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A tl;dr from a skim through: after WalMart of Mexico paid millions in bribes and had a whistleblower which prompted and an internal investigation that found supporting evidence, WalMart stopped the investigation and did damage control rather than damage prevention. And it continues. This story in particular deals with the WalMart near a Teotihuacán pyramid, which only cost them about $80k in bribes.

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Not just bribery, which from what I understand is a common way of business in many areas. This is more like out and out fraud, public deception, and gross ethics violations. Horrible stuff. Maybe that's just how high level bribery works. Much worse than the type of bribery I've heard of in the past.

+ the $114K to the mayor

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