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072685P.pdf 09/08/2008 United States v. Curley Hines
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 07-2685
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Hansen and Melloy, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - criminal law. Defendant's jurisdictional challenge to
his conviction for violating 18 U.S.C. Sec. 666 by accepting bribes to
perform his duties in connection with evictions fails because the plain
language of the statute does not require, as an element to be proved
beyond a reasonable doubt, a nexus between the activity that constitutes a
violation and federal funds; government's evidence satisfied the $5,000
threshold in each of the charged counts; Section 6666 permits the
government to aggregate multiple transactions in a single count to reach
the $5,000 minimum as long as they were part of a single plan or scheme;
Wharton's Rule does not apply to the case.