United States v. Morton Jacobs and Irving Spieler

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• finding that IRS agent’s rejection of $5,000 bribe offered by defendant “had no bearing” on whether defendant violated the bribery statute because the crime was already complete once defendant “ex- pressed an ability and a desire to pay”
• \It is . . . perfectly plain that the crime [of § 201(b)(1) bribery] is consummated irrespective of whether an offer of an amount of money to influence an official's behavior is accepted by the official.\

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