So lawyer up!Former Portage Mayor James Snyder's conviction for public corruption has been overturned by SCOTUS.
Essentially, they found that the statute he was prosecuted under applies to bribery- being corruptly paid to take a specific action as an official, but he did not do that. The money he received as a consultant to a company that had earlier supplied trucks to Portage was, if anything, a "gratuity" (but possibly not even that). There is no federal statute criminalizing a "gratuity" that applies to state or local officials. SCOTUS sees that as something the states or local governments can outlaw if they want to.