United States v. Thiam

John M. Walker, Jr., Circuit Judge:

*92 Defendant Mahmoud Thiam ("Thiam") appeals from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York following a jury trial before Denise L. Cote, Judge , convicting him of money laundering and conducting transactions in property criminally derived through bribery in the Republic of Guinea. On appeal, Thiam challenges his conviction, arguing (i) that the district court's jury instructions were erroneous because they failed to include the definition of "official act" relative to a bribery conviction, as set forth in…