Honest services fraud is a crime defined in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 (the federal mail and wire fraud statute), added by the United States Congress in 1988, which...
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deprive another of the intangible right of honest services. There are three elements to mail and wire fraud: A mail or wire communication a scheme and...
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Hobbs Act (enacted 1934), the mail and wire fraud statutes (enacted 1872), including the honest services fraud provision, the Travel Act (enacted 1961),...
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Varsity Blues scandal (category Honest services fraud)
indictments and complaints for felony conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud against 50 people, including Singer, who has been "portrayed...
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where he was involved in a corruption scandal. He was convicted of honest services fraud and sentenced to 7 years in prison. Nuru was born in the United...
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Skilling v. United States (category Honest services fraud case law)
interpreting the honest services fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1346. The case involves former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling and the honest services fraud statute, which...
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Jeffrey Skilling (category People convicted of honest services fraud)
prosecutors that Skilling's trial and the conviction itself was based on honest services fraud, which he said did not apply to Skilling. This argument was based...
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Felicity Huffman (category American people convicted of fraud)
commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud she was sentenced to 14 days in prison, a $30,000 fine, and 250 hours of community service. Huffman was...
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California (USC). They were charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services fraud. They were released on $1 million bail each. They were among...
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state and local officials: the mail and wire fraud statutes (enacted 1872), including the honest services fraud provision, the Hobbs Act (enacted 1934), the...
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Richard Scrushy (category People convicted of honest services fraud)
light of their (Supreme Court's) ruling the previous week on the "honest services" fraud statute. On June 4, 2012, the Supreme Court rejected Scrushy's appeal...
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the evidence to convict for conspiracy fraud was overwhelming, regardless of whether the honest services fraud theory had been raised or not. Lay was...
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to the bribe-taker in exchange for services rendered. Generally speaking, the remuneration (money, goods, or services handed over) is negotiated ahead of...
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John G. Rowland (category Politicians convicted of honest services fraud)
to a one-count indictment for conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, mail fraud and tax fraud. His lieutenant governor, Jodi Rell, replaced him as...
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Mark Ciavarella (category People convicted of honest services fraud)
2009, pursuant to a plea agreement, to federal charges of honest services fraud, wire fraud and tax evasion in connection with receiving $2.6 million...
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representative who pleaded guilty to one act of conspiracy to commit honest services fraud. The trial was controversial due in part to the actions of the lead...
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Integrated Anti-Fraud, Compliance, and Ethics Program – Implementing a Whistleblowing Helpline" (PDF). Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. 2019...
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charged by the United States Attorney's Office for Hawaii with felony honest services fraud on February 8, 2022 in connection with accepting over $18,000 in...
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Hobbs Act (enacted 1934), the mail and wire fraud statutes (enacted 1872), including the honest services fraud provision, the Travel Act (enacted 1961),...
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David Wittig (category People convicted of honest services fraud)
Skilling, which appears to limit the government’s use of the so-called honest services statute to seek convictions in corruption cases. A motion to dismiss...
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panel of six men and six women also found Ciavarella guilty of "honest services mail fraud" and of being a tax cheat, for failing to list that money and...
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artifice to deprive another of the intangible right to honest services,' under the mail and wire fraud statutes. Prosecutors have always successfully prosecuted...
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not deterministic.[citation needed] George W. Plunkitt coined the term "honest graft" ("I seen my opportunities and I took em."), distinguishing it from...
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McDonnell v. United States (category Honest services fraud case law)
of former Virginia Governor Robert F. McDonnell's conviction for honest services fraud and Hobbs Act extortion. At issue on appeal was whether the definition...
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Jack Abramoff (category People convicted of honest services fraud)
possibly illegal – tactics in their reliance on private and public honest services fraud, which he characterized as vague and controversial. Abramoff has...
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the honest services fraud statute was not applicable to private citizens, the Court upheld, but narrowed the application of the honest services fraud statute...
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the Navy was being subjected to massive fraud, GDMA was able to contract to deliver $200 million in services in 2011 alone. After a three-year investigation...
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San Francisco Department of Public Works corruption scandal (section United States Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service press releases)
local restaurateur Nick Bovis were arrested and charged with honest services wire fraud by federal authorities. The charges against Nuru and Bovis involved...
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asset late 2010s, there's been a noticeable rise in money laundering and fraud tied to cryptocurrency. In 2021 alone, cybercriminals managed to secure...
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Don Siegelman (category Politicians convicted of honest services fraud)
bribery, one count of conspiracy to commit honest services mail fraud, four counts of honest services mail fraud, and one count of obstruction of justice...
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