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Police have begun a criminal investigation into allegations the governor accepted bribes from a local construction firm bidding on a large government contract.

Lobbyists for the bill funneled bribes into a campaign fund.

The teacher actually bribes the children into good behavior by giving them a little star each day they do all their homework.

Almost 200 members of Parliament were investigated in a bribes scandal in Italy in the early 1990s.

Your actions in accepting bribes have insulted the dignity of the entire police force.

The President had to resign after allegations appeared in the newspaper suggesting he had accepted bribes from large companies hoping to do business with the government.

Two senior officials are suspected of accepting bribes from real estate companies.

He tried to sting the Syrian knights by hinting, that if Cyprus were allowed to remain under imperial rule, they would be neither more nor less than slaves to261 Germany, and endeavoured by bribes and every form of persuasion to induce adherents to flock to his standard.

Other bribes which have been discovered near ancient shrines are terra-cotta figures of deities, human beings, animals, and also portions of human anatomy, such as the liver or stomach.

Those who did not actually accept bribes were usually ready to make a little extra money by the improper and wholesale bailing, not only of offenders who ought to have been kept in confinement, but of innocent persons also, who ought to have been immediately and unconditionally set at liberty.

As much as thirty-six shillings a day could be earned by a headborough by appearing in a prosecution at the Old Baily, and bribes from those employed in the liquor traffic were a still more profitable source of income.

Mario Ruiz Massieu is accused of using his office to extract bribes from drug traffickers.

An inside story in the NYT reports that on Russian television Monday night, a Russian investigator said that he had evidence of bribes paid to Kremlin officials and members of Boris Yeltsin's family by Mabetex, a Swiss-based construction company.

A trial in Brussels had convicted Willy Claes and two other ex-ministers in the Walloon and Flemish socialist parties of channeling bribes to party funds into their own bank accounts.

Allegations have emerged suggesting a French conglomerate paid $44 million in bribes to the CDU to encourage the sale of a German government-owned refinery.

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