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The term "Grass Eaters" is used to describe police officers who "accept gratuities and solicit five, ten, twenty dollar payments from contractors, tow-truck operators, gamblers, and the like but do not pursue corruption payments".
Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley (Ore.) unveiled a piece of legislation Wednesday that would outlaw state and local officials from accepting “gratuities” for official acts. The bill, titled the ...
Snyder v. United States, 603 U.S. 1 (2024), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held 18 U.S.C. § 666 prohibits bribes to state and local officials but does not make it a crime for those officials to accept gratuities for their past acts.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down part of a federal anti-corruption law that makes it a crime for state and local officials to take gifts valued at more than $5,000 from a donor who had ...
The opinion, written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, states the bribery statute at issue in Snyder’s case, known as Section 666, “proscribes bribes to state and local officials but does not make ...
The Knapp Commission, which investigated corruption in the New York City Police Department in the early 1970s, divided corrupt officers into two types: meat-eaters, who "aggressively misuse their police powers for personal gain", and grass-eaters, who "simply accept the payoffs that the happenstances of police work throw their way."
In June, the justices ruled 6-3 that it was not against federal bribery law for state and local officials to accept gratuities as tokens of appreciation after an official act.
A gratuity (often called a tip) is a sum of money customarily given by a customer to certain service sector workers such as hospitality for the service they have performed, in addition to the basic price of the service.