31.   Charles Becker, a policeman who took bribes, was tried for the crime and electrocuted at Sing Sing.

32.   Chumpitaz successfully ran on a ticket supported by the former president, Alberto K. Fujimori, but denied taking bribes.

33.   Cardiges testified that an implicit understanding -- an unspoken honor among thieves -- generally existed between those executives who took bribes and the dealers who paid them.

34.   Deri, a charismatic former interior minister of Moroccan descent who built Shas into a powerful legislative bloc, was convicted of taking bribes at the interior ministry.

35.   Even border officials were taking huge bribes from refugees from Chechnya who made it into Georgia when the road in the Argun gorge was open.

36.   Every country has laws prohibiting its officials from taking bribes, but such laws are unlikely to be enforced when top officials are corrupt.

37.   First, the agency was broadsided by an investigation that led to indictments of several FDA officials accused of taking bribes from generic drug makers.

38.   Falstaff takes bribes, flops in battle, commits highway robbery.

39.   Folha de S. Paulo newspaper reported today that Motta is linked to allegations lawmakers took bribes for votes in favor of the re-election bill.

40.   He also had to undergo the ordeal of a federal grand jury investigation into allegations that he had taken a bribe from fugitive investor Robert Vesco.