Bribery of a Witness (18 U.S.C. Sec.201(b)(3)) is a federal crime that prohibits offering, giving, or promising anything of value to a witness in an effort to influence the testimony of that witness in an official proceeding. It also forbids the retaliation of a witness for their refusal to accept a bribe or to provide false testimony. There are two types of bribery of a witness: direct bribery and indirect bribery. Direct bribery of a witness involves offering, giving, or promising something of value directly to the witness in exchange for their testimony. Indirect bribery of a witness occurs when someone offers, gives, or promises something of value to a third party in exchange for influencing the witness to provide false or misleading testimony. Both types of bribery of a witness are punishable by fines and/or imprisonment.
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New 18 U.S.C. 209. Subsection (a) prevents an officer or employee of the executive branch, an independent agency or the District of Columbia from receiving, and anyone from paying him, any salary or supplementation of salary from a private source as compensation for his services to the Government.
18 U.S.C. § 201 prohibits public officials from accepting bribes or gratuities to influence their Government actions.
Section 201(c) prohibits that same public official from accepting the same thing of value, if he does so "for or because of" any official act, and prohibits anyone from giving any such thing to him for such a reason.
Penalties for 18 U.S.C. If convicted of bribery of a public official under 18 U.S.C. 201(b), the penalties include up to 15 years in prison and/or a fine of up to three times the monetary amount of the something of value that you offered to the public official.
Section 201(b) requires that the offender have acted with the intent (as to the giver of a bribe) to influence or (as to the taker of a bribe) to be influenced. Thus, the bribery statute requires proof of an actual or intended quid pro quo: one thing given in exchange for another.
18 U.S.C. § 201 prohibits public officials from accepting bribes or gratuities to influence their Government actions.