AT&T paid bribes to get two major pieces of legislation passed, US gov’t says
AT&T paid bribes to get two major pieces of legislation passed, US gov’t says
arstechnica.com AT&T paid bribes to get two major pieces of legislation passed, US gov’t says
Payments helped AT&T obtain key legislative wins in Illinois, prosecutors say.
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Paying a fine for bribing someone never made sense...
Like, it's essentially just a tax on bribes.
I thought we'd started calling it lobbying
$23k for
eliminating AT&T's Carrier of Last Resort (COLR) obligation to provide landline phone service, and separate legislation related to small cell deployments.
The thing is, it's so cheap the people actually affected by the legislation could probably have beat it with a gofundme. If bribery were legal, the rich might actually have a harder time.
The people it affects already paid with their taxes. The government is just greedy