While writing Corruption defined I thought about bananas. The creation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is directly tied to the United Fruit Company's behavior in Central and South America during an eighty year period. (United Fruit Company is now known as Chiquita.)

The company created a... more

I received several questions about How To Tell Difference; Bribe vs Expedite Fee. I decided to start at the beginning by looking at what corruption is and is not.

(The above picture shows voting pattern for Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovich during the 2004 Presidential election; second run off. This run off vote was deemed to be mostly free of corruption.... more

I am not an lawyer nor have I played one on TV. The following blog is just my personal opinion. It is up to everyone to decide what they are ethically comfortable with.

From my Vocabulary Definitions blog:

bribe - You pay someone to act illegally.

expedite fee - You pay someone to work faster.

Let's travel back in time and... more