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The U.S. Supreme Court today will hear arguments to dismantle a potent and controversial law federal prosecutors nationwide have used to convict public officials of corruption, including former Newark Mayor Sharpe James and former New Jersey state Senator Wayne Bryant. Authorities have long heralded the honest-services statute as one of their most flexible and powerful tools to charge those who abuse their positions to steer favors to ...
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Here's the AP story today on the Supreme Court's hearing on the honest services law that led to former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno's conviction yesterday. The article states that the justices were quite skeptical of the law's use against public officials and corporate executives. Bruno and his supporters have regularly criticized the law, with Bruno saying last week that this law, again, is so vague and it's so broad, and ...
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WASHINGTON A federal law that is a favorite tool of prosecutors in corruption cases met with almost universal hostility from the justices in Supreme Court arguments on Tuesday. Evan Vucci/Associated Press Miguel A. Estrada, center, urged the Supreme Court to strike down a law entirely. Related Sotomayor Draws Retort From a Fellow Justice (December 9, 2009) Times Topics: U.S. Supreme Court Jerry Lai/Associated ...
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WASHINGTON -The Supreme Court appeared inclined Tuesday to limit federal prosecutors' use of a fraud law that has helped win convictions of high-profile corporate executives and public officials, or throw out the law altogether. The justices, hearing two challenges to the honest services fraud law, seemed to be in broad agreement that the law is vague and has been used to make a crime out of mistakes, minor transgressions and mere ethical ...
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A federal law that makes it a crime to deprive the public or one's employer of honest services is a favorite of prosecutors on the hunt for corrupt politicians and self-dealing corporate honchos. This Story But it found few admirers Tuesday at the Supreme Court. From one end of the mahogany bench to the other, and across the court's notable ideological divide, justices took turns criticizing the 1988 law that makes ...
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