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...They said that it was a 'first time meeting you gift,'" Peters said. "I didn't know if it was a tradition in their culture and didn't want to offend them so I took it. I thought it was a gift, not an attempted bribe...
Noted "Do not mistake bribe taking for corruption." VLADIMIR RUSHAILO, Former Russian Minister of Internal Affairs, defending officials in his department who sold influence. He was replaced last week
Their very forthrightness may have helped squelch suggestions that a bribe was involved. Their portrayal of a White House in disarray--the Final Daze--sounded so plausible that some thought it explained why Clinton waived his Executive privilege and allowed his counselors to testify. This is what passes as the best defense--not that he was venal but that he was an idiot. "I think that people are finally tiring of it," Podesta told Time, "but as long as it's still selling cable-TV rating points, it will probably go on a little longer...
...finger-cutting protesters as nationalistic nitwits, but they were more alarmed by allegations of shady backroom deals between gangsters, law enforcement officials and politicians close to the President. Yeo Un Hwan, the mobster who met the President's son, is now under arrest. Yeo allegedly tried to bribe politicians and prosecutors to help prominent businessman Lee Young Ho, now in jail on charges of embezzlement. A newly appointed special prosecutor started interrogating Lee and Yeo last month and is now quizzing prosecutors suspected of corruption. One lawmaker has dubbed the scandal "Gangstergate...
...scandal has already badly bruised President Kim: despite his announcement of a nationwide crackdown on organized crime, his party got thrashed in critical October by-elections. Newspapers and opposition politicians have hinted for months?without providing evidence?that Yeo was trying to bribe pols in the President's party to help a businessman from Cholla province, Kim's home region. Yeo was convicted a decade ago of running the biggest gang in the Cholla city of Kwangju...