bribery charges

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2020/07/21/ohio-bribery-case-state-official-charged-federal-prosecutors/5477862002/

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/world/asia/24afghan.html No wonder their government is so corrupt.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/us/politics/25baker.html "For three months, the White House has refused to say whether it offered a job to Representative Joe Sestak to get him to drop his challenge to Senator Arlen Specter in a Pennsylvania Democratic primary, as Mr. Sestak has asserted...

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2010/feb/obama-tried-buy-specter-s-opponent You realize, this is a federal crime. "Whoever solicits or receives … any….thing of value, in consideration of the promise of support or use of influence in obtaining for any person any appointive office or place...

Former congressman William Jefferson has been convicted of accepting over $400,000 in bribes, including $90,000 in cash that federal agents found in the freezer in his office. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090805/ap_on_re_us/us_jefferson_trial Even congresscritters are innocent until proven...

Has anyone heard about the alleged bribery of members of the saudi government by BAE systems to earn lucrative defence contracts ? The BBC's Panorama programme recently did a very interesting documentary about it.

After his congressional offices were raided and FBI investigators recovered 93,000-ish dollars in marked bills from his home freezer almost 2 years ago, indictments on a variety of charges have been handed down: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/LegalCenter/wireStory?id=3242622 Despite the...

This just in from the AP... I saw this on the tube, and heard it on the radio. The only thing I can say is "Save the drama for your mama." His sideshow is one of the most embarassing displays I've seen in a while. Peggy said it best: He's not ashamed of what he did, he's ashamed he got...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&ncid=676&e=4&u=/usatoday/20031205/ts_usatoday/12058105 So far, the briber has not been identified. The bribee did not accept the bribe. I know nothing about Representative Smith, but his turning down this blatant bribe makes him smart...