The Yale Law Journal

VOLUME
133
2023-2024
Collection

State and Local Corruption After Percoco and Ciminelli

Forum

Navigating Between “Politics as Usual” and Sacks of Cash

Daniel Richman

Like other recent corruption reversals, Percoco was less about statutory text than what the Court deems “normal” politics. As prosecutors take the Court’s suggestions of alternative theories and use a statute it has largely ignored, the Court will have to reconcile its fears of partisan targeting an…