Mona offers Ned, a building inspector, $5,000 to overlook the violations in her new warehouse. Ned accepts the cash and overlooks the viola-tions. Mona is charged with the crime of bribery. The crime occurred when

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Mona offers Ned, a building inspector, $5,000 to overlook the violations in her new warehouse. Ned accepts the cash and overlooks the viola-tions. Mona is charged with the crime of bribery. The crime occurred when

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Koen Bonilla · Answer 1

Mona offered the bribe

Explanation:

According to the Black's Law Dictionary, bribery is defined as the giving, soliciting, offering or receiving of any item or thing of value in order to influence the results or actions of any person or officials to overlook some violation or to influence a decision.

It is crime to give and receive bribes.

In the context, Mona offers bribes to Ned who is a building inspector and asks him to overlook or neglect the violations that she has made while constructing the warehouse. But Mona is charged for the crime of bribery and the crime occurred when Mona was offering the bribe to Ned.