After a pilgrimage to Rome, Flosi returns to Iceland.

Another example, among many, is when the gift of a silk garment is considered an insult by Flosi and a hard-won settlement breaks down as a consequence.

Flosi claims to be insulted by the offer of a unisex garment ( an insult from Skarp-Heðinn also adds fuel to the fire ) and the settlement breaks down.

Flosi allows the women to leave but beheads Helgi Njálsson, who attempts to escape disguised as a woman.

Although Flosi invites Njáll and Bergþóra to leave, they refuse, preferring to die with their sons and their grandson Þórðr ( the son of Kári ).

Flosi, the uncle of Höskuldr's wife, takes revenge against the killers, and seeks help from powerful chieftains.

Any victory for Flosi will be at some cost.

Flosi and his men set fire to the building.

Flosi knows that Kári will exact vengeance for the burning.

In 1695, William III of England replaced the corrupt governor Benjamin Fletcher, known for accepting bribes of one hundred dollars to allow illegal trading of pirate loot, with Richard Coote, Earl of Bellomont.

Wilson was one of several major Republican ( and Democratic ) Representatives and Senators who were offered bribes ( and possibly took them ) of shares in Crédit Mobilier.

" I had often seen one placed at the end of a road on a hillock, and in the light of the sun its black arms, bending in every direction, always reminded me of the claws of an immense beetle ..." He later bribes a semaphore operator to relay a false message in order to manipulate the French financial market.

In these fields, one is supposed to act with justice and honor and not accept bribes.

These high rates are one of the primary reasons for corruption, as young IAS officers after marriage are forced to take bribes to maintain their new lifestyle and to match the financial status of their wealthy in-laws.

* George H. Ryan ( R ), governor from 1999 to 2003, was convicted in 2006 of corruption related to his time as Illinois Secretary of State in the 1990s, when commercial driver's licenses were issued to unqualified truckers in exchange for bribes, and one of the truckers was involved in a crash that killed six children.

During this time, there were threats of assassination and kidnapping, and on one occasion he went outside to face down a crowd of 25-30 men intending to kill him, and both sides offered bribes to appoint him a United States senator.

On 11 February 2005, 77 managers of Systembolaget stores were charged with receiving bribes from suppliers, and one of the largest trials in modern Swedish history followed.

In 1726 one unsuccessful parliamentary candidate was subsequently able to prove that of the 52 people voting for his rival, the incumbent MP, 51 had received bribes and inducements.

North Carolina Democrats condemned the legislature's " depraved villains, who take bribes every day ;" one local Republican officeholder complained, " I deeply regret the course of some of our friends in the Legislature as well as out of it in regard to financial matters, it is very embarrassing indeed.

He was unanimously found guilty of corruption for taking more than one hundred thousand pounds in bribes ( more than eleven million in today's currency ).

With King back in Parliament, a huge scandal rocked the King cabinet when one of his appointees was discovered to be accepting bribes.

A few months later, one of King's appointees in the Department of Customs and Excise was revealed to have taken bribes, after which the Conservatives alleged that the corruption extended to the highest levels of government, including the prime minister.

Then one night one of the ninja sent to protect Heishiro bribes her to poison his sake for one thousand gold.

* In the 1987 film Next Of Kin many scenes were filmed in and around ABLA, most notably one in which Patrick Swayze hides from his pursuers inside the Robert Brooks Extension and bribes a young child to misdirect them.

Ritacco is accused of accepting between one and two million dollars in bribes from the school district's insurance broker.

Hamilton County Commissioner William Cotton, 58, was convicted yesterday on one count of conspiring with lobbyist Charles Love to obtain $ 4, 750 in bribes in return for the commissioner supporting a resolution to benefit E-Cycle, a phony company created by the FBI for the undercover investigation.

The sums of the bribes ranged from 500 euros, which was offered for one player, to 80, 000 euros, which in total was offered to eight players.

The highest sums of bribes for one individual were slightly over 40, 000 euros.

Federal prosecutors have since stated that Connolly became a member of the Winter Hill Gang, allegedly supplying them with the names of informants and funneling bribes to at least one fellow agent.

Francesco De Lorenzo, the Liberal Minister of Health, was one of the most loathed politicians in Italy for his corruption, that involved stealing funds from the sick, and allowing commercialisation of medicines based on bribes.

For example, one of his closest friends, Judge Edgar Hynes, commits suicide after being caught taking bribes ; another, Carl Anderton ( Robert Vaughn ), a high-powered CEO, is discovered to be suffering from bipolar disorder and attempts to arrange an unjust punishment for his similarly affected grandson to hide his own condition.

