Reply #48: It doesn't matter who made the offer

[jberryhill]

The offer is not, under the statute you cited, an illegal act.

It is not illegal for the administration to offer anyone a job.

It is illegal for anyone in the administration to take a bribe for offering a job, and it is illegal for someone to pay a bribe for taking a job in the administration. That's the statute you cited.

The point is, if the Obama administration offered Sestak a job in order to remove him as a candidate against Specter - THAT IS NOT ILLEGAL.

You might as well claim it was illegal to remove Janet Napolitano from AZ state politics.

And, again, determining whether a claim has been stated does not require information from both sides.

There has to be facts from at least one side that constitute the elements of the offense, and you don't seem to be grasping that at all.

Yes, an accusation has been made, and all of the relevant communication records are being gathered.

But how about you propose even a hypothetical set of facts here which would result in a claim being stated under this statute.

And, by the way, if you want to refer to 18 USC 211, then you can just say "18 USC 211".