Three months after the Supreme Court significantly narrowed the scope of the honest services fraud statute, a tool relied upon by federal prosecutors to combat all manner of corruption and self-dealing, movement is afoot to expand it again.
On Sept. 28, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) introduced the Honest Services Restoration Act, a bill aimed at restoring the scope of the statute to cover improper, undisclosed self-dealing.
