Word: bribes
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...cable box or satellite hookup, connected to the SmartLink transmitter, far left, keeping the 15-in. television free of unsightly wires and letting you carry it around the house on a whim. The remote can command all your devices, so there's no need to race between rooms--or bribe a loved one--to go pause a movie...
...looks like the legal system is covering up for the customs," Okhotin said, referring to his allegation that customs officers tried to bribe him at the airport. "The only problem with that is what about the question of getting a just outcome...
...midst of such a dizzying array of possible outcomes, Okhotin said the night before his court date that he took some solace in what appeared to have been an end to the most outright alleged improprieties in his case—the repeated bribe solicitations which he said filled the first weeks of his case...
...first time in the trial, the lawyers also introduced Okhotin's claim that customs officials offered to release him in return for a bribe after stopping him at the airport...
...testimony before the court, David Okhotin said that when his brother called him from the airport to say he had been detained by customs, he told him that the officials had tried to solicit first a $10,000 and then a $5,000 bribe from him. David said he had urged Andrew not to give them any money or sign any documents without counsel...