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# §2C1.2 Offering, Giving, Soliciting, or Receiving a Gratuity: Federal Sentences, Fiscal Year 2018
- URL: https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-guideline-2c1-2-offering-giving-soliciting-or-receiving-a-gratuity-fy2018/
- Published: 2026-11-04T10:58:37.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-04T10:58:37.000Z
- Description: In fiscal year 2018, 10 people were sentenced in federal court under §2C1.2. 5 received a prison term and 5 received probation only. The median prison term was 14 months, and all 10 pleaded guilty.
- Author: Jocelyn C. Stewart
- Tags: Understanding Trends, Federal

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**In brief:** In fiscal year 2018, 10 people were sentenced in federal court under §2C1.2\. 5 received a prison term and 5 received probation only. The median prison term was 14 months, and all 10 pleaded guilty.

Updated November 4, 2026 · Sources: U.S. Sentencing Commission and Federal Judicial Center, fiscal years 2016–2025

This post uses the U.S. Sentencing Commission's records of 10 people sentenced in federal court in fiscal year 2018\. Acquittals and dismissals come from a second source, the Federal Judicial Center's records of 753,808 federal defendants whose cases ended in fiscal years 2016 to 2025\. It is part of the [Federal Prosecution Analysis](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal/) series, which builds on [Military Moves Toward Sentencing Guidelines to Mirror the Federal System](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/military-sentencing-guidelines-federal-system/). How the numbers were built: [How the Federal Comparison Data Was Built](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-data-methodology/).

## A Group Divided Evenly Between Prison and Probation

Of the 10 people sentenced under §2C1.2 in fiscal year 2018, 5 (50%) received a prison term. The other 5 (50%) received probation only, with no prison or other confinement.

The median prison term for the 5 sent to prison was 14 months. A quarter received 40 months or more, and a quarter received 12 months or less. With 5 people, the upper end of that range reflects only a few sentences.

In the same group, 5 people (50%) were ordered to serve supervised release after prison, with a median term of 24 months.

## Most Sentences Were Below the Range at the Government's Request

Below the range at the government's request were 7 sentences (70%). Below the range without a government request was 1 (10%). Within the range were 2 (20%), and none were above it.

The share within the range was about the same as the 19% for all years of this guideline. It was lower than the 51% for all guidelines in fiscal year 2018.

No mandatory minimum prison term applied to any of the 10 people with that information recorded.

## Pleas and Agreements

All 10 people (100%) pleaded guilty, and none was convicted after a trial. Each guilty plea had a written plea agreement.

Because there were no trials, the records have no comparison of plea and trial sentences for this year.

## Fines and Restitution

A fine was ordered for 6 people (60%). Restitution was ordered for 3 (30%).

Fines were therefore ordered more often than restitution in this group. All 10 were in the lowest criminal history category I and none were in the highest. Court-martial records have no criminal history field.

## What §2C1.2 Covers and What Was Counted

The Guidelines Manual titles §2C1.2 "Offering, Giving, Soliciting, or Receiving a Gratuity". The Commission places these 10 cases under its Bribery/Corruption offense type. A case counts when §2C1.2 was the primary guideline, meaning the one that set the offense level for the most serious count.

Federal fiscal year 2018 ran from October 1, 2017 to September 30, 2018\. Only people convicted and sentenced are counted, so acquittals and dismissals are not in the data.

## Context From Other Years

In fiscal year 2017, 13 people were sentenced under this guideline, with a median prison term of 15 months and 15% of sentences within the range. The all-years record for fiscal years 2016 to 2025 covers 112 people. Of those, 46% went to prison, the median prison term was 12 months, and 96% pleaded guilty.

For every guideline in fiscal year 2018, 69,425 people were sentenced. The median prison term was 24 months, and 97% pleaded guilty. A count of 10 is small, and one year should not be read as a trend. The table lists each year.

| Fiscal year | People sentenced | Median prison | Pleaded guilty |
| ----------- | ---------------- | ------------- | -------------- |
| 2016        | 24               | 16.5 months   | 100%           |
| 2017        | 13               | 15 months     | 77%            |
| 2018        | 10               | 14 months     | 100%           |
| 2019        | 7                | 12 months     | 7 of 7         |
| 2020        | 8                | 8 months      | 8 of 8         |
| 2021        | 13               | 12 months     | 92%            |
| 2022        | 15               | 8.5 months    | 93%            |
| 2023        | 12               | 9 months      | 100%           |
| 2024        | 9                | 24 months     | 9 of 9         |
| 2025        | 1                | n/a           | 1 of 1         |

## What the Records Leave Out

The records do not show the facts behind any sentence. There is no close court-martial counterpart for this guideline in the crosswalk, so the numbers stand alone.

