DPA student Kwane D. Brako, School of Public Management and Policy, presented a paper with one of our adjunct professors, Dr. Bradley S. Chilton at the 2025 American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) conference. Their paper is titled “Impact of Snyder v. US (2024) On Federal Prosecutions of State & Local Corruption”, and they state that:

“the impact of Snyder includes: (1) narrowing corruption to bribery not gratuities, (2) requiring additional cooperator evidence of quid-pro-quo bribery agreement before the act is undertaken, (3) curtailing federal prosecution of many state and local level gratuities corruption cases, and (4) mandating state and local government regulate gratuities corruption and scrutinize their own in procurement, service contracts and other dealings. Finally, the whole world is watching and international discussions of public corruption contrast with the distinction between bribery versus gratuities in Snyder.”