Word: briber
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...Conservatives' defeat in last spring's general election. Al Fayed seized the high ground, declaring he was "sick and tired of the hypocrisy that goes on at the highest level of government." But he failed to see that his revelations had brought to light his own culpability as a briber and that he would draw further resentment from Britain's power circles...
California Congressmen Charles H. Wilson and Edward Roybal were reprimanded by the House last month for not reporting, as required, $1,000 gifts from Koreagate's master briber, Tongsun Park. Hispanic Leader Roybal's supporters used Diggs' line of defense: suggesting that he was getting harsh treatment because of his ethnic background. He and Wilson were handily reelected...
...Today the same company so stands as a self-confessed briber, but refuses to give the government and the public the details of the bribes...
...Boxing Judge Bert Grant, 51, was indicted in New York City on charges of taking bribes up to $100 to influence his decisions in five bouts. His alleged briber: Manager Herman ("Hymie the Mink") Wallman, a Manhattan furrier and reputed front man for Frankie Carbo, the underworld commissar of boxing. Wallman's tigers won all the bouts; Judge Grant is accused of making sure they did. The New York State Athletic Commission suspended both men, banned Wallman's fighters, including Heavyweight Alex Miteff, Middleweight Randy Sandy and Featherweight Ike Chestnut...
...Clair Bee, for instance, of Long Island University should have been on trial and actually indicted in the courtroom, along with the professional gambler as briber and student as taker of bribe. I do not single out Mr. Bee for any other reason than that his name is well known and stands as a symbol for all the college presidents involved. Had these college presidents been indicted, and with them their agents, the transmitters of the bribe, there would have been a thoroughly remarkable change in the behavior of college presidents. This change in behavior would have been...