Category Archives: bribery
“This Web site allows political donors to give money based on how lawmakers vote. Just don’t call it bribery.”
WaPo on the If-Then Fund.
Gov. Blagojevich Appeal, Argued Dec. 2013, Still Pending Before 7th Circuit
Inexplicable, especially before the usually speedy 7th Circuit, and especially with Judge Easterbrook on the panel.
“Don Siegelman denied new trial: Bribery conviction, prison sentence upheld by federal appeals court”
AP reports on this ruling of the 11th Circuit.
What’s Like a Slow Motion Car Crash?
New York State government, says Ciara Torres-Spelliscy.
“Appeals judges pepper McDonnell defense with skeptical questions”
“Judge Blasts Prosecutors in Foreign Bribe Case”
The Recorder:
With harsh words for prosecutors, a federal judge in San Francisco dismissed a foreign bribery case on Friday, calling it the most “misguided prosecution” he’d seen in 50 years of criminal practice.
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, himself… Continue reading
“Dean Skelos, New York Senate Leader, and His Son Are Said to Be Focus of Federal Inquiry”
NYT reports.
A draft paper of mine asks why New York sees so many more corruption prosecutions and convictions than Congress and most other states.
“Oversimplifying Corruption and the Power of Disgust”
Bob Bauer with some important points on the connection between campaign finance reform and corruption, including some reflections on my draft paper, Why Isn’t Congress More Corrupt? A Preliminary Inquiry.
“Menendez indictment marks first big corruption case involving a super PAC”
Must-read Matea Gold in WaPo:
“You just see that everything that goes on behind the scenes confirms people’s worst fears: that someone can swear that there’s no quid pro quo and no deals, but it’s very hard to know if… Continue reading
“Applying Citizens United to Ordinary Corruption”
George Brown has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Notre Dame Law Review). Here is the abstract:
Federal criminal law frequently deals with the problem of corruption in the form of purchased political influence. There appear to be two distinct… Continue reading
“WyLiberty Brief Helps Turn Tide in Texas Free Speech Case”
Release:
The Texas Fifth Court of Appeals ruled yesterday in Cary v. Texas that evidence presented by state prosecutors to convict David Cary of bribery, money laundering and engaging in organized criminal activity was legally insufficient. The state brought… Continue reading
“Why Isn’t Congress More Corrupt? A Preliminary Inquiry”
I have written this symposium draft (forthcoming Fordham Law Review) and posted it on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
In the aftermath of the indictment of New York state assembly speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges, law professor (and recent… Continue reading
No Election Law Video Games
Hartford Courant:
There are no video games about election law violations, that we know of, and the subject rarely comes up in television crime dramas. But clean elections are the bedrock of a representative democracy, and the laws that… Continue reading