bribery
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In April 2026, a court in Shenzhen said Xu had pleaded guilty and "expressed remorse" for crimes including fraud, embezzlement and bribery.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
One of the women and the man in his 50s were also being held on suspicion of bribery and fraud by failing to disclose.
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 Chinese Foreign Ministry told Reuters it is seeking Mr. Bai’s extradition, citing extortion and bribery allegations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Talleyrand, they told each other, was neither so stupid nor so dishonorable to attempt bribery of the American peace delegation.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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
By the aid of certain small briberies on the train and in Paris Carmichael gathered, bit by bit, that the destination of the woman he loved was America.
From The Goose Girl by Harold MacGrath
By small briberies employed without sense of compromise, Mrs. Becker had a way with those who served her.
From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst
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 barefaced acts of injustice and shameless briberies daily occurring in the Mehkames, or halls of justice, would seem almost incredible to an European, and especially an Englishman.
From Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt
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