Doctors are routinely bribed by patients anxious for preferential treatment; medicines are often counterfeit.
To finance their risky endeavors, they routinely bribed politicians and borrowed money they could not pay back — while publishing mendacious financial reports.
He also said that his father routinely bribed a military officer who once served as a personal guard to Mexico's former president, Vicente Fox.
Okirin agreed that corruption was widespread in Indonesia, saying that some of his friends routinely bribed their way out of traffic violations by slipping police officers money.
In the 19th century, journalists routinely bribed clerks to give them government documents; sometimes competing reporters even pooled their money to raise the necessary funds to pry out particularly costly information.
Wal-Mart, meanwhile, is in the midst of an internal investigation into whether its employees routinely bribed officials in countries outside of the United States to further its interests, practices that are forbidden by the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Mr. Zuma's suspicious financial dealings fell under the hot light of public scrutiny during the investigation of his financial adviser Schabir Shaik, who was accused of routinely bribing the politically connected Mr. Zuma for various favors from 1995 to 2002.
Most media served as a mouthpiece for the government, which routinely bribed journalists in return for favorable coverage.
Before the Socialists took office, Milwaukee was one of America's most corrupt cities. Businesses routinely bribed local officials to give favorite corporations private monopolies over utilities and streetcars, which were typically run inefficiently.
In the early 1900s, American cities, powerful businessmen routinely bribed politicians, exploited immigrants from abroad and migrants from rural areas in the burgeoning factory system, and got rich from their privately owned garbage collection, street cleaning, and utility monopolies.
