N.Y. Penal Law Section 200.04
Bribery in the first degree

A person is guilty of bribery in the first degree when the person confers, or offers or agrees to confer:

(1)

any benefit upon a public servant upon an agreement or understanding that such public servant’s vote, opinion, judgment, action, decision or exercise of discretion as a public servant will thereby be influenced in the investigation, arrest, detention, prosecution or incarceration of any person for the commission or alleged commission of a class A felony defined in article 220 (Controlled Substances Offenses)article two hundred twenty of this part or an attempt to commit any such class A felony; or

(2)

any benefit valued in excess of one hundred thousand dollars upon a public servant upon an agreement or understanding that such public servant’s vote, opinion, judgment, action, decision or exercise of discretion as a public servant will thereby be influenced. Bribery in the first degree is a class B felony.

Source: Section 200.04 — Bribery in the first degree, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/PEN/200.­04 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Jun. 21, 2025).

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