The story of Goldman Sachs's Libya salesman is more about stupidity than it is about bribery (if it is at all about bribery). Here is Matt Levine's take on it: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-29/goldman-s...

It makes very good points about bank-customer relationships in general, too. Discussion on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12610352.