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Supreme Court Rules Bribery Statute Doesn’t Criminalize Gratuities for Past Acts

In Snyder v. United States, 603 U.S. ____ (2024), the U.S. Supreme Court held that 18 U.S.C. §666, a federal law that makes it a crime for state and local officials to “corruptly” solicit, accept, or agree to accept “anything of value from any person, intending to be influenced or rewarded” for an official act, proscribes bribes to state and local officials but does not make it a crime for those officials to accept gratuities for their past acts.