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- Title: Wright v. United States
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Release Date : January 24, 1984
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 69 KB
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More than five years ago we affirmed the conviction of appellant Samuel D. Wright, onetime chairman of New York City Community School Board 23 and later a New York City councilman, in the District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 559 F. Supp. 1139, for having solicited and received "under color of official right" a payment of $5,000 from Behavioral Research Laboratories, Inc. (BRL), a seller of educational systems and materials, in violation of the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, and conspiring to defraud the United States of federal funds granted to the school district in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371, United States v. Wright, 588 F.2d 31 (1978) cert. denied, 440 U.S. 917, 99 S. Ct. 1236, 59 L. Ed. 2d 467 (1979). Wright was sentenced to three months incarceration, nine months probation and a $5,000 fine.