[praptak]

In most countries there are laws for dealing with breach of trust, which covers all kinds of damage that a person can do when hired to manage someone else's company.

So my guess is that while bribes in private sector are not illegal per se, you can still go to jail for the decisions made as the result of taking the bribe.

[colechristensen]

In california at least, private sector bribery is explicitly a felony.

On the federal level you get charged for using mail or telecommunications to lie for financial gain or for hiding the source of the money.