In People v. Bac Tran (80 NY2d 170 [1992]) the Court of Appeals held that the bribery statute "disjunctively requires either a mutual 'agreement' between the bribe maker and the public servant, or at least a unilateral 'understanding' in the mind of the bribe maker that the bribe will influence the public servant's conduct." (Id. at 176.) The Court of Appeals defined the term "understanding" as "at least a unilateral perception or belief by a perpetrator that the 'public servant's vote, opinion, judgment, action, decision or exercise of discretion as a public servant will thereby be influenced.' " (Id. at 178.)