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SCOTUS dispatch: government lawyer grilled for an hour on meaning of federal corruption statute

JURIST

James Snyder, the former mayor of Portage Indiana accused of having criminally solicited a payment in this case, seemed calm and upbeat. 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. The group took pictures and made jokes.

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