bribed judge

He stole from investors, plundered companies, and routinely bribed judges and legislators.

However, she managed to take revenge to the two of his father's betrayers - the bribed judge and Carmine's personal bodyguard - through assassination.

The son took part in Monmouth's rebellion, and bribed Judge Jeffreys heavily to save his life.

The trial centers on charges, which the prime minister denies, that he bribed judges in the mid-1980's to influence the sale of a government-owned food conglomerate.

In October 1986 a Federal indictment said the union's leaders had bribed judges and engaged in racketeering and extortion.

Prago also bribed Judge Sinclair, as well as Eisenburg, to set Rico free.

The trial itself was claimed to have featured a suborned lead defence-witness, a bribed judge, and other serious violations of the right to a fair trial.

Though he was sentenced to fourteen years he was released in 1991, reportedly thanks to the intervention of a powerful politician and a bribed judge of the Russian supreme court.

Mr. Fostle questioned my assertion that some Steinway family members bribed judges at international exhibitions, but the record of jury tampering is clear and well documented in the notes at the end of my book.

Last month, when Mr. Berlusconi testified at his own corruption trial, he did not bother to rebut the charge that he had bribed judges in the 1980's to influence the sale of a state-owned food conglomerate.

They include sagas of shareholders suckered by their president, of bribed judges and legislators, and of takeover efforts flustered by the fact that, for every share the raider could buy, the insiders could print another.

The panel absolved Mr. Berlusconi of potentially the most damaging charge and the one that has received the most attention: that he bribed judges in the 1980's to block the sale of a state-owned food company to a business rival.