Furthermore, the intricate nature of Italian laws allowed cunning lawyers to use many delaying tactics: an instructive example was a prosecution of Silvio Berlusconi, where he was accused of misappropriation of funds of his own company, Fininvest, in order to prepare black funds that could have been used for bribes or other illegitimate purposes ; on the last possible day, a lawyer from Fininvest appeared in court and complained that his company had not been formally notified of the trial.

Rome descended into factional infighting, while Cardinal Aymeric and Leo Frangipani attempted to win over the resistance of Urban, the City Prefect, and the Pierleoni family with bribes and extravagant promises.

Investigations showed bribes had reached into high places — even to the king.

* Emperor Honorius bribes Wallia, king of the Visigoths, into regaining Hispania for the Roman Empire.

Truck owners also paid bribes in order to get into the program.

The bribes also took the form of luxury European vacations, armored Mercedes vehicles for high-ranking government officials and a birthday gift to the then notorious dictator of Turkmenistan, Turkmenbashi ( Saparmurat Niyazov ), including a golden box and 10, 000 copies of his personal manifesto, Ruhnama, translated into German.

Tithraustes bribes the Spartans to move north into the satrapy of Pharnabazus.

Corruption also generates economic distortions in the public sector by diverting public investment into capital projects where bribes and kickbacks are more plentiful.

The Roman officials, allegedly due to bribes but perhaps more likely because of a desire to quickly end conflict in a profitable client kingdom, settled the fight by dividing Numidia into two parts.

When Sir John Croke, suspected in engaging in a conspiracy, sent him some sugar loaves to excuse his absence from a case, Hale remarked that " I cannot think that Sir John believes that the King's Justices come into the country to take bribes.

Æthelfrith sent messengers to bribe Raedwald with " a great sum of money " into killing Edwin ; Bede reports that his first message had no effect, but Æthelfrith sent more messengers and threatened war if Raedwald did not comply ( bribes and threats of this kind may have previously been used to accomplish Hereric's killing.

The Roman officials settled the fight by dividing Numidia into two parts, probably in 116, but this settlement was tainted by accusations that the Roman officials accepted bribes to favor Jugurtha.

He then bribes Joe, the Fimples, and the Abernathys into silence and then orders Larry and Irwin to prepare the Commando Elite for actual military commando missions in South America for their effectiveness.

In the contest for the imperial throne upon the death of Maximilian in 1519, Sickingen accepted bribes from King Francis I of France, but when the election took place he led his troops to Frankfurt, where their presence assisted to secure the election of Charles V. For this service he was made imperial chamberlain and councillor, and in 1521 he led an expedition into France, which ravaged Picardy, but was beaten back from Mézières and forced to retreat.

The report claimed Pindling and his government accepted bribes from Colombian drug smugglers, particularly the notorious Carlos Lehder, co-founder of the Medellín Cartel, in exchange for allowing the smugglers to use the Bahamas as a transshipment point to smuggle Colombian cocaine into the US.

In the Nigerian variation, a self-proclaimed relative of a deposed African dictator offers to transfer millions of ill-gotten dollars into the bank account of the victim in return for small initial payments to cover bribes and other expenses.

Traficant, who represented himself in the criminal trial, argued that he accepted the bribes only as part of an undercover investigation into corruption.

In the first half of 2006, Beazley focussed much of the Labor Party's parliamentary inquiry into the Australian Wheat Board ( AWB ) scandal, which allegedly involved bribes and kickbacks with the then Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, that universally breached UN sanctions, to which Australia was a signatory.

* Gaius Mamilius Limetanus, tribunus plebis in 110 BC ; he carried a law inquiring into the cases of persons who had assisted Jugurtha in his opposition to the senate, and who had received bribes from him to neglect their duty to the state.

When the Bourbon king Ferdinand IV reconquered the city, Colletta was thrown into prison and only escaped the death penalty by means of judiciously administered bribes.

Alan is out the millions of pounds he spent on the yacht and the various bribes, but consoles himself by pushing the still-crated Maxwell into the ocean.

However, it may be relevant to take into account the fact that government was intervening in the alcohol industry by making manufacture and sales illegal and arresting those in the business, thereby enabling unnaturally high profits, and was not providing the usual service of enforcing trade contracts ; likewise, some corrupt public officials derived rent-like profit from bribes that ensured that Capone would receive preferential treatment against potential competitors.

The primary offence of the ex-chancellor was the taking of bribes, which no twisting of the law could convert into a capital offence, while the charge of treason had not been substantiated.

Lyle also deposits $ 140, 000 into Reynolds ' bank account to make it appear that he is taking bribes.