Penal Law § 200.22 · Article 200. Bribery Involving Public Servants and Related Offenses
Rewarding official misconduct in the first degree
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§ 200.22 Rewarding official misconduct in the first degree.
A person is guilty of rewarding official misconduct in the first degree when he knowingly confers, or offers or agrees to confer, any benefit upon a public servant for having violated his duty as a public servant 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 two hundred twenty of the penal law or the attempt to commit any such class A felony.
Rewarding official misconduct in the first degree is a class C felony.
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