Chevron previously got another judge disqualified after releasing videos showing discussions of bribes and kickbacks.

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Moreover, paying civil servants enough to persuade them to reject bribes and kickbacks is itself costly.

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Ginsberg reasoned that Congress meant the pre-1987 understanding of the term, and meant to criminalize only the taking of bribes and kickbacks in the performance of a job, not any sort of scheme that somehow deprived somebody of honest work.

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In 2001, the Department of Justice extracted a plea deal and financial settlement from TAP Pharmaceuticals for the alleged crimes of providing illegal kickbacks and bribes to induce physicians and hospitals to use TAP products.

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First, while quite a bit of money went missing in the kickbacks and bribes detailed in Mr Volcker's reports, much more misdirected cash went elsewhere.

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Meanwhile, the state's former treasurer, Paul Silvester, is serving a four-year jail sentence for taking kickbacks and bribes to steer state pension-fund business, a scandal that has touched the waspish, manicured suburbs of Connecticut's southern Fairfield County.

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Perhaps of even greater importance, Microsoft also requires all outside vendors to read and comply with the Microsoft Vendor Code of Conduct, which also prohibits incentives such as kickbacks or bribes.

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