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Fraud trial juror reports getting bag of $120,000 and promise of more if she'll acquit (www.yahoo.com)

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[–] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The article is light on details around the actual cash itself but I have to wonder if it wasn't counterfeit. If you are, without any type of conversation, randomly trying to pay off jurors that seems like a lot of real money to just blindly throw at the problem and hope it goes away.

Even $5k or $10k could be a life-changing amount of money for some people, seems like it would be easier/cheaper to start there (if it's real) then promise more on a specific outcome.

It's not like your average person would be able to tell a real from a fake bill...

[–] sxan@midwest.social 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Your lawyers know quite a bit about the jurors, including economic status. You scale your bribes to the general income range.

C'mon, man... this is bribery 101.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 months ago

I flunked out of crime school and never got past remedial bribery.