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New town Cranbrook at centre of £2m fraud scam • May 2, 2025, 3:47 AM ET (BBC)
Deliberations to resume Monday at bribery trial of Nadine Menendez, wife of ex-US Sen. Bob Menendez • Apr. 18, 2025, 5:40 PM ET (AP)

bribery, the act of promising, giving, receiving, or agreeing to receive money or some other item of value with the corrupt aim of influencing a public official in the discharge of his official duties. When money has been offered or promised in exchange for a corrupt act, the official involved need not actually accomplish that act for the offense of bribery to be complete. The crime is typically punishable as a felony. Although bribery originally involved interference with judges, its definition has since been expanded to include actions by all sorts of government officials, from the local to the national ...(100 of 445 words)

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