N.Y. PEN Law § 496.02
This is the official text of N.Y. PEN Law § 496.02, part of New York’s Penal Law — defines crimes and punishments in New York.
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Corrupting the government in the fourth degree
Official statutory text
§ 496.02 Corrupting the government in the fourth degree.\n A person is guilty of corrupting the government in the fourth degree\nwhen, being a public servant, or acting in concert with a public\nservant, he or she engages in a scheme constituting a systematic ongoing\ncourse of conduct with intent to defraud the state or one or more\npolitical subdivisions of the state or one or more governmental\ninstrumentalities within the state to obtain property, actual services\nor other resources, or obtain property, actual services or other\nresources from the state, or any political subdivision or governmental\ninstrumentality of the state by false or fraudulent pretenses,\nrepresentations or promises, and thereby wrongfully obtains such\nproperty, actual services or other resources.\n Corrupting the government in the fourth degree is a class E felony.\n
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