Mayling Blanco Katey Fardelmann Sarah Perlin

August 15, 2024 | New York Law Journal

In fraud and corruption cases, the Supreme Court and the US government are marching in opposite directions. The DOJ continues to embrace new tools from Congress and the White House—including a newly-passed anti-corruption law—while the Supreme Court has increasingly cut back on the DOJ's broad theories of prosecution. This article examines the implications from the Court's latest opinion, Snyder v. United States, which, if applied to other bribery statutes, could severely limit the DOJ's view that gifts to government officials are no different than bribes.

By Mayling Blanco, Katey Fardelmann, Sarah Perlin and Andrey Spektor

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