Civil Bribery Laws

Bribery Laws are Criminal laws for good reason

.Bribery is nearly universally condemned as harmful to a culture or civilization. We need government decisions to be made fairly. Residents and Voters get angry and even furious when a political favor is given to someone else.

“That Isn’t Fair!”

We expect and demand harsh penalties for those guilty of that corruption.

Bribery laws are all criminal, as is the United Nations Convention against Corruption and California Laws..

The problem is that Criminal Bribery is almost impossible to prosecute.

Why – because Criminal Bribery Laws require an impossibly high bar to convict. Essentially one of the two “parties” has to admit to the bribe, in writing or recorded. Why would anyone risk jail by permanently recording a confession?

That comes from the legal standard “Beyond a Reasonable Doubt.“
That standard is roughly equivalent to 98% certainty; or 98% of evidence in favor of a conviction.

Instead, what we created is a slightly improved version of a Bribery law, much better suited for catching government officials – with a much lower conviction bar. You know this lower bar as “Preponderance of the Evidence.” This means a prosecutor only needs 51% of the evidence (instead of 98%), so that a Judge or Jury can far more easily find the government official has violated the law.

The trade off is that such a violation does not directly or immediately send the offending parties to Prison.

However what such laws can do immediately is —

1) “Void” or Unwind corrupt decisions and contracts,
2) Impose substantial fines on both Briber and Bribee (such as 10% – 200% of the value of the corrupt decision)
3) Remove the government official from office – permanently,
4) Bar the offending official and the briber from government work and lobbying, and
5) Bar the company / person giving the bribes from ever getting any government contracts.

As example: Lets take the 2022 Congressional House Armed Services Committee, where 41 of 42 congresspersons took campaign contributions from military contractors who directly benefit from their votes on contracts.

So now imagine for a moment with a Civil Bribery law in place, only one of the House members (Stephanie Bice of Oklahoma) can vote or even discuss in committee a contract that would benefit a contributing contractor.

All the other Civil “Bribees” who took campaign cash from a contractor-who-would-financially-[benefit from a vote, have to step down from the committee while the remaining member(s) discuss and vote on it.

Please share your thoughts.

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