John Gillies, the head of the FBI office in Miami, retells one particular tale of public corruption repeatedly these days. He said it shows how public corruption is often right out in the open for everyone to see.

Speaking to the Economic Forum of Palm Beach County on Wednesday, Gillies said he worked a case in California in which an attorney openly bribed judges and juries. The lawyer even took a jury out to lunch. Gillies later asked the opposing attorney in the case why he didn’t go to law enforcement. The chagrined lawyer said, “I didn’t want to look cheap in front of the jurors.”

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