Suborn:
- verb (transitive)
to bribe, incite, or instigate (a person) to commit a wrongful act- criminal law
to induce (a witness) to commit perjury [Collins Dictionary]
Noted in “Vance dismisses Watergate scandal, says ‘deep state’ went after Nixon,” Dan Diamond, WaPo:
“You can hear him suborn perjury on the tapes. He’s telling an intermediary, what to tell someone who’s about to be interviewed by the FBI, what to say and what not to say,” said Naftali, who oversaw the Nixon library’s Watergate exhibit. “You can hear Nixon being told that money had been found to hire teamsters to go and break the bones of demonstrators. That’s all illegal.”
Suborn perjury is itself a phrase I ran across in legal contexts.
