United States v. Ng Lap Seng

Judge Sullivan concurs in a separate opinion.

Reena Raggi, Circuit Judge:

*116Defendant Ng Lap Seng paid two United Nations ("U.N.") ambassadors-one of whom was for a time also serving as President of the General Assembly-more than $1 million to secure a U.N. commitment to use Ng's Macau real estate development as the site for an annual U.N. conference. Based on this conduct, Ng now stands convicted after a jury trial of paying and conspiring to pay bribes and gratuities in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 666, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA"), 15 U.S.C. §§ 78dd-2, 78dd-3, as well as of…