### How We Counted

Everyone sentenced in federal court in fiscal year 2018 whose primary sentencing guideline was §2C1.2 (10), U.S. Sentencing Commission individual data files. The primary guideline is the one that set the offense level for the most serious count.

Federal fiscal years run from October 1 to September 30\. No person, judge, or lawyer is identified in any of these records.

### What to Keep in Mind

**No parole in federal prison; credit for good conduct.** Federal prison has no parole for crimes committed on or after November 1, 1987\. A federal prisoner can earn up to 54 days of good conduct credit for each year of the sentence the judge imposed, which is about 15%. Some federal prisoners can also earn First Step Act time credits, but many offenses make a person ineligible. The numbers in this post are the sentences judges imposed, not the time people actually served.

**Federal supervised release.** Most federal prison sentences are followed by a term of supervised release that the judge sets as part of the sentence. A person who violates it can be sent back to prison. A court-martial cannot sentence anyone to supervision after release. Military parole and mandatory supervised release are decided later by a board, not by the judge at trial.

**Who decides the sentence, and under what rules.** Federal judges sentence every federal case. They must calculate the Sentencing Guidelines range, which is advisory, and must impose any mandatory minimum the statute requires unless an exception applies. In courts-martial, the accused could choose sentencing by members until the rules changed. For cases in which every guilty finding is for an offense committed after December 27, 2023, a military judge sentences alone, within sentencing parameters. Courts-martial tried in 2024 and later include both old-rule and new-rule cases, and the data cannot tell them apart.

**Time periods.** Federal numbers are by federal fiscal year (October 1 to September 30), based on the sentencing date. The military numbers are by trial date. Neither source has the date of the offense, so a change in law shows up in either data set gradually.

**How life sentences and "time served" are counted.** In the federal numbers, a life sentence is counted as 470 months, and any other sentence longer than 470 months is counted as just under 470 months. A sentence of "time served" is counted as one day (0.03 months). Averages are affected by these rules; medians much less.

## Related Analysis

- [Military Moves Toward Sentencing Guidelines to Mirror the Federal System](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/military-sentencing-guidelines-federal-system/) (the background article)
- [Federal Prosecution Analysis](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal/) (all federal posts)
- [How the Federal Comparison Data Was Built](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-data-methodology/) (sources and method)
- [§2C1.2 Offering, Giving, Soliciting, or Receiving a Gratuity: Federal Sentences, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-guideline-2c1-2-offering-giving-soliciting-or-receiving-a-gratuity/) (overview)
- [§2C1.2 Offering, Giving, Soliciting, or Receiving a Gratuity: Federal Sentences, Fiscal Year 2017](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-guideline-2c1-2-offering-giving-soliciting-or-receiving-a-gratuity-fy2017/) (previous or next fiscal year)
- [How Often Federal Judges Sentence Outside the Guideline Range](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-sentences-outside-guideline-range/)
- [Mandatory Minimums: How Many Federal Sentences Are Set by Congress](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-mandatory-minimum-sentences/)
- [U.S. Sentencing Commission, Individual Offender Datafiles](https://www.ussc.gov/research/datafiles/commission-datafiles?ref=bodiesburied.com) (source)
- [Federal Judicial Center, Integrated Database (criminal defendants)](https://www.fjc.gov/research/idb?ref=bodiesburied.com) (source)

**About the author.** Jocelyn C. Stewart is a retired Army JAG with more than 24 years of trying courts-martial and more than 200 jury trials. She hosts *Where All The Bodies Are Buried* and runs the [Law Office of Jocelyn C. Stewart](https://www.ucmj-defender.com/?ref=bodiesburied.com). This analysis is for education and information only. It is not legal advice, and every case is different.