bribery
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-757 | Matthew Borges v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | bribery campaign-finance first-amendment official-act political-contribution quid-pro-quo | When alleged bribery rests solely on lawful campaign contributions, must the government prove an explicit, unambiguous quid pro quo conditioning an of… |
| 25-528 | David Paitsel v. United States | District of Columbia | 2025-10-31 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | bribery circuit-court due-process judicial-precedent official-act prosecutorial-standards | Did the D.C. Circuit err in its interpretation of McDonnell v. United States regarding prosecutorial standards in bribery cases? |
| 25-306 | Thomas F. Spellissy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery conspiracy government-position honest-services-fraud official-act private-contractor | Whether a private contractor who holds no formal government position and lacks inherent governmental responsibility, can be convicted of conspiracy to… |
| 25-49 | Alexander Sittenfeld aka P. G. Sittenfeld v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-15 | Pending | Amici (12)Relisted (5) | bribery campaign-finance first-amendment official-act political-contribution quid-pro-quo | Whether a defendant may be convicted of bribery based on ambiguous evidence of campaign contributions without an explicit quid pro quo agreement |
| 24-142 | Brian Benjamin v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-08-08 | Denied | Amici (2) | bribery campaign-contributions criminal-law explicit-agreement first-amendment quid-pro-quo | Does 'explicit' in the context of campaign contribution bribery mean a quid pro quo agreement that can be inferred or implied, or does it require a he… |
| 24-5076 | Chi Meng Yang v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-15 | Denied | IFP | 18-U.S.C.-666 bribery certiorari-review federal-state-cooperation harmless-error joint-operations public-authority-defense statutory-interpretation United-States-v.-Snyder | Whether the Ninth Circuit's harmless error holding was based on an interpretation of 18-U.S.C.-666 that was subsequently narrowed by the Supreme Court… |
| 23-7754 | Alejandro Carrasco v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-06-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bribery circuit-split federal-bribery government-agent official-act public-corruption quid-pro-quo statutory-interpretation | Does an external consultant qualify as a government agent under 18-usc-666 |
| 23-845 | Timothy Ray Vasquez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery criminal-procedure due-process honest-services-fraud official-act public-official quid-pro-quo quid-pro-quo-bribery statutory-interpretation | Does quid pro quo bribery permit conviction for honest services fraud if a public official received a benefit in exchange for a potential future offic… |
| 23-277 | Usha Soujanya Karri v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | abstention bribery civil-rights civil-rights-violation color-of-law criminal-cover-up judicial-misconduct murder-conspiracy procedural-technicality rule-of-law | Is it lawful when the Trial Court cites 'abstention grounds' and refuses to order for investigation as per the 'Rule of Law', as Chicago Police were b… |
| 23-17 | Wisam R. Rizk v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-05 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery conflict-of-interest constitutional-vagueness criminal-law federal-jurisdiction honest-services statutory-interpretation undisclosed-self-dealing vagueness | Under §1346 Honest Services, can 'conflict of interest' and 'undisclosed self-dealing' be used as the underlying criterion of guilt even when a kickba… |
| 22-1127 | Christine Sawicky v. Tao Sykes, Manuel Real Beneficiary, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment bribery due-process equal-protection honest-services-fraud judicial-immunity pro-se pro-se-litigation | How can the DOJ bring multiple indictments for judges in several circuits, inclusive of counts for honest services fraud and bribery, but then represe… |
| 22-5800 | Collin Kaiser v. Sue Krecko, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bribery civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-housing ex-parte-communication judicial-misconduct medical-malpractice-insurance obstruction-of-justice public-corruption | Whether there was public corruption, judicial misconduct, and bribery within the Eastern District of New York Central Islip Federal Courthouse and the… |
| 22-328 | Scott Allinson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-10-07 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery campaign-contributions circuit-conflict corruption evans-v-united-states legal-referral mccormick-v-united-states official-action prosecutorial-standard quid-pro-quo | Whether this Court's decision in United States v. Evans modified the explicit quid pro quo standard required by United States v. McCormick, or whether… |
| 21-7378 | Andrew Long v. Oregon State Bar | Oregon | 2022-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-discipline bribery disbarment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indefinite-suspension state-attorney-discipline state-bar-misconduct witness-bribery | Did the Oregon Supreme Court violate Long's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process prior to deprivation of his property interest |
