bribery

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

A US judge threw out a case against Indian billionaire industrialist Gautam Adani on Monday after the Trump administration decided to drop the fraud and bribery allegations against him.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 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

“I know what a phone is for. And I know what bribery is for too. My room is worth way more.”

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

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

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

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

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