> "I continue to be befuddled by the apparently common habit of using agricultural euphemisms to refer to illicit financial transactions. “Don’t call bribes chickens,” I suggested a while ago, after U.S. prosecutors charged someone with doing that. If your business has nothing to do with chickens, then when prosecutors see winking references to chickens in your email, they are going to know that you mean bribes, and a jury is going to agree. Much better to say “success fees,” so you have some argument that you were doing somehow legitimate transactions."
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-01/insura...
Don't call your bribes 'success fees', call them 'speaking fees'.