Crossword-Solution: BRIBERIES 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

During the second Grant campaign (1872), when Horace Greeley was making his astounding run for President, the New York Sun hinted at gross and wholesale briberies of Congressmen by Oakes Ames and his associates who had built the Union Pacific Railroad, an enterprise which the United States had generously aided with loans and gifts.

Then he becomes cognisant of their official doings, of their politics, of their municipal scandals, of their great ring-robberies, of their lobbyings and briberies, and the infinite baseness of their public life.

Whitney and others, whose monumental briberies, thefts and piracies have frequently been uncovered in official investigations.

Pullman, Thomas Dolan, one of the street railway syndicate whose briberies of legislatures and common councils, and whose manipulation of street railways in Philadelphia and other cities were so notorious a scandal; John Wanamaker, combining piety and sharp business;--these were three of them.

These deities might be lured by certain rites and briberies into a transfer of their favors to the besieging army.