Have there been any bribes bigger than fifty million dollars?

[Stinky The Clown]

Cuz holy greased skids, Batman, that's a big one.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/anthonycormier/the-trump-organization-planned-to-give-vladimir-putin-the?bftwnews=&utm_term=4ldqpgc&ref=hpsplash

President Donald Trump’s company planned to give a $50 million penthouse at Trump Tower Moscow to Russian President Vladimir Putin as the company negotiated the luxury real estate development during the 2016 campaign, according to four people, one of them the originator of the plan.

Two US law enforcement officials told BuzzFeed News that Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal lawyer at the time, discussed the idea with a representative of Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s press secretary.

The Trump Tower Moscow plan is at the heart of a new plea agreement by Cohen, who led the negotiations to bring a gleaming, 100-story building to the Russian capital. Cohen acknowledged in court that he had lied to Congress about the plan in order to protect Trump and his presidential campaign.

The revelation that representatives of the Trump Organization planned to forge direct financial links with the leader of a hostile nation at the height of the campaign raises fresh questions about President Trump's relationship with the Kremlin. The plan never went anywhere because the tower deal ultimately fizzled, and it is not clear whether Trump knew of the intention to give away the penthouse. But Cohen said in court documents that he regularly briefed Trump and his family on the Moscow negotiations.

[unblock]

1. are we to guess that this is not a violation of the foreign corrupt practices act...

... because it didn't actually happen, or didn't progress enough?

[Hekate]

2. Well, the entire country as part of the real estate deal comes to mind...

So much gets churned so fast that I run out of metaphors and similes and such after awhile. But yesterday it occurred to me that TrumpCo treated the entire presidential campaign as just another real estate transaction in the poker game of his life -- and the presidency as well. The penthouse just sweetened the pot.

[central scrutinizer]

3. If Drumpf says it was worth $50 million

I'd guess the true value is quite a ways south of that

[Fresh_Start]

4. deliverying the presidency of the US to a criminal strikes me as a larger bribe

just look at all the ways the trump cabal and its associates have been able to steal from the american people