N.Y. Penal Law Section 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.

Source: Section 496.05 — Corrupting the government in the first degree, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/PEN/496.­05 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Oct. 25, 2025).

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