Business leaders will remember a time when U.S. companies were more or less alone in being exposed to legal action for foreign commercial bribery.

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Dworkin pleaded guilty to three counts of securities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, and conspiracy to use interstate facilities with the intent to carry on commercial bribery, the letter says.

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But in March 2005 USA Today reported on Langley's sordid past: In 1999 he had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and commercial bribery in connection with a penny stock called Pollution Controls International.

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Daryl Dworkin made the statements at his arraignment in federal court in Brooklyn on Wednesday when he pleaded guilty to three counts of securities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, and conspiracy to use interstate facilities with the intent to carry on commercial bribery.

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Andrew Dodwell, who is trying to stop commercial wind farms being built in Devon, said Good Energy's discount incentive "sounded like bribery" and the prospect of cheaper electricity would not persuade him to stop campaigning against wind farms.

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