Comment on Apple exec gets bribery charge for allegedly offering Calif. sheriff iPads for gun permits
stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 1 year ago
Wait, why is this dude being charged with bribery when:
Following a two-year investigation, the DA’s office discovered that the two sheriffs were deliberately “refusing to release [the CCW licenses] until the applicants gave something of value.”
Unless I’m missing something, the problem is with these two sheriffs acting illegally. Were they brought up on charges for soliciting a bribe or what?
Depends who brought the charges. Somebody with an ax to grind internally would just bring the charges because they got exposed so I’m taking you down with me.
Somebody external would charge with bribery because they’re participating in the scheme.
If you bribe you’re not innocent. You might be in an unwinnable position, you might have to do it, but you are facilitating the cycle.
I mean, if you change the word from bribery to extortion it sounds a lot closer to what happened. People don’t normally wait 2 years to start bribing people for something they should already have gotten.
the problem is with these two sheriffs acting illegally.
When bribery happens, both sides are corrupt, both are guilty.
Extortion …
Yeah, this feels more like extortion than bribery, from what the article said.
Fritto@lemmy.world 1 year ago