No, I don't think he's better off "walking away". First, you can't be too paranoid: perhaps his firm was being investigated and the bribe proposal was false.

No, I don't think he's better off "walking away". First, you can't be too paranoid: perhaps his firm was being investigated and the bribe proposal was false. Second, if the bribe offer was serious and that guy has any power, now his firm has a nervous enemy in the wrong place. Third, if the bribe offer is taken up by someone else, he makes it less likely that he can get future contracts anywhere near that arm of government without making bribes. Fourth, the corruption is independently reported by some third party, then it may come back to haunt his firm (as in questions about what they knew about it, when). -t