Posted on 09/17/2015 7:12:12 AM PDT by McGruff
A judge on Thursday ordered US computer giant Hewlett-Packard to pay $58.8 million for bribing Moscow government officials to win a big-money contract with Russia's prosecutor general's office....
"For more than a decade HP Russia business executives participated in an elaborate scheme that involved paying bribes to government officials in exchange for large contracts," FBI Washington field office assistant director-in-charge Andrew McCabe said in a release.
According to US officials, the bribes in Mexico were paid from 2008 to 2009, in Poland from 2006 to 2010 and in Russia from 2000 to 2007.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Somebody was talking to Putin.
Jeez, it’s Russia. How else is any company going to get a contract?
So you can’t bribe officials in russia but it’s just fine to Bribe Congressman in the US???
Good ole Hewlett-Patel.
and the secretary of state. Hundreds of millions into the Clintons accounts.
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