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They're the same thing.
by beaconstudios 5y ago
They're the same thing.
- LorenPechtel 5y agoNo. A bribe is a payment to get them to do something improper. A grease payment is to get them to do what they should have done anyway. They look the same on the surface but they're very different underneath. The former is illegal, the latter is legal (but good luck trying to show it's not a bribe when it happens in the US.)
- beaconstudios 5y agoIf you're paying an official personally to "fast track" an official process, that's a bribe. Grease payments are just a subset of bribery. Just because it's normalised in some countries, doesn't make it a different thing.