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Message: [QUOTE="Waltdods, post: 2570506, member: 2932"] I take your points, but I also think if you just find/replaced "bribe" with "payment" in your description, you'd have an equally accurate and perfectly legal description of what happened. Everyone agrees (I assume) that Adidas today is free to pay Darius Bazley in an effort to encourage him to endorse them a few years down the line. Why, exactly, was that not just wrong but criminal if Adidas did it a month ago instead? Also, note that the way you describe this in your first paragraph is the exact [I][B]opposite[/B][/I] of what the government has been alleging so far, which paints the schools not as the briber or bribee but as the innocent victim of a nefarious scheme unrelated to them. (Note that this is true even of those indictments of Tony Bland et al.) [/QUOTE]