Nicholas Tzimopoulos v. United States

Appellant challenges on several grounds his conviction by a jury on a one-count indictment charging that he offered a bribe to a public official in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 201. We affirm.

Appellant argues that his criminal conduct was “the product of the creative activity of government agents thereby establishing entrapment as a matter of law,” and that, in any case, the trial judge erred in refusing to give a requested instruction on entrapment. We find no merit in either point. 1 Entrapment as a matter of law may be established by undisputed facts that the criminal design originated with…