Bribery and Corruption 18 Law & Order episodes
Bribes, kickbacks and public officials who sell their influence.
- Season 1 · Episode 6
Everybody's Favorite Bagman
A city councilman’s death looks like a street mugging until the detectives learn he once carried bribes for powerful people.
- Season 1 · Episode 16
The Torrents of Greed: Part 2
Barred from retrying the mob boss for murder, the prosecutors look for another way to reach him.
- Season 1 · Episode 22
The Blue Wall
When evidence is altered in police custody, suspicion falls on the detectives’ own captain.
- Season 2 · Episode 1
Confession
When Sgt. Max Greevey is murdered the night before he testifies to a grand jury, his grieving partner will do anything to catch the killer.
- Season 2 · Episode 10
Heaven
A fire at a club for Central American immigrants kills 53 people, and the obvious suspect may not be the real one.
- Season 2 · Episode 18
Cradle to Grave
A baby left in a box on an emergency-room floor turns out to have frozen to death at home.
- Season 6 · Episode 4
Jeopardy
A triple shooting at a computer magazine points to the editor’s wealthy brother, but a judge dismisses the case midtrial, and the reason turns out to be a bribe.
- Season 6 · Episode 20
Girlfriends
A senior is found dead in her college library, and the search for a campus rapist turns into a case about a student escort ring and a father’s shoe business.
- Season 8 · Episode 8
Shadow
A bail bondsman’s murder exposes a lawyer selling fixed cases, and a secret sham prosecution meant to find his inside man leads to one of Jamie Ross’s colleagues.
- Season 13 · Episode 20
Kid Pro Quo
The admissions director of an elite Manhattan private school is beaten to death with her own cane, and her fight for a rejected scholarship applicant exposes a chain of favors that bought a kindergarten seat for a pornographer’s son.
- Season 14 · Episode 7
Floater
A woman pulled from the Hudson turns out to be a family court clerk, and her husband looks guilty until the prosecutors find a divorce lawyer paying to get his cases before a favored judge.
- Season 14 · Episode 16
Can I Get a Witness?
A 19-year-old is gunned down in a park by a cyclist with a clouded eye, and the case against the accused collapses when one eyewitness backs out and the other is killed before cross-examination, sending McCoy after the cousin suspected of silencing them.
- Season 15 · Episode 7
Gov Love
The wife of Connecticut’s governor is stabbed at a Manhattan fundraiser, and the case exposes a developer’s favors, the governor’s secret affair with a man and a legal fight over same-sex marriage.
- Season 15 · Episode 21
Publish and Perish
An adult-film star turned memoirist is found shot in her Manhattan sublet, and Fontana and Nick Falco, his fill-in partner, follow the case from her enraged editor to a former police commissioner nominated for a top national security post.
- Season 18 · Episode 18
Excalibur
A gold refiner’s murder leads to his brother-in-law’s escort agency, and one of its clients turns out to be the governor who holds McCoy’s political future.
- Season 19 · Episode 4
Falling
A crane collapse that kills a passerby exposes a bribed inspector, then leads to the near drowning of the dead man’s wife and a fight over a controversial procedure to keep a disabled girl small.
- Season 19 · Episode 22
The Drowned and the Saved
The murder of a charity executive with a secret S&M habit leads to the governor’s wife and a scheme to swap a Senate appointment for a prestigious job, just as McCoy’s election nears.
- Season 20 · Episode 19
Crashers
A young model who crashed a party at Gracie Mansion is beaten to death and burned, and the investigation leads from her troubled brother to a senator’s office and home.