{"id":58861,"date":"2022-10-15T08:32:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T12:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=660285a83052ae457e203753f8fa1443"},"modified":"2022-10-15T08:32:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T12:32:58","slug":"att-committed-to-ensuring-it-never-bribes-lawmakers-again-after-23-million-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=58861","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T \u2018committed to ensuring\u2019 it never bribes lawmakers again after $23 million fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/10\/15\/23405389\/att-illinois-23-million-investigation-bribe-corruption\">The Verge -  All Posts<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Telecom companies and bribing governments for regulatory advantage.  \nName a more iconic combination.<\/div><figure><img alt=\"Illustration of the AT&amp;amp;T logo on a dark blue background.\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/YlAalUkU0tS9O7YoJw5mVDzZCr0=\/0x0:2040x1360\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/71498669\/acastro_180322_1777_0001.0.jpg\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><figcaption>Illustration by Alex Castro \/ The Verge<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>AT&amp;T Illinois will pay $23 million after it admitted to making payments to former Illinois Speaker of the House Michael J. Madigan&rsquo;s political ally in return for his &ldquo;vote and influence over a bill,&rdquo; according to a Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ndil\/pr\/att-illinois-pay-23-million-resolve-federal-investigation-efforts-unlawfully-influence\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release from the Department of Justice<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2022\/10\/att-to-pay-23m-fine-for-bribing-powerful-lawmakers-ally-in-exchange-for-vote\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via <em>Ars Technica<\/em><\/a>). The company will also have to cooperate with the government&rsquo;s investigation into the alleged misconduct and will have to set up a compliance and ethics program that the government will receive reports on. If the company keeps up its end of the bargain, the government will dismiss its prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>According to the DOJ, in 2017 AT&amp;T paid one of Madigan&rsquo;s allies $22,500 through a lobbying firm that it worked with. AT&amp;T employees tried to make it seem as if...<\/p>\n  <p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/10\/15\/23405389\/att-illinois-23-million-investigation-bribe-corruption\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading&hellip;<\/a>\n  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustration by Alex Castro \/ The Verge<\/p>\n<p>  AT&amp;T Illinois will pay $&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=58861\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}