{"id":1778,"date":"2008-12-23T09:02:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T14:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2009-07-05T12:14:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T17:14:40","slug":"siemens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1778","title":{"rendered":"Siemens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/21\/business\/worldbusiness\/21siemens.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all\">Siri Schubert and T. Christian Miller in <em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Before 1999, bribes were deductible as business expenses under the German tax code, and paying off a foreign official was not a criminal offense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is it any wonder then that less than ten years later, Siemens still used bribery as a part of it&#8217;s business. A fascinating article &#8211; tracing how bribery became the cornerstone of Siemens businesses in the post-World War II period as it faced stigma and a decimated home country and fell technologically behind American companies. Bribery was how it stayed around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siri Schubert and T. Christian Miller in The New York Times: Before 1999, bribes were deductible as business expenses under the German tax code, and paying off a foreign official was not a criminal offense. Is it any wonder then that less than ten years later, Siemens still used bribery as a part of it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[544],"tags":[1165,427,1164,1162,1163,148],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-bribery","tag-germany","tag-siemens","tag-siri-schubert","tag-t-christian-miller","tag-the-new-york-times"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8qcx-siemens","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}