On the record
If the bribery is not admitted on the evidence of Nundcomar, yet his suppressing it is a crime, a violation of the orders of the Court of Directors.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke asserts that suppressing evidence of bribery constitutes a serious crime, regardless of the evidence's admission.
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