Corruption, SCOTUS, Criminal Convictions

Second Circuit Decision Clarifies Scope of Honest Services Wire Fraud Statute

WilmerHale on 7/11/2025

On July 2, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in United States v. Lopez that foreign commercial bribery schemes fall within the ambit of the honest services wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. §...more

Supreme Court Resolves Circuit Split and Finds Federal Gratuities Inapplicable to State and Local Officials

Womble Bond Dickinson on 7/5/2024

On June 26, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion in a public corruption case that could have a lasting impact on how the U.S. Government prosecutes corruption and procurement fraud cases involving state and local...more

Supreme Court Tosses NY Corruption Convictions, Signaling Skepticism with Government’s Theories of Liability – Part 2

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 5/30/2023

Recently, the Supreme Court of the United States tossed the convictions of two defendants found guilty of public corruption charges during former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s term. The opinions, Ciminelli v. United States and...more

Supreme Court Tosses NY Corruption Convictions, Signaling Skepticism with Government’s Theories of Liability – Part 1

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 5/26/2023

Recently, the Supreme Court of the United States tossed the convictions of two defendants found guilty of public corruption charges during former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s term. The opinions, Ciminelli v. United States and...more

Supreme Court Again Restricts Honest-Services Fraud

Baker Donelson on 5/17/2023

On May 11, 2023, in Percoco v. United States, 598 U.S. ___ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court once again reined in an expansive public corruption prosecution brought by the Department of Justice by overturning a wire fraud...more

DOJ Moves to Dismiss Public Corruption Charges Against Former VA Governor

Proskauer - Corporate Defense and Disputes on 9/19/2016

Last week, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia moved to dismiss public corruption charges against former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell, and his wife, Maureen McDonnell. The decision comes...more