Former Portage, Ind., Mayor James Snyder arrives to Federal Court in Hammond, Ind., for his sentencing on bribery and tax violation charges, Oct. 13, 2021. The Supreme Court has overturned the bribery conviction of the former Indiana mayor in an …The Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a federal corruption conviction of a former Indiana mayor, who won his challenge of a law that had ensnared him for accepting a gratuity while in office.
The majority said that states and localities can set different standards for when an official can or can’t accept gratuities or gifts following an official act. But the court said it was wrong for the feds to charge and convict Mr. Snyder under federal law for accepting a gratuity as a state official.
The case stemmed from the federal government, not local prosecutors, charging Mr. Snyder with wrongdoing after awarding two contracts to Great Lakes Peterbilt, a trash truck company. The city purchased five trucks for about $1.1 million in 2013. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and the other Democratic appointees dissented, saying Congress was concerned with state and local officials using their public positions for personal gain when it passed a law extending some public corruption safeguards to state and local offices.“Snyder’s absurd and atextual reading of the statute is one only today’s Court could love,” Judge Jackson wrote.
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