High Court Decision on Mail-Fraud Statute Could Affect Corporate Fraud Cases

The Supreme Court is looking at overturning parts of or all of the 1988 addition to the mail fraud statute called Honest Services. This is something Congress did when the court forced a narrow interpretation on fraud cases on our court system, allowing a lot of formerly corrupt activities to be considered ok. We tighten the laws on fraud, and they loosen it - it ain't white collar, after all! The only winners here will be the corrupt politicians and the equally corrupt corporations. The losers are the state prosecutors who might want to have more tools to pursue fraud, and of course, all of us. Enron, anyone??