U.S. v. TERRY

No. 11-4130.

707 F.3d 607 (2013)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Steven J. TERRY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: February 14, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Sylvester Summers, Jr. , Sylvester Summers, Jr., Co., LPA, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellant. Daniel R. Ranke , United States Attorney's Office, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Sylvester Summers, Jr. , Sylvester Summers, Jr., Co., LPA, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellant. Daniel R. Ranke , United States Attorney's Office, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellee.

Before: SUTTON, GRIFFIN and WHITE, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

"If you can't eat [lobbyists'] food, drink their booze, ... take their money and then vote against them, you've got no business being [in politics]," said Jesse Unruh, a one-time Speaker of the California General Assembly, in the 1960s. Bill Boyarsky, Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics 112 (2007). That is one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it comes courtesy of the federal anti-corruption...

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