Commonwealth v. Cherpes

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendant could be convicted for making false written statements under Section 4904(a)(1) regardless of whether the defendant had personally memorialized the statements
• stating that, “Section 4701(a)(1) refers to the acceptance of a pecuniary benefit as consideration for the public official’s vote ... a simple quid pro quo transaction”
• explaining the distinction between conflict of interest and bribery; stating that the purpose of section 403(b
• finding evidence sufficient to support conviction of unsworn falsification to authorities where witness testified, contrary to Cherpes’s claim otherwise, that Cherpes signed financial disclosure form which failed to disclose certain income from his insurance business
• equal protection attack on mandatory fine-enhancement statute waived where not set out in argument section of brief

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