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Bribe
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BRIBE, crim. law. The gift or promise, which is accepted, of some advantage, as the inducement for some illegal act or omission; or of some illegal emolument, as a consideration, for preferring one person to another, in the performance of a legal act.



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In numerous countries, judges are widely perceived to be open to bribery, and public prosecutors are not only bribable but subject to pressure from corrupt politicians.
They set out to plant phony evidence that Anton is fooling around on his new love, as well as trying to sabotage his new restaurant (the director's father, writer Dominick Dunne, plays a cameo as a bribable restaurant critic).
 
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