Bribery

啊我们说贿赂或者是回扣。

Bribe 或 kickback，对吧？

对。呃，所以肯定是有人收了供应商的好处，所以才会改了供应商。

那就是说收好处肯定是不太好的。

Bought are the fasces, and the people sell For gain their favor.

Bribery's fatal curse Corrupts the annual contests of the field.

Then covetous usury rose, and interest Was greedier ever as the seasons came.

Faith tottered.

Good work if you can pardon it.

In 2022, the former governor of Puerto Rico, Wanda Vasquez Garced, was charged with engaging in a bribery scheme that was alleged to have occurred from December 2019 through June 2020.

What was this scheme? Let me tell you.

You see, in 2019, Puerto Rico's Office of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions, which oversees financial institutions operating in Puerto Rico, was looking into a bank called Banco Credito.

Mr.

Bribery.

This guy? Mr.

Fly out, disgraced foreign ministers on his private jet.

The lawmaker refused the offer and sought police assistance, resulting in the respondent's arrest, it added.

AMLC said that a complaint was filed against the respondent for corruption of public officials in violation of Republic Act 3019, or the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act.

The recovered funds were allegedly sourced from a contractor and intended as an initial payment to the lawmaker.

The Regional Trial Court of Batangas, in a decision dated October 9, found sufficient basis to conclude that the money was related to an unlawful activity, justifying its forfeiture in favor of the government, the AMLC said.

McKenzie's work involved state-owned enterprises and became part of major corruption investigations.

In 2024, McKenzie agreed to pay $122 million criminal penalty and deferred prosecution agreement concerning bribery involving South African government contracts.

And then McKenzie was involved in Purdue Pharmaceutical and the opioid crisis.

McKenzie advised Purdue on increasing OxyContin sales despite the amounting addiction crisis.

a pre-bribe.

It's a pre-bribe.

Pre-bribe is not a defense.

Welcome back to our special report on the serious issues being lampooned there by SNL.

How a new Congress might hold this administration accountable for bribes, gifts, pre-bribes, you name it.

Once this basic union was achieved, Sardar Patel brought in financial incentives in exchange For a full merger, he offered the rulers what were called privy purses, which were generous annual pensions tax-free in exchange for giving up their kingdoms.

Some people criticized this, calling it Bribery called it appeasement, but he was very clear.

He very rightly pointed out in the Constituent Assembly, why are we bothering about a small price to pay when we have achieved a bloodless revolution that will shape the destinies of millions? When you look at what these pensions cost versus what a civil war in over 565 nations would have cost, it was nothing.

Not every ruler cooperated, unfortunately.

We're going to talk a little bit about grift in this summary because the grifting never stops in the Trump White House.

We learned on Tuesday that billionaire Venezuelan banker Julio Herrera Velutini... who pled to a bribery charge in August 2025 in exchange for a reduced charge that carried no time.

I think it was misdemeanor political campaign contribution-y thingy.

Anyway, he has sought a full pardon from Donald Trump because he doesn't even want a misdemeanor on his record.