1. Read the transcript in one of the bribery cases below.Discuss the crime of bribery -
2. first what happened and what are the relevant facts/circumstances -
3. and then whether there is evidence of bribery based on your linguistic analysis of the transcript.

Bribery

Mayor James Usry

Background:ATLANTIC CITY The criminal prosecution of Mayor James L. Usry for bribery appears to hinge largely on an eight-minute conversation, secretly recorded in a hospital room, during which undercover informant Albert R. Black tucked the tired mayor in for the night and left behind $6,500.But the transcript of that July 21 recording and transcripts of three other conversations - all obtained by The Inquirer - show no indication that the mayor solicited the cash from Black.

• http://articles.philly.com/1990-02-09/news/25880986_1_first-black-mayor-mayor-james-l-usry-transcripts

Cudahy

Background:http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/22/local/la-me-0623-cudahy-20120623

Background: The negotiations went down during weeks of profane and elliptical conversation, an FBI informant asking for a hard figure: How much cash would it take to bribe Cudahy officials into letting him open his marijuana dispensary?Two council members and a longtime city official were arrested by federal agents Friday morning and charged with bribery. But documents released as part of the criminal complaint suggest that the malfeasance is far more widespread. More than 130 pg of wiretapped conversations depict a city rife with corruption, as well as bribery so pervasive that it's practically expected.

• Cudahy bribery - complaint-affidavit.pdf(p.14 for transcript)