bribery

Annie Clark, Collins’ deputy chief of staff, told ProPublica in an email that Collins’ office “vigorously” denies allegations of bribery and pay-for-play made by Kao, calling his claims “outlandish.”

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Prosecutors began investigating the bribery scheme after receiving a 2018 tip about an unusual donation to Smith’s reelection campaign.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

She was arrested in September 2025 in connection with a bribery case involving the former first lady.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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