Commercial bribe receiving in the first degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 180.08 Commercial bribe receiving in the first degree.
An employee, agent or fiduciary is guilty of commercial bribe receiving in the first degree when, without the consent of his employer or principal, he solicits, accepts or agrees to accept any benefit from another person upon an agreement or understanding that such benefit will influence his conduct in relation to his employer's or principal's affairs, and when the value of the benefit solicited, accepted or agreed to be accepted exceeds one thousand dollars and causes economic harm to the employer or principal in an amount exceeding two hundred fifty dollars.
Commercial bribe receiving in the first degree is a class E felony.
An employee, agent, or fiduciary commits first-degree commercial bribe receiving by soliciting, accepting, or agreeing to accept a benefit without the employer’s or principal’s consent, on the understanding that it will influence conduct in that party’s affairs, when the benefit exceeds $1,000 and causes economic harm exceeding $250. ★ It is a class E felony.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.