JORDAN, Circuit Judge:
"Corruption," Edward Gibbon wrote more than two centuries ago, is "the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty." EDWARD GIBBON, THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, Vol. II, Ch. XXI, at 805 (David Womersley ed., Penguin Classics 1995) [1781]. And so, although unfortunate, it is perhaps not surprising that, even today, people continue to pay bribes to government officials with the expectation that they will make...
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