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The Volkov Law Group

Supreme Court Continues to Pare Back Criminal Laws

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In a pair of rulings issued near the end of the last Term, Fischer v. United States and Snyder v. United States, the Supreme Court continued to cut back on the Justice Department’s interpretation and enforcement of criminal...more

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“Tip” Away?! SCOTUS Rules That 18 U.S.C. § 666 Does Not Criminalize Gratuities

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On Wednesday, June 26, 2024, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal anti-bribery statute does not make it a crime for state and local officials to accept a gratuity for acts taken in the past....more

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Supreme Court Resolves Circuit Split and Finds Federal Gratuities Inapplicable to State and Local Officials

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On June 26, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion in a public corruption case that could have a lasting impact on how the U.S. Government prosecutes corruption and procurement fraud cases involving state and local...more

Baker Donelson

Timing is Everything: The Court's Latest Gift to Defendants in Bribery Prosecutions (Snyder v. United States)

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Readers of prior Firm client alerts in the white-collar criminal space will no doubt recall the Supreme Court's recent trend of scaling back the powers of the Department of Justice (DOJ) in prosecuting public corruption...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Supreme Court Limits Scope of Anti-Bribery Statute for State Officials

In Snyder v. United States, the Supreme Court of the United States held that it is not a federal crime for state and local officials to accept gratuities under 18 U.S.C. § 666. In so doing, the Court overturned the decision...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

US Supreme Court Holds That Federal Bribery Law Does Not Criminalize Gratuities

On June 26, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court found that the main federal anti-corruption statute proscribing bribes to state and local officials does not criminalize gratuities, which the Court described as “payments made to an...more

Sands Anderson PC

U.S. Supreme Court Says Federal Bribery Statute Permits “Gratuities”: Virginia Law Much Less Forgiving

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Last month, in Snyder v. United States, the Supreme Court of the United States narrowly construed the federal anti-bribery statute.  In that case, the mayor of Portage, Indiana worked with other officials to carefully prepare...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Supreme Court Holds Bribery Statute Does Not Criminalize After-the-Fact Gratuities

In the latest example of the Roberts court reining in the government’s use of broadly worded criminal statutes, on June 26, 2024, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Snyder that the federal bribery statute does not...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Supreme Court Decides Snyder v. United States

On June 26, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Snyder v. United States, No. 23-108, holding that federal statute 18 U. S. C. § 666, which makes it a crime for most state and local officials to “corruptly” solicit, accept,...more

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Snyder V. United States: Will Public Servants Be Next To Put Out A Tip Jar?

Who would have thought politicians can work for tips? Well, that is what Portage, Indiana Mayor Jim Snyder argued (more or less) before the Supreme Court last month, when he sought to overturn his conviction under 18 U.S.C. §...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

The Supreme Court Agrees to Resolve Circuit Split on Local Official Bribery Statute

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On December 13, 2023, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeal of ex-Portage, Indiana Mayor James Snyder. The court’s ruling will settle a circuit split involving 18 U.S.C. § 666(a)(1)(B). The statute penalizes any state...more

Stinson - Government Contracting Matters

Bribery, Gratuities, and Kickbacks, Oh My!

On December 12, 2019, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a former civilian employee of the U.S. Army is being prosecuted by the DOJ’s Criminal Division’s Fraud Section....more

The Volkov Law Group

Fighting Corruption and Obstacles to Criminal Prosecution — (Part II of II)

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There is no universal definition of corruption. Frankly, the term can be narrowly defined to focus on bribery or it can be given a wider application, extending to abuse of power. Transparency International defines...more

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Financial Services Weekly News - August 2016 #3

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Editor's Note - MetLife Fights On. MetLife continued to fight its designation as a nonbank systemically important financial institution (SIFI) this week as the insurer filed its reply brief in the Financial Stability...more

Burns & Levinson LLP

Gratuitous Payments Cannot Be Re-Cast as Accrued Vacation Pay Required by Massachusetts Wage Act

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A favorite saying of my mentor and colleague in the Labor and Employment Group here at Burns & Levinson is “no good deed goes unpunished.” Over my years of practice, I have found that this phrase oft comes to mind when an...more

Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP

The D.C. Circuit Expands the Scope of Honest-Services Fraud and Illegal-Gratuities Prosecutions in Ring v. United States

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in United States v. Ring recently upheld a conviction under the public sector “honest-services” fraud statute and the “illegal-gratuities” statute. Notably, the court: (1)...more

Saul Ewing LLP

White Collar Watch - March 2013

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In This Issue: - Eleventh Circuit Holds that Production of Foreign Bank Account Records May be Compelled in Criminal Investigation Under Required Records Exception to Fifth Amendment Privilege - Supreme Court...more

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