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Okay, I'm not a lawyer and I'm trying to avoid a little work today etc. Here is a quick search of the term bribery, https://bribery.uslegal.com/solicitation-and

Okay, I'm not a lawyer and I'm trying to avoid a little work today etc. Here is a quick search of the term bribery, https://bribery.uslegal.com/solicitation-and-attempted-bribery/ https://bribery.uslegal.com/solicitation-and-attempted-bribe... Everything I run across refers to public official and public trust. I wonder if there are any lawyer out there that can clarify this? I own my own company. I should be able to award any all contracts to who bribes me the most money?

pwagland 5y ago
If you _own_ the company 100%, then sure. Since at that point it isn't really a bribe, it's a discount or a service in kind. I am reasonably confident though that this Netflix VP didn't own Netflix. As such he was defrauding the company and/or stockholders and/or owners of the company, since they took money that was rightfully the companies. To a very real extent this is stealing from the company. As a 100% owner of the company it is quite difficult to "steal" from the company, although it is definitely possible to commit tax fraud by pushing stuff through the company instead of through personal accounts. Note that accepting a bribe and not declaring it as some form of income, either personal or business, is probably illegal in your jurisdiction, since at that point it is an undeclared income stream.