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    Mar 23, 2010, 04:25 PM
    under what arguments is bribin legal according to the FCPA?
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    The Big Business of the Olympics and Bribery
    LEAD STORY-DATELINE: The Washington Post, January 15, 1999.
    Salt Lake City and the state of Utah are considered synonymous with the Mormon Church and the morality that flows from religious pursuits. A recent bribery (corruption, subornment, buying-off, inducement) scandal relating to Salt Lake City's successful bid to host the 2002 Winter Olympics casts a cloud over the city and state.
    The Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC) had assigned individual members to lobby members (Group that attempts to influence a legislation or government spending plans to achieve an outcome more favorable to its agenda or objectives) of the International Olympics Committee (IOC) to select Salt Lake City as the 2002 Winter Olympics' site. Since November 1998, there have been allegations that the members of the SLOC lobbied by making gifts to certain influential IOC members and their families. The allegations are that the SLOC members gave scholarships, free medical care, guns and other expensive gifts valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars to visiting IOC members. IOC rules limit members to gifts with a maximum value of $150. One influential IOC member is alleged to have received free medical treatment for hepatitis and financed land investment deals for one SLOC member.
    The scandal has resulted in investigations by a several agencies, including the federal Department of Justice, the International Olympics Committee, the U.S. Olympic Committee, and an ethics panel for Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC). The Utah legislature had created a committee to oversee the Olympics because of the approximately $1.4 billion initial costs to be incurred by Utah and the State's obligation to pay any shortfall. That committee has entered the fray(fight, conflict) and demanded financial accounting from the SLOC. The state of Utah projected receipt of three billion dollars in revenues from hosting the games.
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    According to Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, lobbying is "to promote (as a project) or secure the passage of (as legislation) by influencing public officials" (lobbying, n.d.).
    Whether bribery should be considered unethical or illegal has been debated extensively. Many scholars and business people take the position that bribery should not be treated as unethical.
    The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (15 U.S.C. sec. 78) makes it illegal for US companies to pay bribes even if they are in foreign countries. Assuming that this is a case in which the FCPA would apply, it helps to look at its definition of a bribe. The FCPA defines a bribe as "an illegal payment that is meant to influence an official to award or maintain business activity. Payments that assist the payer to obtain ministerial actions are not prohibited (Foreign Corrupt, n.d.).


    question is: What argument could the SLOC members make that the payments made do not fit the definition of an illegal bribe (under the FCPA)?
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    May 3, 2010, 08:50 AM

    Question is: What argument could the SLOC members make that the payments made do not fit the definition of an illegal bribe (under the FCPA)?
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    May 6, 2010, 12:31 PM

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