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N.Y. Penal Law § 496.05: Corrupting the government in the first degree

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  1. Penal Law
  2. Part 4. Administrative Provisions
  3. Title Y-2. Corrupting the Government
  4. Article 496. Corrupting the Government

§ 496.05 Corrupting the government in the first degree.

A person is guilty of corrupting the government in the first degree

when, being a public servant, or acting in concert with a public

servant, he or she engages in a scheme constituting a systematic ongoing

course of conduct with intent to defraud the state or one or more

political subdivisions of the state or one or more governmental

instrumentalities within the state to obtain property, actual services

or other resources, or to obtain property, actual services or other

resources from the state, or any political subdivision or governmental

instrumentality of the state by false or fraudulent pretenses,

representations or promises, and thereby wrongfully obtains such

property, actual services or other resources with a value in excess of

one hundred thousand dollars.

Corrupting the government in the first degree is a class B felony.

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