Gifts that aren't really gifts

Usage examples of bribes.

Cato was famous for rounding up a good number of men to take bribes and then using them to testify in the Bribery Court.

So it was either back to Further Gaul, or remain in Rome for two more months spending a fortune on inn charges and bribes to needy senators.

Hardly anyone below the level of a knight of the Eighteen was impervious to bribes, which provided a handy little sum of much-needed cash.

The amount of money tendered as bribes gave Lucceius a chance, but it was an outside one only.

Not all the canards in the world about marriages of virgin daughters to men old enough to be their grandfathers could sway the voters, who preferred triumviral consuls to bribes, probably because Rome was empty of rural voters, who tended to rely on bribes for extra spending money at the games.

Now, if an elected official is exposed by the Herald as having taken checks from taxpayers and bribes from special interests, Hiaasen weighs in.

It was a simple but time-tested scam: Bribes allegedly were funneled to judges in exchange for reducing criminal bonds, suppressing evidence and divulging confidential police information.

Start with the key prosecution witnesses: Ray Takiff, a phenomenally crooked lawyer who went undercover to pass out FBI bribes, and Circuit Judge Roy Gelber, a phenomenally crooked judge who brokered corrupt schemes with other judges.

The defendants: three judges and a former judge, all accused of taking bribes to fix cases.

Its executives chose not to pay outlandish bribes for the privilege of selling computers to the city.

A law making them culpable for accepting bribes is quite a separate pot of stew.