Payments helped AT&T obtain key legislative wins in Illinois, prosecutors say.

Payments helped AT&T obtain key legislative wins in Illinois, prosecutors say.

  • ceenote@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 个月前

    How incompetent do you have to be to get in trouble for bribing politicians in this country? Those politicians worked so hard to make certain forms of bribery legal. I get why they’re upset.

    • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
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      2 个月前

      How incompetent do you have to be to get in trouble for bribing politicians in this country?

      And in Al Capone’s home state, no less!

      • mkwt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 个月前

        And Governor Rod “This Senate seat is on the market” Blagojevich.

  • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 个月前

    Just like using illegal aliens, why is just AT&T getting in trouble and not the politicians that took the bribes… oh wait

  • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 个月前

    ATT bribed legislators to cancel their COLR obligations as a monopolist, then had the gall to complain that California would not cancel COLR like in the states where they bribed regulators.

    If I did this, I’d be in prison. Why do we allow organized crime to operate in plain sight like this?