How the Supreme Court Is Rebranding #Corruption -
▻https://promarket.org/how-the-supreme-court-is-rebranding-corruption
... the Roberts Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that “corruption” only means quid pro quo exchanges.
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... in the criminal context, the Roberts Supreme Court invalidated the conviction of ex-Governor of Virginia Bob McDonnell. McDonnell, who had money troubles while he was Governor of Virginia, accepted money and gifts from a businessman named Jonnie Williams who wanted to sell his tobacco pills (I’m not making any of this up) to Virginia employees. The Governor set up a few meetings for Williams and once touted a bottle of the tobacco pills in a meeting.
In McDonnell v. US, the Supreme Court decided that none of what Governor McDonnell did was “an official act,” and thus he could not be guilty of a quid pro quo exchange with Williams. No one disputed that Williams had given the governor lots of money. What the Supreme Court didn’t buy was that the Governor did enough in return for the largess to constitute a crime.
#etats-unis #justice #corruption_légale #légalisation_de_la_corruption