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ARGUED APRIL 8, 2009

Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and KANNE and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

At around midnight on December 12, 2006, Chicago police officers spotted a Lexus and a Lincoln Navigator parked in a dark corner of a Shell gas station. Inside the Lexus were two men: Sorin Adrian Oros, a real estate developer, and David Johnson, the Supervisor of Building Inspectors for the City of Chicago Department of Buildings. The officers, believing they were about to foil a drug deal, approached the vehicle to investigate. After searching both men and the vehicle, the officers found no drugs but Johnson had over $19,000 in his pocket, $12,000 of which came from Oros. They also found blueprints-architectural drawings of three properties. Oros told the officers that he had paid Johnson the $12,000 to have his plans “expedited” through the City’s rigorous approval process. The government called it bribery, and the jury agreed, convicting Oros of bribery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 666(a)(2). Oros now appeals his conviction and sentence. Because the testimony and circumstantial evidence presented at trial support his conviction as well as the district court’s findings at sentencing, we affirm both.

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