bribery
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-757 | Matthew Borges v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | bribery campaign-finance first-amendment official-act political-contribution quid-pro-quo | The First Amendment protects soliciting for, and contributing to, political campaigns based on policies that a candidate agrees to take while in offic… |
| 25-528 | David Paitsel v. United States | District of Columbia | 2025-10-31 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | bribery circuit-court due-process judicial-precedent official-act prosecutorial-standards | In McDonnell v. United States, 579 U.S. 550 (2016), this Court set very clear prosecutorial and judicial standards in criminal proceedings involving b… |
| 25-306 | Thomas F. Spellissy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery conspiracy government-position honest-services-fraud official-act private-contractor | Whether a private contractor who holds no formal government position and lacks inherent governmental responsibility, can be convicted of conspiracy to… |
| 25-49 | Alexander Sittenfeld aka P. G. Sittenfeld v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-15 | Pending | Amici (12)Relisted (5) | bribery campaign-finance first-amendment official-act political-contribution quid-pro-quo | The First Amendment protects soliciting and contributing funds to support a political candidate based on his or her intended policies. To avoid chilli… |
| 24-142 | Brian Benjamin v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-08-08 | Denied | Amici (2) | bribery campaign-contributions criminal-law explicit-agreement first-amendment quid-pro-quo | Where the government charges an elected official with bribery for accepting campaign contributions in exchange for lawful constituent services, McCorm… |
| 24-5076 | Chi Meng Yang v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-15 | Denied | IFP | 18-U.S.C.-666 bribery certiorari-review federal-state-cooperation harmless-error joint-operations public-authority-defense statutory-interpretation United-States-v.-Snyder | Whether this court should Grant certiorari, vacate and remand, because the Ninth Circuit's harmless error holding was based on an interpretation of br… |
| 23-7754 | Alejandro Carrasco v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-06-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bribery circuit-split federal-bribery government-agent official-act public-corruption quid-pro-quo statutory-interpretation | I. Does an external consultant retained by a state or local government qualify as a government "agent" subject to prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 666 wh… |
| 23-845 | Timothy Ray Vasquez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery criminal-procedure due-process honest-services-fraud official-act public-official quid-pro-quo quid-pro-quo-bribery statutory-interpretation | Does quid pro quo bribery, in the context of an honest services fraud prosecution, permit conviction on the basis that a public official received a be… |
| 23-277 | Usha Soujanya Karri v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | abstention bribery civil-rights civil-rights-violation color-of-law criminal-cover-up judicial-misconduct murder-conspiracy procedural-technicality rule-of-law | 1. Is it lawful when the Trial Court cites 'absten tion grounds ' and refuses to order for investigation as per the 'Rule of Law ', as Chicago Polic… |
| 23-17 | Wisam R. Rizk v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-05 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery conflict-of-interest constitutional-vagueness criminal-law federal-jurisdiction honest-services statutory-interpretation undisclosed-self-dealing vagueness | 1. This court has ruled that "conflict of interest " and "undisclosed self-dealing " by a private individual is not in the preview of §1346 (Percoco… |
| 22-1127 | Christine Sawicky v. Tao Sykes, Manuel Real Beneficiary, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment bribery due-process equal-protection honest-services-fraud judicial-immunity pro-se pro-se-litigation | 1. How can the DOJ bring multiple indictments for judges in several circuits, inclusive of counts for honest services fraud and bribery, but then re… |
| 22-5800 | Collin Kaiser v. Sue Krecko, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bribery civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-housing ex-parte-communication judicial-misconduct medical-malpractice-insurance obstruction-of-justice public-corruption | The questions of public corruption within the Eastern District of New York Central Islip Federal Courthouse, judicial misconduct performed by both Jud… |
| 22-328 | Scott Allinson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-10-07 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery campaign-contributions circuit-conflict corruption evans-v-united-states legal-referral mccormick-v-united-states official-action prosecutorial-standard quid-pro-quo | Whether this Court's decision in United States v. Evans, 504 U.S. 255 (1992) modified the explicit quid pro quo standard required by United States v. … |
| 21-7378 | Andrew Long v. Oregon State Bar | Oregon | 2022-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-discipline bribery disbarment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indefinite-suspension state-attorney-discipline state-bar-misconduct witness-bribery | Did the Oregon Supreme Court violate Long's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process prior to deprivation of his property interest where its order of… |
