United States Seventh Circuit

In a case against a section chief in Wisconsin's Bureau of Procurement alleging improper steering of a contract for political reasons, the conviction is reversed where there was no indication that defendant's motives were corrupt for purposes of 18 U.S.C. section 666, and neither an increase in salary for doing what one's superiors deem a good job, nor a feeling of increased job security, is a "private benefit" for the purposes of 18 U.S.C. section 1341.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/05/2007
• Decided 04/20/2007
• Published 04/20/2007

Judges

• EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and BAUER and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory J. Haanstad (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Milwaukee, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Stephen P. Hurley (argued), Marcus J. Berghahn, Hurley, Burish & Stanton, Madison, WI, for Defendant-Appellant.