James Koukios spoke to ABA Journal about the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion for Snyder v. United States, which found that a federal fraud statute regarding state and local officials does not cover gratuities, even if the payments were intended as rewards for official acts.
James said that Congress could fix the issue with the anti-corruption statute by rewriting it to specifically include gratuities, but noted that “it’s hard to get a majority in Congress to agree on rewriting a law about a federalism issue.”
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