| 21-1176 | Alice Jin-Yue Guan v. Bing Ran | Virginia | 2022-02-25 | Denied | bribery civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-order due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct jurisdiction standing | Whether state court has lost its jurisdiction | |
| 21-706 | Joel Iverson Gilbert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Denied | bribery bribery-statute federal-bribery-laws first-amendment issue-advocacy jury-instruction jury-instructions official-action prosecutorial-standard | Whether the government must prove explicit link between issue-advocacy payments and official action in bribery prosecution | |
| 21-6181 | Ahmad Jamaleddin Aljindi v. United States, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-power bribery civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice retaliation | Did the United States District Court — Central District of California's Chief Judge Philip S. Gutierrez violate the United States Constitution when he… |
| 21-605 | David Lynn Roberson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-26 | Denied | bribery bribery-prosecution circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-programs first-amendment free-speech issue-advocacy official-action quid-pro-quo | Whether the government must prove explicit link between issue-advocacy payments and official action in bribery prosecution | |
| 20-7752 | Bralen Lamar Jordan v. Kathleen H. Sawyer, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bribery civil-procedure civil-rights document-misstatement due-process evidence judicial-misconduct legal-misconduct malicious-prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct | Question not identified |
| 20-1341 | Volvy Smilowitz v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-03-24 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery civil-rights election-fraud election-statute federal-elections federal-oversight state-elections state-law travel-act voter-fraud voting | Whether federal government may regulate fraud in purely local state elections under 52 U.S.C. §10307(c) |
| 20-1131 | James C. Dimora v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-17 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery conviction criminal-conviction due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions lawful-conduct legal-error official-act statutory-interpretation | Whether a McDonnell error can invalidate convictions on additional counts that do not have an 'official act' element but depend on the jury's assessme… |
| 20-935 | Anne Richards, et al. v. Sam Olens, et al. | Georgia | 2021-01-11 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extortion fraud judicial-misconduct obstruction obstruction-of-justice rico-act rule-of-law | Whether the total breakdown of Georgia's justice system—in which the state never responded to documented allegations of fraud, obstruction, bribery, a… |
| 20-60 | Sheldon Silver v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-07-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) | appeals-court bribery criminal-law due-process extortion harmless-error hobbs-act public-official | Can a public official be convicted of bribery absent proof of an agreed exchange with the alleged bribe payor, based solely on his unexpressed, unilat… |
| 19-1145 | Ng Lap Seng v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | bribery bribery-of-foreign-officials criminal-prosecution foreign-corrupt-practices-act international-organizations mcdonnell-v-united-states official-act quasi-sovereign-public-international-entities statutory-interpretation united-nations | Whether the generic term 'organization' in §666 should be construed to include quasi-sovereign public international entities like the United Nations | |
| 19-1000 | Heon-Cheol Chi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-10 | Denied | bribery corrupt-intent criminal-intent foreign-bribery intent-to-influence mcdonnell-v-united-states money-laundering official-act public-official statutory-interpretation | Whether 'an offense against a foreign nation involving .. . bribery of a public official' under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(c)(7)(B) requires generic bribery of … | |
| 19-912 | Albert T. Robles v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bribery campaign-contribution campaign-contributions federal-officials federal-statute first-amendment hobbs-act quid-pro-quo | Whether conviction of a federal bribery charge against a state or local official under 18 U.S.C. § 666 requires proof of a quid pro quo where the alle… |
| 19-7110 | Robert W. Johnson v. Colleen McMahon, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bribery civil-procedure civil-rights due-process insurance-fraud standing | Question not identified |
| 18-6566 | Jara Meotta Ishon Flowers v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | bribery case-overturning civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extortion judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-precedent precedent racketeering stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Should this Court overturn its prior decision in Evans? |