In a submission on the Black case, Mr Skilling’s lawyers argue that the Court should limit honest-services fraud to cases in which the accused sought personal gain at the expense of his employers.
In a submission on the Black case, Mr Skilling's lawyers argue that the Court should limit honest-services fraud to cases in which the accused sought personal gain at the expense of his employers.
This notion, last reiterated by Congress in 1988, though far older in its origins, holds that someone hiring someone else to do a job for them has an “intangible right of honestservices”.