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
It was the first time in the union’s 90-year history that its members voted on their top leaders, a reform adopted after previous UAW officials were convicted of bribery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 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 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
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
One had to run the gauntlet of the custom-house here, and to practise unheard-of briberies upon the venal douaniers of the Pope before being allowed to pass on to his hotel.
From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan
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
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