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AMOROSO: Let me ask you now we're here together. I was under the impression, okay, and I told Howard we were willing to pay. And, okay, [opens the drawer and shows money] I went out and got the fifty thousand. From what you're telling me, you're telling me that's not what, you know, that that's not what you...
MURTHA: I'm not interested.
AMOROSO: Okay.
MURTHA: At this point.
AMOROSO: Okay.
MURTHA: You know, we do business for a while, maybe I'll be interested, maybe I won't, you know.
I've highlighted the parts in case you are as hard of reading as hard of hearing.
That's not exactly an indignant refusal of the money, now is it? It's a crafty way of leaving it on the table until you have developed a high enough level of trust in the briber to take the money.
No one ever said Murtha was stupid. Just corrupt.
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