U.S. v. Buenrostro

Record contained sufficient evidence to support defendants' guilty verdicts on charge of conspiracy to commit bribery, where said charge arose out of undercover government sting operation that involved defendants’ plan to bribe local official to obtain government contract. Record showed that subject matter of bribe met $5,000 threshold, where: (1) subject matter of bribe was fictional pharmaceutical dispensing contract involving million or more prescriptions for up to 3-year period; and (2) bribe itself was $10,000. Moreover, jury could have found that fictional officer was agent of Los Angeles County for purposes of satisfying element of bribery statute that required proof that governmental agency, which was represented by fictional agent, received over $10,000 in federal funds.