ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
A county official was charged, under the mail fraud statute, with devising a scheme to defraud the county through an agreement to purchase supplies for the county at inflated prices in return for concealed bribes and kickbacks from the sellers. One defense raised by the defendant's testimony was that he had only received unsolicited gifts from an unknown source and that "merely receiving unsolicitated gifts ... is not a crime." Because...
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