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He told us he was contacted twice by text and offered a massive bribe - "enough money to retire on".

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

While serving as Adams’s chief of staff, Carone agreed to accept bribe payments from the Microtel hotel owner and business manager, the indictment alleges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

According to the indictment, Rozier agreed to reduce the alleged bribe to $70,000 to cover those losses.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

In that case, Adani was accused of having participated in an estimated $250 million scheme to bribe Indian officials for lucrative solar energy supply contracts.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

The only thing worse would have been if she found a way to bribe them to come.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

But American corporations are prohibited from paying bribes, and they want judicial security.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

But in October last year the Supreme Court quashed that argument, saying that any such cash likely stemmed from illegal bribes and therefore should not be counted.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

At first glance, neither player seemed to be vulnerable to bribes from gamblers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

In 2023, she was formally charged with accepting bribes, which she denied.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

White took over as the warden of the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, where he led an undercover operation to catch officials who, in exchange for bribes, were granting prisoners nicer living conditions and early releases.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Alan García, president from 1985 to 1990 and 2006 to 2011, killed himself in 2019 as he faced imminent arrest over allegations he was bribed by Odebrecht.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Is it true, they ask, that Jefferson bribed Trumbull to make it look that way, to show that he, Jefferson, outranked Adams?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

More recently, as China assailed Japan, text messages and photos that Taiwan officials said came from the Chinese military spread the claim that Takaichi had been bribed by Taiwanese diplomats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

Kulibayev's lawyers told the BBC that he denied being bribed, had no involvement in awarding the contracts and has not been the subject of any investigation in Italy.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2026

“We’re not people that put on. Now Christmas is coming,” she bribed.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

His legal troubles started shortly after his term finished in 2016, when Odebrecht admitted to bribing Latin American government officials and political parties with hundreds of millions of dollars to win business.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Next came Didius Julianus, a senatorial aristocrat who achieved the throne by bribing the guardsmen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

But Mabel Fairbanks, Babilonia’s skating coach, wouldn’t take no for an answer, bribing the 8-year-old with stickers and a Barbie doll if she would just reach out and grab the hand of 10-year-old Randy Gardner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2026

The leader of one of South Korea's largest cult-like churches stood trial on Monday accused of bribing the country's former first lady with gifts including a designer handbag and a diamond necklace.

From Barron's ● Dec. 1, 2025

Every year we spend hundreds of dollars on phone calls and letters, writing, faxing, cajoling, and bribing, trying to get out of the pilgrimage to Mommy’s tiny house in Ewing.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride