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Snyder v. United States, 603 U.S. 1 (2024), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held 18 U.S.C. § 666 prohibits bribes to state and local officials but does not make it a crime for those officials to accept gratuities for their past acts.
CHICAGO — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out a key part of the federal bribery statute often used in many Chicago-area corruption cases — including that of ex-Illinois House Speaker ...
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court/ is set to hear oral arguments in a case challenging the very statute that Madigan was charged under for the Solis episode, which is commonly referred to as ...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down part of a federal anti-corruption law that makes it a crime for state and local officials to take gifts valued at more than $5,000 from a donor who had ...
Federal official bribery and gratuity and conspiracy to defraud the United States Abscam [40] Democrat: James Traficant: House of Representatives: Ohio 2002 Federal official bribery and gratuity, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and RICO [53] Democrat: J. Irving Whalley: House of Representatives: Pennsylvania 1973 Mail fraud [54] Republican
The federal bribery and gratuity statute, 18 U.S.C. § 201, was enacted in 1962 as part of a comprehensive conflict-of-interest legislative reform. [27] The Supreme Court considers subsections (b) and (c) to be "two separate crimes—or two pairs of crimes." [28] In Dixson v.
The Supreme Court overturned the bribery conviction of a former Indiana mayor on Wednesday in an opinion that narrows the scope of public corruption law. The high court's 6-3 opinion along ...
McDonnell v. United States, 579 U.S. 550 (2016), was a United States Supreme Court case concerning the appeal of former Virginia Governor Robert F. McDonnell's conviction for honest services fraud and Hobbs Act extortion.