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

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Because of Citizens United.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

No, no, no....see, when big corporations do it that's called "lobbying" not "bribes".