United States Sixth Circuit

Defendant's bribery and extortion convictions are affirmed, where neither 18 U.S.C. section 666 nor the Hobbs Act requires a direct link between a specific gift to a public official and an explicit promise by that official to perform a specific, identifiable official act in return.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/03/2009
• Published 04/03/2009

Judges

• Before:  MARTIN and COOK, Circuit Judges, WATSON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Richard M. Lustig, Richard M. Lustig Law Office, Birmingham, Michigan, for Appellant.  Robert W. Haviland, Assistant United States Attorney, Flint, Michigan, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Richard M. Lustig, Richard M. Lustig Law Office, Birmingham, Michigan, for Appellant.   Robert W. Haviland, Assistant United States Attorney, Flint, Michigan, for Appellee.