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·
    6 months ago

    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
    32·
    6 months ago

    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.

    • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
      9·
      6 months ago

      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
        6·
        6 months ago

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

  • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    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