federal-bribery

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-855 Shen Zhen New World I, LLC v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied circuit-conflict federal-bribery gift-exchange legal-precedent official-action public-official Does providing a gift to a public official in the hope or expectation that he will be receptive to a later request for official action constitute fede…
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…
23A908 Alejandro Carrasco v. United States First Circuit 2024-04-10 Presumed Complete anti-corruption-law federal-bribery municipal-contract official-act public-official statutory-interpretation 1) Whether a legal services contract between a private-practice attorney and a municipality automatically transform the private practitioner into a go…
23-108 James E. Snyder v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-08-03 Judgment Issued Amici (9) 18-usc-666 circuit-split corruption criminal-law federal-bribery federal-crime government-business official-corruption quid-pro-quo state-local-official statutory-interpretation Whether section 666 criminalizes gratuities, i.e., payments in recognition of actions the official has already taken or committed to take, without any…
20-731 Paul Winfield v. United States Probation & Pretrial Services, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response Waived 18-USC-201 18-USC-666 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law federal-bribery McDonnell-v-US overbreadth statutory-interpretation statutory-overbreadth supreme-court-precedent vagueness Since 18 U.S.C.A. § 666 is even broader than other federal bribery statutes, does it suffer from the same constitutional infirmities of vagueness and …