Payments helped AT&T obtain key legislative wins in Illinois, prosecutors say.

Payments helped AT&T obtain key legislative wins in Illinois, prosecutors say.

  • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    46·
    il y a 8 mois

    ATT bribed legislators to cancel their COLR obligations as a monopolist, then had the gall to complain that California would not cancel COLR like in the states where they bribed regulators.

    If I did this, I’d be in prison. Why do we allow organized crime to operate in plain sight like this?

  • ceenote@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    il y a 8 mois

    How incompetent do you have to be to get in trouble for bribing politicians in this country? Those politicians worked so hard to make certain forms of bribery legal. I get why they’re upset.

    • MajorHavocEnglish
      8·
      il y a 8 mois

      How incompetent do you have to be to get in trouble for bribing politicians in this country?

      And in Al Capone’s home state, no less!

      • mkwt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        il y a 8 mois

        And Governor Rod “This Senate seat is on the market” Blagojevich.

  • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    il y a 8 mois

    Just like using illegal aliens, why is just AT&T getting in trouble and not the politicians that took the bribes… oh wait