Glad Vod made the call to tag this guy, because I got a PM from OP about this and I'm not tagging people for merit abuse/begging.  But in a case as blatant as this, I do think he deserves some sort of censure.

Members who don't want to earn merits like everyone else has to annoy me to no end.  And if this guy is a bounty manager, he's basically asking for a bribe in exchange for giving someone work.  I've heard that's common in a lot of places in this world, but that shouldn't be happening on bitcointalk. 

I don't know the whole story about this guy or this project, but how these bounty managers get their positions is beyond me when they're pulling crap like this.  They probably bribe the project devs with kickbacks (but that's just speculation on my part).