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.
As expected former state Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's attorneys have filed an appeal of his January 2009 indictment on federal corruption charges, arguing in part that the theft of honest
services statute under which he was convicted has been invalidated by the US Supreme Court.
To accomplish that, the bill adds a definition of virtual currency to the state's
money services statute (8 V.S.A. § 2500 et seq.): «stored value that (A) can be a medium of exchange, a unit of account, or a store of value; (B) has an equivalent value in money or acts as a substitute for money; (C) may be centralized or decentralized; and (D) can be exchanged for money or other convertible virtual currency.»
Bruno has been keeping a very low profile of late, staying out of the public eye as the appeal of his conviction wends its way through the legal system in the way of the US Supreme Court's honest
services statute decision in June.
Allies of former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno are extremely pleased with the US Supreme Court decision on the Honest
Services statute handed down earlier today and insist that it will ultimately exonerate the Rensselaer County Republican.
He said Silver's corruption case could possibly end up with the nation's highest court and be another test case for the honest
services statute because he said a number of Supreme Court justices don't like the honest services law.
In 2016 the Ontario government introduced Bill 156, the alternative
financial services statute law amendment act because they like simple titles, where they proposed various changes to the payday loans act, including limits on how many payday loans you could get in a certain period of time, obviously to prevent multiple repeat payday loans.
PSESA still would have been struck down, accomplishing the result of the day, but the decision would not overtly question the constitutionality of other, more balanced
essential services statutes.
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The US Supreme Court has ruled on the first of three pending cases challenging the Honest
Services statute under which former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno was convicted back in December.
To accomplish that, the bill adds a definition of virtual currency to the state's
money services statute (8 V.S.A. § 2500 et seq.): «stored value that (A) can be a medium of exchange, a unit of account, or a store of value; (B) has an equivalent value in money or acts as a substitute for money; (C) may be centralized or decentralized; and (D) can be exchanged for money or other convertible virtual currency.»
Convicted in his first federal trial, he was retried after a Supreme Court decision amended the
honest services statute federal prosecutors had used to charge him.
As for the honest
services statute, it survived.
Nolan called Bruno's convictions «minor,» and noted that the US Supreme Court is considering the theft of honest
services statute that was the crux of the federal government's case against him.
McDonnell's case, meanwhile, could lead the Supreme Court to narrow the definition of «official act» under the federal theft of honest
services statute, which Silver was convicted under.
Construing the honest -
services statute to extend beyond that core meaning, we conclude, would encounter a vagueness shoal.
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.
Former U.S. Attorney Richard S. Hartunian, who headed New York's Northern District from 2010 until he stepped down last month, said the onus is on Congress to fix the weaknesses in the honest -
services statute that have been cited in multiple Supreme Court rulings.
The Supreme Court's retooling of the federal honest -
services statute, which has long been a favored weapon of the Justice Department, was handed down in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell who, along with his wife, was convicted of taking government action on behalf of a business executive who gave the couple loans, vacations and gifts.
«In that case it was the honest
services statute, in this case it was the official action definition.
These extra overtime shifts in turn triggered a requirement (the federal Hours of
Service statute *) that they rest — at full pay — during their next day's shift.
Bruno was indicted in January of 2009 on eight counts of wire and mail fraud under the honest
services statute.
The good folks over at the New York Public Interest Research Group sent along the following statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling on the Honest
Services statute:
Bruno was convicted on two counts of violating the Honest
Services statute, which the US Supreme Court subsequently deemed unconstitutional.
But he appealed, and ast year, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, citing a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the theft of honest
services statute, vacated his conviction.
(Bruno was convicted of two counts in 2009, but it was overturned when the Supreme Court narrowed the honest
services statute under which he had been charged.)
He says Silver's corruption case could possibly end up with the nation's highest court, and be another test case for the honest
services statute.
Former Senate Republican Leader Joe Bruno found his 2009 conviction on two felonies undone by the U.S. Supreme Court's subsequent retooling of the federal honest
services statute.
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Services Statutes), 1991 apply to electronic documents submitted or registered in accordance with this Part.
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Services Statutes), 1991 or of a regulation made under one of those Acts.
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