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Message: [QUOTE="Waltdods, post: 2570497, member: 2932"] But there's no allegation that any public official has been bribed. There may be allegations that public employees have done some bribery, but that's not the same. The bribery, to the extent there is any, is clearly of the players. (And to take this further afield, even where pretty clear-cut bribery of officials has occurred, the government has been losing.) Is it possible that the prosecutors will be able to torture an argument under this or some other bribery statute? Sure. But the fact that their theories so far have relied on pretty strained arguments makes me think it's unlikely they've got some clearcut cases hidden somewhere. [/QUOTE]