bribery

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

In 2018, Lula was sentenced to 12 years in prison over a massive corruption and bribery scandal, but was released after serving a little over 18 months.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Billionaire Adani met Trump Jr. while facing U.S. bribery charges.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026

Prosecutors said that Adani personally met with an Indian official on several occasions to advance the bribery scheme.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

His reports home counseled patience, based on the growing recognition within the Directory that the bribery demand had been a terrible miscalculation.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

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

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

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 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