The phrase
"honest services" means conducting business or performing your job in a fair and trustworthy way without deceiving or defrauding others.
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A jury of seven women and five men found Silver, 74, guilty of all seven counts against him, including two counts
of honest services mail fraud and money laundering.
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The government's positions was that the jury were given proper instruction
regarding honest services fraud and the conviction should stand.
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The majority of the corruption cases brought against state lawmakers have been initiated by federal prosecutors, largely due to the federal theft of
honest services statute.
The jury's verdict of guilty on three felony counts of «Conspiracy to
Commit Honest Services Wire Fraud» and «Solicitation of Bribes and Gratuity» was a long - awaited victory for the people of New York.
On March 13, a jury convicted Percoco of three of the six counts he faced,
including honest services mail fraud and soliciting bribes.
The gregarious Joe Bruno released a very brief statement in response to the somewhat cloudy ruling
on Honest Services delivered by the US Supreme Court today.
«This is of particular importance in public corruption cases, where the rules changed about five years ago, after the Supreme Court imposed the requirement
in honest services fraud cases that the government prove a quid pro quo,» the paper reported.
Kang faces wire fraud and securities fraud charges as well as theft of
honest services charges in the alleged pay - to - play schemes he carried out as the state Common Retirement Fund's Director of Fixed Income Portfolio Strategy, U.S. Southern District Attorney Preet Bharara said Wednesday after an indictment was unsealed.
Long Island Congressman Tom Suozzi has introduced federal legislation that he says would close the loophole on
Honest Services Fraud.
In 2009, there was an apparent resolution to the Bruno prosecution when he was convicted of two counts of
honest services mail fraud.
«There's a bunch of people currently serving time of jail, politicians who engaged in bribery or kickbacks, and were prosecuted
under honest services instead of the federal anti-bribery statute,» says Henderson.
Bruno was convicted at his first trial in Albany but appealed on the basis of a Supreme Court decision that narrowed the
federal honest services statute.
Bruno, 85, is facing his second trial for depriving the public of the right to
honest services by engaging in what prosecutors described as a «quid pro quo bribery scheme.»
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public honest services in 2009 after admitting he acted as a consultant for Jamaica Hospital before a state
Presented with numerous complaints and widespread confusion about
what honest services meant, America's top court decided to weigh in.
Others wanted U.S. Congress to explain in plain language what
honest services meant, and to whom it should apply.
In August of 2015 the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would consider hearing the McDonnell case and whether or
not Honest Services Fraud would hold up.
Molo opened his summation with the legal instructions Caproni gave jurors when the trial began Nov. 3: that actions could be taken to «cultivate goodwill, or to cultiave a relationship with the entity that provided the benefit, and not in exchange for any official act» without
constituting honest services fraud.
Based on federal guidelines, Silver could have faced up to 27 years in prison for his conviction on seven counts, which range
from honest services fraud to extortion.
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``... It is unremarkable that the arrest of the longtime Speaker of the Assembly on allegations that he committed a large - scale and long -
running honest services fraud and extortion scheme generated substantial publicity, and it plainly would have done so regardless of any statements made by the U.S. Attorney.»
Prosecutors could simply charge an ongoing corrupt relationship, a pattern of gifts and favors, under the more
malleable honest services fraud statute.
Although Kramer said it is possible the Supreme Court's decision on McDonnell could be limited to the notion of official acts, he said the justices might offer more sweeping guidance on the interplay
between honest services fraud, the federal bribery statute and state and local regulations.
The overturned convictions were due to jury instructions incompatible with how the Supreme Court has
interpreted honest services fraud, including in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.
3) John Rowland, Republican of Connecticut — In 2005, Rowland pleaded guilty to a single felony count of «conspiracy to
steal honest service» after a corruption scandal.
«Federal prosecutors had conceded that under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last summer, a federal
honest services prosecution must include specific allegations of a bribe or kickback, which Bruno's case did not.»
He will face Steve Greenfield — who secured the Working Families line and is also running on an independent line
called Honest Service — as well as Republican Les Kalmus of Esopus for District 17, which encompasses a large portion of the Town of New Paltz as well as a portion of Esopus.
Four of the seven counts against Mr. Silver, a Democrat from the Lower East Side of Manhattan who had been the longtime Assembly speaker, involved
alleged honest services fraud.
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