the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on corruption is basically at a point where the only thing that counts as a bribe is someone handing a public official a giant bag of money with a dollar sign on it while saying “this is a bribe” out loud
It's normally not a bribe when the government official is the one paying you instead of you paying them.
(When we had government customers at $DAYJOB, we had to keep track of whether it was an agency we could give coffee and donuts, or just coffee, or lunch.)
Unfortunately the county was asking the state (me) for funds I had influence in distributing. Not allowed to accept lunch! I did it anyway! The tacos were so good!!
