budget director who schemed to have city insurance contract awarded to company in which friend held significant interest); United States v. Brown, 540 F.2d 364, 368-70 (8th Cir.1976) (affirming mail fraud convictions of city building commissioner who, in exchange for rent payments, manipulated bid process for demolition projects to benefit associate); United States v. Bush, 522 F.2d 641, 643-46 (7th Cir. 1975) (affirming mail fraud conviction of city Director of Public Relations, based on his failure to disclose to other city officials his ownership of a company bidding for city projects and on his subsequent concealment efforts), cert. denied, 424 U.S. 977, 96 S.Ct. 1484, 47 L.Ed.2d 748 (1976). Bryan, 58 F.3d at 941; see also United States v. Panarella, 277 F.3d 678, 691 (3d Cir.2002) (<HOLDING>); United States v. Lopez-Lukis, 102 F.3d 1164,
holding that a suit against a state official in his or her official capacity is not a suit against the official but rather is a suit against the officials office holding police officer is a public official holding that punitive damages are not recoverable against a state official sued in his or her official capacity holding that the question of whether a municipal official is a policymaking official is a matter of state law to be decided by the court holding that where a public official takes discretionary action that the official knows will directly benefit a financial interest that the official has concealed in violation of a state criminal law that official has deprived the public of his honest services under  1346