Human Resource Selection 9th Edition by Marianne Jennings

Exercise 9

The New York City Department of Health is responsible for the inspection of Manhattan restaurants to determine whether they comply with the city's health code. Forty-six of the department's inspectors were inducing restaurateurs to pay money to them for permit approval or for a favorable inspection. Is this activity a basis for a crime? What crime? What would a prosecutor be required to prove? Are the officers and the restaurateurs equally criminally liable? [ U.S. v Tillem , 906 F.2d 814 (2d Cir. 1990)]