Every Gift a Crime? Taking Ethics Reform Too Far
- By Robert L. Walker
- Special to Roll Call
- May 4, 2009, Midnight
Ten years ago this April, a unanimous Supreme Court held in the United States v. Sun-Diamond Growers of California that to establish a federal gratuities violation — a felony punishable by two years imprisonment — prosecutors had to prove “a link between a thing of value conferred upon a public official and a specific ‘official act’ for or because of which it was given.”
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