EAO 060

** Overruled, Modified, Clarified or Superseded ** Both a $60 restaurant meal and a $160 deer rifle are benefits. A benefit does not constitute a bribe, however, if it is not offered or accepted as consideration for some official act on the part of a public servant. A registrant filing a report under the lobby law may claim his Fifth Amendment privilege in response to specific questions if providing the information would tend to incriminate the registrant. The registrant must claim the privilege in response to particular questions, not in a blanket refusal to furnish any information.