WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court on June 29 declined to take up billionaire Macau real estate developer Ng Lap Seng’s appeal of his conviction and four-year prison sentence for bribing two UN ambassadors to help him build a multibillion-dollar conference center.
The justices left in place a lower court’s 2019 ruling that federal bribery laws covered the payments made by Ng despite his contention that the statutes excluded money going to people involved in public entities such as the United Nations.
