MaryJeanette Dee comments on the Skilling/Black rulings in Fox Business, Portfolio.com, and The Christian Science Monitor

Fox Business, Portfolio.com and The Christian Monitor
June 24, 2010

Following the Supreme Court's decision that narrowed the scope of the honest services fraud statue, which previously aided in convicting both former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling and newspaper magnate Conrad Black on fraud charges, Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP partner MaryJeanette Dee provided commentary to Fox Business, Portfolio.com, and The Christian Science Monitor. In these articles, Ms. Dee explains reasons why the statute had been attractive to prosecutors and predicts that this recent ruling will trigger legal challenges in pending corruption or white-collar fraud prosecutions, with many cases likely to be overturned.

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"Skilling Ruling Could Affect Rite Aid, Adelphia, Qwest, AOL Cases" on Fox Business
"Supreme Court Sides with Skilling, Black" on Portfolio.com
"With Jeffrey Skilling, Conrad Black cases, fraud tougher to prove" in The Christian Science Monitor