Prosecutors told the court that he and his co-conspirators paid and conspired to pay more than $1 million in bribes to Ghanaian officials to secure the deal. The Office of the Special Prosecutor has said it assisted the FBI’s investigation, and Deputy Attorney-General Justice Srem Sai has said the Attorney-General is coordinating with U.S. counterparts on any Ghanaian officials implicated. That distinction matters and readers should hold it in mind: what has been proven in Brooklyn is that Berko conspired to bribe unnamed Ghanaian officials. What has not been established, in any court, is which individuals inside Parliament, if any, received money or knew what it was for. An institution that is repeatedly named in corruption allegations, however unproven, cannot allow its credibility to be settled by default.