Category: Courts & Cases

This Post article reports that the court-appointed receiver in the R. Allen Stanford case is asking political committees to return Mr. Stanford’s contributions to… well, the receivership estate.  Legal justification?  None cited, as far as the article reports.

The Supreme Court denied cert in Sorich et al. v. U.S., what could have been an opportunity for the Court to narrow the scope of what behavior may be deemed honest services fraud.  Justice Scalia offered a dissent from the denial of cert which is available here.  In the dissent, he notes disapporvingly the “staggeringly […]

Former Senate staffer Ann Copland was charged in the latest development in the Abramoff scandal, according to this report. Court documents said the aide, Ann Copland, took gifts from Mr. Abramoff and other lobbyists, including thousands of dollars in meals and tickets to events. Prosecutors say the gifts were in exchange for her help getting […]