New York Consolidated Laws

N.Y. Penal Law § 200.22 (2026)

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.