United States Second Circuit

Any ambiguity or failure to spell out adequately, in jury instruction, the difference between bribery and paying unlawful gratuities, was cured by the district court's later description of bribery, which clearly set out the quid pro quo requirement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/08/2002
• Published 10/08/2002

Judges

• Before: VAN GRAAFEILAND, WINTER, and SACK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Karl E. Pflanz,Newman & Greenberg (Richard A. Greenberg, of counsel), New York, NY, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Evan T. Barr, Assistant United States Attorney (Mary Jo White, United States Attorney, and Celeste L. Koeleveld, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel), New York, NY, for Appellee.