| 21-1176 | Alice Jin-Yue Guan v. Bing Ran | Virginia | 2022-02-25 | Denied | bribery civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-order due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct jurisdiction standing | Judge James C Clark, twice, after hearings had already completed, added handwritten rulings into pre-typed orders without notice and without due proce… | |
| 21-706 | Joel Iverson Gilbert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Denied | bribery bribery-statute federal-bribery-laws first-amendment issue-advocacy jury-instruction jury-instructions official-action prosecutorial-standard | 1. Whether, in a bribery prosecution based on issue-advocacy payments that would otherwise enjoy First Amendment protection, the Government must prove… | |
| 21-6181 | Ahmad Jamaleddin Aljindi v. United States, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-power bribery civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice retaliation | 1. Did the United States District Court - Central District of California 's Chief Judge Philip S. Gutierrez violate the United States Constitution whe… |
| 21-605 | David Lynn Roberson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-26 | Denied | bribery bribery-prosecution circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-programs first-amendment free-speech issue-advocacy official-action quid-pro-quo | 1. Whether, in a bribery prosecution based on issue-advocacy payments that would otherwise enjoy First Amendment protection, the government must prove… | |
| 20-7752 | Bralen Lamar Jordan v. Kathleen H. Sawyer, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bribery civil-procedure civil-rights document-misstatement due-process evidence judicial-misconduct legal-misconduct malicious-prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct | Skf&Ui FoA Tint tizCQ-M. To Rtx/ltwJ gAg.hAg.GUS TuOlf.-, R.L AAi StLoNhu£. T Aivin JvUUuouS PgQjeCuT.-oivi jXnI K.utli*t TuSXctjwfcriT Xw Nti CjkSt … |
| 20-1341 | Volvy Smilowitz v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-03-24 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery civil-rights election-fraud election-statute federal-elections federal-oversight state-elections state-law travel-act voter-fraud voting | 1. Title 52, Section 10307(c), proscribes certain wrongful conduct in connection with voting and registering to vote. By its express terms, Section 10… |
| 20-1131 | James C. Dimora v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-17 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery conviction criminal-conviction due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions lawful-conduct legal-error official-act statutory-interpretation | Whether a McDonnell error—i.e., defining the element of "official act" overbroadly in bribery counts and thereby enabling a jury to wrongly conclude t… |
| 20-935 | Anne Richards, et al. v. Sam Olens, et al. | Georgia | 2021-01-11 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extortion fraud judicial-misconduct obstruction obstruction-of-justice rico-act rule-of-law | 1. Whether the total breakdown of Georgia's justice system —in which the state never responded to documented allegations of fraud, obstruction, briber… |
| 20-60 | Sheldon Silver v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-07-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) | appeals-court bribery criminal-law due-process extortion harmless-error hobbs-act public-official | (1) Can a public official be convicted of bribery absent proof of an agreed exchange with the alleged bribe payor, based solely on his unexpressed, un… |
| 19-1145 | Ng Lap Seng v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | bribery bribery-of-foreign-officials criminal-prosecution foreign-corrupt-practices-act international-organizations mcdonnell-v-united-states official-act quasi-sovereign-public-international-entities statutory-interpretation united-nations | 1. Whether the generic term "organization" in §666 should be construed to include quasi-sovereign public international entities like the United Nation… | |
| 19-1000 | Heon-Cheol Chi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-10 | Denied | bribery corrupt-intent criminal-intent foreign-bribery intent-to-influence mcdonnell-v-united-states money-laundering official-act public-official statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether "an offense against a foreign nation involving . . . bribery of a public official" under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(c)(7)(B) requires generic bribery… | |
| 19-912 | Albert T. Robles v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bribery campaign-contribution campaign-contributions federal-officials federal-statute first-amendment hobbs-act quid-pro-quo | Whether conviction of a federal bribery charge against a state or local official under 18 U.S.C. § 666 requires proof of a quid pro quo where the alle… |
| 19-7110 | Robert W. Johnson v. Colleen McMahon, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bribery civil-procedure civil-rights due-process insurance-fraud standing | Question not identified. |
| 18-6566 | Jara Meotta Ishon Flowers v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | bribery case-overturning civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extortion judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-precedent precedent racketeering stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | In Ocasio v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1423 (2016), separate opinions by Justice Thomas and Justice Breyer questioned whether Euans v. United States, … |