bribery

The FBI took the formal step of naming two former Navatek executives who had worked with Kao as subjects of a bribery investigation.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said in July that Bai was suspected of extortion and bribery, and an extradition request had been submitted to Thailand.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

He often writes about sanctions, foreign bribery, illicit finance, competition, trade, data privacy and a range of other topics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Sung, 54, who pleaded guilty to two felony counts of solicitation of bribery, is the highest-ranking sheriff’s official ever convicted by the Santa Clara County district attorney’s office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

If bribery wasn’t an option, she’d have to outwit him.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

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

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

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

In spite of all the watchfulness, and all the briberies of his police, he could never bend to his own service the whole of this power.

From The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

By small briberies employed without sense of compromise, Mrs. Becker had a way with those who served her.

From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst