Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
McDonnell v. United States , 579 U.S. 550 (2016), was a United States Supreme Court case concerning the appeal of former Virginia Governor Robert F. McDonnell's conviction for honest services fraud and Hobbs Act extortion.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out Republican former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell's corruption convictions.
He presided over the highly visible trial of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and First Lady Maureen McDonnell who were convicted of federal corruption charges. [2] [3] The Supreme Court ruled on the certiorari granted in relation to United States v. Robert McDonnell in 2016.
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. [1] The idea of this law was to criminalize not only schemes to defraud victims of money and property, but also schemes to defraud victims of intangible rights such as the "honest services" of a public official.
One of those cases was against former Virginia governor Robert McDonnell, a Republican against whom he secured a conviction on bribery charges, though the case was later thrown out by the US ...
In their 196-page response to the motion, federal prosecutors debunked Menendez's claims for dismissal that hung on the Speech or Debate Clause of the Constitution and the Supreme Court's McDonnell v.
Robert Francis McDonnell (born June 15, 1954) is an American politician, attorney, businessman, academic administrator, and former military officer who served as the 71st governor of Virginia from 2010 to 2014. He is a member of the Republican Party. Born in Philadelphia, McDonnell was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Reserve.
On the other, prosecutors are also contending with a more recent precedent, from 2016, when the Supreme Court’s decision in McDonnell v. United States raised the bar for prosecutors trying to ...