SCOTUS dispatch: government lawyer grilled for an hour on meaning of federal corruption statute
JURIST
APRIL 15, 2024
Sinzdak refused to accept that narrower construction. It is truly—as a former government lawyer—baffling how someone say that [the definition of corruptly] was not contested, that this [gratuity] was wrongful. “Corruptly” as a consciousness of wrongdoing has never been the mens rea for bribery.
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