Criminal Prosecution, Wire Fraud, Honest Services Fraud

Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for July 2025

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 8/12/2025

Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...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

2018’s Bad Guys in Energy

Gray Reed on 1/3/2019

I report herein on 2018’s parade of reprobates, rapscallions and others generally lacking in moral hygiene. We reflect on a mother’s love, corruption in Venezuela, a disloyal employee, stealing from friends, a disgraced...more

Skelos Vacated: For The Second Time This Year, Conviction Of Leading New York State Legislator Is Undone Due To McDonnell

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 9/27/2017

The Second Circuit (Winter, Raggi, Hellerstein by designation)yesterday, vacated by summary order the convictions of former New York State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam Skelos. Dean and Adam Skelos were...more

Criminal Prosecutions of Individuals Outside the FCPA

The Volkov Law Group on 7/6/2017

When you look outside the FCPA arena and examine DOJ criminal prosecutions in healthcare, antitrust, tax, fraud, and other white-collar areas, there is no shortage of cases against individual violators. I am perplexed, to say...more

Public Officials Face Greater Scrutiny in Wake of McDonnell Decision

Williams Mullen on 7/17/2015

Governor McDonnell’s attorneys put it this way: The Governor’s acts weren’t “official” because “none were any more remarkable than acts that governors unthinkingly take hundreds of times weekly for countless constituents,...more