Federal prosecutors no longer intend to re-try a bribery case that prompted the US Supreme Court to narrow the scope of a public corruption statute, they announced in a filing Thursday.
James Snyder, the former mayor of Portage, Ind., was scheduled for re-trial in September on a bribery count that made it all the way to the nation’s highest court.
But instead, prosecutors said in a status report, “the interests of justice are best served” if the trial date is canceled and he is instead sentenced on an extant tax conviction. Evidence that Snyder engaged in bribery would be used ...
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