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200.22 – Rewarding official misconduct in the first degree

§ 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.

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