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

ceenote , 18 days ago

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.

ringwraithfish , 18 days ago

No, no, no....see, when big corporations do it that's called "lobbying" not "bribes".

lemmyseizethemeans , 18 days ago

If there's a fine and no jail time it's the cost of doing business.

The corruption is so endemic

deegeese , 19 days ago

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?