Case Summary:

Andre De Moya, a Washington, D.C.–area concert venue operator and bar owner, was prosecuted in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for his role in a multiyear bribery scheme involving a senior official at the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue. Federal prosecutors alleged that De Moya and a co-defendant paid bribes to the tax official in exchange for erasing or reducing hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax liabilities owed by their nightlife businesses, including a prominent concert venue. A federal jury found De Moya guilty of bribery, conspiracy, and wire-fraud offenses arising from that scheme, and he was later sentenced to a term of imprisonment. De Moya appealed his conviction and sentence to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where the case is docketed as No. 24‑3013, United S ...