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Smartmatic co-founder says US wrongly charged gratuities scheme in bribery case

By Samuel Rubenfeld ( April 28, 2025, 23:41 GMT | Insight) -- Alleged payments to a Filipino government official were gratuities, not bribes, and therefore would be legal under decades of Supreme Court precedent, Smartmatic co-founder Roger Alejandro Piñate Martinez argued today in a motion to dismiss the corruption charges against him. Piñate is scheduled to go to trial in October along with Jorge Miguel Vasquez, a former Smartmatic executive.Alleged payments to a Filipino government official were gratuities, not bribes, and therefore would be legal under decades of Supreme Court precedent, Smartmatic co-founder Roger Alejandro Piñate Martinez argued today in a motion to dismiss the corruption charges against him....

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