Sentences with phrase «federal bribery statutes»
That ruling, reached six months after the Skeloses were convicted, significantly narrowed the definition of an «official act» as it applies to federal bribery statutes and found that, while the McDonnell case was «distasteful,» it did not rise to the level of public corruption.
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The court ruled that federal attorneys had interpreted the law too broadly, and that the jury was not properly instructed on the meaning of an «official act» within the federal bribery statutes.
«It is instead with the broader legal implications of the government's boundless interpretation of the federal bribery statute,» Roberts wrote.
It is instead with the broader legal implications of the Government's boundless interpretation of the federal bribery statute.»
The court was concerned about «the government's boundless interpretation of the federal bribery statute.»
The federal bribery statute does not require and explicit quid pro quo for conviction, and a federal appeals court affirmed that there was potentially enough evidence in the government's case to merit a re-trial.
The federal bribery statute bars agents of federally funded entities from taking anything of value for influence «in connection with any business, transaction, or series of transactions... involving any thing of value of $ 5,000 or more.»
Not exact matches
Federal criminal bribery statutes apply to presidents, too, but only for egregious and blatant abuses.
«There's a bunch of people currently serving time of jail, politicians who engaged in bribery or kickbacks, and were prosecuted under honest services instead of the federal anti-bribery statute,» says Henderson.
Former state Senate leader John Sampson became the latest politician to ask for a review of his corruption conviction based on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last week narrowing federal bribery and «honest services fraud» statutes in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.
Former state Senate leader John Sampson Tuesday became the latest politician to ask for a review of his corruption conviction based on the Supreme Court's decision last week narrowing federal bribery and «honest services fraud» statutes in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.
Optimally, federal statutes creating an agency or setting forth some comprehensive system of regulation should still contain criminal penalties - but only for more serious crimes, such as willful fraud, bribery, or reckless endangerment.
She has experience in handling investigations and prosecutions brought under a wide variety of federal criminal statutes, including banking fraud, health care fraud, bitcoin schemes, computer crimes, securities fraud, mail and wire fraud schemes, Ponzi schemes, insider trading, government contracting fraud, commercial bribery, Anti-Money-Laundering violations, and conspiracy offenses.