bribery
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Xu pleaded guilty in April to charges that also included embezzlement and bribery, the court said at the time.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Four more people, including two serving police officers, have been arrested as part of an investigation into suspected fraud and bribery at the Police Federation of England and Wales.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Unlike the British, from whom the America’s founders adapted impeachment, the Framers wrote a definition of impeachable conduct into the Constitution—“treason, bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
The country ranked 104th out of 182 in Transparency International’s latest Corruption Perceptions Index after decades of bribery and influence-peddling scandals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Gilly jiggled her foot through a Central American earthquake and the bribery trial of a congressman from who cared where.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
By small briberies employed without sense of compromise, Mrs. Becker had a way with those who served her.
From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst
These deities might be lured by certain rites and briberies into a transfer of their favors to the besieging army.
From Autobiographical Sketches by Thomas De Quincey
Now your Lordships will find, that, of these faithful domestic servants, there is not one of them who was not concerned in these enormous briberies, and in betraying their own native and natural master.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
The last war between Russia and Turkey brought to light official fraud and briberies, connected especially with the commissary department of the army, which disgraced the whole nation in the eyes of the world.
From Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Maturin Murray Ballou
But whether Mr. Hastings had the example of others or not, their example could not justify his briberies.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
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