The UK's Financial Services Authority stated that the fine related to the company's inadequate bribery and corruption controls, claiming that between January 14, 2005 and September 30, 2007 Aon had failed to properly assess the risks involved in its dealings with overseas firms and individuals.

Since his death, there have been persistent unproven allegations that Askin, allegedly assisted by then Police Commissioner Norman Allan, oversaw the creation of a lucrative network of corruption and bribery that involved politicians, public servants and police and the nascent Sydney organised crime syndicates.

In June the PCI gave its approval, and ultimately active support, to a campaign against President Giovanni Leone, accused of being involved in the Lockheed bribery scandal.

The bank was found by regulators in the U. S. and the United Kingdom to be involved in money laundering, bribery, support of terrorism, arms trafficking, the sale of nuclear technologies, the commission and facilitation of tax evasion, smuggling, illegal immigration, and the illicit purchases of banks and real estate.

* Carl Andrew Capasso, NYC contractor involved in bribery and tax evasion scandal

He was, however, never personally involved in the many political scandals of the Bettino Craxi government era, even if Cesare Romiti, Agnelli's most trusted administrator for some 25 years, publicly admitted to bribery in 1994.

Later lobbying efforts involved mailings from a Ralph Reed marketing company and bribery of Roger Stillwell, a Department of the Interior official who in 2006 pleaded guilty to accepting gifts from Abramoff.

The investigation, known as Koreagate or the Tongsun Park Investigation, potentially involved hundreds of members of Congress and their families and associates, and included charges of bribery and influence-peddling via envelopes stuffed with $ 100 bills.

The tribunal later revealed that an unprecedented level of corruption and bribery occurred under Ahern's rule, with at least 15 of his political colleagues involved.

Allegations that Éamon de Valera and Seán Lemass were involved in bribery and corruption raised questions about certain public officials.

Thereafter, Baird was involved in many high profile cases at the bar, regularly defending in murders, robberies, drug cases, fraud and bribery cases at the Old Bailey and on appeal to the Court of Appeal and House of Lords.

In the late 1970s, the Flying Squad was publicly censured for being involved in bribery, police corruption and excessively close links with the criminal fraternity.

It was also heavily involved in behind-the-scene political manueverings to weaken the opposition parties using bribery, blackmail, threat, arrest, and / or torture of opposition lawmakers.

Agusta became involved in a notorious Belgian bribery scandal when it was revealed that the company had paid the two Belgian socialist parties who were then ( 1988 / 1989 ) in the government to assist the company in getting the contract for attack helicopters for the Belgian army.

Meredith was found to be involved in a bribery scandal at the conclusion of the 1904 – 05 season.

Such things often involved large amounts of bribery, and Li Lianying made a fortune from it.

Wonkette reached its largest pre-2008 audience during the 2006 midterm elections due to scandal coverage of Mark Foley and other incumbents involved in corruption, sex-abuse and bribery scandals.

It has had its fair share of controvoersies when its MPs were involved in the bribery scam during the Rao Government and the fiasco in early 2005 about the Chief Minister of Jharkhand.

The rescue plans involved the attempted bribery of a prison warder and Murray climbing over the prison wall with a rope made from towels.

Prisco and lifelong Panici friend Ralph Galderio, a former city employee, also testified that Panici was involved in bribery and received significantly reduced sentences in return for their testimony.

Meralco is also involved in the GSIS-Meralco bribery case.

On or about April 1, 1894, Hunton became indirectly involved in voting bribery attempts.

One of the most prominent cases in Louisiana, involved bribery of judges by a bail bonding agency and, after a far-reaching FBI investigation — code name “ Operation Wrinkled Robe ”— led to criminal charges and removal proceedings for various judges and police officers.

Also as part of the plea agreement, Cunningham agreed to help the government in its prosecution of others involved in the defense contractor bribery scandal.

He argues that the best government is one that rules through " rites " ( lǐ ) and people's natural morality, rather than by using bribery and coercion.

* 1976 – Former Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals.

The election was sordid – even Cato, with his reputation for incorruptibility, is said to have resorted to bribery in favor of one of Caesar's opponents.

Worldwide, bribery alone is estimated to involve over 1 trillion US dollars annually.

e all know that permanent judges acquire an esprit de corps ; that, being known, they are liable to be tempted by bribery ; that they are misled by favor, by relationship, by a spirit of party, by a devotion to the executive or legislative ; that it is better to leave a cause to the decision of cross and pile than to that of a judge biased to one side ; and that the opinion of twelve honest jurymen gives still a better hope of right than cross and pile does.

Fall is convicted of bribery for his role in the Teapot Dome scandal, becoming the first Presidential cabinet member to go to prison for actions in office.

He or she serves at the pleasure of the president and can be removed by the president at any time ; the attorney general is also subject to impeachment by the House of Representatives and trial in the Senate for " treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors.

Because of the desire to prevent undue influence on a jury, jury tampering ( like witness tampering ) is a serious crime, whether attempted through bribery, threat of violence, or other means.

In memoriam -- our civil service as it was, a political cartoon by Thomas Nast showing statue of Andrew Jackson on pig, which is over " fraud ," " bribery ," and " spoils ," eating " plunder.

Schreiber lost his fight against extradition to Germany, where he is at the center of a political bribery scandal that helped bring down a government and damaged the legacy of former Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

Worldwide, bribery alone is estimated to involve over 1 trillion US dollars annually.

The reason for this dissociation is to make the early steps ( offering, promising, requesting an advantage ) of a corrupt deal already an offence and, thus, to give a clear signal ( from a criminal policy point of view ) that bribery is not acceptable.

The difference with bribery is that this is a tri-lateral relation.

At this time Mattei is alleged to have widely used unofficial financial resources of Agip for extensive bribery, especially of politicians and journalists.

He succeeded in effecting his escape by means of bribery, the expenses of which he is said to have paid by intercepting the money sent from France to Mary's aid.

He passed a new Lex Pompeia de ambitu and another de vi, that is, concerning electoral bribery and violence.

In its most recognizable form, dishonesty, venality causes people to lie and steal for their personal advantage, and is related to bribery and nepotism, among other vices.

Such conduct becomes bribery only when there is an identifiable exchange between the contribution and official acts, previous or subsequent, and the term quid pro quo denotes such an exchange.

One of the reasons that bribery is regarded as a notorious evil is that it contributes to a culture of political corruption in which the public trust is eroded.

* 2002 March-Governor Toshi Endo is arrested under charges of bribery.