As aresultofyourhard-work,ability,andachievement,in2015,you are appointed to be director of your company's European operations.Things go well, and, despite the lack of Starbucks, you enjoy your new office in Italy.Then, you learn that, in the five years before your arrival, your company had engaged in a pattern of bribery, whereby payments in violation of the Foreign CorruptPracticesActweremadetolocalofficialsinordertosecure contracts.As fate would have it, those discreteofficialswishtocontinue collecting such bribes.In fact, one will be arriving at the end of the debate concerning this matter.Suddenly, much of the fun is gone from your work.In evaluating what to do, you realize that you probably will not ever be caught if you pay the bribe, that you could pay the bribe just once (today) and then arrange things so you never would have to do so again, and that the statute of limitations applicabletoyourpayment ofthebribetodaywouldbefive years (consequently, if you paid the bribe today and if nothing happened for the next five years, you could not be prosecuted for paying that bribe).

Argue that you should not the bribe, and just hope it all goes away.