1y ago

AT&T paid bribes to get two major pieces of legislation passed, US gov’t says

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

1y ago

AT&T paid bribes to get two major pieces of legislation passed, US gov’t says

1y ago

AT&T paid bribes to get two major pieces of legislation passed, US gov’t says

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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?
- Because of Citizens United.
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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.
- 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!
  
  And Governor Rod "This Senate seat is on the market" Blagojevich.
No, no, no....see, when big corporations do it that's called "lobbying" not "bribes".
Just like using illegal aliens, why is just AT&T getting in trouble and not the politicians that took the bribes… oh wait
If there's a fine and no jail time it's the cost of doing business.
The corruption is so endemic

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