Bribe receiving by a labor official; no defense · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 180.30 Bribe receiving by a labor official; no defense.
The crimes of (a) bribe receiving by a labor official, and (b) larceny committed by means of extortion, attempt to commit the same, coercion or attempt to commit coercion, are not mutually exclusive, and it is no defense to a prosecution for bribe receiving by a labor official that, by reason of the same conduct, the defendant also committed one of such other specified crimes.
Bribe receiving by a labor official and the listed extortion, coercion, and attempt offenses are not mutually exclusive. ★ A defendant prosecuted for labor-official bribe receiving cannot defend the charge merely by showing that the same conduct also committed one of those other crimes.
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.