dramatically away from fiction after Estrada was elected president of the Philippines in 1998, however, when a massive bribery and corruption scandal brought his government down amidst nationwide protests.

Many across the political spectrum suspect that she knew about – and politically benefited from – a massive bribery and kickback scheme at the state-run oil giant Petrobras, even if she wasn't directly involved or personally enriched.

Siemens Pleaded guilty in 2008 for massive worldwide bribery and paid $800 million in fines in the U.S. KBR/Halliburton KBR unit pleaded guilty in 2009 to bribing Nigerian officials; KBR and its former parent, Halliburton, BAE Systems Pleaded guilty in March; paid $400 million for making false statements about FCPA compliance in connection with weapons sales.

Among the multitude of anti-corruption cases now flooding the courts in China: A judge in June sentenced a China Mobile executive to death for his minor role on the receiving end of the massive Siemens bribery scandal.

The American engineering and construction firm KBR hired Unaoil -- an obscure Monaco-based company now involved in a massive international bribery scandal -- to help it win oil and gas contracts in Kazakhstan.

WASHINGTON ― A middleman the State Department relied on to hire unarmed guards at the U.S. facility in Benghazi, Libya, previously worked with a company that's now at the center of a massive international bribery scandal.

GlaxoSmithKline, a British firm, has been accused by Chinese officials of orchestrating "massive and systemic bribery" to get doctors and hospitals to overpay and overprescribe.